Mass Effect: Andromeda

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  1. AthanasiosT
    Sep 30, 2017
    6
    Left the path of RPGs for the easy way of shooters. Graphics and sound are good, but what's the point of a team if you can't modify weapons and armor for team members ? No big decisions for the player, just some easy picks along the game. Battle is cover-shoot-cover-biotic-etc, too repeatable and easy. Story is too predictable. Nice driving, but where are the racing missions in the desertLeft the path of RPGs for the easy way of shooters. Graphics and sound are good, but what's the point of a team if you can't modify weapons and armor for team members ? No big decisions for the player, just some easy picks along the game. Battle is cover-shoot-cover-biotic-etc, too repeatable and easy. Story is too predictable. Nice driving, but where are the racing missions in the desert or on ice ? Give the players some challenges apart from the shooting.… Expand
  2. przemeks1982
    Sep 29, 2017
    7
    I waited for the game to get patched, and started playing with patch 1.10. The general impressions are that the game is good. I like the story of the pioneer, exploring new worlds, finding their secrets, managing the whole colonisation intiative (eg. deciding on who to wake up from cryostasis). The NPCs are interesting etc. To cut the long story short it has all it takes to be a quite goodI waited for the game to get patched, and started playing with patch 1.10. The general impressions are that the game is good. I like the story of the pioneer, exploring new worlds, finding their secrets, managing the whole colonisation intiative (eg. deciding on who to wake up from cryostasis). The NPCs are interesting etc. To cut the long story short it has all it takes to be a quite good action-RPG. Keyword here is "quite good". This is unfortunately nowhere near the original trilogy, but I try to be objective and rate it as a separate game.

    Even if we take away the whole burden of being compared to the orignal trilogy, the game still has many flaws that make it less satisfying to play. After all the patching it is still underdeveloped. There are a lot of bugs. Some locations are frustrating because of lack of save points (eg. when you fail in some locations you are forced to repeat last 20 minutes of gameplay, which kinda makes you stop wanna playing). The graphics don't look that good, if you consider the hardware requirements - or the game is just not optimised well. If we consider all of this, 7 is the maximum score I can give. I wonder how bad it was before all the patching. Good that I waited for ver. 1.10.

    All in all, I was happy to be back in the world of Mass Effect. It's just a pity that the quality of this comeback was quite average.    … Expand
  3. angelknives
    Sep 28, 2017
    7
    It's pretty clear this game ran into a lot of issues in its development, perhaps that should make us more forgiving of its flaws, I don't know. The truth is, this game feels far too familiar. The new galaxy, the new aliens, the new landscapes all feel like they wouldn't look amiss right here; there is nothing truly alien about it.

    The maps are huge empty places, often some variant of a    It's pretty clear this game ran into a lot of issues in its development, perhaps that should make us more forgiving of its flaws, I don't know. The truth is, this game feels far too familiar. The new galaxy, the new aliens, the new landscapes all feel like they wouldn't look amiss right here; there is nothing truly alien about it.

    The maps are huge empty places, often some variant of a desert (snow desert or almost barren rock land included) which makes sense I suppose because they clearly want you using the Nomad. Thing is, if you don't enjoy riding the Nomad, you will not enjoy a large chunk of the game. Every quest will require you to spend most time completing it in the Nomad. Even when it makes no sense story wise, the game will direct you from one end of the galaxy to the other. Often with little reward for doing so.

    The ridiculous amount of sidequests will make you miss linear games, and even the game itself tells you that some are not worth your time (namely tasks but honestly most of the other sidequests can be skipped as well). I know some people are of the idea that sidequest sucking does not matter because they're 'optional' but fact of the matter is, time went into creating these. Time now not spent on the real story content. Not to mention how discouraging an overfull journal can be when you can't predict which sidequests might be worth your while.

    This game also tries to cram in more romance options than any Bioware title before, it's a feature the devs were promoting a lot before release. It doesn't help that all of the characters feel a bit bland - besides Reyes there is no possible conflict there besides one sulky dialogue.
    These romances are some of the most disappointing once they've written yet, there are really only two that get fleshed out stories (Cora and Jaal) and neither of those felt more content heavy or engaging as some of the older romances did. Other romances seem to be missing scenes (for instance Liam's date cuts off before you see the actual date - this happens several times) and others are almost pointless. The flings should have been cut immediately. Again time wasted on developing those that could have been spent elsewhere.

    Like designing more aliens. Or making sure that the very few aliens we get to see aren't all literal clones (it's especially glaring with the Asari of course.) Or maybe fleshing out some of the characters more.

    The Ryders are the most preset PCs of any Bioware game. They have only one personality (a jokester because even if you pick serious options throughout all the autodialogue forces you into that role), often only two option to respond - both of which pretty much identical. Their whole background is set in stone as well, even down to their relationship with their father. Even the way they look, it's been slightly improved now but when playing at launch you literally had to pick a preset and you could only change a few things.

    The story is boring and rehashes parts of the OT's plot. It is supposed to have the highest stakes yet, but it's told jokingly. There are no meaningful choices, there are no multiple endings possible (well one minor NPC can possibly die), and a major plot thread is only revealed in a fetch quest! Then the story ends with a major cliffhanger that will never be resolved.

    Something clearly went wrong, the devs were promising things that never happened (just before release they said the CC was like the one in DA:I so clearly something went wrong), and there are some moments in the game that make you think there really was something there once. Of course the bugs are often too distracting to really feel emerged in the game. I've had some game breaking bugs and *still* have the issue that the cursor shoots to the middle of the screen all the time, even during cutscenes and I can't move it away.

    I still enjoyed parts of my playthrough, the combat could be fun, I enjoyed the Reyes romance, brief as it was, I thought Jaal had a real story arc in the game, I loved Havarl (well the way it looked alien at least). But in the end I haven't been able to start a second playthrough because there just isn't enough replay value there. A shame because Bioware games are always my most replayed games.

    Too bad we'll never see the series redeem itself.    … Expand
  4. DORRITO
    Sep 23, 2017
    3
    I've started and stopped playing this game multiple times now, which means it is somehow utterly boring enough to not hold my attention, and decent enough for me to come back to it. The story just isn't there.

    The intern team took over the art department, and the story department. How did such a good franchise take such a tumble? Maybe millennial sjw's really did do a number. As much    I've started and stopped playing this game multiple times now, which means it is somehow utterly boring enough to not hold my attention, and decent enough for me to come back to it. The story just isn't there.

    The intern team took over the art department, and the story department. How did such a good franchise take such a tumble? Maybe millennial sjw's really did do a number. As much as i've tried, I just can't care about this game. The only upside is the well done combat.    … Expand
  5. Serij
    Sep 23, 2017
    8
    John Shepard set the bar really high. This is the main problem for this game in my opinion.

    There were quests that felt like chores. Many faces looked in fact pretty dull, yes.

    But if you are into science-fiction and space then Andromeda is a beautiful place to explore.
    Even the story had some funny moments. I enjoyed the 100 hours i played it.
  6. gunnerCRO
    Sep 21, 2017
    8
    Horrible pacing of content. Most bad things are at the start while most good content is further down the road. Unbearable backtracking and unnecessary loading screens.
    On the other hand amazing combat; decent story and graphics; great characters, longevity, multiplayer, personal and crew quests.
    Flawed but worth playing. Solid 8.
  7. passionne
    Sep 21, 2017
    7
    In terms of background, I played the 3 previous Mass Effect games. I spent about 100 hours on Mass Effect Andromeda, did every quest except 6 secondary ones.

    Pros : - graphically awesome, one of best-looking 2017 game : HDR, high resolution textures, lighting and smoke effects... - art design : each planet is different and really beautiful. - very good Nomad driving : on Voeld,    In terms of background, I played the 3 previous Mass Effect games. I spent about 100 hours on Mass Effect Andromeda, did every quest except 6 secondary ones.

    Pros :

    - graphically awesome, one of best-looking 2017 game : HDR, high resolution textures, lighting and smoke effects...
    - art design : each planet is different and really beautiful.
    - very good Nomad driving : on Voeld, driving on ice feels natural.
    - A few companions are really sweet.
    - Mass Effect universe.
    - Many weapons, armors and powers available.
    - weapons and armors customization.
    - a few interesting side quests.
    - good loyalty missions.
    - Good main quest
    - huge content : 100 hours to complete every aspect of the game.
    - combat is very dynamic.

    Cons, from the most important to the less :

    - only 3 powers available in combat : far too restrictive. Or one can use the favorites (1 favorite gathers 3 powers and there are 4 favorites. So, theoretically 12 powers available) but in fact, they are useless because of the cooldown when swapping favorites. Moreover, when the favorite is changed, the power "assault turret" is disabled, the turret disappears ! Bioware limited the number of powers like they did in Dragon Age Inquisition which makes the combats too repetitive : since only 3 powers are available, no variety and strategy is possible. 10 powers would have been adequate, without use of any favorites.

    - No customization and control of the 2 squad mates : one can only tell them "go there" or "attack". Consequently, the combo powers are useless since you can not synchronize the actions. During 100 hours, I managed only 3 combos by luck. Moreover, it is impossible to create a strategy. Finally, I have the impression of playing alone and not be a team leader. Mass Effect 2 combat was more strategy-oriented : one could control every squad mate and optimize the attack. The action could be interrupted by pressing the space key in order to prepare the next action. The pace was slower than in Andromeda but enabled epic combats with numerous enemies. Each combat was unique contrary to Andromeda where every combat looks like the same.

    - Interface is really bad :
    - No mini-map when driving the Nomad, I always have to open the map then exit by pressing escape key twice !
    - To choose the best weapons, it is a nightmare : it is very diffcult to compare the weapons statistics, a table would have been necessary.
    - Moreover, there is nowhere a summary of all your characteristics (weapons, armors...).
    - Finally, when I want to create new weapons/armors and use again the upgrades of my current gear, I must create second weapons/armors, go from the research computer to the equipement locker, un-equip and replace the weapons/armors by the second ones created, break up the weapons/armors which contain the upgrades, go back to the research terminal, create the weapons/armors with the upgrades, go back to the equipement locker to equip the new gear. Easy and optimized !

    - The dialog choices are useless : they are uninspired, don't change anything and do not allow nuances. Many users have complained of childish writing and it is an example.

    - Technically, uneven :
    - the good : works fine most of the time, SLI supported and allows more than 60 fps with 2 GTX1080TI in 4K, everything maxed except anti-aliasing disabled.
    - the bad :
    -in Tempest, very bad performance between 20 and 30 fps. In cutscenes 20 fps. In Tempest, it seems that the graphic card calculates not only what is visible but also what is invisible too, in particular the space around the ship. Indeed, around Kadara, fps is very low whereas around Eos, the fps are doubled. And for a mission where there were many debris in space, fps in Tempest were below 10 fps !
    -Stutters because a 10 GB swap file is mandatory with SLI enabled : the stutters disappear if the swap file is disabled but the game is instable and crashes when connecting to a terminal or pressing escape key.

    - Many uninteresting secondary quests : fetch that object, find this person...

    - Main story looks like the 3 previous Mass effect plot : Bioware did not run the risk of innovating.

    Mass Effect Andomeda could have been the best game of the year if not plagued by many flaws. The worst is the combat : Bioware chose action rather than strategy and variety with more available powers : no wonder that many users complain about repetitiveness. The epic moments are very rare. Moreover, if the game launched before Witcher 3, the childish writing could have been forgiven. But since Witcher 3, the RPG fans have higher expectations in terms of story, maturity, choices : Bioware replicated their regular recipe for Andromeda and of course, it did not work : Bioware did not evolve while the RPG market changed.

    To conclude, my note would have been 5 because of many defaults. But I gave 7 because I love Mass Effect universe and most of the companions were really endearing.    … Expand
  8. Cioby
    Sep 18, 2017
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The main problem is the fact that this game focused on making money, by selling it to consoles, everything else derives from that. People that complain about voice not being synced with the lips, are dumb, because it was before release. They patched it before the release. The problem is how most characters are ugly, everyone has retarded eye lashes. Your main female companion and rival is a lesbian ugly trash with 2016 shaved on sides haircut. Why? Because politically correct Bioware. The only cute human is a religious girl, because we're in a game like ME and she's religious. And a scientist, lmao. Men? Men are hot and you can flirt with any of them as a male Ryder. Thanks PC culture. You get a turian female. Wow. Female turian?? And she's the most interesting and "cute". The asari have "fat" looking faces and thus become unattractive, they are boring and bland, unlike the previous games, where I'd chose Liara or any asari dancer, commando, over long haired Miranda and Ashley (well, girls now don't even have long hair).

    Ok enough about partners and **** Chat is **** consider Fallout 4 but worse. Fallout had day1 mods because it's Bethesda. So the chat was fixed. This one is more like "retarded comment that makes you look whiny and stupid" or "retarded whiny comment that makes you look like you're trying hard to sound big, but aren't". Basically the kid of the most badass human they had, the dad gives his life for him and he's too **** stupid to be sure of anything, even if you chose the "I am sure" reply, because basically he'll say "I think I'm sure" instead. Because **** comments and long lines where you can read on your huge mother**** 4K screen, nah, we're making this for 900p consoles (yea yea bla bla, consoles have higher resolutions now, I doubt that the numbers you see there, match the actual resolution or that you can actually tell, when you're not sitting 40cm from your monitor like I am, but you are used to ****ty graphics from a distance, on your console). Then you have the issue with high requirements on your PC. Like your CPU is under high load, why? And your GPU kinda, also. Basically they added small physx elements, like the cape on some alien is slowly moving in the wind as you talk to him, to add load on your system so that your graphics aren't way too good compared to their main market : console plebs. Cuz we wouldn't want to upset them, now would we.
    Before you say my PC is **** or anything, I run at 1440p maximum settings at 60fps. At 4K the drops are too annoying and the movement seems way to slow and ****ty, even Witcher 3 moves better and dropping from 50 to 40 impacts too much.
    Now to the story, linear. Nothing to do, you just follow the quest. Making science and farming over military? At this point I am at, it makes 0 difference. Releasing people from cryogenic stasis? Yea it impacts a lot. NOT IN A IMMERSIVE WAY BUT **** THAT, YOU GOT PERKS LIKE IN DRAGON AGE INQUISITION, WHICH IS GREAT BUT IT'S NOT IMMERSIVE, IT'S ****TY DESIGNED AND YOU MOSTLY HAVE MILITARY PERKS. Thanks Bioware. I'd like it more if our people were stronger or you actually got **** done. Plus I love how the trading works before you meet new races: you got **** you need to pay for even though you're the pathfinder and mostly the only one doing **** or being in danger. So they have connection with independent miners and exiles and what? Are you **** stupid? Either make no traders available from the start and give free gear or **** make more aliens available to trade with from the start. Nah, that would mean they would have to invent a whole new race and a huge new story, how would they make dlc without those? Why explore a system (besides achievement and some ****ty quest) when all you **** get is 40 minerals in a huge **** 20000 km wide planet or you discover a **** vulcano and get 300 exp, a vulcano on a lava filled planet? What the **** what anomaly is that, do you understand what anomaly means?? Or how do you detect 40 **** minerals in an asteroid field or how do you explore a black hole? Basically you have a 10 light years system and your sensor are so good, you find a **** "huge deposit" of 40 **** minerals. Wow. You mine more on the ground, manually, from one vein, and there are several veins. What the **** what is the point of scanning and **** anyway? ME2 you had to get a ****load of materials and used them for research and **** now? Nope. You have a ****ty hand scanner that looks like garbage and blocks your view to scan **** for tech. Nice. The only good thing about it is the combat and multiplayer.

