Mass Effect: Andromeda

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  1. jartb47
    Sep 15, 2018
    3
    I waited for EA to patch this thing and for the price to go down, didn't expect much.
    The general complaints about graphics and some other minor things have been done to death and don't need to be repeated. They really aren't that bad, nothing you can't live with.
    The story is hard to care about. Most of the time things happen that should be developed, but aren't. More like an outline of    I waited for EA to patch this thing and for the price to go down, didn't expect much.
    The general complaints about graphics and some other minor things have been done to death and don't need to be repeated. They really aren't that bad, nothing you can't live with.
    The story is hard to care about. Most of the time things happen that should be developed, but aren't. More like an outline of a story, no depth. But long and boring.
    At this date, 9/15/2018, the damn thing is STILL buggy and crashes multiple times a day. I'm about a third of the way (at most) thru this and will quit, which I hate to do. If I don't change my mind, I'll delete it.
    Anybody who pre-orders an EA game is just nuts.
    This one is not worth $20.    … Expand
  2. jayman419
    Dec 24, 2018
    3
    Some games you want to explore every nook and cranny inch by inch. They encourage you to scan every piece of lore, and to go looking for hidden quests and treasures. This game forces you do to all of this as the core gameplay, none of it is optional. And there's nothing of merit behind it to make it interesting.

    In order to unlock the story-quest dungeons you have to find glyphs hidden    Some games you want to explore every nook and cranny inch by inch. They encourage you to scan every piece of lore, and to go looking for hidden quests and treasures. This game forces you do to all of this as the core gameplay, none of it is optional. And there's nothing of merit behind it to make it interesting.

    In order to unlock the story-quest dungeons you have to find glyphs hidden behind the environment. You do this by activating your scanner (which slows your walking speed) and pointing it at every polygon in the area. They outsourced huge chunks of content to different teams, so there's no rhyme or reason to where these glyphs may be hidden. Once you find all of the glyphs in an area, you have to play sudoku with them to advance.

    The scanner is also how you uncover codex entries, this game's version of lore. If you walk very close to an object, it will vibrate your controller (if you're using one) to tell you to scan something nearby. Or you can slowly walk around with the scanner up looking at everything. You must do this to earn research points. You need research points to develop the blueprints for your armor and equipment.

    As you drive around the worlds, a thing will pop up on your screen and tell you that you can mine resources. You must drive back and forth very slowly, watching a little meter, until you can fire off a mining probe. Then you have to do it again until the region is fully exploited. You need to harvest these resources to build your blueprints.

    Every time you want to move around the map between planets, you have to leave and arrive three times, each one a different version of an unskippable cut scene.

    Say you're on Base X, and you have a quest to run and talk to someone on Planet Yawn. You dutifully walk to your ship. It asks if you want to leave, you say yes. You watch an unskippable cut scene of your ship leaving, that takes about 30 seconds. Then you see Base X in the close up view on the galaxy map.

    You back out of that to the system view. It shows you an unskippable cutscene of your view zooming out. Not like "woosh you're zoomed out now". Like "wooshsweermubububub", ten seconds of movement. Then you zoom out again (several more seconds of wooshing views) to the sector map and pick a new area.

    Then when you click the "let's gooo already" button, it zooms all the way back into the close-up view of the planet your at and shows a wooshing first person cinematic of zooming out all over again. Next is about ten seconds of seizure inducing "warp" travel (or whatever they call it, I couldn't be bothered with reading any of the lore) before you arrive at the next system.

    Then more wooshing and zooming when you arrive, before you get the new system view. Click and woosh zoom again and you can finally select the planet you want to go to. Then it takes you back to the maxed out system view and wooshes you back into the planet view.

    Except it doesn't just go to the planet. It zooms waaay into the planet, to mimic the image from the opening splash screen. Then zooms back out a little bit. Then you have to scan around the planet to find a landing spot, then you watch a cutscene of your ship flying down to the planet.

    Moving from one planet to another takes about three minutes, with maybe ten seconds of button pressing. Almost all of it waiting and watching these three separate attempts at leaving and arriving.

    Every. Single. Time.

    And there are a lot of quests that are just "Hey, you. Run and talk to this person and come back here real quick." And honestly, those are better than the actual quests.

    So many quests have no icons on the map. Find all of this certain type of thing, find these random hickeys at static camps, locate all of the computers, the usual filler that dozens of games manage to make somewhat interesting this game makes boring and vaguely irritating. Like a relative who won't take your hints about how little you want to hear their story.

    None of the boxes you can open are visible on the map until you buy an upgrade to your character later in the game. (And even then, only a few special chests show up.) And the worst part is that the containers can be any object in the game. That rock you didn't bother to walk up to and inspect? That was your boss reward treasure. That box-looking thing that had loot in it the last time you saw it? Not a box this time, it's in the potted plant.

    And the whole time your party members are telling you how awesome the whole experience is. Shouting encouragement to remind you that yes, this is the game and you are enjoying it. A classic case of tell, don't show.

    Because, some games are hard to like. You have to struggle past the flaws to the hidden qualities beneath that. This game doesn't like the people who play it. It's not even worthy of hating, because that would require a level of engagement and an emotional response that it's simply too tedious and bland to generate.    … Expand
  3. RGiggslegend
    Apr 18, 2019
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pros:
    - huge new galaxy with generally improved graphics;
    - enhanced combat (best of the four games thus far in action)

    Cons:
    - bland protagonist with basically no angle or trait in character (particularly comparing to Shepard);
    - stale facial expressions (subpar even comparing to the very first game--which is 11 years old);
    - too much filler content for quests (like a few fellow reviewers said, DAI in space, which basically takes up 2/3 of the actual playtime, and that's with guide. Without guide...it may take up to 4/5 of the playtime)
    - political correctness all over the place (many decisions are forced with compromises, and quite a number of them don't even make sense)
    - lack of choice (it is understandable that the Pathfinder needs to be diplomatic and this half is written well, but there is basically no counterpart...no choice of showing even the slightest bit of aggression)

    Basically, the combat deserves a score of 85+ as it is entertaining and exciting, although the auto cover system makes the control lacking at times, but it is definitely better than the OT.

    The story, however, deserves no more than 40, and that's being generous.

    For a space opera, conflicts need to be present all over the place, particularly given that the original trilogy has established that the Milky Way Council species have internal conflicts themselves. While it is possible to explain that the selection process of the Initiative eliminates most of that, it is logically highly unlikely for the Initiative to truly devoid them of their individuality, which in ME Andromeda appears all but eliminated. So, the Asari are no longer diplomatic, the Turians are not disciplined, the Salarians not hyperactive and pressing, and the Krogans no longer rough around the edges. That's already failing the OT world view.

    And there's the problem with conflicts. The exiles are established "right out of the gate" with almost minimal background stories to how and why they are expunged. The story provided by the Nexus doesn't cover enough, and there's basically no polarity displayed between the two. Decisions are mostly middle-ground, and they differentiate little even if displayed as polarized. The decisions, while they can be understood to have long term influences, the Initiative is set up over the course of around a year, and some decisions should have effects by the end of the game, such as setting up the outpost for military purposes, or having the exiles ruled by different leaders, yet none of them has any impact whatsoever in game.

    Then there's the problem with the protagonist and his crew. The Ryders are established to be competitive and good-humoured, and not much else is present up to the point when Alec dies. The side of competition, however, is never displayed properly. With competitiveness usually comes with a natural display of discipline and authority, particularly given that the twins are military in background, yet both Ryders displayed a complete lack of assertion when it comes to both. Liam and Peebee falling out of order in both of their loyalty missions, yet they get to stick around due to a lack of choice, and the Ryders are written too accepting to realise that there is a line never to be crossed, and the choice of displaying anger at both companions---just gets Ryder condescended in reverse. Basically, every companion gets to act like a Spectre while the Ryders are less condescending than the Council. There is no accountability in the Pathfinder team and the leader doesn't act like one.

    In general, if you've played the original trilogy, ME Andromeda just feels wrong. There's almost no complexity, no friction, no conflict, no moral dilemma, no consequences.

    There is a possible way to save this game however, which is for ME Andromeda to have a sequel on part with Mass Effect 2, since a lot of the plot holes and personality absences can be filled and explained in its sequel. For instance, building up a background for Jaardan, Angaran, Kett and Remnant, giving more choice over team selection, linking decisions with consequences reflected in MEA 2, et cetera. After all, the background in Andromeda is roughly set, and the world is definitely expandable.

    Basically:
    If you want to hitch a joyride of action, this game is playable and rightly so, and even replayable.
    If you want to see a space opera BioWare delivered with SWKOTOR and Mass Effect 1-3, this game is a bare pass.
    If you want to enjoy an odyssey-style story like Mass Effect 2 exploded (which this game actually sets its main storyline in similar fashion), this game fails pathetically both in the countdown and in the climax.

    It succeeds to deliver in action, but fails pathetically in story, particularly by RPG standards, even more so by BioWare RPG standards.    … Expand
  4. Rockemup
    Jul 31, 2019
    3
    I never bothered to review this game. Seeing as how most people shared the same opinion as me. But I just read about The Glaad game nominees. While reading i thought. "surely they Will nominate andromeda" considering that EA chose to sacrifice The ME IP story in favor of pandering to the smalledt gamling minority. The all inclusive andso diverse snowflake lgbtqhdmi feminist community. ButI never bothered to review this game. Seeing as how most people shared the same opinion as me. But I just read about The Glaad game nominees. While reading i thought. "surely they Will nominate andromeda" considering that EA chose to sacrifice The ME IP story in favor of pandering to the smalledt gamling minority. The all inclusive andso diverse snowflake lgbtqhdmi feminist community. But no. Glaad, The biggest snowflake advocates didnt give 2 **** about andromeda. And its realy funny now to see that their gamble is still not paying off. TLDR not even The ones EA panders to even considered this game for a progressive award. Hope it was worth it EA.… Expand
  5. Sandre
    Sep 26, 2019
    3
    I will not spoil anything even the game get almost 2 years now.
    I try to say to myself, It's time to play this new mass effect after 2 years of updates.
    But i just can't for 2 points : 1) I do not feel anything -_- i barely pass the first 2h of gameplay and it is so flat, i am bored out of my skull! Combats are cool but empty, you do not feel the impact. Story is here but pfff. And    I will not spoil anything even the game get almost 2 years now.
    I try to say to myself, It's time to play this new mass effect after 2 years of updates.
    But i just can't for 2 points :

    1) I do not feel anything -_- i barely pass the first 2h of gameplay and it is so flat, i am bored out of my skull! Combats are cool but empty, you do not feel the impact. Story is here but pfff. And i do not get anything who push me forward. I remember the fantastic ME3 intro, at the start of ME3 i was in WOOOWWW mode but there, i am just surprisely totally bored.

