Mass Effect: Andromeda

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  1. RabinGrings
    Sep 1, 2023
    2
    This game is fantastic. Thank you EA. There are errors in the animations, but this does not take away all the brightness of the game. Play to the end and I guarantee you will be surprised.
  2. PenetratorGod
    Aug 20, 2023
    4
    It's a shame for the mass effect series. The game I could never finish, no matter how much I wanted to. As someone who has played the trilogy dozens of times, I couldn't stand this game. The people who developed this game should not be given a job in the game industry again.
  3. Derangedxzombie
    Jun 17, 2023
    0
    One of the worst games ever made, everything is broken, the animations are nightmare inducing, the voice acting, the characters the scripting. This game belongs on a trash heap.
  4. AJCk19
    May 6, 2023
    4
    Really buggy game, that further rolled back on its game design ideologies, instead of improving upon the first 2 mass effects. I can understand giving the story a side step to the main because of the controversies of ME3 and also they are in the midst of making a true ME4.

    But it was a huge let down, and I just hope they learn from their feedback, so ME4 will be a big success.
  5. realWhiteMan
    Apr 9, 2023
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My rating is based on my impressions of the game. This is not an objective review. I play quite a big number of titles per year and decided to review them as a peace of art and not as a product.… Expand
  6. meru
    Apr 5, 2023
    4
    The motto for this game is: "Which intern designed X?"
    - The UI is all over the place - literally. Get a quick overview in combat situations, or outside of combat? The UI designers seem to have shouted "Not my job, also: Never heard of that".
    - The map does not help one single bit to do what its task is: Help the user orientate themselves. - Repeat this for each game feature. There    The motto for this game is: "Which intern designed X?"
    - The UI is all over the place - literally. Get a quick overview in combat situations, or outside of combat? The UI designers seem to have shouted "Not my job, also: Never heard of that".
    - The map does not help one single bit to do what its task is: Help the user orientate themselves.
    - Repeat this for each game feature.

    There is one redeeming aspect of the game, though, for game developer professors: If you need to prepare a seminar about some game element done wrong, you can always quote Andromeda as an example.    … Expand
  7. AdoMobA
    Mar 22, 2023
    0
    Pros
    - the flexibility of being able to use any ability in the game is nice
    Cons - story = gutter trash - character = abominable - combat = garbage - dialogue = good for a 4th grader - choices = lmao - exploration = stupidly tedious - voice acting = sounds like a school play played by the basketball team - bugs = all of them I absolutely adore the original Mass Effect    Pros
    - the flexibility of being able to use any ability in the game is nice

    Cons
    - story = gutter trash
    - character = abominable
    - combat = garbage
    - dialogue = good for a 4th grader
    - choices = lmao
    - exploration = stupidly tedious
    - voice acting = sounds like a school play played by the basketball team
    - bugs = all of them

    I absolutely adore the original Mass Effect trilogy. The story, the worldbuilding, the characters… chefs kiss. So you can imagine my excitement over Andromeda. I heard the complaints from the pre-release footage. The game looks like garbage. Nay I said, Mass Effect was never about the graphics. Yo this thing is buggy as hell. Nay I said, they will fix it before launch. The voice acting sounds goofy as hell. Nay, you are just being negative. I was a blind Bioware fan boy who pre ordered this game and 100% it at release. I have never touched it since so I do not care if the stuff I am about to talk about was patched three months later. Save your breath.

    Positive beginning. The fact that you have access to all abilities and can spec into any of them allows for some fun combos. Positives done.

    The combat. Everything in this game is either brainded or suicidal. Zero strategy involved throughout the entire run. Just stupid enemy after stupid enemy. The issue with the one positive, the place it affects is boring and garbage. Oh and that is not the best part. Most of the time if enemies are deployed from their ship onto the field, nothing deploys. When the ship leaves, it leaves a cluster of limbs where it was. If you shoot it, then bodies fall out. Great playtesting Bioware.