    EDIT: They stopped support to this game. There are game breaking bugs, I had to restart my PC after a crash, nothing else would work. You need to reduce graphics just for the sake of the game not crushing and this issue was known for months. Not fixed. **** them and their garbage.    … Expand
  9. Zareli
    Sep 18, 2017
    4
    Andromeda is the way to kill a good franchise. Everything that was enjoyable from the ME trilogy was destroyed in this sequel. The graphics are not much better but the animation, models and overall aesthetic design are notably worse. The story is not particularly bad but the forced SJW PC culture characters make it feel less realistic and more like a "we want to be politically correct"Andromeda is the way to kill a good franchise. Everything that was enjoyable from the ME trilogy was destroyed in this sequel. The graphics are not much better but the animation, models and overall aesthetic design are notably worse. The story is not particularly bad but the forced SJW PC culture characters make it feel less realistic and more like a "we want to be politically correct" manifesto. The gameplay is where they really destroyed the game. You don't control teammates, the battles are basically a cover whack-a-mole from easy to hard and the only difference is how many hits the enemies take and how many there are, this makes fights more tedious but not more difficult as you go from easy to hard. There's some stupid additions like platforming segments with unresponsive big clunky 3D characters are just dreadful, the sudoku puzzle mechanic is not terrible but very unoriginal and the vehicle driving through the open world wastelands with nothing of interest in miles and miles are the guidelines on how NOT to make open world games. Instead of embracing what makes Mass Effect good this sequel tried to add more elements with poor taste leaving behind the gameplay elements that made ME an enjoyable game.… Expand
  10. AbeMC
    Sep 16, 2017
    4
    Mass Effect Andromeda disappoints in almost every major aspect, from lore to story. And the combat, while generally excellent, suffers from repetitive enemies and an annoying “profile” system that restricts how you play instead of providing the freedom that was promised. There are a few good moments (most in the loyalty missions), but they can’t make up for the failures.
    Total size on my    Mass Effect Andromeda disappoints in almost every major aspect, from lore to story. And the combat, while generally excellent, suffers from repetitive enemies and an annoying “profile” system that restricts how you play instead of providing the freedom that was promised. There are a few good moments (most in the loyalty missions), but they can’t make up for the failures.
    Total size on my hard-drive (after Patch 1.10): 47.3 GB

    + Nomad is great. Handles and drives well.
    + The planets’ design is fantastic. Great fun to explore.
    + Some of the most beautiful landscapes you’ll see.
    + Great sound design.
    + The Angara are an interesting new species.
    + The new ship, the Tempest, is filled with atmospheric lighting and cool views of space through the many windows (it’s a recon ship, not a warship like the Normandy).
    + Squad-mate banter while exploring in the Nomad. Funny, a lot of it, and it triggers quickly.
    + Jump jets! The levels make good use of them, adding a verticality to exploration and combat that simply wasn’t there in previous Mass Effect games, and is a welcome addition.

    +/- Enemy AI is quick to flank. Otherwise, dumb as a rock.
    +/- Characters are a mixed bag. Scott / Sara are betas who take make sure everyone is comfortable, and rarely get the chance tell someone to go to hell. Peebee, Vetra, Lexi and Jaal feel genuinely different, and are fun to talk to. Drack is a (mostly) funny old krogan, who was angry that I chose to save the salarian pathfinder instead of saving three krogan scouts (it’s not like the Pathfinder is an avatar of the species or anything). Liam’s annoying but is clearly meant to be funny. And Cora… well, Cora trained with asari commandos. That’s all you need to know.

    - In a game about building colonies and creating a new home, I hoped for a little more than, “Do side missions to accumulate randomly assigned ‘viability’ points, go to a location, hold E to settle.”
    - I have logged over 1k hours in Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer. Andromeda’s is built on many of the same principles, but now with jump-jets! It’d be great if the maps weren’t so small and confined. While jump-jetting, am always worried about running into walls, pipes, boxes, other players... Lack of enemy variety was an issue in the single-player campaign, and multi-player highlights the issue even more. In addition to all of this, the netcode is a buggy, laggy mess.
    - Glitches abound, even after the final patch.
    - Corrupted saves.
    - Frequent crashing on loading.
    - Crafting. Cumbersome number of components, poor interface.
    - Combat “profiles.” You can create and choose from up to 4 “profiles,” each of which contains only three skills (from any skill tree). Switch between profiles to access the different skills. But switching to a different profile immediately puts all your skills on cooldown, largely defeating the purpose of switching profiles in combat. Obvious console-itis.
    - The same enemies on every planet. Kett, human pirates, anti-human angara, and a few monsters / animals. Some have extra health to make them bosses. That’s it.
    - Cannot customize squad-mates’ loadout.
    - No pause screen in combat; no tactical interface.
    - The Paragon / Renegade character system is gone with nothing to take its place. It’s hard to meaningfully role-play – which means there’s little reason to replay.
    - SAM (the AI) never shuts up, and frequently cuts off / interrupts squadmate dialogue.
    - All asari have the same face (except squad-mate Peebee).
    - No quarians. There are turians, asari, humans and salarians on the Nexus, irrespective of the status of their Arks. Krogan are present too. Why no quarians?
    - Awful male turian designs.
    - Facial animations are still bad.
    - Generally sub-par voice acting, with a few exceptions.
    - The music soundtrack is nearly invisible.
    - Childish conversation writing.
    - The story works, but never surprises. Perhaps because so much of it is borrowed or rehashed from the previous Mass Effect games. The Kett threat is a retread of the Reaper threat (exaltation = ascension, conversion = indoctrination). The Archon even sounds like the Reapers when he states, “We have exalted countless species.”
    - The outrage over the lack of Quarian DLC isn’t just fan-manufactured. A story involving the Quarian Ark is teased in the final moments of the main story. **** you, BioWare.
    - Poor treatment of Mass Effect lore. Numerous retcons and alterations for no reason.

    There are more issues that I could bring up, but I’m limited by space. Worth a purchase at $10, because there are a lot of things to do, the planets are vast, and the combat is fun. But don’t expect a Mass Effect game. I was prepared to give it an 8 or a 9, I was pumped and ready to explore a new galaxy with new characters. 4/10 because instead BioWare gave us a plethora of poor design choices coupled with the boring leftovers of last night’s feast - served cold.    … Expand
  11. amiga4ever
    Sep 15, 2017
    9
    The game is not that bad as all say here, if you have a decent pc, it will run great! like the game, the story, and the characters will improve as you play. The latest Patch improves this game a lot. I recommend it! You will get more then 100 hours to play through
  12. Szandos
    Sep 11, 2017
    9
    Much better than I was lead to believe from the internet. The game has taken a huge bashing, which is not fair.

    I'm a huge fan of the Mass Effect series and I hope they continue with more games. It's not as good as ME2 or ME3, but still worth playing if you like the previous ones or Dragon Age: Inquisition. Actually, it is a lot like DA:I, but with more action in the fights. I do    Much better than I was lead to believe from the internet. The game has taken a huge bashing, which is not fair.

    I'm a huge fan of the Mass Effect series and I hope they continue with more games. It's not as good as ME2 or ME3, but still worth playing if you like the previous ones or Dragon Age: Inquisition. Actually, it is a lot like DA:I, but with more action in the fights.

    I do believe they would have been better off pruning a lot of the side missions and making a more Theme Park game like the previous ME games were instead of this "your quest log is full with a gazillion quests all over the place". It does make the game lose a lot of tempo and it is hard to keep focus on the main story.

    However, it is a beautiful game, the fighting is awesome and the companions are fun. Even if it's not the best in the seriies, it is still well worth getting and much much better than the critics on the internet might have lead you to believe.    … Expand
  13. AchicoXion
    Sep 8, 2017
    10
    **note: I wrote this like 2 months ago, and I do not want to re-write it, but I now know that unfortunately we won’t get any DLC**

    This game doesn't really deserve a 10, but it didn't deserve all those 0 and 1 too, so I feel like I should balance them somehow: the real score would be a 6. Single player: The gameplay is fluid and fun, even if sometimes laggy (but hey, looks like my    **note: I wrote this like 2 months ago, and I do not want to re-write it, but I now know that unfortunately we won’t get any DLC**

    This game doesn't really deserve a 10, but it didn't deserve all those 0 and 1 too, so I feel like I should balance them somehow: the real score would be a 6.

    Single player:
    The gameplay is fluid and fun, even if sometimes laggy (but hey, looks like my friends didn't get half the bug that I got, so maybe I pushed my PS too far). I HATE open worlds, so I didn't like that aspect, but exploring was funnier than in Dragon Age: Inquisition. I didn't like the random side quests (quests where you have to find a notepad, a corpse, etc., spawned at a random place on the map- Remnant's sites, Roakar sites, etc-.), they're even more boring if you play them after-ending; I probably should've played 'em during the main and the other side quests. The majority of the cutscenes is definitely unpolished and rough, but the important ones are **sometimes** amazing. Some planets are gorgeous, while other are kinda boring- but nothing like those horrible maps in Dragon Age II: you can see that Bioware didn't get enough time to work on this (just read the whole story on Kotaku). Sometimes while talking with NPC they wait too much before going to the next sentence, but I've seen some videos online and that doesn't happen that often on pc version. Wish it had voice acting in my language, but EA probably decided to cut some features- unfortunately sometimes the translation was wrong and plain bad. Unfortunately, NPC don’t usually speak about interesting or personal stuff like they used to do in the other Mass Effect games.
    I didn't expected anything from this game because people talked trash about it, but I've kinda appreciated it anyway. So many reviewers all over the net say that this game is bad because of "ugly characters", but every video/article trash-talk different characters (Cora, Peebee, Suvi, mainly women), so maybe they aren't ugly but particular, and that's something nice. ...I would've appreciated a super hot asari like Samara anyway. Don’t trust any review that talks about “SJW **** because that’s nonsense. I didn’t get an “anti-white” feel from this: I’m white and I hate racism (also towards non-POC)- I don’t really understand where some saw it.
    The character creator is terrible. It is getting better with updates, but it's nothing like Dragon Age Inquisition's one, and this is pretty sad.
    Wish the story was more…new. The concept looks old. Remnants are like Protheans, but looks like they could become something different in the next game…if a next game will be made. There are choices and they are kinda important, especially in the long term (as in a sequel), don’t know what others are talking about. Of course the changes are not immediate and not everything is important, but there are definitely some choices. I have played the game only once (and I do not plan to replay it, I don’t like the idea of more Ryder or more Shepard, I wanna have this as my story), but I think that you can be "renegade"- you won’t see it in this game, but in the next one, as it happened in Mass Effect 1.
    It's not a Shepard saga's game, but it's interesting anyway, and I hope that they'll release the DLCs one day.

    Multiplayer:
    Boring and based on items that you should buy, and people never save you when you need help. I don't like playing online anyway, so I don't really care.    … Expand
  14. Winterpsy
    Sep 7, 2017
    4
    Animations, voice acting and facial graphics would had been good 10 years ago. Sadly, Mass Effect cannot compete with today's most popular games. Even more, new games released in the past couple years raised the expectation so much it hurts to look at Andromeda. Feels like playing with an old-timer game.
    UI: Menus are a maze, no minimap, or quick access to the map. You get a new codex /    Animations, voice acting and facial graphics would had been good 10 years ago. Sadly, Mass Effect cannot compete with today's most popular games. Even more, new games released in the past couple years raised the expectation so much it hurts to look at Andromeda. Feels like playing with an old-timer game.
    UI: Menus are a maze, no minimap, or quick access to the map. You get a new codex / journal entry every second, so it's very easy to get lost in what's going on.

    The game is very unrealistic even for a sci-fi game. Same fauna on every planet, no gravtiation, everyone understands everyone

    Plot and quests are boring: When I was sent on the 10th scan this-scan that type of mission I groaned.

    Cover-system is very unreliable and clunky.    … Expand
  15. rokkzie
    Sep 5, 2017
    0
    Kill it with fire before i lays eggs! Seriously buggy, shallowly written, animations that makes 90s 3D games look decent enough and sloppy work in general. I love the scanning and the premises but that's where it ends.

    Had to restart the campaign 3 times due to game breaking bugs and scripted doors not triggering or putting my vehicle in the ocean, or just randomly flinging it away, or    Kill it with fire before i lays eggs! Seriously buggy, shallowly written, animations that makes 90s 3D games look decent enough and sloppy work in general. I love the scanning and the premises but that's where it ends.

    Had to restart the campaign 3 times due to game breaking bugs and scripted doors not triggering or putting my vehicle in the ocean, or just randomly flinging it away, or when you die in a firefight with 10+ enemies at an outpost and you respawn in the outpost... and all enemies are randomly dead.

    Just no, no patching in the world can fix this wreck short of starting over.    … Expand
  16. Mushashi7
    Sep 3, 2017
    10
    Mass Effect Andromeda did not disappoint me as I feared. I tried to lock out the feelings I had involved in the first trilogy and evaluate on a neutral ground. Andromeda has all the same ingredients as the previous games. All I have to do is getting used to a new hero (-ine). the graphics and sounds are even better than before. And so far the story is really good. It starts almost fromMass Effect Andromeda did not disappoint me as I feared. I tried to lock out the feelings I had involved in the first trilogy and evaluate on a neutral ground. Andromeda has all the same ingredients as the previous games. All I have to do is getting used to a new hero (-ine). the graphics and sounds are even better than before. And so far the story is really good. It starts almost from scratch - except for the small bindings to the previous worlds. Everything is satisfactory for me. Intense but with good anticlimaxes. I can't wait to see where we go next.… Expand
  17. VitaminK
    Sep 3, 2017
    10
    Too many fanboys giving this game a 0 or 1 which is really doesn't deserve even if you had high expectations. People with too high expectations from the previous series and complaints about bugs that will be ironed out. The game is solid, combat is fun, characters aren't as great as previous series but too many people are comparing the 2 separate series's characters which are entirelyToo many fanboys giving this game a 0 or 1 which is really doesn't deserve even if you had high expectations. People with too high expectations from the previous series and complaints about bugs that will be ironed out. The game is solid, combat is fun, characters aren't as great as previous series but too many people are comparing the 2 separate series's characters which are entirely different. This is a new series in Mass Effect, time to look at it with new eyes. After patching and putting 50+ hours into it I'm still not done or bored.… Expand
  18. tomasdee
    Sep 1, 2017
    6
    Single player review only.
    60 hrs in / hitting side quests before point of no return.
    Just really really odd the direction they took this franchise. Dumping all the old characters and bad guys for a whole new storyline. The would have have been better calling the game just "Andromeda" and dumping the Mass Effect title - they've really done themselves a big disfavour to the franchise -    Single player review only.
    60 hrs in / hitting side quests before point of no return.

    Just really really odd the direction they took this franchise. Dumping all the old characters and bad guys for a whole new storyline. The would have have been better calling the game just "Andromeda" and dumping the Mass Effect title - they've really done themselves a big disfavour to the franchise - a real shame.

    The game itself plays well - the combat is better, the visuals are nice, the atmosphere spot on. There is less 'exploring', ME2 was the best for that i reckon - resources took more effort, exploring felt more rewarding. Still - the planet zones are Big which is great and driving the Nomad is a hoot! Though after the initial explore you just fast travel (a godsend) about to the next quest point.

    The questing is a pain - the endless go here / go there quests are very tedious, coupled with the constant loading is just plain abysmal. Fly here, {load} quest done in 3minutes, {load} fly somewhere else {repeat alot}. Why you can't enter the Tempest to check an email without having to launch is just ridiculous. The side quests are really just a distraction - other than unlocking NPC loyalty, there is little reward for completion.
    The crafting system is pretty good - crafted gear is actually better than dropped or vendor stuff. Although i now have a bunch of credits with nothing to spend them on. I've also been using the same (upgraded) gear for a long time now - not a lot of flavour really in the gear.
    The resource system is pretty pointless, normally i have plenty of resources to craft any gear upgrade so this side of the game doesnt add much.
    The APEX missions are of no benefit to the single player game.

    Overall, nice game but a real shame for the franchise.