    2) I can't playing more than 40 minutes or i get a very VERY hard headaches
    I reach 45 years old, i play video games all my life and i NEVER get this.
    The fact you get Zoom, zoom, unzoom, zoom, unzoom each time you are targeting , scanning, changing weapons or fire at something is simply WAY WAY to hard and the FOV change each time you are targeting, changing weapon, or scan and the FOV depend on what weapons you are using ...

    i do not even imagine playing like that in gow or any other tps i will be sick like hell in a middle of any horde or any raid. Then i just look into the internet but BIOWARE do not add any options in 2 years to separate the FOVs or even any options to DO NOT zoom.

    so to be clear:
    you are walking with a very large FOV,
    you take your weapon you are zooming,
    you are aiming more zoom atm you see nothing and you already get 3 zooms.
    You want to scan something unzoom,
    you are not getting any more weapons unzoom again.

    In less than 30 seconds you get 5 to 6 zoom and 3 unzoom Wowww -_0
    and becasue you have no minimap you need to open the map often what gives you more zoom and more animations for noting. sorry but my head can't !!!
    i just get the will to kill myself, puke and get the worst headaches of history playing any video games.

    Imagine something like that happen when you take a pen, drop the pen, write 1 letter with the pen, change the pen, retake another pen ... you will become crazy. so i will not play this game anymore because after 3 monstruous headheach i understand the devs are totaly stupids and do not even bother what are correct HUDs and UIs and want to kill us all by headaches ... i think. (That's a new one)

    i am desapointed, i never quit a game for something like that, i try every solution i can find
    it is very simple there is no options to avoid 200 zoom / unzoom in 1h
    then ... mass effect andromeda thx but > go to trashcan after 1h36 minutes and 3 headaches.
    What a waste.    … Expand
  6. Filuyezz
    Jul 21, 2020
    3
    When comparing Mass Effect: Andromeda to its predecessors it's a boring and weak substitute. Story-blank, nothing new. Characters- Blank, forgettable, and you just not identify with them. Gameplay- repetitive, nothing new, similar to previous games or even worse. Same pattern with every new planet. I really do not recommend this title to anyone. It is better to stick to Mass Effect trilogyWhen comparing Mass Effect: Andromeda to its predecessors it's a boring and weak substitute. Story-blank, nothing new. Characters- Blank, forgettable, and you just not identify with them. Gameplay- repetitive, nothing new, similar to previous games or even worse. Same pattern with every new planet. I really do not recommend this title to anyone. It is better to stick to Mass Effect trilogy and forget about this miserable offspring.… Expand
  7. Mattios
    Jul 28, 2021
    3
    Boring and repetitive, this seems to have lost all the things that made the original series great. The story is boring, the levels bland and the character interactions poor. I've never seen so much copy paste in a AAA title. e.g. every asari has the same face except the one on your squad. All the missions and conversations are very samey
  8. realWhiteMan
    Apr 9, 2023
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My rating is based on my impressions of the game. This is not an objective review. I play quite a big number of titles per year and decided to review them as a peace of art and not as a product.… Expand
  9. tar73
    May 27, 2017
    2
    The characters, the story and the gameplay can't compare to earlier games in the series. The game is also negatively influenced by the racist Manveer Heir, and I personally will boycott Bioware for hiring such a jackass.
  10. dzapan
    Jan 20, 2019
    2
    No content, silly boring story, bland unintresting characters, game full of SJW and leftist propaganda, tragic models of characters and animations, copy paste locations, idiotic antagonist, lack of alien races, dialogs written by sjw 10 y.o. If you are a fan of original trilogy, please dont touch it.
  11. ENAK
    Mar 22, 2017
    2
    The downfall of Mass Effect and Bioware it seems. What happened to this company. It seems that everything they make these day is the same stream-lined, no brain, repetitive garbage that we got to enjoy in Dragon Age Inquisition. The difference is, it somehow worked in that game. Perhaps the characters were more interesting, perhaps the main story was just a little bit better. Here -The downfall of Mass Effect and Bioware it seems. What happened to this company. It seems that everything they make these day is the same stream-lined, no brain, repetitive garbage that we got to enjoy in Dragon Age Inquisition. The difference is, it somehow worked in that game. Perhaps the characters were more interesting, perhaps the main story was just a little bit better. Here - everything just falls flat. And I mean everything.

    I don't understand why people got so obsessed with some graphics issues like the animations etc. This is just a minor annoyance. As a whole, this thing just screams sub-par. NPCs have absolutely zero interesting things to say, companions are incredibly boring, the "planet restoration" quests are just repetitive sudoku-like puzzles, that you'll be begging to skip and the main antagonist is the same bunch of angry, misguided aliens that we already got to defeat in a 1000 different games.

    I don't know what's going on in that company, but there's serious management issues here and I don't think they'll be able to recover from this disaster. Oh well, goodbye Bio, you made some of the best games in the world, and now it's time to wrap it up.    … Expand
  12. Tweete
    May 6, 2017
    2
    Fire everyone involved in making this game. Hire a whole new staff based on talent. Don't release the game until obvious bugs are fixed. Ensure that they are making a game that doesn't pander to certain groups and excludes the larger customer base. You're selling entertainment...I don't want or need a class on sjw views/politics/environment in a product I paid for. I can turn on the news for that.
  13. inverted720
    Mar 22, 2017
    2
    The critics and early reviewers were focused on the wrong problems with this game. The facial modelling, animations and expressions are really not the problem here, it's a minor-minor forgivable problem really. They really are adequate, not good, but the characters get the job done. The real problem with this game is death by a thousand cuts. Any one of them would be forgivable by itself.The critics and early reviewers were focused on the wrong problems with this game. The facial modelling, animations and expressions are really not the problem here, it's a minor-minor forgivable problem really. They really are adequate, not good, but the characters get the job done. The real problem with this game is death by a thousand cuts. Any one of them would be forgivable by itself. But there are dozens of minor problems all the way from every single aspect of design to outright bugs. There are so many annoyances, i'll list several below. I accidentally wrote this review in the PS4 section, so I'll add to it this time around. And before I poop on the game further I'll say one nice thing.. The galactic nav-system from a graphical point of view is probably the best in the series.
    Combat:
    The combat is super weak and totally unsatisfying. The cover system is a major step-down from it's predecessors, and doesn't viscerally lock you in place. Compared to other cover based shooters, this game is sub-par by far. On harder difficulties the enemies can melt you whenever you accidentally break cover, which is super easy to do for a plethora of reasons. Your NPC companions are best used as distracting meat shields while you dish all the damage. Combat is by the numbers with cover playing more as an annoyance than anything else. Encounters usually boil down to dying once or twice until it randomly plays better. The player just doesn't have firm control over the battles. Cheese tactics reign supreme here. Just hide and force the AI to chase you down a corridor. The combat is just horsesh**. Coupled with inexplicably abysmal frame rates in combat I'm just not sure what EA intended to push out the door. (I'm running a GTX 1070) Saving and loading stabs me in the gut constantly, because the game is constantly killing me and erroding my progress. If you create a game that is constantly wiping your players due to unpredictable behavior, you should include a quick save/load. This leaves you having to reloot everything you just did from 5 minutes ago. The unpredictable behavior that is causing these deaths comes in the form of input/graphical lag, an inability to know when enemies have flanked you due to not having a proper 2d radar minimap, and weapons missing targets at critical moments because even fast guns have slow projectiles.
    Level design:
    If you are going to encourage people to explore your maps don't create death traps and ledges that look like they need to be explored. I'm constantly annoyed rooting around for loot. Half the time I'm rewarded, half the time I die or relize a ledge or platform which should be clearly out of reach that I just got to goes nowhere or can be accessed later. It's a waste of time, but I'd rather not have to ever come back and explore the terrible levels for something I missed. They are so bad I never want to come back. I NEVER had that feeling in ME 1&2. Along with level design is the god-awful vehicle. Just give me 4 tires, is slowing to a stop like a tank every time I need to turn a feature!? There is a reason we use vehicles with 4 wheels NOT 6. The reason this is in the level design section is that there is clutter everywhere, so turning as it turns out is VERY important. Essentially your average speed could be 70k/ph in practice it's probably 35k/ph.
    I have to stop this rant, it could literally never end. There are problems EVERYWHERE. This is a game in early beta. It was never polished. The best thing I can say about it, is that it never crashed one time. Which is pretty awesome, as for the rest of it....
    Conclusion:
    This game amounts to nothing more than minimum viable fan service. ALL you have to do to make a successful ME game is take the best parts of ME 1&2 and turn that into an exploration game. Stop trying to make this an epic cinematic experience. These story lines are all used up. I don't need a super villain, I don't need to bang all my crew mates, just create a survival type game where I get to explore space, uncover mysteries, and upgrade my gear, base, ships etc.. Just use the ME universe, reference what you already made, and boom happy gamer (assuming you actually play test it). Please make Bioware great again. I never thought I would say this but Trump you're the only one who can save the franchise.    … Expand
  14. Shermos
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Quick recommendation: Don't buy. Not worthwhile for new players, and an insult to the original Mass Effect trilogy, even with its flaws.

    Firstly, I want to disclose that I am a long time fan of the Mass Effect universe. I was not happy with the idea of moving the setting to the Andromeda galaxy, throwing away a rich setting and wonderful characters which had been built up over years. A good justification was needed to win me over. I couldn't see it.

    Mass Effect Andromeda had five years of development time. The resulting game is something I would be embarrassed to sell with my name attached to it. Most people by now will be aware with the problems with facial and general animation. The game also appears to have a lot of other bugs at the time of release. It is not clear how many will be fixed by patches. This is only the beginning of the game's problems.

    The premise for Andromeda does not make sense. We are told the trip from the Milky Way took over 600 years. This is too long even when using cryo sleep. People who stayed at home would continue to advance technologically and develop faster, more efficient faster than light travel. They could make the trip in a fraction of the time, and have already set up a new civilisation by the time the original expedition arrives. This isn't a good start for a game in the sci-fi genre, and the failures of logic and reason get worse.

    Bioware is known for telling good stories and creating excellent characters. It failed considerably on both counts. The main storyline is extremely generic. It adds to a feeling that the game is based on badly thought up and written fan fiction. Worse, we are not given enough reason to care about the characters at our sides. The worst examples being the protagonist's father and main antagonist. We meet the father at the start of the game knowing nothing about him. He dies in the very first mission without the game giving us any reason to care about his loss. He had the protagonists job of "pathfinder" already occupied, and he had to be removed. Why not make his death occur later in the game, or else make the protagonist be in charge in the first place? You don't make someone so important die until the character has had enough time to develop. That brings me to the antagonist. He is the big bad, with no depth whatsoever. He only seems to exist to be in the player's way, and we can't reason with him. Not even an alien from another galaxy should be evil for the sake of being evil and incapable of reaching an accommodation with the protagonist. The first time we meet his people, shooting begins immediately, and the player is not even given the choice to try to negotiate.