    What about the story? What about it? Garbage. So you know how Reapers were an unknown force who used their tech to turn the Milky Way species into their tech drones. Yeah we can't do that again nu uh. Guys the Kett are different. They are an unknown force who uses their organic goop to turn the species of the Andromeda galaxy into their organic drones. Wow, how original Bioware.

    But the characters save it right? This game has four character types: aggravating, boring, cringe and meh ok. I have never cared less for a group of party members in my life. I actively wanted to space bothe Liam and Peebee after their loyalty missions. I don't expect much but at least the original cast was filled with professionals. Both Liam and Peebee put the Pathfinders life into stupid amounts of danger with their dumbass decisions. And Liam has the audacity to open his mouth after you fix his mistake. Just allow me to kick them to the curb like Serra in DA: Inquisition.

    I actually fell for the marketing ploy when it came to dialogue. They proudly flaunted their innovative take on the Mass Effect dialogue wheel. How Paragon/Renegade was restrictive. So they came up with the tone indicators of: Professional, Logical, Emotional and Casual. What I like to call them is: Actual human speak, Sheldon Cooper, Angsty Cringe and OhgodohnoohpleaseididnotwanttopressthatstoptalkingstOPSTOP. Pick professional or suffer the consequences.

    How about those Mass Effect choices. Ok so how about a guy running to get away from you? Do you not press the contextual button to shoot him in the back or do you press it only for you to miss and for him to get away anyway? Do you choose to shoot at a bunch of dudes intimidating you or do you hold off until they shoot and start the fight anyway? No choices like Andromeda choices.

    Planet exploration was made stupider by a large margin. This game is extremely self indulgent and determined to show you its mediocre graphics in their full glory. So whenever you chose to travel planet to planet, you pick the planet you want to go to, then it zooms to the planet where you are, only for it to play a cutscene of your ship traveling to your chosen planet, where it zooms in, before zooming back out and giving you your control back. No way to skip that by the way. And there are systems with six planets and more. Have fun.

    On top of all of this, this game released in such a disgustingly buggy state, that some of the most watched videos on this game, are the glitch compilations. How great.

    In conclusion, I am somebody who loves collecting physical copies of games. Andromeda was so beyond garbage, that I got rid of my copy. Not by returning it, but by throwing that thing in the trash. Nobody deserves the psychological torture that is this game. Do not play it, do not touch it, do not look it in the eyes.    … Expand
  8. Cossack1980
    Mar 5, 2023
    2
    The game from Kanadians encouraging war in Ukraine. Everything you need to know about it. Buying the game - you support the killing of Ukrainians.
  9. Eowor
    Dec 19, 2022
    0
    The worst mass effect of the History, woke culture. the worst storyline, worst facial animation, worst character design, worst quests design, worst gameplay ever.
    It's like Dragon age inquisition a MMORPG offline
  10. Realgigclin
    Jul 24, 2022
    4
    FYI, huge mass effect fan. Ive played the original trilogy for almost 600 hours, read all the books and even some of the **** comics. Love the word an series the old bioware created

    Im at a loss of what to rate this game, at times it can feel like a 7/10 but 80% of the time it feels like a 3/10. This is not mass effect, its a game made by a bunch of people that werent involved in the    FYI, huge mass effect fan. Ive played the original trilogy for almost 600 hours, read all the books and even some of the **** comics. Love the word an series the old bioware created

    Im at a loss of what to rate this game, at times it can feel like a 7/10 but 80% of the time it feels like a 3/10. This is not mass effect, its a game made by a bunch of people that werent involved in the original series trying to make what they think is mass effect. Im still waiting for the story to do something interesting, and im 20 hours in. It plays it incredibly safe, probably because bioware feels like they are being held at gunpoint over ME3s ending when it comes to taking a risk with the story. But even if they did take risks, the writing is laughably bad, and the characters dont take what is happening seriously at all. This completely breaks any immersion. In past mass effect games i would love talking to squad mates on my ship, in this i actually dread talking to anyone except drack and Jaal, they are the only characters that arent constantly making me cringe with horrible jokes and cheesy one liners.