    PS - really enjoyed the ending. Nicely leaves it open for next chapter - pity they've canned and more single player content already >.< for andromeda.    … Expand
  19. DarknesShade
    Aug 30, 2017
    10
    Amazing Story, Amazing Characters, Amazing Gameplay and Amazing Soundtrack
    why people choose this game to hate on? i have no idea, the graphics? really? is so weird seeing people dissing the graphics, they are fine! and bugs on launch day? like with most games?
    the only negative thing in this entire game will be the lack of DLC
  20. dexiongmao
    Aug 27, 2017
    5
    Even with ugly faces, too much similar puzzles, ugly faces, slow and repetitive stories, ugly faces, narrow space in co-op missions, and ugly faces, this is a solid game worth a score of 7-8.

    Things like combat and exploring are pretty interesting to me, although they did a rather poor job to provide opportunities or attract players to do so. I can remember 1 year ago, we witnessed    Even with ugly faces, too much similar puzzles, ugly faces, slow and repetitive stories, ugly faces, narrow space in co-op missions, and ugly faces, this is a solid game worth a score of 7-8.

    Things like combat and exploring are pretty interesting to me, although they did a rather poor job to provide opportunities or attract players to do so.

    I can remember 1 year ago, we witnessed the failure of No Man's Sky and wished this would not be another lie of the trailer. Now the developer proves that they are much less responsible than the No Man's Sky team. They have given up further effort on fixing this mess and this is probably the most thing I am unhappy with.

    I cannot say I didn't enjoy my 70 hours. But it is pretty disappointing, and truly a lesson of not pre-ordering the game.    … Expand
  21. HeadyWook
    Aug 27, 2017
    6
    Finally got around to playing it. It was fun but it got pretty boring after the initial 2-3 planet terraforming completions. It was an entertaining game while the moment lasted but I wasn't even inspired enough to finish the main story line.
  22. rrchiaratt
    Aug 26, 2017
    4
    Seriously, I had hoped someone at Bio ware had the creativity that was so there in mass effect 2. But nope! Boring, lifeless average lacking creativity, lacking expansive thoughts, piss poor game relationships, etc.. etc.. etc.
    Only giving a 4 cause I am generous because the game does not deserve it. I ran out every mission, every opportunity thinking something would be awesome. NOPE!
  23. Thunderflex
    Aug 25, 2017
    10
    You know, after 93.5 hours of playing Mass Effect: Andromeda, I don't get it. Like...I really truthfully don't get it. Why do people hate this game? The game motivated me to complete all of its content more than any other game I have ever played. I did literally every side quest and every main story mission. Beat the game, naturally...saw the entire story. I admit, you wont get theYou know, after 93.5 hours of playing Mass Effect: Andromeda, I don't get it. Like...I really truthfully don't get it. Why do people hate this game? The game motivated me to complete all of its content more than any other game I have ever played. I did literally every side quest and every main story mission. Beat the game, naturally...saw the entire story. I admit, you wont get the entire picture if you don't do ALL of the content, but the primary story line still gives you a glimpse of what is taking place in Andromeda. The game also did a great job setting up the rest of the franchise...well, if people weren't complaining about bugs that happened right after the release of the game...which, lets face it...bugs happen at the launch of literally every blockbuster game since Halo 2. You'd think that people would be used to this.

    The environments look great, the lighting and rendering, texture quality and performance were all great in Ultra with a 1080 nvidia graphics card. The explorable portions of the world were vast and traveling around was very quick once you acquire all the shuttle points. I always started the planets by acquiring these points...it just makes everything easier later.

    After about 20 hours of gameplay, or 6 hours if you stick to primary story missions, the game really opens up and you can go and do whatever mission you want at any time. There are several different mission types that you can do. Many revolve around relationships or story development, but there are a few unrelated and fun quests mixed in there as well. When I completed the 'movie' mission (you'll know when you get it), I genuinely enjoyed its conclusion because by the time it finished, I had developed a strong connection with the primary characters personalities. This is a huge reason why I scored this game a 10...story and personal relationships with characters.

    Gameplay: Awesome! People complain about only being able to use 3 abilities...but you can change these out at any time based on encounter situations. You dont always need to go to a shuttle or your tempest loadout locker just to switch abilities. Im level 64, I have 4 sets of 3 abilities that I swap whenever I feel like it and its totally fine. All you have to do is swap your set! (you will have to figure out how to do that though, lol)

    Ui. I will admit, this one took a while to figure out. I thought about downgrading to a 9 because the Ui was pretty rough to get into and fully learn everything thats going on...but in the end i kept a 10 rating because I DID learn it, and it was fine. I did not feel like it was a detriment to the overall experience because when youre in the Ui, youre just kind of dicking around anyway and looking for things. Most inventories in games are **** until you learn it!

    The game is great, I very much recommend it for anyone looking for a spacey action rpg with enough story stuff to get you invested in the characters and world.

    Enjoy!    … Expand
  24. tagos
    Aug 22, 2017
    6
    It's now down to £17, the price of a good Early Access indie game.

    As such it's a solid 6/10. Mediocre animation that does an okay job. Mediocre to downright hopeless voice acting. Meandering storyline that in the opening hours does all it can to make you die of boredom. Characters that range from uninteresting to downright irritating. On the plus side - nice exploration and    It's now down to £17, the price of a good Early Access indie game.

    As such it's a solid 6/10. Mediocre animation that does an okay job. Mediocre to downright hopeless voice acting. Meandering storyline that in the opening hours does all it can to make you die of boredom. Characters that range from uninteresting to downright irritating.

    On the plus side - nice exploration and combat.

    For an indie game it's okay, if somewhat pricey.

    For a AAA Mass Effect game it's very poor.

    People scoring it 10 or 1 are taking the piss. It's not that good or that bad.

    It's just okay for £17.

    It's just not a full price game. It's just not worthy of The Mass Effect name and certainly not worth a second play through.

    Treat it as a cheap generic scifi action RPG produced by a small indie team, none of whom were writers and it is okay for the bargain basement price.    … Expand
  25. OpenMindedMan
    Aug 22, 2017
    10
    This game is probably, no, easily, the best in the series thanks to the new free-movement combat system, the more relateable characters, and best/most companion missions. It even has the best multiplayer mode. The graphics+engine also blows many other games out of the water.

    Are the facial animations bad? Yeah. So what. You get used to that after a couple hours. EDIT: Docked 3 stars    This game is probably, no, easily, the best in the series thanks to the new free-movement combat system, the more relateable characters, and best/most companion missions. It even has the best multiplayer mode. The graphics+engine also blows many other games out of the water.

    Are the facial animations bad? Yeah. So what. You get used to that after a couple hours.

    EDIT: Docked 3 stars upon announcement that there will be no DLC. This game needed DLC, and I assumed it would have extensive DLC when I bought it.    … Expand
  26. Kuterfazer
    Aug 22, 2017
    8
    ME: Andromeda isn't that bad, in fact, you can feel a pleasure playing this game but a lot of fans may feel disappointed. At the very beginning, character creation was awfully hideous and here I mean either diversity of options and awful patterns but later it was fixed. The story is quite good, optimization isn't bad and finally exploration. This is why I like games of this sort, but MEAME: Andromeda isn't that bad, in fact, you can feel a pleasure playing this game but a lot of fans may feel disappointed. At the very beginning, character creation was awfully hideous and here I mean either diversity of options and awful patterns but later it was fixed. The story is quite good, optimization isn't bad and finally exploration. This is why I like games of this sort, but MEA is slightly different, you can travel wherever you want to, gather sources create either weapons and armors but only but for how long it can attract your attention? Worlds are empty mostly and boring yet I can recommend you all this game since I enjoyed playing it and I am sure those who are going to play ME for the first time ever. you gonna like it but I doubt it you gonna love it.… Expand
  27. StanisS
    Aug 21, 2017
    9
    Quite enough interesting storylines and fine dialogue, as well as likable visuals in a game for a recommendation. Looking forward to more in this universe.
  28. cossayos
    Aug 20, 2017
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. After finishing the game and the announcement of no additional SP content coming, I'm doing another review.

    The positive: The game is solid now. Mostly bugfree and the animations have been fixed for the largest parts.

    The mediocre: Story, straight from the rack. Companions, apart from Drack and Peebee, the worst turnout of any Bioware game. In previous games, I couldn't wait to discuss our progress with the companions. In this game I get the feeling of do I really have to talk with that companion again. They're mostly cliche, with Gil sticking out like a sore thumb. He's the virtual gay checklist being ticked off. Gay, female best friend, wants to become a parent, becomes parent with female best friend. When I learned about his story, I was sure, a homophobe had written this. Liam, the guy that even the squadmates despise. So how would the player react differently to this annoying and boring cardboard? Then there's the lead character, Ryder. It's the weakest lead character of any Bioware game. I blame that on the absence of Paragon/Renegade options that doesn't even allow for a snide comeback if your character is outright insulted.

    The ugly: Lose quest threads. I don't know what the developers had in mind when the most interesting side quests just lead to nowheren. Specifically the mysterious benefactor and the Garsson murder leave you hanging out to dry. Maybe they planned on producing DLCs to resolve these issues. But we're not getting any, so there's absolutely no incentive for a replay, fully knowing that you won't resolve most of the mysteries.

    In short, buy if you're into some shooter action with added puzzles and repetitive environments. Steer clear, if you expect RPG content.    … Expand
  29. OberiousLocke
    Aug 19, 2017
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Edit 2: Due to BioWare's recent middle finger to the fanbase, announcing it's focus on books and multiplayer and telling the people who wanted single-player DLC and content to **** off, I will be changing all scores for my ME series reviews to 0.

    Edit: Thank you for proving my point, you brigading morons.

    Summary - Mass Effect: Andromeda is faithful to the original trilogy, without sacrificing any depth that comes with the monumental task before you. The combat is tight, the animations are FINE despite what the mindless haters are saying (I've yet to notice anything, really) and the worlds, people and story are as deep as you've come to expect if you're already a fan, and very much worth buying if you're new and on the fence. The graphics are absolutely mindblowing, regardless of what specs your running (mostly high w/ frame rate drops here and there). My only complaint is I don't really notice any music, which really stood out in the first 3. Overall, BUY IT, I can't say enough good things about it, and if you like a deep RPG with people to meet and places to see, you will love it.

    The game takes place in 2819, 600 someodd years after the original games. In 2185, during the gulf of time between the events of Mass Effect 2 and the beginning of Mass Effect 3, The Nexus, a space station to rival the Citadel shipped off into the dark space between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy millions of light years away, flanked by Arks representing the major races (Turian, Asari, Salarian and Human) You are Sara/Scott Ryder, the Daughter/Son of Pathfinder Alec Ryder, sent to find 7 golden worlds to settle. Things aren't as they seem, and **** quickly rockets in the direction of the nearest fan, is all I'll say.

    The first thing you're liable to notice outside of the stellar graphics when compared to the "meh" textures in ME3 is the verticality of the gameplay and environment with the edition of jumpjets (or Biotic powers, if you spec for them) which enable for much more frenetic combat. Enemy hiding behind cover? Jump and biotic charge their asses (if Vanguard, for example) The combat is very much fast paced, compared to any previous entries.

    In addition to the added versatility, they've brought back the huge honking talent trees from ME1 (Although not as gratuitous with how many levels there are) while mixing them with the branching paths introduced in ME3. Whats more is you are no longer restricted. Sure you pick a starting place, but after that, you can put points in to Tech (Overload, Incinerate, etc), Biotics (Charge, pull, etc) and Combat (Concussive shot, Omni Grenade, and weapon skills) along with the Mass Effect 3 change of a weight-based loadout. Old favorites return (I liked Incinerate and overload for utility) along with newcomers like Lance (A targeted Biotic power that you can land headshots with) and Invasion (Tech power, lowers enemy defense and deals a small bit of damage over a radius) One thing I'd register as a minor draw back is you're limited to 3 powers at once (though this is remedied by the favorites system)

    To top it all off, as you invest more points, you unlock interchangeable profiles based on the original classes (Invest in Combat/Biotics to unlock vanguard, whose perks allow you to refill shields by bashing people w/ melee) and you save up to 4 favorite loadouts (3 powers and a profile) to switch to on command with the F1-F4 keys.

    I won't go into terrible detail on the planet stuff there is to do, but the exploration of them (Eos, for example) is weaved into the questing experience (which is something I can't say for something like Dragon Age: Inquisition - The Fillering) and eventually, you can choose what kind of outposts to settle after you've raised the Viability. That being said, I could see how it could get boring to some.

    Last I'll touch on for fear of a character limit is the people you meet. A cast as diverse as you'd expect from the easy going Liam Kosta, to an insufferable thing named Addison, showcasing most of the races I've come to expect so far, both male and female (and the first 3 games didn't really show a lot of the female's of a given species, except for Eve and Nyreen in 3) The Dialog trees can get a little boring, given how many different things you can ask each character aboard the Tempest alone, but I personally very much love to know the people I'm fighting with, and they are all truly their own people with personalities and pasts. Obligatory mention of the fact that there are a fair few romance options, no matter which gender or orientation you lean towards.

    I very much want to give an honorable mention to the mindless hatebots that spurred me to write this, people who in all likelihood haven't even played the game yet, for making big ****fights out of hardly noticeable animation/facial issues (in my time, hardly noticeable, anyway. Downvote away, I know you will.    … Expand
  30. Ciristan
    Aug 18, 2017
    9
    Excelente juego, me gustó mucho. Soy seguidor de la trilogía y en este han mejorado muchas cosas respecto a los otros. Es un juego que tiene para muchas muchas horas de diversión.
  31. scottryder
    Aug 18, 2017
    10
    I am a die hard Mass Effect fan. For what Ea has done to the game is unacceptable but still Bioware came through with exploration, great combat and long long loooooonnnnnggggg hours of gameplay that compensates the negative reviews of others. I love Mass effect...always been and I will be waiting for its next release. Casey Hudson it is up to you. Kudos to Bioware
  32. DrScamp
    Aug 16, 2017
    2
    At the begining ( if u ignore totaly failed char animations and absurdly ugly womens ) i thought maybe this game will be cool. But with the progress of the story all what i was thinking was " omg its getting worse and worse ". Before last mission i had to do a break coz i was close to fall asleep. Im a big fan of ME games, but this one? Its a huge fail. Boring quests, scanning planets forAt the begining ( if u ignore totaly failed char animations and absurdly ugly womens ) i thought maybe this game will be cool. But with the progress of the story all what i was thinking was " omg its getting worse and worse ". Before last mission i had to do a break coz i was close to fall asleep. Im a big fan of ME games, but this one? Its a huge fail. Boring quests, scanning planets for nothing ( literally scaning whole cluster giving u 80 iron is some kind of a joke ) the only good thing in this game is graphic, planets look beautiful imho, but... if u want to look on beautiful pictures i can search in google... Oh and u face 20 kinds of opponents in total... mixed colors but same animals on every planet.. da **** 20?? So as a summary: u fly over galactic, face same enemys, same boring quests, on every planet u have to do same things to settle it, this is best recipe to crate horrible game, and they made it, for me this game is total fail and have nothing interesting to offer.. 95% is trash content not even worht mention, and 5 % is something good.. So answere yourselves do u want to buy a game for this 5% and be bored to death for the rest of the time.… Expand
  33. johnbman11
    Aug 16, 2017
    5
    This game was just okay. The combat and graphics were absolutely stellar and the characters, while not as good as the original trilogy, were still pretty good. I personally liked Peebee, Drax, Vetra, and Jaal quite a lot. The rest... I could do without. The story, was straight up awful. I finished the entire game in 49 hours and left it feeling totally cheated. What a complete waste ofThis game was just okay. The combat and graphics were absolutely stellar and the characters, while not as good as the original trilogy, were still pretty good. I personally liked Peebee, Drax, Vetra, and Jaal quite a lot. The rest... I could do without. The story, was straight up awful. I finished the entire game in 49 hours and left it feeling totally cheated. What a complete waste of potential. Mass Effect 1-3 were absolutely epic while Andromeda is just a, ultimately, waste of time. The story, again, was so dry and uninspired, the missions left you watching your freakin' ship land and take off over and over.. and over... and over again to go to planets you've already been to. I got 100% viability in my playthrough and was rewarded with a total menial cutscene. The world doesn't feel alive and the lack of any real conversations seriously hurts this game. There were several epic moments in the game, but the rest was dry, repetitive fetch quests that didn't make you feel like you were doing anything that mattered. The exploration was a great idea but unfortunately, due to completely incompetent management of the project, it ended up being a boring, albeit beautiful, installment in the Mass Effect Universe.… Expand
  34. Skriptoff
    Aug 15, 2017
    8
    I am real fan of trilogy and even so I give this game 8.5 because I think that this game isn't bad. This game has good combat gameplay which i really enjoyed, squad members are cool and they are interesting. Main story was good with some plot twists and stuff. Even side quests are interesting. There are some little problems like Quest marking and UI before you get used to it but still II am real fan of trilogy and even so I give this game 8.5 because I think that this game isn't bad. This game has good combat gameplay which i really enjoyed, squad members are cool and they are interesting. Main story was good with some plot twists and stuff. Even side quests are interesting. There are some little problems like Quest marking and UI before you get used to it but still I think this game is still under-rated by trilogy fans who just can't accept that their Shepard died and don't want to get used to another main character and crew and world. Even so I really enjoyed this game and I hope that we will one day get a sequal.… Expand
  35. AndrewTDR
    Aug 12, 2017
    10
    Mass Effect is my favorite series. I'm a huge fan. Even bought some books. I've been waiting for this for a while and I just finished it today.