    The dialogue is awful to the point of being unintentionally funny. Voice acting is not much better, although I don't fault the voice actors for this. They had to work with terrible writing, and it seems as though they aren't able to get a feel for the setting and context their dialogue was being delivered in.

    Combat is the game's only redeeming feature. People who enjoy shoot 'em up games will probably enjoy this component and the multiplayer section. That said, it is not ground breaking, and the AI enemy is average at best. Squad mate AI in the single player section is terrible. The developers somehow managed to make it worse than it was in the original trilogy. I wanted to shoot one of my "Companions" to save the enemy the trouble, but the game wouldn't let me do so.

    The following point will matter to long time fans of the Mass Effect series. Andromeda gives the big FU to the established lore from the original trilogy. The trip to a new galaxy should not be possible with the technology available at the time the sleeper ships are supposed to have been built. Only a hand wavy explanation is provided. The expedition members seem have access to technology which didn't exist in the original games. This wouldn't be an issue if the expedition left after the events of Mass Effect 3, where we could expect technical advancements to have taken place, even in the aftermath of the Reaper war.

    Bioware wanted to move the setting to Andromeda, and have the expedition leave before ME3 to avoid dealing with the consequences of the ending choice of the trilogy. We were told they especially didn't want to choose a canon decision. The new game renders this change of setting pointless. One of the choices was synthesis between organic beings and artificial intelligence, a choice which was very unpopular with the vast majority of the fan base. We learn that everyone in the Andromeda expedition has been physically linked to an AI called SAM. Nevermind that AI research was considered highly illegal in the original trilogy. This is a huge slap in the face to the fan base. A canon choice appears to have been chosen anyway, so why bother with the setting change? Why throw away so many characters and places we love?    … Expand
  15. jameshowlett89
    Mar 23, 2017
    2
    Lotta bad things, from the story, and the animation, and the character design, and the awkward dialogue and horrible voice acting, what else...hmmm, oh and **** fetch quests, and going to an entire new galaxy only to be greeted with just two new humanoid looking races and an entire mainly empty galaxy to explore...probably a lot more problems if I think about them all but I just don'tLotta bad things, from the story, and the animation, and the character design, and the awkward dialogue and horrible voice acting, what else...hmmm, oh and **** fetch quests, and going to an entire new galaxy only to be greeted with just two new humanoid looking races and an entire mainly empty galaxy to explore...probably a lot more problems if I think about them all but I just don't wanna be bothered by this game anymore.… Expand
  16. tremault
    Jun 3, 2017
    2
    I had previously given this game a 5, but I'm revising it.
    I just completed a mission and in the cutscene, a character mentioned a character by name that I've never heard of and mentioned things that I had no idea what they were talking about. literally. BECAUSE IT HADN'T @&$%ING HAPPENED YET. I was so confused, I did a search for the named character and discovered that this character    I had previously given this game a 5, but I'm revising it.
    I just completed a mission and in the cutscene, a character mentioned a character by name that I've never heard of and mentioned things that I had no idea what they were talking about. literally. BECAUSE IT HADN'T @&$%ING HAPPENED YET. I was so confused, I did a search for the named character and discovered that this character was supposed to be introduced mid way through a quest I had pretty much just picked up. after just sitting and staring at the screen for a minute or so, and thinking "WTF"... just totally incredulous, I had no recourse but to just ALT+F4 because the game has made me so angry. I honestly am not sure if I can continue with this trash. I knew this game was a mess but at least it was playable. at least the stories were somewhat entertaining. but when things are accidentally put in the WRONG ORDER, how am I supposed to enjoy that??    … Expand
  17. Dokkodo
    May 14, 2017
    2
    A short list of bugs I've encountered...

    2 different missions I can't complete because of bugged doors that didn't open when they were supposed to. 1 mission I couldn't complete because I used a sniper rifle and killed the enemies before I got close, a mission that is a companion quest that unlocks the final tier of skills for Cora. Lose progress or lose Cora's abilities, good times.    A short list of bugs I've encountered...

    2 different missions I can't complete because of bugged doors that didn't open when they were supposed to.
    1 mission I couldn't complete because I used a sniper rifle and killed the enemies before I got close, a mission that is a companion quest that unlocks the final tier of skills for Cora. Lose progress or lose Cora's abilities, good times.
    A half dozen or so missions I had to reload my game because NPCs wouldn't talk to me until I did.
    Try to talk to a merchant and just stand there infinitely, unable to move, access menus or do anything but alt+F4 and lose my progress. That only happened to meonce, once is one too many times.
    Got stuck in a death loop (because I fell into water because of the awful movement mechanics) that wiped all my autosaves inside of a vault, had to use my last manual save and lost hours of progress.
    Merchants had no items when I hit Tier VII. No items at all, none.
    And my absolute favorite bug...sometimes the game decides there's too many effects and now every time you kill something the game should freeze for 20 or so seconds. Of course this happens mid-combat and on missions where you can't save so you have to endure the freezing til you get to a save point, or restart and lose progress.

    Now add all these bugs to the uninteresting gunplay and the average storyline and you get...garbage. I've been forcing myself to play the game because I hate having things unfinished, but I've been tempted to just uninstall this game since the first planet.    … Expand
  18. wawekar
    Mar 30, 2017
    2
    I won't list all the bad about the game. You can read other reviews
    and everyone is saying the same thing. This is nothing but DA:I in space.
    Same thing every planet. I think the thing that really got me was EA having to make a political statement in this game. I am so tired of politics, I play games to forget them, not have it stuffed down my throat. The game gets a 2 for world    I won't list all the bad about the game. You can read other reviews
    and everyone is saying the same thing. This is nothing but DA:I in space.
    Same thing every planet. I think the thing that really got me was EA
    having to make a political statement in this game. I am so tired of politics,
    I play games to forget them, not have it stuffed down my throat.
    The game gets a 2 for world design. No amount of patching can fix everything.    … Expand
  19. btbrotherton
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    A heart breaking dumpster fire of a game. Maybe if it had a different name I'd be able to get some joy out of the combat and overlook the total lack of a quality RPG experience, but being that this is supposed to take place in the same Universe of my favorite RPG of all time I think a 2 might actually be a bit generous.
  20. SRKNZ
    Jul 5, 2021
    2
    Dreadful. Confusing game design, bloated tedious story lines, interspersed by excessive cut scenes that made me feel like the game was playing me not the other way around. Only upside was the eye candy but on its own that's nowhere near enough.
  21. fsdgf
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    Terrible writing, terrible story, terrible animations, terrible characters, terrible voice acting and bland, boring combat.

    I'd love to mention a positive about the game, but there really isn't one. Don't get this game.
  22. theSectClown
    Feb 19, 2021
    2
    Я так и не понял, как можно было сделать таких внешне отталкивающих персонажей. Как будто в редакторе онлайн игрушки школьники лепили их. Даже ни с кем романтических отношений заводить не хочется. Если ты мужчина гетеро.Я так и не понял, как можно было сделать таких внешне отталкивающих персонажей. Как будто в редакторе онлайн игрушки школьники лепили их. Даже ни с кем романтических отношений заводить не хочется. Если ты мужчина гетеро.
  23. Possemaster2
    Mar 23, 2017
    2
    That they dared to release this game. Bioware was pioneer in animation and story telling. What happened? Mass Effect 2 was a brilliant piece of entertainment. Perfect narratives, perfect cut scenes. That is all gone. The animation are really bad. Story is inconsistent. Side quests are dull. The world feels empty. If you get the the first planet and establish the first outpost and it getThat they dared to release this game. Bioware was pioneer in animation and story telling. What happened? Mass Effect 2 was a brilliant piece of entertainment. Perfect narratives, perfect cut scenes. That is all gone. The animation are really bad. Story is inconsistent. Side quests are dull. The world feels empty. If you get the the first planet and establish the first outpost and it get filled with useless props you will see what i mean. Just take some time and take a look at the characters that are placed in this setting. They are doing nothing . Animation do not fit in the place they are put, a lot of copied characters that you can even see three times in the same place. Just standing there staring in the sky or distance doing absolutely nothing. These animations are the ones you can buy for 2 euro at a 3D online store made by a beginner 3D artist. This shows again that EA can destroy a good company into delivering **** software to the mass public that will buy it anyway. Shame on the Bioware developers that you let your die hard fans down, and that you have made your jewel into a piece of **** moneygrabbing EA software.… Expand
  24. Vidicus
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    When a company forgets why people play games, and instead pushes social agendas, they make games like Mass Effect Andromeda. Look elsewhere for Sci-Fi gaming goodness. The combat is fine but the exploration is only on a few planets out of a hundred. The rest are simply a click to finish exploring. Add bad animations, bad voice acting, remove emotions, lower companion customization andWhen a company forgets why people play games, and instead pushes social agendas, they make games like Mass Effect Andromeda. Look elsewhere for Sci-Fi gaming goodness. The combat is fine but the exploration is only on a few planets out of a hundred. The rest are simply a click to finish exploring. Add bad animations, bad voice acting, remove emotions, lower companion customization and controls, and you have Mess Effect: Andromeda. I also missed the awesome soundtrack of the first game. Overall a missed opportunity for Bioware. I believe they have now destroyed their name and reputation to the point it will hit their profits.… Expand
  25. Aralia
    Mar 25, 2017
    2
    OK, I really tried hard to like this game. I played it now for several days, since I am a hardcore ME fan.

    I have to differentiate here a bit, since I DO like the multiplayer since it is fun action. However, a minority of us bought ME4 for the multiplayer part !!! So basically I would give the Multiplayer part an 8. But this is an addon for people and we bought an RPG !!! Lets begin    OK, I really tried hard to like this game. I played it now for several days, since I am a hardcore ME fan.

    I have to differentiate here a bit, since I DO like the multiplayer since it is fun action. However, a minority of us bought ME4 for the multiplayer part !!! So basically I would give the Multiplayer part an 8. But this is an addon for people and we bought an RPG !!!

    Lets begin with the Fighting engine. Yes I know, not the core thing in an RPG, but I think I owe an explanation here, since it seems paradox that I like the fighting engine in the Multiplayer, but hate it in the RPG. I find the 3rd dimension a challenge and fun in multiplayer. But lets face it, is it realistic ? Even with a jetpack ? No it is not, you would probably kill yourself in the first 5 seconds if you used a jetpack like you do in the hardcore combat scenes. So yes it is an RPG and it really makes me feel not being in the game to fight like that. So as a fighting engine for an RPG I have to give it 0 points. It disrupts immersion totally. I can't feel I am Ryder with this, it feels so unreal. That is why it is OK for multiplayer, but not for the RPG, the single player campaign. In multiplayer I don't play a role, I am there for the challenge and the fun. And jump flying around is REAL fun. But if you have to sink yourself in an RPG and BE Ryder .... well it breaks it. In the ME3 series I felt like I WAS commander Sheperd, The missions were tough, but it felt like doable with normal human assets.