    The combat is great, but when you fight the same camps of kett over and over it becomes extremely repetitive. since mass effect 3 bioware has liked to create these bad guys that are just endless, you'll be killing thousands of the same dudes over and over with no narrative or reason for it. and your squad mates AI is downright brain dead, in past games they wouldn't use throw, pull or any biotic power on enemies that have shields. In this they dont care, ive had peebee use pull on more shielded enemies than health enemies. And you cant command her to do other wise, so shes basically wasting powers the second combat starts. same applies to other squad mates. Not being able to command squad mate powers is a huge downside to gameplay and its great moments, i have no idea why they didnt include it.

    QUESTS; i have encountered maybe 3 interesting side quests, out of the around 30 i have done. Everything is run to this location, place this item and then do that for 4 more locations. Quest ends. Repeat under slightly different conditions, like instead of placing signal towers, your scanning rocks. These side quests are the definition of repetitive. I just think its funny that bioware thought this was acceptable after games like The witcher 3 proved that side quests can have the same quality as main quests, and be just as interesting.

    Im not going to mention facial animations as much, yes they are terrible some of the worst i have seen from a AAA game in years. but since people have been bashing them to death i thought i wouldn't touch on them anymore. Honestly the game could have been good if it had done other things right, like if the game had an interesting story i could look past the facial animations. Its also to bad that bioware continues their same tired tale of you playing as this God character, i thought the pathfinder would be a down to earth normal dude. Nope. All the characters in this game basically suck your dick, nobody stands up to you and when they do its so laughably and cliche.

    To end things, i would like to note my biggest problem. Andromeda never feels alive. Most worlds are completely empty with just more generic enemies to fight, no towns or settlements (besides the ones you create and fill with NPCs that do nothing). with one new friendly race, the angara things feel even more empty. Look at all the races we had in the original trilogy that were working together on the citadel, youll find none of that here. Plus lore inconsistency galore, why do we have jump jets when the milky way doesnt? how are we able to use FTL travel so much, and so fast when in the trilogy the only reason we could get around the galaxy so fast was because of mass relays? FTL has always existed but it in ME but it was much faster to use a mass relay rather than travel for hours to another system on your ships power.

    Edit 2022: funny i just found this account again, funny to see this here. It took me 2 years to finish this game. It didn't take me that long in a good way, i would either forget about the game for long periods or just couldn't stomach it for longer than an hour. I 100% completed the game and absolutely don't recommend it. Its a grind. This was also the last game i ever pre ordered. Still think this review echo's these statements 5 years later, even when i wrote this with 20 hours of playtime... these issues definately dont change by the end.    … Expand
  11. iSimon420
    Feb 8, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Everything about this game is an absolute disgrace to the once legendary name of Mass Effect. This EA abomination has about as much to do with Mass Effect as S&M relates to M&M's. I don't even know where to begin on how awful this game truly is. It is an absolute travesty, an abomination. The characters are paper-thin cutouts who you will never give two **** about ever. All the wonderful and amazing cast from the original trilogy now have to take a backseat to disgustingly glitchy facial animations, broken camera, buggy ass game-play, boring useless sidequests, and childish cringe-level 9000 dialogue. Player choice means jack **** the entire game, there is no weight or gravity to any decisions you make.

    Every design is inferior to the original trilogy. I don't care how good the graphics are, the gameplay is repetitive, buggy, and broken, while the writing will make you lose faith in all humanity forever. Mass Effect once had the greatest, story, characters, and RPG elements of any game. Thanks to Mass Effect Andromeda, the series is now on critical life support, and is fading fast.