    Positives: Amazing combat with lots of possibilities, jet packs were a brilliant idea, great crafting and upgrading system, great graphics, good planet design, I liked making first contact with a new alien species, you really get the feeling    Mass Effect is my favorite series. I'm a huge fan. Even bought some books. I've been waiting for this for a while and I just finished it today.

    Positives: Amazing combat with lots of possibilities, jet packs were a brilliant idea, great crafting and upgrading system, great graphics, good planet design, I liked making first contact with a new alien species, you really get the feeling that you're isolated in a new galaxy

    Negatives: The worst thing about this game are the human facial animations. The alien animations are fine. I also don't like how you can't save during some missions. And I would have preferred at least 4 active powers.

    Neutral: The story is ok. Characters are ok.

    Overall: This is a good but unpolished game. I finished it in about 110 hours. Did pretty much everything. Giving it a 10 might stretch it, but I had a lot of fun playing it.    … Expand
  36. radscorpion9
    Aug 12, 2017
    8
    I played the original trilogy, was a huge fan of the series. I heard a lot about how animations were horrible, and the story was afflicted with tons of over the top social justice points that break immersion, making you feel like you are playing a politicized game.

    Well I actually played the trail version for 10 hours. I agree that the writing doesn't capture you as deeply as the    I played the original trilogy, was a huge fan of the series. I heard a lot about how animations were horrible, and the story was afflicted with tons of over the top social justice points that break immersion, making you feel like you are playing a politicized game.

    Well I actually played the trail version for 10 hours. I agree that the writing doesn't capture you as deeply as the originals, but I still think its pretty decent. There are some pretty good jokes here and there, and some interesting conversations to be had, and things to be learned. There are some characters where they went overboard, and you really couldn't care less about their backstory. But on the other hand, I think it depends on your personality. Each individual may care more about certain NPCs than others, and so I think they tried to cover all the bases.

    The combat is probably slightly better than it was in previous iterations, in that all the guns feel a bit more solid to shoot, and the damage is a bit more visceral and realistic. The graphics (aside from the faces) look pretty decent overall, though I'm not sure it would win any awards.

    Overall the quest experience isn't as deep as it was before apart from the main storyline missions, for the most part many of the side quests seem to just tell you to go to a place, and once you do and complete your task, there is no follow up or sense that it was at all meaningful besides a way to earn XP. I remember the original Mass Effect games had a lot more consequence to your actions.

    That said, many others do (like improving the viability of certain planets for colonization), so I think it balances out. Much of the joy in this game, to me, is gaining levels, and buying or researching new upgrades for weapons and armor, and seeing how my colonies become increasingly viable and the impact that has on the universe (which genuinely seems to exist as a causal factor).

    So there are some ups, a few downs, but overall this is a pretty solid game. It is really hard to mess up a game when you have such a large budget, and so many people working on it, and overall they get a lot of things right. Animations are of course a bit wonky, but to be honest its passable and you don't notice it much.

    All in all I think I agree with most journalists; this game is solidly done, has many interesting plot points, not all of them feel meaningful, but the main plot and many of the side quests do have an effect, and the RPG mechanics are all there. I recommend people try this game out for 10 hours for free, just see how it goes. You'll be surprised that someone can rate this game a 3 or a 4. In my opinion those ratings should only be used in extreme cases, and this is not one of them    … Expand
  37. Skipper81Ger
    Aug 12, 2017
    1
    Very very very very disappointing. Have it played through, because I love this series. But that was it. Rip mass effect. I am very sorry for the grandiose story but that was really crap.
  38. polyakoviv
    Aug 9, 2017
    8
    A lot of hate towards the game and it is understandable. However currently (1.10) the game is very good. No major glitches, stunning graphics, very big in a good way, ok plot and storytelling etc. Yes, it is not shepard mass effect1-3 and so what? The haters are gonna hate. Play it, try it.
  39. UnlikelyCompass
    Aug 8, 2017
    10
    I have been hesitant to purchase this game given the poor reviews I've read and heard about since it was released several months ago. After being stuck on my computer for 80 hours over the past few weeks, I can't for the life of me, understand why people reviewed this game so poorly.

    It has the best of Mass Effect's previous iterations, from galactic planet discovery and resource    I have been hesitant to purchase this game given the poor reviews I've read and heard about since it was released several months ago. After being stuck on my computer for 80 hours over the past few weeks, I can't for the life of me, understand why people reviewed this game so poorly.

    It has the best of Mass Effect's previous iterations, from galactic planet discovery and resource gathering to granular exploration of new lands and cultures. The game is beautifully created, has a massive story line and seemingly never-ending quests. Once you get the hang of the controls after a few hours, the fight sequences are enjoyable and challenging (depending on your preferred game difficulty setting), and are broken up reasonably among political & exploratory content so as not to be overwhelming.

    If I feel like flying through the galaxy and looking at pretty stars and stellar formations, I have that option to do so. If I'm in the mood to casually stroll around a starship or planet, I'm welcome to do so on a whim. If I want to explode green alien heads, my sniper rifle is at the ready in a click.

    My only two complaints are 1) The fact that the characters are somehow able to travel through the Andromeda galaxy without mass relays - a plot hole which I can look beyond to enjoy the plot of the new game, and 2) Neither male nor female characters seem particularly appealing for the sake of pursuing an in-game relationship, but at least there are plenty of options, plus, the character interactions are comedic and entertaining even if the romances are a bit trite.

    If there were initial bugs to the game, I assume they must have been fixed since I haven't had any problems with quests. Some of the animations are still imperfect, but this is a video game and I don't expect 100 hours of content to have been filmed via motion capture.

    Long story short, I hope the initial bad reviews start to wash away. This game was obviously built to be the first chapter in an evolving story, so I would hate to not have an opportunity to play another. God speed, Bioware!    … Expand
  40. VashTheStampede
    Aug 7, 2017
    10
    Fantastic game! First Mass Effect game for me and I loved it! Graphics are awesome, quests are deep and driven, characters are intriguing and unique, open space exploration is just phenomenal. Overall, awesome game takes you for a great ride! Would recommend to any gamer!
  41. erikssonj
    Aug 6, 2017
    1
    Buy something else. This is a huge mess of an in-game menu system on top of a game that is more about cut scenes and walking around in your base than actual gameplay. Avoid.
  42. Bennabus
    Aug 5, 2017
    7
    I finally figured out what the problem is with this game. There is a lot of it I like quite a bit. There are some moments of great writing and interesting characters, Liam and Jaal trying to figure out what is insulting to each other's cultures is one such moment where I really found myself liking some characters that I had otherwise found totally uninteresting up until that point. I knowI finally figured out what the problem is with this game. There is a lot of it I like quite a bit. There are some moments of great writing and interesting characters, Liam and Jaal trying to figure out what is insulting to each other's cultures is one such moment where I really found myself liking some characters that I had otherwise found totally uninteresting up until that point. I know there are little gems here and there throughout the game. The problem lies in the time between theml. The conflicts you are solving when you're not busy trying to maintain the existence of humanity in Andromeda are based on petty, maufactured, idiotic whiny side characters. I mean come on, you've been selected as one of a relatively small number of people to head all the way across the galaxy and to another one, why the heck are you willing to do stupid crap to nearly kill everyone because your friends and family aren't being woken up first? There's so much pettiness, so much selfishness in all these side quests, it seems like they just shipped a bunch of entitled millennials to the Andromeda galaxy because the wanted to get rid of them and let the grown ups deal with life here in the Milky Way.

    I mean there are certainly other problems, half the time Ryder opens her mouth she says something completely contrary to the tone of the story or scene at that point and she's super awkward in any remotely social situation, to the point she seems like she's not even part of the same conversation as everyone else, so far the logic behind the Remnant doesn't make any damn sense, and a few other silly things, but the further I get into the game the more I like it. I just hate dealing with anyone on the Nexus.    … Expand
  43. MeJu
    Aug 3, 2017
    3
    Mass Effect: Andromeda had SO much potential. The graphics looks great, has a good narrative and the planets are beautiful. I have played the Andromeda from start to end a couple of times now and every time I'm left with HUGE disappointment. There are so many loose ends that needs to be tied. I thought there were going to be tons of DLC, but it seems there isn't going to be any afterMass Effect: Andromeda had SO much potential. The graphics looks great, has a good narrative and the planets are beautiful. I have played the Andromeda from start to end a couple of times now and every time I'm left with HUGE disappointment. There are so many loose ends that needs to be tied. I thought there were going to be tons of DLC, but it seems there isn't going to be any after Bioware closed in Montreal. I loved all the former Mass Effect games.… Expand
  44. ChoicestGames
    Aug 2, 2017
    8
    For a long time I was thinking of giving Mass Effect: Andromeda a 7/10: the game is basically Dragon Age: Inquisition in SPAAAAACE and it doesn't shy away from the fact it's a spin-off of the original trilogy; To me, Mass Effect: Andromeda is basically to the original Mass Effect trilogy what "Deep Space Nine" is to "The Next Generation". "Star Trek" fans took a long time to warm to theFor a long time I was thinking of giving Mass Effect: Andromeda a 7/10: the game is basically Dragon Age: Inquisition in SPAAAAACE and it doesn't shy away from the fact it's a spin-off of the original trilogy; To me, Mass Effect: Andromeda is basically to the original Mass Effect trilogy what "Deep Space Nine" is to "The Next Generation". "Star Trek" fans took a long time to warm to the new direction taken with "Deep Space Nine" and some never ended up liking it and I think the same rings true with Mass Effect: Andromeda. It took me a long time to appreciate Mass Effect: Andromeda for what it is but provided you're not deterred by the glitches, performance issues and the change in gameplay to a more open world RPG, it can actually be fun – sometimes a lot of fun.… Expand
  45. Dannystaples
    Jul 30, 2017
    4
    Yet another game that can't seem to get something as simple as CPU optimisation right. I have a middle of the range CPU, what that USUALLY says to me is that I can run it at max with perhaps a few settings turned down a little. Namely shadows/lighting which are CPU bound.

    What that DOESN'T say is that the game would max out my CPU 100% on every core even when running the game at    Yet another game that can't seem to get something as simple as CPU optimisation right. I have a middle of the range CPU, what that USUALLY says to me is that I can run it at max with perhaps a few settings turned down a little. Namely shadows/lighting which are CPU bound.

    What that DOESN'T say is that the game would max out my CPU 100% on every core even when running the game at absolute minimum settings. Absolute JOKE. With everything on minimum my computer can actually run the game at about 120fps. But the stupid game decides that it is still going to dip into the SUB 20s seemingly at random.

    Pathetic attempt from a pathetic company. Bioware USED to be a great company but the Bioware that once was is dead.

    Now the game itself is actually better than I thought it was going to be. The characters don't annoy me as much as the characters did in previous games. The combat is actually pretty satisfying.

    But my god, this game has some problems even beyond the potato faced character models and the crappy animations. Personally don't really care much for the story. Yet another alien race is there to do alien race stuff and humans are trying to colonise another galaxy.

    Naturally the alien race gets in the way and the only thing our primitive ape brains come up with it to shoot and vaporise them into submission.

    Which I'm actually not even that bothered by. I'll take a crappy story and setting when the gameplay is good and the visuals are good which they definitely are.

    But this game has WAY WAY WAY too many problems to be enjoyable. I mean when you have a GTX 1070 and a game is dipping into sub 20 fps there is a BIG f**king problem!!!!!!    … Expand
  46. Wiktornax
    Jul 28, 2017
    10
    This is very very good game with epic story and awesome graphics, but one thing... Face animations are weak, but rest is very good and in style of Mass Effect Trilogy.
  47. Ghostryderflyby
    Jul 26, 2017
    9
    Now, and I stress now, the game is a solid 9. When it first came out, it was a technical mess, with a boatload of bugs, animation issues, etc. Bioware was diligent about patching them, and now the game is really good. Unfortunately the buggy mess that EA forced them to release back in March deservedly garnered crap reviews, and ruined the game's reputation. Which is sad because it reallyNow, and I stress now, the game is a solid 9. When it first came out, it was a technical mess, with a boatload of bugs, animation issues, etc. Bioware was diligent about patching them, and now the game is really good. Unfortunately the buggy mess that EA forced them to release back in March deservedly garnered crap reviews, and ruined the game's reputation. Which is sad because it really is a great game. They mixed the best of the original ME games, such as world exploration and a rover (ME1), with much improved combat mechanics (ME3), plus added a jetpack and much greater mobility. There is a lot to really really like about MEA.... now. I'm just afraid EA may have already wrecked the franchise, by forcing the release of what felt like an early beta, as a finished triple A title, resulting in **** reviews and poor sales. Take a hint EA, FINISH THE GAME BEFORE RELEASE NEXT TIME! It will score better and make you more than enough money to make up for a slightly extended development cycle. Anyway, I will say now, that if you haven't tried the game, definitely do so. The issues have been fixed and it's a great game now that it's been patched.… Expand
  48. TECHer
    Jul 26, 2017
    10
    How? HOW can anyone hate this masterpiece? They say it's boring, repetitive? You guys are crazy...I'm so in love with this game...Dialoges are perfect, graphics - amazing. Story - super cool. Skills and all the battle system is fantastic. Ok you can have ur own opinion, but if you try it with INSANE difficulty, trust me, you'll love it bad!. Good Luck!
  49. Master_Kosa
    Jul 24, 2017
    7
    So few days ago I got my hands on Mass Effect Andromeda and after 24h in game I have to say WTF all those bad reviews are about? The game is very good, it has everything I expected from Mass Effect series except for Paragon/Renegade system which I miss a bit. Story and characters are on par with previous games in series, in fact there is one dialogue that made me laugh so hard, somethingSo few days ago I got my hands on Mass Effect Andromeda and after 24h in game I have to say WTF all those bad reviews are about? The game is very good, it has everything I expected from Mass Effect series except for Paragon/Renegade system which I miss a bit. Story and characters are on par with previous games in series, in fact there is one dialogue that made me laugh so hard, something that I fail to remember to happen while playing a game.

    Yeah, the game is maybe a bit too complex in a way how many things you can do but for explorers it is a heaven because there is so much to do.

    Maybe the story is not on par with RPG’s like Planescape Torment but PT is one game none other can ever hope to be equal story wise. Compared to other ME game, as said before, it comes right in the middle. Dialogues are OK too, sometimes stupid but nothing that would make me want to stop playing.

    Honestly the only thing I’m going to complain so far are glitches like enemies disappearing into building that cannot be accessed and still being active, weird camera angles when I start dialogue from a jump or from behind a wall, dead enemies that do not fall, AI that lets me shoot them from a distance and nothing happens and few other things like scripting failures in case of few side quests (one “if” is missing apparently but given how big the game is it is understandable). But nothing too annoying, just weird.