    So since it is a fighting oriented RPG the fighting engine makes 3 of 10 points. So 0 of 3 points from me here.

    Now the story. I am really disappointed. It really looks like a group of raw recruits. I mean Sheperd was a mature person in their very late twenties or perhaps early thirty. Plus they had a full Intelligence Service behind them. Here ? some people who just grew out their teen years jump in and do something. OK, there is the AI, but well, it is secret on top. Would you really trust a teen your precious ship ? juest because they claim to be the pathfinder ? Hey the middle ages have passed where a noble just anointed their child as successor !!!! and especially that other people just ate it. Remember that even warhero Sheperd had to fight for their place hard ? The spectre rank came not immediately.

    An RPG lives from the stories, so that is 4 points for me. I give it 1 of 4 points.

    The models, voicing and interface: The faces are really unacceptably bad for an RPG, there is no talking out of this. The game itself has pretty nice graphics. maybe not Witcher 3 quality, but it would be good enough to draw me in and make the RPG believable if the rest of the game was OK.

    The characters are flat, I just can't get into the game. The quests are boring. I agree that ME3 often was also some fetch questing, but the stories were built better. there was a briefing before. The missions felt important and it was clear what I have to do. Also I am stuck on the first mainquest on EOS. I know exactly that I have to scan the glyphs, but where are they ???? There is sometimes a good joke, but somehow all sounds so rehearsed. The flat expressions in the faces do not really help along with the somehow flat voicing. It is hard to catch, but somehow the old ME voicing had a bit more of spice.

    The faces DO matter for an RPG. The faces look especially weird around the eyes and that is where conversation lives. I think 50% of the not coming over of the story is due to the bad face expressions and the eyes. ME was never great in that, however, it is somehow a joke that ME4 beats all its predecessors in bad expressions. And no it is not that hard as some defenders try to say. Fallout 4 did an ok job for example and had much more believable jokes. Fallout 4 is more of an openworld game and such not the best RPG setup, So if they did better as an RPG than ME4, it is a poor result.

    Also, do we really need idle games (strike teams) in an RPG.

    The faces add a lot to the quality of an RPG … or take it like in ME4. So the models, voicing and interface make 3 of 10 points for me. I can only give 1 point here.

    Basically we have to say that this game was not made for the old fans. I am sure there are a lot of people out there who like it. If you are not a SciFi and hardcore RPG (DAO style) fan, it might be ok. So if for you it is not understandable why there are so many outcries, it is NOT the game the ME fans expected and I am sure that all the negative votes are from old fans. This is NOT our series, it feels like they got permissions to use races and characters from the ME franchise, but NOT like an ME game.

    BTW, the story would have had potential for sure, but they really botched it.    … Expand
  26. Sirus
    Mar 28, 2017
    2
    This is not the Mass Effect we were promised in E3. This is a hot mess full of bugs, awful voice acting, and terrible face animation. You can't emotionally connect with any character as their facial expressions seem like they're oblivious to their situation and surroundings. I often found bugs during combat, and the story is not as significant as the original Mass Effect series was. ThisThis is not the Mass Effect we were promised in E3. This is a hot mess full of bugs, awful voice acting, and terrible face animation. You can't emotionally connect with any character as their facial expressions seem like they're oblivious to their situation and surroundings. I often found bugs during combat, and the story is not as significant as the original Mass Effect series was. This game seemed to be made just as a cash cow by using the ME name instead of an actual entry into the ME series.… Expand
  27. inkblowout
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    I cannot believe I waited 5 years for this pile of garbage to be released.

    It's just a big mess overall, animations are the least of their problems. Story is lacking compared with mass effect 1 and 2. And character development is just bland, it feels like I'm talking to cardboard cutouts. They characters don't feel like actual people, they are just there to take up extra space.    I cannot believe I waited 5 years for this pile of garbage to be released.

    It's just a big mess overall, animations are the least of their problems. Story is lacking compared with mass effect 1 and 2. And character development is just bland, it feels like I'm talking to cardboard cutouts. They characters don't feel like actual people, they are just there to take up extra space. Squadmates aren't even comparable to the amazing squadmates we had in the previous games. Hell, even JACOB from mass effect 2-3 is more interesting than these guys. The only thing that is great is the exploration and the gameplay but that's it. Even the RPG elements are trash.... allowing everyone to spec into everything!? Seriously! That's not a good RPG, if you spec. into biotics, you'd ONLY have biotic powers.... but nope in Andromeda, you wanna have biotic, tech and explorer powers... no problem you can do that with no limitations and no negatives, just wow bioware.... way to really dumb it down for everyone. After 15 hours. I stopped played because I was just damn bored, never felt like that during a Mass Effect game which is a damn shame.

    It's shocking how Bioware went from the masterpiece of "Baldur's Gate" to this piece of ****

    Rip Bioware 1998-2017    … Expand
  28. madmats
    Apr 11, 2017
    2
    I would start with saying that I'm writing the review just after I just got stuck on a loading screen.

    I'll use 5 as a base value for a review. +2 for being a rpg +1 for being a sci fi game +/- 0 for graphics, I don't mind the "tired face" +/- 0 for story, nothing special at all but nothing really bad either -1 for unoptimized game -2 for forcing me to change windows settings (ie    I would start with saying that I'm writing the review just after I just got stuck on a loading screen.

    I'll use 5 as a base value for a review.
    +2 for being a rpg
    +1 for being a sci fi game
    +/- 0 for graphics, I don't mind the "tired face"
    +/- 0 for story, nothing special at all but nothing really bad either
    -1 for unoptimized game
    -2 for forcing me to change windows settings (ie needed virtual memory to play)
    -2 for a lot of bugs and errors forcing me to shut down the game and losing played unsaved game
    -1 for the decision that you can't save the game during some missions on PC

    If they had released a finished and polished game it would have gotten a 7.
    But since they decided that the buying players also should be beta testers I can only give it a 2.
    A 2 for a triple A title is an embarrasement for both EA and Bioware and I will be really careful before buying a title from them!    … Expand
  29. thorin_bane
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    Wow thought the critics were harsh? Not enough in my books. I played 2 hours of frustrating ugliness and quit. Sorry I may not be giving it enough time, but everything I liked about ME1 is crushed down and thrown away and all the things I disliked on ME2 are heightened and amplified. I know the parcour fans will love this crap, but I don't want games with jetpacks. They spent more time onWow thought the critics were harsh? Not enough in my books. I played 2 hours of frustrating ugliness and quit. Sorry I may not be giving it enough time, but everything I liked about ME1 is crushed down and thrown away and all the things I disliked on ME2 are heightened and amplified. I know the parcour fans will love this crap, but I don't want games with jetpacks. They spent more time on this garbage gameplay than RPG elements or proper animation. Seriously looks like crap. I can't give it a one because i didn't truly give it a try, but its so ugly I just don't want to play this near platformer. So disappointed in this mess. I will play some more with friends on multi to see if its ANY better and maybe change my review, but as of now its terrible.… Expand
  30. StarScream2092
    Apr 3, 2017
    2
    Andromeda is another reminder why not to pre-order games. Honestly anybody who thought that this can live up to the trilogy was instane. People should stop defending this game because it have great combat and above average graphics.

    1. Writing is childish, like really boring. Here and there it made you smile but it was far less than in trilogy. 2. Story is just a place holder,    Andromeda is another reminder why not to pre-order games. Honestly anybody who thought that this can live up to the trilogy was instane. People should stop defending this game because it have great combat and above average graphics.

    1. Writing is childish, like really boring. Here and there it made you smile but it was far less than in trilogy.

    2. Story is just a place holder, nothing epic. Feels like they wanted it to be just average.

    3. Animations, are are a HUGE disaster. If EA will be happy with sales of Andromeda they will create another mess like this and sell it. So be prepared.

    They treat it like any another company, -make the game at lowest cost possible, sell as AAA game.
    Witcher 3 is an exception.    … Expand
  31. ChaffToxicS
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    Sigh, Mass Effect Andro is such a disaster.

    Animations bad, story is bad who ever wrote it did a such a poor job, dialogue is horrible. Such a shame EA didn't go and check on quality at Bioware before they shipped the game out and have the animations fixed and the story in terms of dialogue needs to get a revamp. This disappointment I hope EA and Bioware work out and give us all    Sigh, Mass Effect Andro is such a disaster.

    Animations bad, story is bad who ever wrote it did a such a poor job, dialogue is horrible.

    Such a shame EA didn't go and check on quality at Bioware before they shipped the game out and have the animations fixed and the story in terms of dialogue needs to get a revamp.