    Bioware needs to realize EA is pure evil, give them the finger, run far away from them,and then ressurect Commander Shepard in the TRUE Mass Effect 4 all of us loyal fans deserve over this blatant garbage!!! Avoid at all costs if you, like me, adore the original Mass Effect series, and want a return to form!!!    … Expand
  12. JohhnyDepressed
    Feb 5, 2022
    4
    A shame this game was such a disappointment. The writing and gameplay are major downgrade form previous entries on the series. The switch from the Unreal engine to Frostbite was a serious mistake and gave major downgrades to both the flow of gameplay and animation. I don't hold it against the dev team as it was a small team that was downsized halfway through development given an order toA shame this game was such a disappointment. The writing and gameplay are major downgrade form previous entries on the series. The switch from the Unreal engine to Frostbite was a serious mistake and gave major downgrades to both the flow of gameplay and animation. I don't hold it against the dev team as it was a small team that was downsized halfway through development given an order to tall to handle. But it isn't to say there is nothing of value in the game. The new engine makes the driving more fun and the environments are actually quite beautiful. Even though most of the characters are dull at best and aggravating at at worst. But there are some stand outs even if few and far between. Ultimately the game is lacking in most areas but has potential to be the rough beginning of something good. I would not be opposed to a sequel with a larger and more experienced team.… Expand
  13. SuperCurry30
    Jan 23, 2022
    4
    The banal setting of the world view in the game and the story progression that lack persuasiveness made the story a mess. The story method and companion method used in the past were also used in this game. And the background explanation of the newly added spieces (Remnant, Kat, Angara) in this game is lacking.

    The villain's actions are not convincing and there is no attractive    The banal setting of the world view in the game and the story progression that lack persuasiveness made the story a mess. The story method and companion method used in the past were also used in this game. And the background explanation of the newly added spieces (Remnant, Kat, Angara) in this game is lacking.

    The villain's actions are not convincing and there is no attractive part.(Bioware should’ve watch ‘Inglourious Basterds’) And for the final battle, the difficulty of the battle is not so much fun. It was no different from other boss battles.

    There is no improvement in facial animation since ME1 released in 2007. You can even compare with Fallout 4’s facial animation. Becasue it’s really sucks.

    Consider this game released before AMD Ryzen Processor become a mainstream, multi-core utilize is not sucks, but nothing more, nothing less. And if you are going to play this with maxed out graphics settings with really high framerate in 2022 or later, you better have a GPU more than 8GB of vram like RTX 3080 10GB/RX 6700 XT 12GB or above. Because this game really love video memory.    … Expand
  14. Ragegoberts
    Nov 27, 2021
    0
    bugs were never fixed so the games are buggy as **** for zero reason lile why are you guys so braindead bioware clearly you dont care about your IP
  15. Player848
    Nov 15, 2021
    1
    - Отвратительный сюжет:
    по факту вы никто, ваше слово ничего не решает, но вы должны пахать как "папа карло" и быть армией, посыльными, дипломатом... мыть полы... в чём подвох? Всем этим вы занимались в ME 1-2-3, но там мы "агент вне системы" и ваше слово значит. ТОЕСТЬ: вы могли случайно (специально) пропустить квест получения "спектра" и пойти спасать галактику не став спектром, а это    - Отвратительный сюжет:
    по факту вы никто, ваше слово ничего не решает, но вы должны пахать как "папа карло" и быть армией, посыльными, дипломатом... мыть полы... в чём подвох? Всем этим вы занимались в ME 1-2-3, но там мы "агент вне системы" и ваше слово значит. ТОЕСТЬ: вы могли случайно (специально) пропустить квест получения "спектра" и пойти спасать галактику не став спектром, а это совсем другие диалоги. А тут вы никто.. мир никак не реагирует на вас. Нет задач по развитию личности главного героя, то есть для самоопределения надо понять "кто ты" , тут нет таких миссий..

    - История построена так, что аборигены: которых вы встречаете ведут себя "странно", у них ест технологии, но они не умеют ими пользоваться, у них есть инженеры, но они не знают элементарного... сломанный лор.