    So the conclusion on my side so far (I haven’t finished the game yet) is that game deserves at least 7.5/10. It would have been 8 if the scripting and glitches did not happen.    … Expand
  50. Link2Twenty
    Jul 24, 2017
    10
    The story is outstanding and engaging, there are some graphical bugs though in my playthrough (60 hours) I encountered 3, none of which were game breaking. Bioware strives to make characters interesting and mysteries intriguing, I'd honestly say they succeeded with this game.
  51. Fredvdp
    Jul 24, 2017
    6
    Buried beneath a ton of annoyances and bad design choices is a very fun game. It's a shame you have to dig through the dirt to find it.

    Mass Effect Andromeda does a lot right, like the improved combat, level design in the main story missions, and the setting. The biggest issue, however, was that BioWare decided not to improve upon the linear level design of the trilogy and opted to make    Buried beneath a ton of annoyances and bad design choices is a very fun game. It's a shame you have to dig through the dirt to find it.

    Mass Effect Andromeda does a lot right, like the improved combat, level design in the main story missions, and the setting. The biggest issue, however, was that BioWare decided not to improve upon the linear level design of the trilogy and opted to make most of the game an uninspired semi-open world. In this regard it feels like MEA is two games: The main plot follows the design of the trilogy with well designed linear levels; The secondary content is part of the semi-open world with environments unsuited for Mass Effect's third person combat.

    The various planets are a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand you have Havarl which has a very natural mission progression with sidemissions you can pick up on your way. On the other hand you have Kadara, a big map riddled with fetch quests and a storyline that requires constant backtracking. The planet Elaaden has some great looking locations, but the interesting parts of the map are tied to its storyline. The sidemissions are spread around the planet in outposts consisting of a couple of stacked boxes and are, once again, very uninspired and not worth the effort.

    The sidemissions also require travelling between planets, with Peebee's loyalty mission requiring the completion of menial tasks in most of the game's main locations, which means you have to sit through unskippable landing and takeoff cinematics meant to mask load times (sorry, SSD owners). Unlike Dragon Age Inquisition you can't teleport to any fast travel point from anywhere. In MEA you have to first enter your ship, look at a minute long cutscene, fly to your new location in the galaxy map, then look at another unskippable minute long cutscene. What's especially frustrating is that after all the travelling you may get an email from a character telling you to go to a planet you just came from, forcing you to sit through the same unskippable cinematic once again.

    As far as story and characters go, MEA is very mediocre. There are a handful of interesting characters, but they're not nearly as engaging as the ones from previous BioWare games. The story is decent, but very derivative of previous Mass Effect games.

    At its best, Mass Effect Andromeda really shines. Some of the loyalty missions are very well designed missions, and the final story missions is heaps of fun. It's just a shame that there's so little of it compared to the hours upon hours of padding. A damn shame, because there's definitely a great game in here somewhere.    … Expand
  52. robgamafive
    Jul 23, 2017
    8
    Regular guy's honest review:

    Lots of people (me not included) expected Andromeda to be ME:4. It wasn't. I knew that it wasn't going to be ME:4 because all the hype and trailers and stuff looked to good to be true. Maybe that's why it works -- my expectations were okay. I can't say why exactly but Andromeda works for me. I'm a bit disappointed that there's no epic music but at the    Regular guy's honest review:

    Lots of people (me not included) expected Andromeda to be ME:4. It wasn't. I knew that it wasn't going to be ME:4 because all the hype and trailers and stuff looked to good to be true. Maybe that's why it works -- my expectations were okay.

    I can't say why exactly but Andromeda works for me. I'm a bit disappointed that there's no epic music but at the same time Nomad's humming soothes me, as does exploring beautiful planets like Elaaden and Eos.

    Scott Ryder is not Shepard. He never says anything controversial or emotional but then again, this works for me. He's chill.

    I finished ME:2 and ME:3 really fast (2 or 3 weeks) because they were so exciting and thrilling so I binged like a kid on candy. I'm still playing Andromeda. Andromeda came when I was really struggling with depression and it helped me a lot.

    Kett is enemy are AMAZING and I loved fighting with them. That first mission on Eos when you have to destroy Kett Base and encounter your first Ascendant was so cool (INSULT. Animal! Our perfection cannot be defeated! -- and then I wrecked their base)

    Characters were a bit disappointing (I'm trying not to be too negative): there's just too many of them and I don't end up feeling that much for most of them. Lexi is never going to be Liara and SAM is never going to be as cool as EDI.

    I thought romance scenes were done well. Sure, characters you can romance are not HOT but at the same time maybe the game does teach you to look beyond the surface and appreciate the fact that someone sense you a thoughtful message after you spend some quality time together. It's not about the looks but also about appreciation. I get why people are annoyed but at the same time things work if you don't take it too seriously and then are pleasantly surprised how romance turns out.

    Other than Jaal (superb voice actor) and Peebee, other character just didn't convey much emotion. Liam was my least favourite character but that's more because he reminds me of some jerk from high-school I'd rather avoid. I've never met anyone from London but he did make me hate him so I'd say his voice acting did provoke emotions? I also disliked Jacob and Javik. Drack seems like a token Krogan.

    The game's biggest downfall is that we all end up comparing it to Mass Effect. But it's not Mass Effect. Mass Effect we know and love is over. This game is Andromeda: Inspired by Mass Effect. But I DO like it. I give it a solid 8/10 and I don't regret for one second that I bought it.

    Multiplayer is also fun and I hope they improve those little things (music) and big things (depth to characters, some proper choices and the ability to pick your dialogue). For me the biggest plus is that for me, I get to play it much longer than ME2 and ME3 and I find it calming. It's not a game that's epic like 2 and 3 but it's a game that's good and playable.

    I'm not a paid reviewer or a shill. I'm a real honest person and I give it 8/10    … Expand
  53. TheSnarkyShaman
    Jul 21, 2017
    9
    Narrative: I can't say much for spoiler reasons, but there's a cohesion that brings the game together well. Due to the dire circumstances you face, almost everything you're doing has some importance and doesn't feel arbitrary. Side content tends to relate into the main narratives of areas very well. There is a HUGE amount of ambient dialogue in both hub areas and on the move. People moveNarrative: I can't say much for spoiler reasons, but there's a cohesion that brings the game together well. Due to the dire circumstances you face, almost everything you're doing has some importance and doesn't feel arbitrary. Side content tends to relate into the main narratives of areas very well. There is a HUGE amount of ambient dialogue in both hub areas and on the move. People move around your ship and the nexus chatting with each other. Exploring, almost everything results in a response from either your companions, AI or even NPC's from your ship or on-planet (over comms). In terms of the main narrative I'm pleasantly surprised by the tone, which I expected to be wholly goofy but am finding to be appropriately serious when needed (and a certain Asari companion, who pre-release led me to think would be an overthought 'quirky' type, also turned out to be likeable and well-rounded). Essentially, it's a Bioware game. You have a not entirely original plot greatly bolstered by a lively (and, in this instance, EXTREMELY talkative) cast of companions, weighty decisions with foreboding implications and a strong atmosphere that balances humour with dark circumstances. The game feels like Mass Effect meets Firefly.
    Combat: very fun. It took me some time to readjust from the cover-based approach from the original trilogy, as things are much more dynamic now. Enemies are agile, charge and flank you constantly and make use of higher terrain. Luckily, Ryder is just as agile and once you embrace this, combat is great. I focused on trying to build a melee focused biotic and found that Andromeda allowed for this far more than the original trilogy, with charge and nova making a comeback, but also a new biotic shielding skill that allows you to maintain movement as you hold a biotic shield in front of you that reflects bullets back at enemies. Melee attacks also differ based on what you equip, so I assigned my character an Asari sword that swaps melee to a quasi-biotic charge, allowing for further tactical movement. In combination with Ryder's jetpack dodges and jumps (or biotic, if you have a biotic focused character), you have a much more dynamic battlefield.
    Animations: Facial animations must be mentioned, due to the grilling they received pre and post launch. So in regards to that: they really aren't THAT bad. There have been improvements since initial launch and they were only noticeably poor in the first few cutscenes and from then on I've either gotten used to them or they've been fine ever since. Either way, I don't notice them and they haven't hampered my enjoyment. One thing that has been improved that I DID notice is the eye textures. Before they were creepy. The overhaul has removed this issue. In terms of combat animations, they're all solid. Movements have momentum and impact to them and you feel light on your feet or forceful, as appropriate.
    Exploration: Exploration is (bear with me) similar to Inquistion. While this might bring up negative connotations, it's essentially a much more enjoyable version of Inquisitions systems. Collectibles are fewer, easier to gather and have narrative impact. Fetch quests are fewer and have a higher quality to them, with companions and your AI frequently talking about what you're doing. Unlike Inquisition, the camera zooms in for a more narratively strong approach to minor NPC encounters. You travel over areas rapidly with the Nomad. Overall, the exploration reminded me partly of Inquistion (but improved), and partly of Mass Effect 1 (but what I imagine the developers wished exploration of planets COULD have been in Mass Effect 1, had they the resources). It feels satisfying to explore; there is almost always narrative feedback for doing so and any combat encounters along the way are engaging and fast paced (no bullet-sponge fights ala Inquisition).
    Bugs: 35 hours in and in one area I stopped receiving XP from combat; the only bug that comes to mind.
    Much of the criticism of the game stems from the bandwagon of Bioware hate (beware any review that complains about 'SJW pandering') and the huge expectations that Andromeda had to face as a follow-up to the Mass Effect trilogy (note how much lower user scores are compared to critical scores). Had it been released as a new IP from an obscure RPG studio, it probably would've been hailed as an exciting rough gem. Comparing it to ME2/3 is unfair, given that they were building on established plot and characters. Compared to ME1, it holds up very well. Combat is much better, exploration is much better, the cast of characters is comparably strong and a lot more lively on and off the ship, hub areas have much more life to them, the tone is lighter but still has moments of gravitas, roleplay dialogue is slightly more expansive, the character creator is comparable but arguably slightly better, the main narrative is weaker but still enough that I'm interested in more plot content. Ultimately, is it a fun game? Definitely.    … Expand
  54. jamesdanton
    Jul 19, 2017
    2
    Sloppy, unfinished, mess that, if it was play tested (as all games have to be) and it was released in this state as a finished product, I can only say that a fraud has been perpetrated upon the gamers of the world. Terrible dialogue, poor voice acting, buggy, with game breaking game play glitches, replete with SJW non-sense and some of the worst facial animations I have ever seen. $80Sloppy, unfinished, mess that, if it was play tested (as all games have to be) and it was released in this state as a finished product, I can only say that a fraud has been perpetrated upon the gamers of the world. Terrible dialogue, poor voice acting, buggy, with game breaking game play glitches, replete with SJW non-sense and some of the worst facial animations I have ever seen. $80 million for this second rate garbage? Don't waste your money...and don't pre-order ANYTHING, game companies are not to be trusted anymore.… Expand
  55. kashspiegel
    Jul 17, 2017
    9
    i tested the 10 hours game in my ps4 pro... nice graphics.. 30fps.. sorry im a crazy about this.. and later ai tried the pc version.. OMG, 1080p 60FPS with 1060 6g graphic card!, in both cases, it gives you the feel of be the pathfinder, full inmersive, nice traveling and exploring looking for new worlds, nice storytelling, (im not comparing with mass effect trylogy has no point,i tested the 10 hours game in my ps4 pro... nice graphics.. 30fps.. sorry im a crazy about this.. and later ai tried the pc version.. OMG, 1080p 60FPS with 1060 6g graphic card!, in both cases, it gives you the feel of be the pathfinder, full inmersive, nice traveling and exploring looking for new worlds, nice storytelling, (im not comparing with mass effect trylogy has no point, shepard is shepard, this is a secuel..), well, some glitches with some npc and strange lip sync, but this is unnoticed, i really like this game so i get the complete version… Expand
  56. kane148
    Jul 16, 2017
    5
    I was really disappointed by this game. ME is one of my favorite series, and I was a huge fan for the first three games. This game had an awesome premise and plenty of potential to be incredible. However, Bioware really dropped the ball in several critical areas, resulting in a mediocre game overall. To be fair, it's NOT a bad game, but it surely fails to be a great game. The combat isI was really disappointed by this game. ME is one of my favorite series, and I was a huge fan for the first three games. This game had an awesome premise and plenty of potential to be incredible. However, Bioware really dropped the ball in several critical areas, resulting in a mediocre game overall. To be fair, it's NOT a bad game, but it surely fails to be a great game. The combat is really well done--that's something they got right--and the lack of class restriction on skills was definitely fun (if not lore friendly). I also really liked the open planets to explore instead of the corridor shooting of the last two games, and the Nomad is much more fun to drive than the Mako. The story has some good things going for it; I won't spoil anything, but it's interesting and does present some compelling situations. But the story execution--pacing, character development, narrative arc, etc.--fails in many places, with the result that you'll either stop caring or feel let down by the lack of narrative reward for your effort...or maybe just be confused. Easily the worst part of the game is the frustrating technical problems and poor design choices that make the game hard to play. Problems such as poor facial animations and lip-syncing errors don't ruin a game, but they really do undermine the immersion of a game like this that's supposed to have such a big focus on narrative and characters. Moreover, the performance was just awful. I don't have the best PC, but I could run the Witcher 3 (which looks so much better) on max settings with no trouble; yet ME:A regularly struggled even on medium settings. (in fact it ran better with big fights in the open world than walking around the Nexus). Lastly, the interface is often clumsy and unhelpful, and is very limiting. As in Dragon Age: Inquisition, they force PC users to be limited by the UI for console players, so that you can only use a few abilities at any given time. The game also makes the frustrating choice to introduce a large array of weapon and armor crafting options, but does not let you customize your companion's gear at all, so that most gear you find or can make is useless to you. All in all, it's probably worth playing if you're a big fan of the series, but you will have to prepare to be underwhelmed. The real shame here is that, had Bioware put the care into this game that it did for previous titles, and not sacrificed the singleplayer game in favor of multiplayer, this could have been another incredible title. Instead, it's likely the end of the franchise.… Expand
  57. GullsFan
    Jul 15, 2017
    10
    I have played the campaign numerous times and enjoyed the content and story very much. I ignored all the negative press and played it and loved it! There are so many quests and missions and some of your crew are so well written ... notice I said some. I am an avid Mass Effect series fan this has to played as a separate story. If you go into it as a continuation than you will have somethingI have played the campaign numerous times and enjoyed the content and story very much. I ignored all the negative press and played it and loved it! There are so many quests and missions and some of your crew are so well written ... notice I said some. I am an avid Mass Effect series fan this has to played as a separate story. If you go into it as a continuation than you will have something to complain about. You shouldn't... but people do.… Expand
  58. Sbiritou
    Jul 15, 2017
    0
    I finally understood why Andromeda didn't include Quarians: It's because Tali have better facial animations than this garbage of a "game". No amount of Garrus calibrations can save this trainwreck. For once EA made a good decision by dropping the ball on the current hacks. Bioware is in urgent need for a reboot., yet some diehard biodrones fail to see how low the company sunk and all theyI finally understood why Andromeda didn't include Quarians: It's because Tali have better facial animations than this garbage of a "game". No amount of Garrus calibrations can save this trainwreck. For once EA made a good decision by dropping the ball on the current hacks. Bioware is in urgent need for a reboot., yet some diehard biodrones fail to see how low the company sunk and all they care about is their alien sex fix. Animations are crap but so is the story, ui and dialogues. i expected nothing and still I was disappointed.… Expand
  59. tyroneReviews
    Jul 15, 2017
    4
    Would give it a 6/10 but that would raise the average rating and I want to join the protest against BioWare who have been declining recently. In the Mass Effect series you always had great characters who were memorable like Garrus or Tali, even Mordin but in this one I can't even remember the names of the new characters let alone the races they added. Wish I had the time to rant butWould give it a 6/10 but that would raise the average rating and I want to join the protest against BioWare who have been declining recently. In the Mass Effect series you always had great characters who were memorable like Garrus or Tali, even Mordin but in this one I can't even remember the names of the new characters let alone the races they added. Wish I had the time to rant but basically just watch any review and they will tell you how bad BioWare messed up, also DA Inquisition was a bit disappointing to so it just shows how much BioWare has declined since Mass Effect 3.