    This disappointment I hope EA and Bioware work out and give us all dlcs for free. If EA charges us for dlcs for this horrid game they are no better than Bioware.    … Expand
  32. TheHoleDigger
    Mar 23, 2017
    2
    Man this games facial animations are so bad, it's hard to play with these horrible facial animations, the story and dialog and the dialogue wheel are just as bad. AI gets in the way, and MP is terrible, it's 2017 and we still use p2p on PC? C'mon Bioware give us dedicated servers and a server browser list to easily find games, Bioware please fix the animations.
  33. Alaska_Wolf
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    I had hoped for another terrific addition to the Mass Effect universe. Instead, what I found was a superficial, poorly written, lackluster game full of bugs, poor voice acting, a horrible dialogue wheel and shallow story line. Perhaps with some serious redesign, video upgrades, patching, and several hundred $ in additional DLC content it might make it, maybe. As it stands now, I'mI had hoped for another terrific addition to the Mass Effect universe. Instead, what I found was a superficial, poorly written, lackluster game full of bugs, poor voice acting, a horrible dialogue wheel and shallow story line. Perhaps with some serious redesign, video upgrades, patching, and several hundred $ in additional DLC content it might make it, maybe. As it stands now, I'm not sure that even the legendary Commander Shepard could save this game, its just that bad.… Expand
  34. Mediocris
    Mar 22, 2017
    2
    One name can sum this up Blasto 9: Blasto Goes To Andromeda. Remember Blasto the parody Hanar Specter vid star from Mass Effect TOS well this is like that but with worse dialogue and execution. If that was a parody, what does that make this? How ironic and prophetic that Bioware and Mass Effect should turn into their own parody. The voice over actors deliver their lines like Elcor and theOne name can sum this up Blasto 9: Blasto Goes To Andromeda. Remember Blasto the parody Hanar Specter vid star from Mass Effect TOS well this is like that but with worse dialogue and execution. If that was a parody, what does that make this? How ironic and prophetic that Bioware and Mass Effect should turn into their own parody. The voice over actors deliver their lines like Elcor and the humans look like Vorcha in make up. The least said about the animations the better.… Expand
  35. Calders
    Apr 1, 2017
    2
    Very meh in every way... maybe some nice looking environments but ultimately it leaves you feeling unfulfilled. Just like DAI it proves that open worlds and exploration are the enemy of well paced and well constructed story telling. As for the look of all the female characters in the game I have no words... put it this way, we know how the Asari selected their recruits for the missionn.Very meh in every way... maybe some nice looking environments but ultimately it leaves you feeling unfulfilled. Just like DAI it proves that open worlds and exploration are the enemy of well paced and well constructed story telling. As for the look of all the female characters in the game I have no words... put it this way, we know how the Asari selected their recruits for the missionn. This is an own goal for Bioware because it makes the game feel uninspiring and ugly. It seems clear that Bioware are more interested in pleasing feminists than they are interested in pleasing gamers.… Expand
  36. kurniau
    Nov 4, 2017
    2
    Такое выпустить в 2017 году, это позор. Ладно бы разработчик неопытный и криворукий, так нет же, студия с мировым именем! Видимо издатель вынудил выпустить игру раньше положенного срока, хотя разработка велась 5 лет. Жаль, что игровая деятельность определенных студий только деградирует.Такое выпустить в 2017 году, это позор. Ладно бы разработчик неопытный и криворукий, так нет же, студия с мировым именем! Видимо издатель вынудил выпустить игру раньше положенного срока, хотя разработка велась 5 лет. Жаль, что игровая деятельность определенных студий только деградирует.
  37. Idontcarefuccu
    Mar 1, 2019
    2
    It's been a 10 years since first Mass Effect came out and i cannot believe how much worse this instalment is compared to previous ones and i dont want to compare this turd to the first trilogy and by the way first one was and still is THE best SciFi opera videogame i have ever played. Anyway let's get to some goods and lots of bads:
    Cons :
    -lorerape -boring -repetitive -ugly    It's been a 10 years since first Mass Effect came out and i cannot believe how much worse this instalment is compared to previous ones and i dont want to compare this turd to the first trilogy and by the way first one was and still is THE best SciFi opera videogame i have ever played. Anyway let's get to some goods and lots of bads:
    Cons :
    -lorerape
    -boring
    -repetitive
    -ugly characters
    -bad animations
    -fetch quests
    -MMO style world
    -awkward writing
    - bland and not memorable characters
    Pros :
    - kinda beautiful planets, thanks to Frostbite
    - combat which i must admit is fun
    And keep in mind it's not the same team who made MA 1 and hell not even 2nd or 3rd one.    … Expand
  38. Mement0
    Apr 13, 2017
    2
    Worst in the series. It doesn't even deserve the title of being a 'Mass Effect' entry. It was contrived characterization with lazy writing and weak dialogue. There's no strong characters like Garrus and interesting ones like Thane.. Just bland writing with awful animations and awkwardly shoe horned SJW themes.

    What a terrible let down. BioWare should be ashamed of themselves,    Worst in the series. It doesn't even deserve the title of being a 'Mass Effect' entry. It was contrived characterization with lazy writing and weak dialogue. There's no strong characters like Garrus and interesting ones like Thane.. Just bland writing with awful animations and awkwardly shoe horned SJW themes.

    What a terrible let down. BioWare should be ashamed of themselves, particularly forcing agendas on their own fan base.

    I gave it a 2 because sometimes the combat is fun.    … Expand
  39. D34THGR1PS
    Apr 11, 2017
    2
    I don't understand the love here. I think this game is solid ****
    - Cringeworthy Joss Whedon-style writing.
    - Voice acting is utter garbage. - Offline MMO scanning fun for whole family. - They managed to **** up their own lore. - Plot holes and illogical void bigger than the game's budget. - Liberal twitter blogger's wet dream. SJW cuck agenda everywhere. - Bioware fixing    I don't understand the love here. I think this game is solid ****
    - Cringeworthy Joss Whedon-style writing.
    - Voice acting is utter garbage.
    - Offline MMO scanning fun for whole family.
    - They managed to **** up their own lore.
    - Plot holes and illogical void bigger than the game's budget.
    - Liberal twitter blogger's wet dream. SJW cuck agenda everywhere.
    - Bioware fixing "offensive" transgender npc dialogue lines instead of actual game.
    - Fixing animation problems weeks after the realease instead of making game solid in the first place and charging it full price for players to beta test it.

    + You can actually save your time and money by not buying this garbage.    … Expand
  40. Panzidane
    Mar 24, 2017
    2
    BORING AND UGLY. This game is stupid. Sorry, but CGI remember me my PS1, gameplay is horrible, the story is boring. I just sit and think: ''WHAT THE HELL HAPPENS WHIT BIOWARE?'', sad... This game not good, this game not cool, this game is just a piece for farm money. Sorry fans, but i can't say this game is good, because this don't.
  41. Wake
    Mar 23, 2017
    2
    This is much worse than Dragon Age: Inquisition. Terrible animations, unfriendly UI, LOTS of bugs and graphical glitches. Gameplay is boring(scan, scan, more scan). Dialogues feels like they were written by 16 y.o. The only positive thing is location design.
  42. Littorio
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    This game like 9 season "scrubs", should not have existed.
    Quests, characters, animations, story - so f%ng bad, especially for Bioware.
    Mass Effect: Inquisition. Nuff said.
  43. paulmememan
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    EA has destroyed another franchise, one that was dear to me. While this game shows brief moments of promise, it makes the fact that it doesn't deliver on that promise all the more devastating. All that waiting and they deliver a recycled, reheated leftovers mess of a game. Complete with new and old technical problems, and the worst part is an area Bioware formerly excelled; the writing. OhEA has destroyed another franchise, one that was dear to me. While this game shows brief moments of promise, it makes the fact that it doesn't deliver on that promise all the more devastating. All that waiting and they deliver a recycled, reheated leftovers mess of a game. Complete with new and old technical problems, and the worst part is an area Bioware formerly excelled; the writing. Oh god, the writing! It is reminiscent of a middle schoolers fan fiction story. Full of bare-faced cliches in both the dialog and plot. Not a single character is memorable in their own right.

    The ending of Mass Effect 3 was a hamfisted amateur slap in the face, but this feels like a dagger in the back.    … Expand
  44. vinod95014
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I really wanted to like this game... And I was looking forward to it for a long long time.

    But the same issues that were brought out when the first trailer came out (Facial animations), the ones we were told would be fixed, are still there, and are even worse than I expected. It is downright immersion breaking, because of flat lifeless expressions, characters that sound emotionless, writing that is Below average at best, and often atrocious. The open world of this game feels similar to DAI and Ubisoft games, that have you running around gathering stuff, and doing other boring activities that feel like a chore rather than being fun.

    Gone is the sense of control you felt over your actions, as the Paragon/Renegade option has been replaced for being too binary, and instead replaced with a bunch of options that are meant to convey your tone, but end up saying the same thing. You hardly have any control over your characters actions. No matter what you do, you are always going to be the good guy. The ability to be rude, which was an integral part of what made mass effect so fun, is gone. You want to play as a dick? No, you are not allowed.

    Your companions are forgettable for the most part, with perhaps two exceptions, and one of them being memorable in a bad way. Peebee is perhaps the most irritating and badly written character I have ever seen in a game. All the characters lack any sort of seriousness despite the danger around them, and the conversation sounds like some sort of disney channel show set in high school. She just spouts off stupid one liners and bad jokes, and in place of having a binary option of paragon and renegade which influences how characters react towards you, you are instead given a binary option between professional and casual that determines how peebee reacts towards you. I found myself wishing I could somehow get her killed or kick her off the ship after the first mission with her, as I found her so irritating and cliche.

    The characters that have human faces are especially bad, as they look like they have been clubbed in the face as babies, and have a dazed expression that is interrupted only by their eyes making odd and rapid movements in all directions. Their faces are almost always fixed in one position, and the lip syncing is so awful it makes you cringe.

    The combat is however, pretty good. At least at first. It also has some big flaws, mainly glitches that leave you stuck floating along slowly when you land after using your jump jet, or your character unable to find a position behind cover because he slides along another feet after you take your finger off the move key. For some reason the developers have chosen to remove the ability to control your teamates beyond telling them where to go.. You cannot use their abilities for combo detonations anymore, and you yourself are limited to three hotkeys, which makes having more than three abilities in a profile somewhat pointless.

    The story is very dull, and lacks any of the seriousness and feeling of wonder that I loved about all the previous games. This is a surprising thing to realize when there was so much potential here in this setting. Instead this new galaxy you are thrust into is almost identical to the one you left, with the reapers replaced by another similar species, and a one dimensional evil species that you end up battling for most of the game. You find yourself trudging from planet to planet, fixing the weather by doing sudoku puzzles and a bunch of irritating fetch quests.

    I never expected this game to be so poor, but it is. I found myself struggling to play it after a certain point, and was so bored I went back to playing ME 1. I reccomend waiting till this game is patched and the price goes down to match its quality, which is to say when it is around 10 to 20 USD. If you are a fan of the previous games, prepare for disappointment.    … Expand
  45. UberGameMasters
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    •I miss EDI (Can't emphasize that enough)
    SAM is making me uneasy and engaging with it is chipping away at my interest, exponentially.
    •The NPC's are ugly and are laden with a bland androgyny. (I see ugly people all day, don't need it in my off time. This "is" still suppose to be a fantasy, right?) •Combat & Jetpack are cool but just not enough to make up for all of ME: Andromeda's    •I miss EDI (Can't emphasize that enough)
    SAM is making me uneasy and engaging with it is chipping away at my interest, exponentially.

    •The NPC's are ugly and are laden with a bland androgyny. (I see ugly people all day, don't need it in my off time. This "is" still suppose to be a fantasy, right?)

    •Combat & Jetpack are cool but just not enough to make up for all of ME: Andromeda's failings.

    •The Character Creator is subpar. I can easily spend two (or more) hours creating my custom character in the beginning of an awesome AAA title. One of my MOST favorite parts of a game and really helps get me immersed and truly invested in my story. I was robbed of this. : /

    •Story and dialog choices seem... stale. Again, really missing a natural flair, organic humor and playful sexual energy that comes from healthy human exchanges.

    All in all, have been a major fan of the ME series since ME1 but this installment seems as though Bioware has stopped catering to it's original fan base and has instead joined the ranks of the falling "preachy" element that's not really concerned about just making something fun and sexy people (YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE) can enjoy but forcing you to be "liberal". -This game falls flat.