    - Отвратительный характер у основного персонажа и столь же мерзкий у со партийцев: вы можете быть холериком, меланхоликом, нытиком, плаксой.. и вариациями из этого. Обычно со партийцы "дополняют" главного героя, но тут это так отвратительно сделано, извращенно что ли. Нельзя быть стойким, нельзя быть брутальным, нельзя промолчать. Можно выглядеть, как идиот с лазерной винтовкой.

    - бессмысленные сторонние квесты, их никто и никак не комментирует по сравнению с ME 1-2-3.

    +/- физика игры: оно запускается (за это +1).    … Expand
  16. Issaq
    Nov 8, 2021
    0
    Atrocious. Just complete trash, story wise.

    The combat is fine, but if you're playing a Mass Effect game for the combat system you're doing something wrong. The open world is also awful, imagine that you took the Empty mako planets from ME1 & filled it with generic world of warcraft kill/fetch quests. Like the hinterlands in Dragon Age Inq. I would not recommend this to anyone    Atrocious. Just complete trash, story wise.

    The combat is fine, but if you're playing a Mass Effect game for the combat system you're doing something wrong.

    The open world is also awful, imagine that you took the Empty mako planets from ME1 & filled it with generic world of warcraft kill/fetch quests. Like the hinterlands in Dragon Age Inq.

    I would not recommend this to anyone that actually liked the original Mass Effect games.    … Expand
  17. Bushido95
    Sep 27, 2021
    2
    Если даже рассматривать Андромеду отдельно от самой серии Mass Effect это очень плохая игра. Она будто специально сделана так чтоб тебе было не интересно с первой же секунды и для этого действительно нужен талант.
  18. Andizzzzy
    Aug 25, 2021
    4
    Positives:
    - Pretty
    - Open world (kinda)
    - combat is ok

    Negatives:
    - scaled down rpg (sadly)
    - awful characters
    - awful voice acting
    - awful voice lines
    - boring story
  19. XBliss
    Aug 5, 2021
    4
    We are investigating a new galactic, but there is no serious atmosphere in this. We called as "Pathfinder", but we are not the first to be in these planets. Actually, in this game everything wrong. Characters acting like we are in the comedy movie. Main character dumb as f*ck. Antagonist angry just because he needs to be angry. The story was written by 5 years old kid. Dialogue system is aWe are investigating a new galactic, but there is no serious atmosphere in this. We called as "Pathfinder", but we are not the first to be in these planets. Actually, in this game everything wrong. Characters acting like we are in the comedy movie. Main character dumb as f*ck. Antagonist angry just because he needs to be angry. The story was written by 5 years old kid. Dialogue system is a joke. Human and azari faces looks disgusting. And thats not all, but enough to call this game WRONG.… Expand
  20. Mattios
    Jul 28, 2021
    3
    Boring and repetitive, this seems to have lost all the things that made the original series great. The story is boring, the levels bland and the character interactions poor. I've never seen so much copy paste in a AAA title. e.g. every asari has the same face except the one on your squad. All the missions and conversations are very samey
  21. SRKNZ
    Jul 5, 2021
    2
    Dreadful. Confusing game design, bloated tedious story lines, interspersed by excessive cut scenes that made me feel like the game was playing me not the other way around. Only upside was the eye candy but on its own that's nowhere near enough.
  22. rara_avis
    Jun 2, 2021
    0
    There is no way to change language in polish and russian version of the game if you got it on origin.
    Also while doing the main missions there is no way to save the game and you have to count on the autosave feature that honestly really sucks. Animations suck too. It may not sound like a lot but it literally made me create this account to write this here even tho it's on EA play and i    There is no way to change language in polish and russian version of the game if you got it on origin.
    Also while doing the main missions there is no way to save the game and you have to count on the autosave feature that honestly really sucks. Animations suck too. It may not sound like a lot but it literally made me create this account to write this here even tho it's on EA play and i didn't have to pay for this particular game.    … Expand
  23. Ordnik
    May 26, 2021
    0
    Good graphics, gameplay and... and... and thats it.

