They explained why the buildings were all the same though. Everything was pre-fabbed; why live on a space ship for a few months building your home on a new planet when you can just drop a pre-built building and start moving in? It was kind of a cop-out; but it makes perfect sense, that's likely how we would do space travel/colonization in the future.Eh, Mass effect was fun, and I put a ton of hours into it. But every single planet is the exact same. Not the design of the planet, but everything you do on each planet. Even the buildings on the planets are basically copied and pasted.