    But I guess the only way to have them understand, (CATER TO YOUR FANBASE, not agendas) is in their wallets. -They might want to prepare to be schooled then.    … Expand
  46. RabinGrings
    Sep 1, 2023
    2
    This game is fantastic. Thank you EA. There are errors in the animations, but this does not take away all the brightness of the game. Play to the end and I guarantee you will be surprised.
  47. TennesseeTuxedo
    Apr 3, 2017
    2
    *** updated review ***
    I've gathered some thoughts on this game after very negatively reviewing it and wondering why there is such dichotomy in the reviews. It seems people either love it or hate it with each referring to the other camp as "shills" presumably working for EA in the case of positive reviews or "haters not even playing it" in the case of negative reviews. I've even seen    *** updated review ***
    I've gathered some thoughts on this game after very negatively reviewing it and wondering why there is such dichotomy in the reviews. It seems people either love it or hate it with each referring to the other camp as "shills" presumably working for EA in the case of positive reviews or "haters not even playing it" in the case of negative reviews. I've even seen some claim that "Trump supporters" are intentionally writing negative reviews because of the SJW conspiracy. I think all these claims are largely bogus.

    This installment moves ME more in the direction of a shooter with some RPG elements in it vs an RPG with some action elements in it, that's the big difference, shock for some, and welcome to others.

    Now there are even more skill choices and flexibility in ME A than prior titles but skill choices does not make an RPG. Borderlands had a nice number of skills choices and too was primarily a shooter with RPG elements. ME A has more than that but is still very limp wristed on all other key RPG components.

    ME1-3 were largely story driven. Even the combat was highly bound to the story - for example you were freeing the Citidel from a Cerberus takeover, you were protecting a colony from a Collector attack, you were securing a living Prothean "artifact" before the enemy could make off with it, etc... All the combat had a clear purpose and high urgency.

    ME A: does not have urgency and it is exploration based. Besides the poor writing and VA, this is why the dialog and and characters seem flat, because there is little that is vital to discuss. Combat is largely something that happens BETWEEN quests and while exploring. In most places you don't clear areas, you kill some randomly generated enemies as you progress through zones and the dead bodies magically disappear and new enemies respawn as you move a few hundred yards away (just like DA I).

    I think it's apples to oranges and why there is such polarity of reviews. If you enjoy a rich urgent story driven adventure where every aspect of the game, including combat, is tightly wound into the plot then, like me, you are probably going to hate this game.

    If you enjoy combat just for the sake of combat, like wandering around killing monsters that constantly respawn and enjoy a little story added, then you're probably going to like this game, provided you can overlook the weaknesses such as the animation flaws, ugly characters, plot holes, poor dialog and poor voice acting.

    *** original review ***

    This game is awful.

    BioWare clearly does not understand the difference between chores and compelling quests. It's obvious they went for quantity, of everything, over quality, eg. lots of stupid dialog vs less that is interesting and well thought out. Lots of grindy combat vs fewer but more exciting and more meaningful engagements. Lots of repetitive side quests vs fewer that have meaning in the context of the story line and advance it in some way.

    The list of failures is long:
    - boring story line
    - flat simplistic dialog full of cliches and stupid one liner jokes
    - repetitive grindy combat (despite some fun new additions to combat)
    - removal of the situational awareness aspect of combat that made ME 2/3 combat unique
    - intentionally and severely uglified NPCs, main character, and squadmates to meet the fancy of some perverse non-gaming fringe feminist group that believes having attractive people in vid games is offensive and oppressive
    - I love the fact these games appeal in a gender and orientation neutral way but I'm not looking for vid games with PC lessons shoe-horned in, this game is chock full of it
    - lots of looking for stupid glyphs and solving suduko puzzles which are simply not fun, the econo model of quest completion from a lazy development team
    - un-creative dorky looking cliche new alien species
    - some of the worst facial animations in video game history, many faces do not move above the lips regardless of the emotions conveyed
    - flat voice acting as if they had no idea of the context of the story in which they were reading their lines
    - repetitive animations to do anything such as flying between clusters/planets and no way to skip them

    I am an RPG fan and now formerly BioWare fan. This is second much anticipated (by me) game that I've gotten but will not even complete (the other being the almost equally rotten and boring DA: I). I've put 65 hrs in it and tried to like it but it is just too boring to finish.

    I am done with BioWare, they have lost their way. Maybe its EA. Perhaps like Disney buying Pixar and Marvel, the edge is taken off and the corporate machine takes over, replacing art and creativity with boring corporate form.

    Mass Effect Andromeda is a colossal failure and sure to disappoint!

    > 1000 hrs on ME2 PS3 and PC
    > 2000 hrs on ME3 PS3 and PC
    65 hrs on ME A PC and done with it    … Expand
  48. tectonicx
    Mar 23, 2017
    2
    I was going to give it a high rating but the biodrones giving it 10/10 are just deluded. We need to level out the playing field or these people will never learn their lesson. This is not a good game, probably the worst in the series. Repetitive fetch quests, very bad cringe worthy writing (don't expect a tali/garrus type of crewmate), laughable animations, empty worlds and recycledI was going to give it a high rating but the biodrones giving it 10/10 are just deluded. We need to level out the playing field or these people will never learn their lesson. This is not a good game, probably the worst in the series. Repetitive fetch quests, very bad cringe worthy writing (don't expect a tali/garrus type of crewmate), laughable animations, empty worlds and recycled building/structure galore, no sense of urgency at all, cliche 'bad alien' villain plot, forgettable story, forgettable characters and a forgettable game.… Expand
  49. Gnbi5cc
    Mar 23, 2017
    2
    Save your money and buy something like NieR:Automata instead. At least that game is awesome.

    Starting with the worst and most restrictive character face editor I've ever encountered, it just goes downhill from there. The defaults all look like potatoes, and its practically impossible to change anything except in minor ways. No changing skin textures, eye shape, eyebrows, shape of    Save your money and buy something like NieR:Automata instead. At least that game is awesome.

    Starting with the worst and most restrictive character face editor I've ever encountered, it just goes downhill from there. The defaults all look like potatoes, and its practically impossible to change anything except in minor ways. No changing skin textures, eye shape, eyebrows, shape of nose, mouth, brow colour. It was only possible to create a white character by selecting the bottom preset face option and sliding the skin tone slider all the way to the left. So in effect, you've got one option. It was also impossible to save and retrieve the look of the character since the mass effect archive isn't working at the moment. Excellent.

    So after that disaster it was into the game. There I immediately started experiencing all sorts of weird anomalies, with the character - neck stretching, warping and growing an adams apple(on a female) depending on how the character turned their head. For the NPC characters that didn't look god awful off the bat, there was a very strong uncanny valley effect. It just looks weird. And don't get me started on the eyes. Everyone looks like they're high on pseudo-ephedrine with massively dilated pupils. ugh. And the turians mouths with their detached flapping tongues...

    Story wise, everything you've heard is true. The writing is terrible, with cliche'd companions and characters you just cant bring yourself to care about. I honestly just wanted to hand them over to the Kett or shoot them myself.

    About the only redeeming features this game has is are the environments, which can look incredible, and the combat. But I'm not playing a Mass Effect game to shoot things. I'm playing it for the story, which is utter garbage. I gave up on this steaming pile after about 8 hours.    … Expand
  50. maxt4578
    Mar 24, 2017
    2
    Half-baked abomination of a game.
    Developers discarded a huge opportunity of new and engaging story in another galaxy, instead decide to play safe and made an awkward clone of a previous games, even going as far as reusing previous assets (models, animation, mechanics).
    Writing is abysmal. Logical errors and plot holes the size of the supermassive black hole. Some examples: - After    Half-baked abomination of a game.
    Developers discarded a huge opportunity of new and engaging story in another galaxy, instead decide to play safe and made an awkward clone of a previous games, even going as far as reusing previous assets (models, animation, mechanics).

    Writing is abysmal. Logical errors and plot holes the size of the supermassive black hole.
    Some examples:
    - After travelling 600 years to another galaxy you visit first planet in a prologue, completely unexplored, with recon mission. On that planet there are mysterious alien installations, thousands of years old. Guess what you find there? A scope for your rifle. Not a technology, that you have to research first ot use it. just the damn thing, that you can slap on your weapon. Another galaxy, folks!

    - First contact with an alien race, an important and frightening event (remember First Contact war from the lore of the series)? Nope. Instant understanding and cooperation.

    - Hero is the last hope of colonists, tasked with finding new worlds for the survival of everyone must buy his equipment for credits... Come on, there are million ways to circumvent this stupid situation, there could be requisition points, new tech research for gradual upgrades. Nope, credits.

    - Research and crafting. There is no reason to explore planets and collect resources, when you can forfeit research and development entirely and just buy things for credits. Takes away the exploration spirit everyone hoped for.

    This is just a surface scratching without going into details.

    Dialogs.
    Dialogs seems to be written by 10 year old. Characters spew exposition like in a bad movie. Mindless and numb droning of the NPCs will force you to skip the conversations entirely. Blatant mis-casting of the voice actors, which make characters dull and forgettable. Dialog options regressed even further, than infamous Renegade/Paragon system from previous games. Simplified romance options always show up in the wheel with "heart" icon, not unlocked through conversation and interaction. Just choose "heart" repeatedly and you get the romance scene. That easy. No engagement whatsoever.

    Worlds.
    Developers tried to create the open worlds, but instead got generic, empty and forgettable planets with dull quests. Uninspired and repetitive alien installations, awkwardly respawning enemies, overall lack of creativity throughout gameplay: these are the flaws that should never be in the first place, with the foundation like previous games and high project budget.

    User interface.
    Horrible design decisions, not just one step back, but a giant leap from established and comfortable interface from previous installments. You easily get lost in the menus, sub menus and tabs even when trying to do simple things, such as change quest tracking. Crafting menu is even worse. Unintuitive key mapping - to open a map you press "M" once, to close it press "Esc" twice. Map is buggy, half of the time you can't even locate your position, the marker just dissapears, making you take a wild guess. Minimap is no more, instead we got Skyrim'esque compass with markers that is just awkward to use, especially when driving in the vehicle.

    Animation.
    It's bad. Forget about stiff faces and bad syncing everyone are talking about. We have awkward movement, disappearing weapons, disappearing helmets, characters sliding instead of walking, NPC models suspended in midair, models clipping through the ground, invisible textures, madly rotating eyeballs, impossible gestures, just to name a few. It looks and feels as if it is an early alpha build. Even minimal quality control should have noticed and reported these massive issues, but alas...

    tl:dr verdict:

    An insult for the veterans of the series and tedious, boring experience for the newcomers to the franchise.    … Expand
  51. wtf_did_I_buy
    Mar 26, 2017
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. wow, congratulations ea/bioware, this is the first game I have ever returned and Ive had games never left the box. I love RPGs and have bought every deluxe /special edition of anything bioware put out (regetting a few of those purchases like DA:I DA:A). Not sure if its a spoiler but seriously when I play RPGs I dont expect to be transformed into a barely out of puberty kid. At first I thought I downloaded the wrong thing :( I tried to model my character with my looks - somehow the fair skinned option is missing and my toon looked like someone from the middle east (this was with the lightest skin tone). After meeting the companions you have a very quick idea of who the romantic interests will be....total turnoff for me personally. So basically you have a game that has horrid models, very very bad writing, and a college age school toon who is supposed to be a hero. I'm all for diversity, and gender equality with females and males, but it is supposed to be a RGP which means in theory you want to play and romance someone who looks better than you do in real life :D

    Lucky I am in the EU so I used that great game guarantee to get a refund after 5 hours, but that was the last straw from me. I instead bought skyrim, never moved from bioware but after this disaster never again.