    The game feels like a kids show, characters keep joking and joking and show no interesting conversation at all. Most planet designs are so lame with no imagination, planets are so bland. Story ongoing is terrible, they filled the game with puzzles and boring openworld walking. Mass Effect was amazing with everything. This game is a    Good graphics, gameplay and... and... and thats it.

    The game feels like a kids show, characters keep joking and joking and show no interesting conversation at all. Most planet designs are so lame with no imagination, planets are so bland. Story ongoing is terrible, they filled the game with puzzles and boring openworld walking. Mass Effect was amazing with everything. This game is a disappointment, they had budget, they had time, they could do better.    … Expand
  24. nazarkin123
    Mar 12, 2021
    4
    BOooooring. Who let this story out at all? The usual ME gameplay. A bit buggy and freezing.
  25. delaware80
    Mar 11, 2021
    2
    When I think of the game ME Andromeda it is a never ever blockbuster.
    When thinking of discovering the outer world I think of action, thrilling moments an cinematic feelling.
    Instead you feel like in a big library with boring books: you can drive on planets - but no action, talk to a lot of people - but no feelings and so on. Better make a remake by cutting 80% of garbage content and    When I think of the game ME Andromeda it is a never ever blockbuster.
    When thinking of discovering the outer world I think of action, thrilling moments an cinematic feelling.
    Instead you feel like in a big library with boring books: you can drive on planets - but no action, talk to a lot of people - but no feelings and so on.
    Better make a remake by cutting 80% of garbage content and produce a game where you feel like in a linear FF. :-)    … Expand
  26. theSectClown
    Feb 19, 2021
    2
    Я так и не понял, как можно было сделать таких внешне отталкивающих персонажей. Как будто в редакторе онлайн игрушки школьники лепили их. Даже ни с кем романтических отношений заводить не хочется. Если ты мужчина гетеро.Я так и не понял, как можно было сделать таких внешне отталкивающих персонажей. Как будто в редакторе онлайн игрушки школьники лепили их. Даже ни с кем романтических отношений заводить не хочется. Если ты мужчина гетеро.
  27. Steyraus
    Feb 18, 2021
    1
    What an embaresment, bad story, ugly unlikable characters. Boring generic gameplay.. All the good Bioware game have characters that make the player feel for them. Sometimes you hate a bad guy , sonetimes you love a compainion. The characters in Andromeda were so dull and safe all you got from them was to not want to be anyware near them.
  28. kultigin
    Feb 6, 2021
    0
    Was playing the game with a "meh" attitude. The game crashed for 4 times in 4 hours. Tried to return it to steam but they didn't accept. If you want to burn your money, just fire em, but don't buy this game.
  29. chumpwithnoname
    Dec 26, 2020
    4
    Very boring game. I can enjoy ME1 still, but I can't enjoy this game loaded with non-needed boring stuff that was put into this game just to make fill it with tasteless crap.

    This is Dragon Effect Inqisition.
  30. levitan17
    Oct 14, 2020
    4
    Mass Effect Andromeda was a complete disgrace... The compelling superb story and lovable squad mates from the trilogy were long gone in this instalment... You feel completely detached from the major characters... Bioware is dead.... RIP... (and to think they killed Mass Effect because of Anthem?? is even worse) they killed my most favorite game franchise...
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 37 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 37
  3. Negative: 1 out of 37
  1. Riot Pixels
    Jun 5, 2017
    55
    Postcard-pretty landscapes is pretty much all that there is good about Andromeda. They serve as backdrops for a boring, cliche-ridden, somewhat demented story with forgettable characters and even more forgettable missions.
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  2. PC PowerPlay
    May 11, 2017
    80
    Enough of the classic Mass Effect, with enough new mechanics to keep the game fresh. [Hollingworth; Issue#261, p.55]
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  3. Edge Magazine
    Apr 27, 2017
    70
    An earnest attempt has been made to create a new identity for a series here, but the question of how to best frame Mass Effect's narrative strengths is, once again, left open. [June 2017, p.90]
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