    I would recommend you buy it if you are a huge ME fan but if you are expecting nothing you will still be disappointed, try expecting a steaming hot pile of garbage that used to be something you loved and you might get through this one.    … Expand
  60. KaptajnCongoboy
    Jul 14, 2017
    8
    There are quite a few issues with the game, but I feel it has gotten way too harsh a treatment. My score would have been 7, but there are so many people who hate on it unreasonably that I felt I had to try to bump it up a bit. On PS4, I had few truly jarring animation glitches and no major story glitches - better than my experience with Witcher 3, for example, where a game with over aThere are quite a few issues with the game, but I feel it has gotten way too harsh a treatment. My score would have been 7, but there are so many people who hate on it unreasonably that I felt I had to try to bump it up a bit. On PS4, I had few truly jarring animation glitches and no major story glitches - better than my experience with Witcher 3, for example, where a game with over a year of patches still served me story glitches in the first area after the tutorial. The animation quality was problematic before they patched it, it has to be said, and still leaves a lot to be desired.

    I favoured ME1 out of the original trilogy. I felt open, interesting and had its share of mysteries, and the final mission was amazing. Neither ME2 nor ME3 really managed to replicate this. I felt Andromeda was much closer in tone to ME1, which was a big plus for me. Also, the nature of the main villains of Cmdr. Shepard's story became a problem as it progressed, and let to an ending that felt unfulfilling (and fairly dull ME2 villains). This was inevitable, in retrospect, with the way they set up the story.

    The character writing in general is not ME1 good, and probably not even ME2 good, but there were a number of squad characters in those games I never bothered with either. People complain about the ME:A squad - but in ME1, Ashley was never very interesting to me (they layered her religious issues on too thick - it works better with Suvi in ME:A), in ME2 Miranda, Jack, Kasumi, Grunt, Samara and Jacob were middling and in ME3 we have James and Javik, both also fairly uninteresting characters. That being said, there aren't any Wrex, Tali, Legion or Garrus in ME:A either, so the truly outstanding ones are lacking. That is perhaps the main problem with the character writing in the game, although sometimes, like in the otherwise rather bland Liam's loyalty mission, there pops up moments of brilliance that works with his character. In general, I felt like doing all the loyalty missions in this game, whereas I only completed the aforementioned ME2/3 ones out of a sense of completion. Also, several of the tertiary characters - like Reyes Vidal and Morda really should have had much more built on them.

    The ME:A combat is markedly improved over its predecessors. Yes, you cannot play dressup with your squadmates. I quit worrying about that a few hours in. But the new cover system and jump jet manouverability system makes the fights much more dynamic than in previous ME games. Fair enough, it is not the best in the business. But I still had fun with regular fights in ME:A all the way to the end of the game at several difficulty levels, sometimes that I cannot say about the others.

    As for the story, it isn't ME1 either, but it has a more open feel to it than any of the others since ME1, and the exploration theme carries all the way through. Keeping this spoiler-free, so it is difficult to discuss it, but they've learned from setting up too powerful villains in ME1-3. Unfortunately, they don't go deep enough into the main baddies here (although they have a number of opportunities), and the other new alien species sometimes feel as if it is lacking the depth that makes their twist revelation underperform. The last is a real writing issue, although the squadmate from that species works quite well. When it comes to the whole deeper background/ancient aliens of the Andromeda galaxy, I also feel we should have gotten more hints about that whole affair when it is so central to the story.

    ME:A could have been better. But it is by any means not an unmitigated disaster, and worth playing.    … Expand
  61. EastOfEden
    Jul 13, 2017
    3
    The story is boring. The quests are boring too. There is no feeling of exploration , no role playing. This is a shooter. However multiplayer is buggy as hell , abilities may or may not work , mainly due to lag. No servers means lag is with you always unless you hosts.
  62. Sev_Overkill
    Jul 13, 2017
    3
    Having played the original trilogy on 360 and PC for over 600 hours I was highly disappointed by Andromeda. The dialog, story, voice acting were all very much sub-par, the animations are very janky, turning the characters into hideous caricature of people, and are much worse than the original mass effect, let alone any game that came out in the last 3 years. Even months after launch withHaving played the original trilogy on 360 and PC for over 600 hours I was highly disappointed by Andromeda. The dialog, story, voice acting were all very much sub-par, the animations are very janky, turning the characters into hideous caricature of people, and are much worse than the original mass effect, let alone any game that came out in the last 3 years. Even months after launch with multiple patches, constant bugs still plague my game, with quests not finishing, enemies getting stuck under maps or on roofs, and teammates disappearing into the map geometry.

    The gameplay is decent, but not enjoyable enough to be the reason to play the game, many of the missions are repetitive and boring, very MMO-esque, with many of them being fetch quests, or gather X resource to give someone. The companion missions are slightly better, but the voice acting and dialogue let them down badly.

    Your companions are shallow and hard to connect with, and at no point did I ever feel any emotional attachment to any of them like I did to garrus or wrex in my initial play through of the first mass effect nearly 10 years ago. There script simply never made care about my crew; who they were, their motivations, or what they wanted to do.

    The romance side of things is totally awful, and plays out like a young adult/teen romance novel you find at the bottom of the bargain bucket at bookstores. Simply awful.

    The mutiplayer appears to exist to simply tick the multiplayer box on the checklist, its shallow, repetitive, and a total disconnect-fest. Mass Effect 3's mutiplayer was a fun deviation from the single player, and actually made an impact on your single player play through, Andromeda's is anything but that.

    The game totally lacked polish, and needed at least another 2 years of work on it to be a good game, let alone on good enough to be called a mass effect game.    … Expand
  63. M_Salgado
    Jul 12, 2017
    7
    I Greatly enjoyed the game. NOT as much as the original trilogy but like 70% as much.
    THE ONE THING I HATED was that I decided to buy on launch and ended the game really fast.
    THEN they patched in a bunch of stuff that was problematic. INCLUDING cutscenes and animations.
    So I am really pissed that my experience was actually a lot worse than if I had waited a month before buying.
  64. ravenned
    Jul 11, 2017
    5
    Bad, bad game. A serious let down from the original trilogy. There are actually little to no good points about this game.
    First off, the graphics. In battle and while exploring, I wouldn't say that it's good. At this day and age, the graphics are actually only average. The in game cut scenes though... Oh god are they ugly as hell. Especially character animations. Even real humans don't    Bad, bad game. A serious let down from the original trilogy. There are actually little to no good points about this game.
    First off, the graphics. In battle and while exploring, I wouldn't say that it's good. At this day and age, the graphics are actually only average. The in game cut scenes though... Oh god are they ugly as hell. Especially character animations. Even real humans don't have pores as ugly as that. Characters move as if they have strings attached, like puppets. Their lips... oh god. Bioware should've known better... Have you ever wondered why people could be so stupid? Hundreds of staff, and no one spoke out about the animations?
    Then let's talk about gameplay. Even in game the character feels like a puppet. Extremely difficult to move maneuver. Your character gets caught in little things, so you often go from a run to a stop. And every single time you do, there is a little period where your character has to accelerate to a decent speed. It's as if you're in a car, and the driver accelerates really slowly, only for the driver to slam the brakes just when you get to a comfortable speed. Again and again. Can you imagine how ridiculously annoying it is? Then there's the shooter experience. It's extremely shallow. Shallow as in it does not engage you at all. There are the little things that good shooters have that immerses you in the battle. Games like overwatch. Even destiny, that had **** amount of reviews for it's lackluster content, had at least one good thing about it. The satisfying shooter experience. The little things like screen shake, or a faint projectile trail to know that you're hitting your target, or the target looking like it took a shot when it's hit. There's none of that here. You shoot as if you're using a peashooter, and the target gets hit as if it's getting shot by spitballs. You don't feel as if you're holding a gun in game. But you see blood spurting, from bullets that feel like spitballs and it looks ridiculous. But there is one good thing about the battles. The battle system itself is well thought out. Things like the skill system, weapon design and variety. But other than that, battles are disappointingly shallow.
    THEN there's the writing. Oh god. Even a random 20 year old on the street would cringe. HOW OLD WERE THE WRITERS?? I dare say that I could deliver a story that it more engaging. Some lines were good. But most were not. Feels like the team of writers are at a age where they just hit puberty, with only one adult among them doing what he/she can. Cheesy and cringey lines that are borderline childish can sometimes create humor. But not when that's the entire theme. Not like this. The overarching plot is decent though. But how can a story be well delivered when the writing is this ****?
    I've already been through the graphics, gameplay and writing. What more is there to say? Okay, I'll deliver one more blow to the game. The UI. It LOOKS nice. But that's all it is. Looks. Once, again, it is unresponsive. For example, while exploring, you often have to bring the map out. But once you do, you have to press 'esc' twice to get back into the game, It doesn't take long, but for a UI, it feels annoyingly slow, and totally breaks the immersion from the game... not like there was any immersion anyway.
    Seriously, I think I've said enough. I think most people would already have read about the troubles the developers faced. Bioware montreal was a bad choice. They should've stuck with Edmonton. The game that they were working on could not be more important than a franchise that was that successful. Even if we had to wait for 5 more years for Edmonton to complete what they were doing, and then work on Andromeda, I think we'd have gladly waited.    … Expand
  65. b1gdeano
    Jul 11, 2017
    4
    Now I dont normally write reviews unless its so amazing as I cant help but gush about it, or in the case of Andromeda, so mediocre I just feel the need to vent.

    First - Its so BORING! I literally had to force myself through the game towards the end. Some parts are done very well, and the game could have had so much potential had they just stuck with being more like the original trilogy    Now I dont normally write reviews unless its so amazing as I cant help but gush about it, or in the case of Andromeda, so mediocre I just feel the need to vent.

    First - Its so BORING! I literally had to force myself through the game towards the end. Some parts are done very well, and the game could have had so much potential had they just stuck with being more like the original trilogy than this hash up and awful DA:I inspired game.

    Its not that it was bad per se - just very very mediocre and boring. Full of filler.    … Expand
  66. Galarto
    Jul 11, 2017
    8
    I start playing the game after release of the 1.08 patch. Despite of many bad reviews from here, i was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the content. The experience of exploration is amazing with very good SF details, the graphics is high level and i love the main theme music. The storyline become solid only if your involvement is deeper, reading of the scrip from reports, emails orI start playing the game after release of the 1.08 patch. Despite of many bad reviews from here, i was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the content. The experience of exploration is amazing with very good SF details, the graphics is high level and i love the main theme music. The storyline become solid only if your involvement is deeper, reading of the scrip from reports, emails or codex is a part of RPG style. The gameplay is very exciting and entertaining. What i have to reproach, is the poor optimisation, low level of cast & crew, and some animations. This game is massive underrated, but i don't surprise me, especially when I see so many maincraft players.… Expand
  67. Porthys
    Jul 11, 2017
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Mass Effect Andromeda is the first Mass Effect game I've ever played and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I didn't play much RPG games and my focus was set on strategy. But MEA was totally in the street of things I enjoyed about an rpg game especially with the Sci-Fi theme.

    Once I've started playing, the cutscenes amazed me and I enjoyed the ability to change conversation outcomes and story outcomes. The game, however, did not feel so refined, but I did not have anything to compare it with. The storyline was interesting and made me want to keep playing hour after hour. There are hidden details here and there which makes the game more interesting.

    Besides the storyline, romances were a big thing I noticed. You could romance anyone on your crew which also made the game more interesting. The animations, however, were a little... strange. I didn't know if it seemed rushed or if its supposed to be like that. Sometimes it was impossible to even read the facial expressions (which made for funny moments here and there).

    After finishing the game, I was left with way too many cliffhangers... which is good... but after reading a bit on how the game was made and what the latest news is, it seemed that this game doesn't havea bright future, even though the game wasn't THAT bad. I started playing Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3 and enjoyed those a lot more than Andromeda. Overall, combat is a feature that was greatly improved in Andromeda. It made fighting a lot more fluid and flexible whereas in ME2 or 3. The previous ME games were more immersive, but Andromeda is different. A whole different story which I have come to appreciate despite it not being as immersive as ME2 or 3.

    The exploration part of the game was pretty boring to be perfectly honest. I didn't realise I could use the fast forward stations because I was totally new to the game. It never really said that you could fast travel with those things. All of the planets were interestingly different, but the missions and what to expect on those planets are very repetitive. ''Activate 3 monoliths'', ''Defeat the Ket'' etc etc. There wasn't much of a challenge.

    All in all I give this game a 7 because it is my first Bioware game, I liked the idea, the theme, the romance, the story and the combat. But after playing the previous games, Andromeda wasn't as good compared to those ME games. They were far more immersive, the choices made did end up changing the course of the missions which Andromeda certainly lacked. The story is interesting, but doesn't compare to the trilogy. The graphics are good, but the animations were a disappointment.
    I am not telling you to buy it, unless you've read some of the other reviews around here. There are lots of things to improve about the game, but I didn't think it was a dead awful one.    … Expand
  68. Maximmortalis
    Jul 11, 2017
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. В самом начале, до патча 1.6, я бы поставил игре 1-2 балла. Удивляет, что первое, на что потратили время разработчики, это исправление диалогов персонажа трансгендера и добавление Джаала в качестве гей-партнера, а не исправление лиц, анимаций и тонны багов. Не работающие сайдквесты, например со щитом для "Кочевника", а также множество забагованных скрытых квестов, таких как квест на Кадаре, где нужно было добыть антибиотик. Но, видать это особый приоритет студии, который меня, как фаната, не обрадовали. Мне все равно, куда и как расслабляются трансгендеры друг с другом, я не пользуюсь этим контентом, мне он не интересен, как и многим, кто играет в Mass Effect. Напомню, что игра не является симулятором свиданий (с не самыми привлекательными персонажами, поэтому это первая игра серии, где я полностью пропустил любовную линию), это космическая опера, поэтому, будучи ответственным разработчиком, я бы первым делом исправлял контент связанный непосредственно с основным игровым направлением. Но, вот спустя патч 1.9, я осознаю, что после прохождения всей игры, причем с открытием всего и вся, с каждым изученным кустом, мы в итоге получили всего несколько планет для высадки, пересчитать которые можно по пальцам одной руки, заселенные одинаковыми врагами, одинаковыми квестами, с одинаковой целью, причем всегда по сюжету. Никакого изучения галактики, забудьте про это, никаких десятков планет для изучения, это все массовка с текстовым описанием на дай бог 5 строчек. Никакого напряжения, никакого эпика, это просто заурядная сайд история, которую сделали на "отвали и дай мне денег". Единственное, что заставило меня ненашутку заинтересоваться это, внимание спойлер, сообщение Кварианского ковчега после прохождения игры, в качестве намека на следующее DLC (чтоб они поперхнулись), которое скорее всего будет платным. И теперь я узнал, что на состояние 11 июля 2017 года, новые сюжетные DLC к Mass Effect: Andromeda не планируется. Представьте мою реакцию, как сделавшего предзаказ на максимальное издание, не встретив в игре ничего интересного и, что стоило бы тех денег, что я за нее отдал, заинтересовавшись единственной возможно интересной частью всего этого каламбура которое было анонсировано как возможное DLC в самой игре и я узнаю, что никаких DLC не будет. Все это убожество так и останется, его лишь немного подправят костылями, добавят контента для ЛГБТ и все, остальное время они потратят на мультиплеер, который нафиг никому не сдался. Bioware, Вы меня обманули, буквально обокрали и теперь, после DA:I и ME:A, я понял, что лучше я буду скачивать с торрента ВСЕ, что будет выпущено под Вашим лейблом, а уже если понравиться, я несколько раз подумаю, стоит ли купить игру, так как за DA:I и ME:A Вы еще остались мне ДОЛЖНЫ!… Expand
  69. Kamakiri18
    Jul 10, 2017
    1
    It's so terrible compared to the first 3 games. They spent 40 million on THIS.