    Its like a disney version of ME. I get that EA wants a younger audience, which is fine, but I think after this many mature gamers will be ditching this.    … Expand
  52. rheia
    Mar 27, 2017
    2
    Andromeda is not worthy of being called a Mass Effect game. It does the series a disservice by being mediocre and 'just passable' in every single aspect. This game is not something one would expect from the pioneers and innovators of the cinematic storytelling genre who used to set the bar. It fails to live up to Bioware's previous releases, let alone surpass them.

    -Story is weak and    Andromeda is not worthy of being called a Mass Effect game. It does the series a disservice by being mediocre and 'just passable' in every single aspect. This game is not something one would expect from the pioneers and innovators of the cinematic storytelling genre who used to set the bar. It fails to live up to Bioware's previous releases, let alone surpass them.

    -Story is weak and generic, with badly spaced, disjointed narrative. Big chunks of the Mass effect lore has been conveniently swept under the rug, and retcons are everywhere.

    -Protagonist portrayal: they tried to borrow the 'personality' concept from Dragon Age 2 where your character could be diplomatic, aggressive or sarcastic. Only this time around the character can be 'casual', 'professional', 'logical' or 'emotional'. Big problem with that? They all amount to same thing, with a very slight variation. Your character won't tell anyone to 'shove off', even if the situation truly warrants it. He/She will put up with anyone's **** politely, no matter the personality path you choosing. There is no confrontational options, neither with npc, quest givers, nor with your companions.

    -Characters (usually the studio's strength) are bland and uninspired. That they unload their whole story upfront, instead of developing over time just highlights the problem. You don't get to learn anything nuanced about their character, there simply isn't anything they won't tell you the first couple times you talk to them.

    -Combat is horrible. They went from real time with pause and full squad control to controlling your own character only with super minimal ability load out (3 abilities at a time with convoluted profile switching is a crime). Your squad are just bots who tag along and do their own thing. You can't even make them switch a weapon.

    -Exploration: the vistas are the only positive thing about this game. The quest that tied to the exploration however can be summed up by scan, scan, scan some more and fetch ad naseum. Oh, and repeat exactly same thing on the next planet. If you thought Dragon Age inquisition had it bad with filler quests, prepare for something even worse.

    -Music score: minimalistic where present, absent in most of the scenes. A big let down compared to epic scores of their previous games.

    -Graphics: planetary visuals are the only good thing about it. Character detailing suffered a MAJOR step back from ME2 and ME3. There is one SINGLE asari head that's shared across the whole asari population, same with Salarians. Turians look like someone forgot to give them facial texture, nevermind the colony markings. I guess the Krogan look the least offensive out of the bunch, and that's not saying much. They looked better in ME2 and 3, just as did all other alien species. Humans took a beating too, btw. It's not just the aliens.

    Game Issues: Inability to save during priority missions. Horrendous animations. Gamebreaking bugs. Recycled alien life, bosses and puzzles from planet to planet. Characters referencing events that have not happened yet, often spoiling the story. Banter glitches where the whole party is silent for the duration of 2 planets and then exploding with banter only to go mute again the next planet around.

    I cannot recommend this game to anyone. This is the first bioware game I will not finish.    … Expand
  53. alex_baranowski
    Apr 25, 2017
    2
    Well - I used to love Mass Effect series. Even after horrible ending of Mass Effect 3. For me Mass Effect was about story. Story was deep, with hard moral choices, amazing dialogues (especially as Renegade :)), and creating future of universe. Now Mass Effect is about fighting - yes Andromeda has amazing fight system, better than average locations but nothing more. It's quite depressingWell - I used to love Mass Effect series. Even after horrible ending of Mass Effect 3. For me Mass Effect was about story. Story was deep, with hard moral choices, amazing dialogues (especially as Renegade :)), and creating future of universe. Now Mass Effect is about fighting - yes Andromeda has amazing fight system, better than average locations but nothing more. It's quite depressing because you won't find any memorable character. There are also terrible cringe worthy dialogues. Story is average. Voice acting is lacking emotions. There are bugs - like not moving enemies, fu**** up facial animations, loading textures etc. Great universe with wasted potential.… Expand
  54. Xotip
    Mar 28, 2017
    2
    An insult to the original series. It is just a cash grab. And why does this thing even have any positive reviews. I can understand why the "critics" are mostly positive ($$$$), but I don't get why the user reviews (the important ones) have ANY positive feedback.
  55. echoss
    Mar 28, 2017
    2
    I've been waiting for new Mass Effect game anxiously and I really wanted to like it, but...
    Instead of the great characters, conversations and voice acting of previous Mass Effect games, we get characters that are hollow and generally not likeable. Conversations range from tolerable to downright embarrasing. Voice acting is high school drama club level.
    I guess everything that needs to    I've been waiting for new Mass Effect game anxiously and I really wanted to like it, but...
    Instead of the great characters, conversations and voice acting of previous Mass Effect games, we get characters that are hollow and generally not likeable. Conversations range from tolerable to downright embarrasing. Voice acting is high school drama club level.

    I guess everything that needs to be said about animations has already been said. It's just sad.
    Faces are just plain ugly and human characters look like puppets from the Thunderbirds with their oversized heads.

    Side quests are repetative and get boring quite fast.

    On the positive side, planets look reasonably good and some even great. Exploring is fun.

    Pros:
    - graphics in planets
    - mako + exploring
    - combat
    - multiplayer

    Cons:
    - characters visually
    - animation
    - dialogue & voice acting
    - side quests

    I don't know what has happened to BioWare, but this game feels like the death of Mass Effect franchise.    … Expand
  56. Sirmorte
    Mar 30, 2017
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game really is a mixed bag. I am surprised that many reviewers left out some important info.

    First for the good: Yes, the game plays a lot like most mass effect games. Lots of fighting without it being too boring. There is a decent story line and lots and lots of quests. I also like the idea of being able to use any skill and not be locked into set classes.

    The bad :

    First, there is an increasing tend for publishers to put in hard puzzles. thus, if you can't solve the puzzle, you are shafted. I know that you all love to do hard SEDUKU puzzles, right? Wrong. These are boring, and should be completely eliminated from the game. Even worse, they make the game very challenging just to find the puzzles in order to attempt them. It's a really crazy system that should be junked.

    Secondly,The interface, especially the quest interface for quests is abysmal. Whoever designed the quest interface should have been fired. You will find quests under the quest section,which is expected and quests in various parts of the Codex among other areas. They really, really need to sort out the quests in a much easier manner, and have the current quest always showing what needs to be done. Why they didn't just put all quests in one area and sort them between main story quests, loyalty quests and additional quests,which could be further subdivided by area is baffling. Hopefully, some nice modder will fix this.

    Third: tracking. Mass effect 1 was great because it was simple to understand and use. Sadly, this isn't true of ME Andromeda. For example, in older mass effect game sand with other RPGs, you might see a tracking line to where you need to do. ME Andromeda got rid of this and put icon at the top to follow. Sadly, some of the icons are hard to distinguish from other quest icons and they don't show a path to the quest area. You have to find how to get there and go through a lot of frustration.

    Fourth: Yes, ME Andromeda got rid of the classes. You can now pick any skill. Sadly they limited the utilizable skills to only three at a time, which is much too little. Certainly, they should have had at least 5. Even Everquest, which had very limited skills available , had 8.

    Fifth: The inventory limit is MUCH too limited. I don't know what they were thinking,but allowing only 50 slots was crazy. They should have allowed much more even if we had to purchase it at a vendor.

    Sixth: Maps in the original Mass Effect trilogy were easy to follow. This isn't the case with ME andromeda. There are lots of obstacles blocking entry and egress , and it isn't clear how to get to a particular destination.

    Seventh: Driving the Nomad is very tough at least until you get a number of upgrades. Frankly, players made a mod in the original ME trilogy that allowed steering based on mouse direction. Why Zenimax didn't incorporate this is frankly bizarre.

    Eighth: Nothing is easy with this game or intuitive. For example, on EOS , we had to shut off a force field blocking entrance to a research area. After going around the area deactivating the shield generators, nothing happened. Doesn't "deactivated mean off? -- not in ME Andromeda. Players need to not only shut off the generators but destroy two of them. Frankly, this seems more like a bug than a strange puzzle.

    Ninth: Crafting: In the trilogy, you can easily add mods. Now , no mods area can be added to weapons or armor unless crafted. Why? Frankly, I would have liked mods to be added to everything. Crafting is also much more complicated than it need be.
    I think drafting should be a lot more simplified than it is.

    Tenth: Sadly, unlike the trilogy, I found myself not caring about the characters. There certainly wasn't enough character development in the story.

    What's even more shocking is that few people are talking about all this. Much of the reviews are focusing on the animation and modeling problems,which definitely need improvement. However, to me , the game play is much more important.

    Bottom line: Yes, this does play fairly well and does have some of the compelling aspects of the original trilogy. If only Bethesda Softworks had sought more player input. It is only a C+ game, which isn't horrible---- just not fantastic like the trilogy.    … Expand
  57. Pard0x606
    Mar 28, 2017
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I can't say enough to bring this game out of the sheer hole that it had dropped into. Think of yourself. You're on the precipice of a massive high point in an IP's lifespan and then you just jump. Folks weren't really happy with the ending of ME: 3 and the descent just continued from there. While this is Bioware Montreal's first endeavor, it was a flop. The animation is so poor that the first ME game looks better. The movements are jittery, the voice acting is lack-luster, and the only good feel you get out of this game is the combat and even that is lacking in many areas. Overall, while there is a long story line, it feels too basic, too blase.

    You go to this new exciting place ready to explore. What happens? Oh look a galactic threat. This isn't the "adventure" that was promised. This isn't the new and exciting narrative that should of been. This is just another cookie cutter RPG splattered with a recognizable label and filled with SJW non-sense to try and keep it "current".

    Yes the game has some high points. The environments look great, the lighting is pretty well done, and over-all the alien races remain true to their appearances.