    Animations, the Models, the Female Main Characters looks like a shell of the real model while the Male looks far closer to his real model.
  70. Fireantus
    Jul 9, 2017
    4
    I wanted to write a huge rant, but this game is so tiring I just can't. So, TL;DR - This game is work. Boring, crummy, soul-draining and mind-numbing work. It's the most tedious RPG I ever player and it feels outdated on release... As in I didn't expect an AAA game released in this age to have such a terrible approach to a player time. The game is ENDLESS backtracking. In a quest thatI wanted to write a huge rant, but this game is so tiring I just can't. So, TL;DR - This game is work. Boring, crummy, soul-draining and mind-numbing work. It's the most tedious RPG I ever player and it feels outdated on release... As in I didn't expect an AAA game released in this age to have such a terrible approach to a player time. The game is ENDLESS backtracking. In a quest that takes an hour to finish you will literally spend 40 minutes on flying through same planets and watching same 3 cutscenes over and over again only to spend 5 minutes in actual conversations in the quest.

    See this is it. I don't care about enforced SJW agenda. I don't care about uggo-female characters. I don't even care that the graphics and animations are sometimes pretty wonky. What maked me hate this game with a mild passion is how terribly, utterly boring it is. I did ALL the planets and invested quite a lot of time in this barrell of tar just to see if it picks up at any time, but it doesn't. This game hates you and wants you to be bored to death so when something slightly more exciting happens, you say your prayers and thank the gods...

    Avoid this RPG with quests taken from 2001 MMO's.    … Expand
  71. BabyShoes
    Jul 7, 2017
    10
    What an epic game. Mass Effect Andromeda is right up there with the original ME trilogy. It certainly has a few flaws and the game could have been more polished at launch, however, if you look at the entire picture it paints it's a masterpiece. I just finished it after roughly 140 hours of playing and i'm in awe.
    It saddens me that the bulk of the reviews it received couldn't look past    What an epic game. Mass Effect Andromeda is right up there with the original ME trilogy. It certainly has a few flaws and the game could have been more polished at launch, however, if you look at the entire picture it paints it's a masterpiece. I just finished it after roughly 140 hours of playing and i'm in awe.
    It saddens me that the bulk of the reviews it received couldn't look past the rough animations and bugs at launch. This may have cost us a possible sequel.    … Expand
  72. obZen2012
    Jul 6, 2017
    5
    seriously i was tired of seeing bugs!
    wtf!
    you can't open a door because you think like it's a puzzle, but no! if you just restart the game then you are able to open it up! i was in the nomad and i couldn't exit of it because of dangerous air. ok how am i supposed to get in the Tempest?! i love mass effect and i just want to say, why? even a 8 years old could understand this is a a    seriously i was tired of seeing bugs!
    wtf!
    you can't open a door because you think like it's a puzzle, but no! if you just restart the game then you are able to open it up!
    i was in the nomad and i couldn't exit of it because of dangerous air. ok how am i supposed to get in the Tempest?!
    i love mass effect and i just want to say, why?
    even a 8 years old could understand this is a a sht.
    Bioware I am a **** huge fan of you. i love mass effect and Dragon age so much that i compare them to Lord of the rings.

    this is what you give me?!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    thank you.
    you made me deppressed for at least some months...

    **** you    … Expand
  73. Tempis
    Jul 6, 2017
    0
    Honestly this game is a massive disappointment. I was fortunate enough to not pre-order it like I did with Fallout 4 and I played my friend's copy for days at his house and after the first night my friend started to worry about me because I looked emotionless. I could easily go ahead and rage and bash MEA and I truly want to throw a fit and get petty, however keeping things relaxed I wouldHonestly this game is a massive disappointment. I was fortunate enough to not pre-order it like I did with Fallout 4 and I played my friend's copy for days at his house and after the first night my friend started to worry about me because I looked emotionless. I could easily go ahead and rage and bash MEA and I truly want to throw a fit and get petty, however keeping things relaxed I would say that Andromeda failed, simple as that. I was emotionally attached to the original ME trilogy so when I witnessed the new Mass Effect I was almost offended, I felt as if I watched a parent give up on life quit their job and just start letting them self go. If you adored the ME trilogy please do yourself a favor and avoid this game. If you have never played mass effect before I recommend playing mass effect 2 first as the first one is very clunky and unplayable for some, but honestly any mass effect will do. Bottom line do not buy this game unless you have never played a video game in your life.… Expand
  74. AleksanderJ
    Jul 4, 2017
    6
    It plays like an MMO, as a hardcore Mass Effect fan it feels more alien than it should.
    Its another Galaxy but still, the lip synching is not good.

    I wish they learn something from this one, im really trying to keep an open mind but its hard when it feels time and time again like star trek online on foot. Another bug after latest patch keeps me from playing fullscreen on my laptop.
  75. andrewbrown
    Jul 3, 2017
    6
    I made sure to to play Mass Effect Andromeda well after it came out, and far from when I played the original series. The game is fun but has no long term payout. I realized after a while all the things I was doing was take this to here, topped with the fact that even today there are a dozen of missions I couldn't complete due to bugs that I lost all motivation with tasks and set onI made sure to to play Mass Effect Andromeda well after it came out, and far from when I played the original series. The game is fun but has no long term payout. I realized after a while all the things I was doing was take this to here, topped with the fact that even today there are a dozen of missions I couldn't complete due to bugs that I lost all motivation with tasks and set on completing the main story.

    The story and character chemistry is so uninspiring that I skipped every dialogue options halfway in the game. Its sad because I thought if I set my expectations lower I could enjoy this game but it wasn't enough.

    I loved driving around in the Nomad.    … Expand
  76. ThatGaymerGuyB
    Jul 2, 2017
    10
    Stop comparing it to the trilogy and you'll be fine. Overall for a first game the characters are better the main character is more interesting and the exploration is awesome.
  77. TheFrog
    Jun 30, 2017
    4
    This is the first ME that I don't complete. I had great expectations, and just before it was released, I replayed through ME3 to get in the right mood. Andromeda started off good, I was impressed by the improved graphics and awed by the number of unlockable skills. Then the very first mission crams really too much up together, and the story only gets worse from there. Where is thatThis is the first ME that I don't complete. I had great expectations, and just before it was released, I replayed through ME3 to get in the right mood. Andromeda started off good, I was impressed by the improved graphics and awed by the number of unlockable skills. Then the very first mission crams really too much up together, and the story only gets worse from there. Where is that "Explore the unknown" feeling, if anywhere you travel, someone already lives there? The characters are so bland and shallow that I can't even say I really disliked them. I just did not care.
    Combat could have been a major improvement, fixing the flaws of the previous chapters, instead it was not realized to its full potential and ended up being worse. I loved the idea to have different power combinations to quickly adapt to different situations, but very quickly realized that everything is so uniform that you have exactly zero incentive to use the feature. Terrible, terrible ammo system. Meh weapons. Bad AI squadmates. And much more, but you get the vibe.
    Last preorder from Bioware from me.    … Expand
  78. Chatterjee123
    Jun 28, 2017
    3
    Good Part
    Combat
    Graphics Most of the time I wanted to Explore Bad Part The Writing The Animation You are in outer space in a Space ship But you cant pilot or fight other Alien ships There are only two new Aliens in a new galaxy. You have to be this PERFECT Hero The Game was unfinished The political agenda and SJW Propaganda "1.8 percent of men self-identify as gay and 0.4    Good Part
    Combat
    Graphics
    Most of the time I wanted to Explore
    Bad Part
    The Writing
    The Animation
    You are in outer space in a Space ship But you cant pilot or fight other Alien ships
    There are only two new Aliens in a new galaxy.
    You have to be this PERFECT Hero
    The Game was unfinished

    The political agenda and SJW Propaganda
    "1.8 percent of men self-identify as gay and 0.4 percent as bisexual, and 1.5 percent of women self-identify as lesbian and 0.9 percent as bisexual" ( What percentage of the U.S. population is gay, lesbian or bisexual?, washingtonpost

    But according to This Game 50% are LGBTQ    … Expand
  79. muertefx
    Jun 27, 2017
    5
    I wrote few reviews for past months, refunded the game even, but week ago bought it with big discount and spent already 90 hours in it. My opinion didn't change. This is very unpolished game with tons of bugs and glitches, starting from simple textures and ending at quests.

    On patch 1.08 still weak character creation window with a lot of ugly presets without allowing us to change any    I wrote few reviews for past months, refunded the game even, but week ago bought it with big discount and spent already 90 hours in it. My opinion didn't change. This is very unpolished game with tons of bugs and glitches, starting from simple textures and ending at quests.

    On patch 1.08 still weak character creation window with a lot of ugly presets without allowing us to change any face detail including eyebrows, lips type or eyes type (asian, europe etc), just the ugly presets. Still can't see my crew inside of Nomad, it's just empty! And don't even want to say about many texture bugs and quest glitches, up to broken quest which cannot be finished. With some weapons (as Valkyrie) wrong change weapon speed and still "something" pushing us in left or right side while falling down. And, still...a lot of glitches with hero legs animations...

    Almost all side quest are boring, point A point B. Multiplayer practically didn't change, boring co-op against stupid AI (in ME3 AI was better, to be honest, while in ME:A enemies just rushing us and do nothing, just dying, very smart).

    Many achievements cannot be achieved, some sort of bugs I think. For example 2000 kills Terminator - even if you have enough kills you probably will get it in next playthrough, if you didn't get it already. Same story with many other "kill score" achievements.

    And, finally, the game do not see my current equipped weapons in cat scenes, it uses pre-made weapons in - attention! - cat-scenes made with game engine. The engine must understand what is equipped right now, instead giving us random guns we don't have. Same problem was with ME1-3, but...really? Still can't fix this? Why Witcher never had this problem?

    I can see that there was made a great job, a lot of planets, space, all that stuff, but not professional job, it can be compared with the newbies learning Frostbite and trying to make something unique, but they can't. I think that because they didn't have time for this.

    I respect BioWare, I love BioWare, and that is why it is too difficult for me to understand and realize, that you guys just screwed this up. I know about many difficulties which you faced, but still the game could be polished and release date could be changed. Instead, we got different story.

    I really liked voiced, its good, great job. But, the storyline is awful, many quests or dialogs could be extended, a lot of animations could be added to it instead stupid JetPack and OmniTool, we got just 0 hand animations, no interactions with the objects.

    5/10 from me for trying, at least.    … Expand
  80. Tayer82
    Jun 26, 2017
    10
    I LOVED THIS GAME! All i heard was just meh from the store assistant but gave it a go anyway. The complaints were mostly for the extensive dialog however that is what I love about these games. I was as immersed in the characters as I was in witcher wild hunt I cared so badly about my character and how it was perceived. I loved being able to create my appearance and outfits, looting andI LOVED THIS GAME! All i heard was just meh from the store assistant but gave it a go anyway. The complaints were mostly for the extensive dialog however that is what I love about these games. I was as immersed in the characters as I was in witcher wild hunt I cared so badly about my character and how it was perceived. I loved being able to create my appearance and outfits, looting and weapons, mods, and research etc. I will miss the characters now that i'm finished. The scenes made me smile often, laugh, tear up at one time and I felt the immense weight of the task involved in building a home for the civilisation. Thankyou so much for the time you spent making this. it was worth every minute and I completed every single task...this game will be missed and I cant wait for the return. People who didn't like this game I think are probably just not a fan of the style? I am not a call of duty kinda girl if that reflects anything about my taste in games, but this style of game is my jam for sure. I wish next time the love relationship had more development and can have the option to dump them and try someone else... Thanks again.… Expand
  81. Pink_Violinz
    Jun 26, 2017
    8
    Beautiful game bogged down by bad facial animations and a few underwhelming characters. Ryder is simply too different from the previous antagonist, causing mass dislike from former fans. From an outsider's view point, Ryder is fine. Not great, just kinda eh. What really made the game for me was the new crew. With the exception of the human cast, all have diverse personalities that meldBeautiful game bogged down by bad facial animations and a few underwhelming characters. Ryder is simply too different from the previous antagonist, causing mass dislike from former fans. From an outsider's view point, Ryder is fine. Not great, just kinda eh. What really made the game for me was the new crew. With the exception of the human cast, all have diverse personalities that meld wonderfully together. Jaal, Drack, and Vetra are great additions to the cast and I could never decide who to take.

    As for the world building, it felt empty. Before release Bioware boasted about the game's size, which proved to be too much. Too much empty terrain with no landmarks to dot it. The endlessly spawning bad guys didn't help. At least in Inquisition when you cleared a camp it stayed clear, instead of 10 more kett running in when you turn your back.

    Facial animations. Never Bioware's strong point. The only characters who had problems were Sara Ryder and Miss "My face is tired". As for the latter, she has gotten a face lift and someone taught her how to emote. Sara...... is fine if you don't use the default face.

    Overall, this is the definition of a meh game. I just added the extra points because of how much I love Jaal and his romance.    … Expand
  82. Zerox_Undead
    Jun 25, 2017
    1
    This is honestly what surmounts to letting Bioware' D-team work on the storied title that is Mass Effect. I really can't fathom how anybody let's EA and Bioware trick them into buying this 60$ middle finger.

    So in essence all I'm saying is that, there is not enough Garrus 1/10 worst game. ET on the Atari is better than this dumpster fire
  83. luzarius
    Jun 25, 2017
    1
    They retcon Asari lore to introduce gender pronoun politics. There's a conversation where they imply some Asari prefer male pronouns, but this makes no sense because it completely goes against Asari lore. Asari are monogendered with maternal instincts which means female mind. Aria specifically says the word patriarch has no meaning to her people. Samara specifically says Asari have noThey retcon Asari lore to introduce gender pronoun politics. There's a conversation where they imply some Asari prefer male pronouns, but this makes no sense because it completely goes against Asari lore. Asari are monogendered with maternal instincts which means female mind. Aria specifically says the word patriarch has no meaning to her people. Samara specifically says Asari have no males. It just doesn't make sense. SJW politics ruined Asari lore.… Expand
  84. rodericrinehart
    Jun 24, 2017
    3
    Loved the first 3, would put the trilogy in my top 10 series ever. Mass Effect Andromeda is BORING and POORLY DESIGNED above all else. Poor animations, empty areas, pointless fetch quests, and just no respect for the time of the player. Finished it despite really not liking it. Probably done with the series now. Lost a loyal fan and customer Bioware/EA.
  85. Thornblade
    Jun 21, 2017
    4
    Yes, it's THAT bad (nevermind the paid reviewers and ea employees who upped the user score....) I really tried, but the butt ugly characters (especially the females, all look like they are some plastic surgeon's failed experiment) and the laughable animations ( the lip sync especially is something from the early 2000s, even half-life 2 had much better lip sync) just destroy all theYes, it's THAT bad (nevermind the paid reviewers and ea employees who upped the user score....) I really tried, but the butt ugly characters (especially the females, all look like they are some plastic surgeon's failed experiment) and the laughable animations ( the lip sync especially is something from the early 2000s, even half-life 2 had much better lip sync) just destroy all the immersion.
    also, gameplay is repetitive, and story is lackluster to say the least.    … Expand
  86. oz4n
    Jun 21, 2017
    8
    Alright I'm mid-game and changing my score from 7 to 8.

    Discovered the 5th habitable planet and now I can tell that the universe is really huge and although in comparison the playable areas are only a little, there still is a massive leap from the previous games in terms of scale. A ton of side quests, seriously, I spent 40+ hours already and I know I'm still far from the end, but so    Alright I'm mid-game and changing my score from 7 to 8.

    Discovered the 5th habitable planet and now I can tell that the universe is really huge and although in comparison the playable areas are only a little, there still is a massive leap from the previous games in terms of scale.

    A ton of side quests, seriously, I spent 40+ hours already and I know I'm still far from the end, but so far I feel so overwhelmed with sidequests yet enjoyed most of them.

    I just could not adapt the story, I can tell you that it's my only problem and I think it won't change. Story is NOT bad, it's just does not attract you enough to keep you playing. I mean... Andromeda, a whole new galaxy, and only two new species (not counting Rems)? Please. This kills the whole "NEW galaxy idea", I so far never felt that I was playing in a new galaxy. Nexus - Citadel, Elaaden - Tuchanka... Everything resembles the places from the earlier games. I expected more uniqueness.

    Speaking of earlier games... Original trilogy is the only reason for why this game got such bad score (apart from the pre-1.05 bugs and **** This would be one of the GOTYs if the name was rather "Pathfinder's Journey" or something.

    Decent job, can't say nothing bad for anything but story.    … Expand
  87. miraneitan
    Jun 20, 2017
    3
    I've only returned two games in my "Career" as a gamer. I've been playing space simulators and science fiction games since the atari, and I have to say, I'm actually impressed at how poorly executed this game was. I hate to throw rocks at game makers, as I know it's not an easy job, but come on. You're a multimillion dollar company, how about putting some of that into your product ratherI've only returned two games in my "Career" as a gamer. I've been playing space simulators and science fiction games since the atari, and I have to say, I'm actually impressed at how poorly executed this game was. I hate to throw rocks at game makers, as I know it's not an easy job, but come on. You're a multimillion dollar company, how about putting some of that into your product rather than advertising. Riding the wave of three previous best sellers should give you some umph behind your product.

    The Good:
    Gunplay is fast. Combat is simple, effective enough I suppose.
    Magicka style combos I guess?...weird.
    It runs well. Not the most beautiful thing out there, but its not bad for a bioware title

    The Bad:
    The writing reminds me of something I'd find in the Juvie Adult section of the book store. Ham fisted, over acted [voice actors/resses try...] and just plain BAD. The first mission was pretty much a long series of "Huh. I didn't expect THAT to happen. Not."
    The graphics feel like they belong on a X360, and I'm playing on high-ultra.
    The inventory menu has enough sub menus to start selling 5 dollar foot-longs. [Classic Mass Effect]
    Bugs? Second Cutscene I had on the first planet, there was a body stretched across the entire screen, even though the camera changed three times.

    It didn't hook me in the slightest. I played it for about eight hours and was still able to return it. Might return in a year or so when it drops to the bargain bin.    … Expand
  88. Dertroks
    Jun 19, 2017
    9
    Stunning experience! It isn't Mass Effect that we used to play per se, but rather - Mass Effect Evolved. Though lacklustre at its launching period, most, if not all the problems were fixed. It is a great foundation for *hopefully* upcoming sequels for this fantastic series. Characters are deep, fun, interesting and have their own personality. What wouldn't I give to hear thoseStunning experience! It isn't Mass Effect that we used to play per se, but rather - Mass Effect Evolved. Though lacklustre at its launching period, most, if not all the problems were fixed. It is a great foundation for *hopefully* upcoming sequels for this fantastic series. Characters are deep, fun, interesting and have their own personality. What wouldn't I give to hear those conversations between PeeBee and Drack in the Nomad! Best combat mechanics, fitting for every play style, whether you want to crush the enemy up close or shoot of their heads from afar. A plot, whilst not perfect, is strong and holding together, making you want to continue playing the game and leaving a great feeling when you finish the main campaign. The doesn't let you feel how to be an explorer, it *makes* you the explorer. Overall, a great game, fantastic for both returning players and newbies to the Mass Effect world. Definitely recommended, especially if you don't expect it to be as cyberpunkish as previous instalments. In the end, this is a new Galaxy, a new civilisation to build, and Andromeda fulfils its job of creating a layer for upcoming games to be built upon.… Expand
  89. philb74
    Jun 18, 2017
    3
    Even after the nonsensical lacklustre ending of ME3, I was excited about the release of this game. I had watched some gameplay videos and I liked what I saw. Now, having owned the game since it's release I have to say it was a big disappointment. First of all it is massively resource heavy even at 1080p. I had played many games with better graphics at this resolution on my old PC andEven after the nonsensical lacklustre ending of ME3, I was excited about the release of this game. I had watched some gameplay videos and I liked what I saw. Now, having owned the game since it's release I have to say it was a big disappointment. First of all it is massively resource heavy even at 1080p. I had played many games with better graphics at this resolution on my old PC and never experienced any lag until this game. I ended up investing in a new PC for this game.

    The gameplay is decent and the universe is massive. The graphics are decent but not outstanding especially given the size of the installation. The story is a huge let down. I would rather they made a game half the size of this with an engaging plot and some interesting characters and better quests. If gameplay and multiplayer is all you want then this game will keep you occupied for a while but if you want a story that will draw you in and keep you coming back you won't find it here.

    I didn't play the game for a few weeks and then tried it last night only to find that the patch prevented the game from launching successfully. Thanks Bioware!    … Expand
  90. Mr_Lut
    Jun 18, 2017
    5
    If you didn’t like Mass Effect 3 ending, then you will love Mass Effect Andromeda ending. Why? Because THERE IS ONLY ONE ENDING, and it’s not actually an ending, it’s more like SEE YOU IN THE NEXT DLC type ending.

    There .... I just saved you 60 Bucks, you can thank me later. Now to my opinion: MAE is Mass Effect 1 with better graphic and better combat, but with a **** story, ****    If you didn’t like Mass Effect 3 ending, then you will love Mass Effect Andromeda ending. Why? Because THERE IS ONLY ONE ENDING, and it’s not actually an ending, it’s more like SEE YOU IN THE NEXT DLC type ending.

    There .... I just saved you 60 Bucks, you can thank me later.

    Now to my opinion:

    MAE is Mass Effect 1 with better graphic and better combat, but with a **** story, **** villain, **** protagonist, **** facial animations, **** voice acting, and lot of “scan”quests and Sudoku. And of course performance issues and bugs.
    You play as the “Pathfinder”.... NOT a badass commander super soldier spectre, but a “Pathfinder”, because i guess finding “PATHS” is more fun than being a badass super soldier.
    NOW, is at least the exploration any good?
    NO, IT’S BORING... unless you like exploring; I mean “finding paths” in deserts, because that's how 90% of the maps are... just empty deserts where everything is miles apart, because padding.
    But at least it has good old Rex... I mean Drex, and Garrus ...... with a vagina, and some EMO alien caaallleeeed whatever its face ...... Yeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiii!
    This franchise is so important to Bioware that they left it to the “capable” hands of their B team (Bioware Montreal), to make some Destiny clone called Anthem, although it looks way better than MAE despite both games being developed at the same time an using the same engine.
    Oh and there’s more multiplayer Horde mode this time, because that is what we all wanted, right? And more microtransation, because EA is the best!
    To sum it up.... don’t buy this game at full price, it’s not worth it. And if you buy it, at least play it on the hardest mode and ONLY do main quests and loyalty missions. It’s still going to be an average experience, but at least you won’t have to sit though 70+ hours of it.    … Expand
  91. Evolvedsoul
    Jun 17, 2017
    10
    I would first like to apologize to bioware for not purchasing this game day one because of crazy people first of all this game is a 10 people complaining about facial animations ! some of the custom characters faces glitch on animations if you pick the right one (there's 10) there will be zero problems one of the main characters Cora is like totally perfect and so is 99% of every otherI would first like to apologize to bioware for not purchasing this game day one because of crazy people first of all this game is a 10 people complaining about facial animations ! some of the custom characters faces glitch on animations if you pick the right one (there's 10) there will be zero problems one of the main characters Cora is like totally perfect and so is 99% of every other characters in the game graphics wise the game does have a couple filters you can turn off The film grain . game is near perfection very smooth the shooting is great hit boxes are awesome stories is epic can be cheesy if you pick the cheesy lines but then we're just nitpicking again so many awesome characters in this game A lot of reviewer's have gone back and apologized and change their reviews after actually playing the game what kind and not job would review a game and never have even played it !truly shows the times that were in these days if you played mass effect one you're going to totally love this game give the character some time to grow on you this is a space exploration game and they put romance with aliens again I guess just to add something different I never do it though so I wouldn't really know to complain .… Expand
  92. ErrorOperator
    Jun 15, 2017
    8
    Absolutely loved the original Mass Effect trilogy. Replayed it so many times that I couldn't remember the exact number of times I've played it. To be frank, Bioware has had a bad record of making sure their games were polished and finished before release. Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3 being the well known examples of this occurring. This coupled with the recently released information fromAbsolutely loved the original Mass Effect trilogy. Replayed it so many times that I couldn't remember the exact number of times I've played it. To be frank, Bioware has had a bad record of making sure their games were polished and finished before release. Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3 being the well known examples of this occurring. This coupled with the recently released information from Kotaku made me understand just what went wrong with this game.

    That being said, after finishing up the main story, I actually ended up liking ME:A. It has its moments. The game prior to the updates was full of animation issues and glitches. That's something anyone could tell you. While I didn't personally run through many of the glitches myself, I wouldn't doubt that they were there. My main issues regarded the lack luster animation, poor character creation, and admittedly cheesy vocal lines. The lack of sufficient facial expressions to match the emotion of the voice actors portrayed me go from enveloped in the plot to cringing. Character creation felt like they took several steps back from what they had before. Dialogue would also have me cringing from time to time.

    Despite everything, however, I thought the story was overall pretty good. Some quests ended up being really enjoyable to the point where I'd replay them just to reexperience that enjoyment again. The companions had some nice quirks about them that made me love each one. Not to mention the sense of unity the crew had was nice. Especially when it came to the final battle. Which, in my opinion, was a fun battle to play through.

    I won't lie that the game is without flaws because it for sure has its moments. However despite everything, I had to give it an 8.0 because I honestly enjoyed the game after everything was said and done. And I'm definitely interested in finding out what the future DLC's bring.    … Expand
  93. C4Grey
    Jun 15, 2017
    1
    Fake Mass Effect, made just to squeeze more money from the franchise. Foolish and linear story, boring and stupid characters, tons of bugs, no QA. It is total regress in comparision to previous games in the Mass Effect series.
  94. gnomercy
    Jun 14, 2017
    1
    It could get a better score if EA made any effort to fix bugs in their games. 3 planets in and every save becomes corrupt and won't load. At least I waited until it had been out long enough to be half price, but still, by now there shouldn't be any bugs let alone the same ones they had at launch!
  95. Xelluse
    Jun 13, 2017
    0
    Graphics - "I want to be a Doom!!! But sorry, can't"
    Performance - "hello from ARK:SE with Skype and Chrome open in background"
    AI - "I'm sorry, but I'm Autist as my developer" Gamaplay - "What the hell is it ?" Characters - "I'm a barbie girl, in a barbie world... After Barbie Zombie-apocalypse" Story - "Better go watch Indian movies" Bugs - "ripoff Bethesda developed games"    Graphics - "I want to be a Doom!!! But sorry, can't"
    Performance - "hello from ARK:SE with Skype and Chrome open in background"
    AI - "I'm sorry, but I'm Autist as my developer"
    Gamaplay - "What the hell is it ?"
    Characters - "I'm a barbie girl, in a barbie world... After Barbie Zombie-apocalypse"
    Story - "Better go watch Indian movies"
    Bugs - "ripoff Bethesda developed games"

    Overall - "Do you love Mass Effect ? Do you want start hating it ? Here you are!!! Just for €39.99, you will get best offer to start hate gaming just in some minutes!!!"
    "Don't miss that offer, just for €39.99"    … Expand
  96. DanielKing
    Jun 12, 2017
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I enjoyed every other Mass Effect games, even ME3. But Andromeda it's not good at all. I mean, I enjoyed it until the Hunting the Archon mission: I did every sidequest I could, delaying what I thougth will be the best part, and I was very dissapointed. The story it's bland, and bad delivered. My interest faded away almost inmediatly. I finished the game just to see how bad the end story was.… Expand
  97. BurningPixels
    Jun 12, 2017
    10
    The best game i've played so far. At first i've never played the trilogy so this is just a short review just about THIS game. Like i said it the best game i've played so far. I felt such an emptiness inside me at the end screen. I never had that feeling at any game before and i played a lot of games, Triple A and Indie Story games. I wish i hope no i WANT a sequel. Sry for grammar andThe best game i've played so far. At first i've never played the trilogy so this is just a short review just about THIS game. Like i said it the best game i've played so far. I felt such an emptiness inside me at the end screen. I never had that feeling at any game before and i played a lot of games, Triple A and Indie Story games. I wish i hope no i WANT a sequel. Sry for grammar and other mistakes :)… Expand
  98. Rudd_Nurseman
    Jun 11, 2017
    7
    ME:A is a great game, well worth it's price. The graphics and performance are great, the characters are unique and believable and the story is pleasantly surprising and compelling. There are certain mysteries kept in reserve to allow a sequel game, which is part of good story telling. The game makes the player feel like he/she is making extremely long lasting choices that could conceivablyME:A is a great game, well worth it's price. The graphics and performance are great, the characters are unique and believable and the story is pleasantly surprising and compelling. There are certain mysteries kept in reserve to allow a sequel game, which is part of good story telling. The game makes the player feel like he/she is making extremely long lasting choices that could conceivably totally change their experience in the next game. In fact, there were a couple of moments where I was shocked that I could make the story play out exactly how I wanted.

    Saying all this, ME:A doesn't stack up against MEs previous titles as well as hoped. The flow of previous games is much superior. ME:A's end game isn't as monumental as hoped, in particular the musical score isn't well matched to it's cut scenes. ME:A features alot of dialogue that occurs as you move around, but move too fast and you get two words worth and it stops - very annoying. This game isn't bug free, I had to restart a couple of missions; I wouldn't have minded if it wasn't the final boss mission!

    The only part of the story that wasn't done well enough to my standards is a revelation regarding one of the ingame species, I barely registered the discovery in mission so was a bit shocked when my crew were talking about it...

    The musical score for action scenes needed work, but the space opera music was lovely.

    There were a few parts of the game that were underutilised as well, E.g. outposts, I would have liked some more action with these, perhaps even getting to design them to an extent like Fallout 4.

    But overall I really enjoyed this game, and I really hope that the issues in the development that came up are sorted now so that the team can move on to progressing this new story line in their next title with more flow.    … Expand
  99. jsmcwilliams
    Jun 11, 2017
    10
    Listen I know there are a ton of negative reviews with varied and sundry complaints. However, If you're reading this review only 5 other games have held my complete attention and left me forever pursuing what is over that next horizon or around the next corner : Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2, Dragon Age Origins, and Dragon Age Inquisition. It is no accidentListen I know there are a ton of negative reviews with varied and sundry complaints. However, If you're reading this review only 5 other games have held my complete attention and left me forever pursuing what is over that next horizon or around the next corner : Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2, Dragon Age Origins, and Dragon Age Inquisition. It is no accident that all but one of these center around Bioware. My complaint about any of the above games was that they werent long enough. Mass Effect Andomeda however is a MASSIVE game heavy laden with hours of script and side quests galore. enabling you to level along with your companions and be rewarded for taking your time and going the extra mile to search around. When i preordered and subsequently played Dragon Age: Inquisition I was frustrated by the lack of immersion into the world at large. The central story was wonderfully done even if it was a bit short, but it didnt make you feel like you were part of the world at large. Andromeda forces you to be a part, to be a citizen, to not only survive but to ensure your people and new allies survive. The depth here is outstanding and while I know there are bugs and complaints about animations but show me a game that doesnt. If you are looking for a game that will suck you in and after 200hrs(single playthrough) still be begging for the game to magically double in length overnight this is your game. This game is a 10....I dont care what anyone else says.… Expand
  100. ShaneHido
    Jun 11, 2017
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Andromeda is another reminder why not to pre-order games. I have lost all faith in Bioware after this title. Just such a shame, it could have been so great! The god-awful characters/dialogue/storyline make this a waste of time. The story was remarkably annoying and lets just say the wrong character dies at the start of the game.… Expand
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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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