    But I just can't get over some of the horrible design decisions. The romance options continue to be abyssmal for same sex audiences, and the new alien races introduced look like feet and feet with barnacles. The model designers for your character obviously had "diversity" in mind, but its just so difficult to make anything that somewhat looks like a human being capable of showing emotion. The basic Sara Ryder model looks like she has high spectrum autism. The male Ryder looks like some noir M'lady or some hipster you'd find in a coffee shop in east LA.

    Overall the design decisions were horrible. I can't possibly continue to berate how destroying this is for this franchise and honestly, I think Bioware and EA need to seriously consider their designers and team for well known IP's or they will continue to see a decline in their audience outside of the COD and sports crowd.    … Expand
  58. Zombie2k16
    Mar 29, 2017
    2
    I am a big fan of the Mass Effect Trilogy and waited a long time for this game. I thought they could make up for the horrible non-ending of me 3.

    Well, obviously they didn't even try. If you print Mass Effect on the cover, there needs to be Mass Effect in it. You know, focusing on story, characters and a consistent universe. Long story short, halfway through i lost interest (i    I am a big fan of the Mass Effect Trilogy and waited a long time for this game. I thought they could make up for the horrible non-ending of me 3.

    Well, obviously they didn't even try.

    If you print Mass Effect on the cover, there needs to be Mass Effect in it. You know, focusing on story, characters and a consistent universe. Long story short, halfway through i lost interest (i finished it, but in the fastest way possible). The writing was horrible. There is no other way to put it.
    They had the potential and the budget to do something really fantasy and they wasted it to do some useless open world stuff. 1 new civilization, who are clearly the good guys, one new civilization, who are clearly the bad guys, and a few robots, which serve as shooting target practice. There was no revelation, or surprise, no suspension, nothing that really pushed me forward. I never felt, like i needed to know how it all would end.
    Mass Effect never was about great combat or about exploration. It was about getting to know a fascinating universe (There is a difference there). Most of all it was about great storytelling glued together by good feeling combat. The combat in the trilogy felt good and was fun, because it was always grounded in a good context. Combat never was there, just to be there. And no amount of jumping around in combat can make up for lack of good writing. After the fifth Kett transport ship turned up, it turned from playing into boring grinding. (And why the **** can the player now become a flying ball of energy)
    The combat in andromeda is fun, but combat alone is no motivation for 50-100h of gaming.

    Characters are mostly forgettable. Most of them tell and no one shows, another sign of bad writing. And the worst part is the main character. Every time he/she says anything else than the "professional" answer i want to facepalm. Its so embarrassing and anti-charming. He/she cant even remotely stand up against Shepard. Besides, there is no choice left. Regardless what type of tone you pick, its always the same meaning.

    To conclude this: In my opinion this games problem is, that it has way too much „teens in space“ injected into it. Just like the new star trek remake movies. They are fun to watch, but they throw everything exciting about the universe out of the window. Its all just fighting and stupid characters. And as soon as the credits roll, you have already forgotten the movie again. That is Andromeda.    … Expand
  59. TheOneWolf
    Mar 31, 2017
    2
    Sigh.

    Cons: Over hyped, story seemed rather short,bad decision to change character's faces, facial animation bugs, more bugs, lack luster dialog, characters are barely interesting, multiplayer sucks, micro transactions, **** ending and final boss fight(where's the epic-ness?), most romantic scenes suck even for a soft core porn attempt, you can't "really" romance everyone, no Turian    Sigh.

    Cons:
    Over hyped, story seemed rather short,bad decision to change character's faces, facial animation bugs, more bugs, lack luster dialog, characters are barely interesting, multiplayer sucks, micro transactions, **** ending and final boss fight(where's the epic-ness?), most romantic scenes suck even for a soft core porn attempt, you can't "really" romance everyone, no Turian romance scene(just a hot meal), Crafting system kinda blows, No real "assault rifles"( its either 1 shot, 2 or 3 round burst, the only full automatics have piss pure damage and HUGE spread: Milky way and Kett). Restricted worlds (world boundaries),and very few you can actually walk around on.

    The ultra rare weapon/armor mods are not even worth the time and effort as they honestly suck as well which doesn't make them ultra rare, but rather ultra crippling. Kett weapons all look like sex toys and armor make you look like a big bug, skills that are actually useful and neat are only a handfull(mainly bionics and even then only like 4), combat skill tree is bare to the bone in any sort of actual abilities to use and if you want to have any sort of decent performing weapons you have to spend far to many points into this tree. Grenade, shield and concussion shot are your only options there. Tech tree is pretty much in the same boat too.

    Pros: Combat is far more enjoyable and the worlds are at least pretty along with the visual effects. Cora's TnA.

    In short, wait till this comes down to like 20$ then MAYBE it'll be worth the buy, maybe sooner if modders can fix what they broke or wont, minus animations and the dialog writing. Glad I only spent 5$ on this in which EA and Bioware will not see. Either be a true Triple A studio and Publisher or don't sell your products for anything over 30$. I've seen indie studios do better and that's sad.    … Expand
  60. Amoren
    Apr 2, 2017
    2
    A complete disappointment on every level. The only aspect of the game that's remotely descent is combat. But its a bugged experience, with every minute finding a new way to betray the setting's established lore. Combat quickly becomes easy and generic with few enemies that all use the same tactics and an AI that is so bad that it'll not properly use cover and focus on enemies on the otherA complete disappointment on every level. The only aspect of the game that's remotely descent is combat. But its a bugged experience, with every minute finding a new way to betray the setting's established lore. Combat quickly becomes easy and generic with few enemies that all use the same tactics and an AI that is so bad that it'll not properly use cover and focus on enemies on the other side of the room over you being right next to them. What there is of a story is paper thin and still feels stretched over a short game, the side content feels more tedious than interesting or engaging, and nothing you do feels like it has an impact on the world. Made all the worse that the ending doesn't care what actions you've taken, and in fact makes all the efforts of the character up to that point pointless.

    If anything, the story and execution of this game probably proves you should take professional writers that will research and write for a game/universe that they're not interested in, than a bunch of fans that are more suited to writing fan fiction for live journal and don't bother to make sure what they're writing works with the feel of the world and what's established. I could easily write several pages of every contradiction and pot hole introduced.    … Expand
  61. George0101
    Apr 6, 2017
    2
    Mass Effect Andromeda is a very disappointing addition to the Mass Effect series,

    I see a lot of folks dismissing the negative reviews as from "haters" or that its just people uptight about the freaky animations but this game's problems go way deeper. I for one am willing to overlook animation issues, I wish it was just that. I think if you like shooters and can stomach bad story,    Mass Effect Andromeda is a very disappointing addition to the Mass Effect series,

    I see a lot of folks dismissing the negative reviews as from "haters" or that its just people uptight about the freaky animations but this game's problems go way deeper. I for one am willing to overlook animation issues, I wish it was just that.

    I think if you like shooters and can stomach bad story, bad dialog and voice acting, and ugly characters, you will be ok with this game. If you get this game expecting to be taken back to the space fantasy world of Mass Effect for another thrilling adventure, you're in for a grave disappointment.

    I was and am ready to let go of the Milky Way, Shephard, and all that. I appreciate good combat and free exploration but to me those are smaller concerns in an RPG. I am not willing to let go of mature dialog, great voice acting, interesting characters to build relationships with, a compelling story I can't put down, fun side quests that contribute to the story, and, quite frankly, pretty people to look at in the game.

    Mass Effect Andromeda throws all that away. In it's place are childish and ugly characters, silly meaningless filler dialog, poor voice acting, tedious and repetitive quests, anti-climatic quest resolutions many of which end in idiotic alien Sudoku puzzles, and forced repeated animations (you'll get really tired of seeing your ship take-off and land from the Nexus, I was within the first day of playing!). Sorry but Sudoku puzzles are a symptom of laziness of the development effort, instead of creatively coming up with a suspenseful and interesting quest ending, maybe with a plot twist, you stick an el cheapo puzzle there.

    Nothing about this game is memorable. The quests just don't seem to matter, the squadmates are bland and lifeless - I wouldn't care if they all died, if fact I prefer it because maybe I could then get a squad of interesting people.

    Like many other aspects of this game, quests are tedious and unrewarding, boxes to check off. Most quests are everyone's busy work they can't be bothered to do, go here, scan this, fetch that. All very anti-climatic with little to no bearing on the central story.

    Like in DA I, BioWare makes it a top priority to shoe-horn political correctness issues into the game, PC lesson number one is some perverted Harrison Burgeron fantasy that everyone in the universe is exactly equally beautiful "in their own way" and to prove it they made all the characters except 1 or 2 ugly, especially the females. That intentional marring of the game visuals will apparently teach us all a valuable lesson in accepting others as desexualized androngenous beings.

    I very much applaud the fact they make these games appeal to both genders and LBGT, it's wonderful everyone can find something they like in these games. But what we don't need are 20th/21st century earth social issues shoe-horned into a futuristic space fantasy, that's called immersion breaking. We play these games because we're trying to temporarily escape this world, not be reminded of it.

    Character creation is easily the worst of any RPG ever. It's "choose one of these 8 hideously ugly heads" and then you can make only slight changes unless you want to add bizarre facial tatooing, geisha-white full face paint, and purple/pink/cyan/cherry red cotton candy clown hair (yes those are all choices!). You can choose you to be ugly or a clown or both. It boggles the mind what they were thinking with the CC.

    Some of the combat has been nicely streamlined and you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't love the new jump jets. There's more skills and more flexibility. however one key very unique thing, the ability to control squadmates and powers was removed from the game, a critical mistake and I can't imagine why they did this! I have literally played SP ME3 and ME3 a hundred times plus out of enjoyment of this combat system. You can't even equip your squadmates who are reduced to bots who follow you around and then do stupid things in combat you can't control.

    They needed to put more immediacy into this game, perhaps made the quest line a race against the clock to save the Nexus from being shutdown/destroyed before everyone woke up, etc... and then focused the planet explorations in a series of DLC or next project. I don't know, it just never seemed that important to get anything done.

    The game plays very similar to DA I where you encounter fiends all over the world who constantly respawn like in a shooter. This was fun at first but since all the enemies are largely the same, it grows to tedium quick. It also creates the feeling that it just doesn't matter.

    This game is a terrible disappointment, many of my 80+ hours into it were forced and like DA I, I don't see going back to this game unless some modders change it substantially.    … Expand
  62. fatshinobi
    Apr 4, 2017
    2
    People giving this game a 10 are shills, I can see this game's redeeming qualities but in no way is it a perfect game. The bugs and animations aren't just bad they're terrible. Remember this game took FIVE YEARS to make and they came out with this **** Dragon age: Inquisition is the same engine, 3 years older and its animations and combat are WAY better than this pile of **** This studio,People giving this game a 10 are shills, I can see this game's redeeming qualities but in no way is it a perfect game. The bugs and animations aren't just bad they're terrible. Remember this game took FIVE YEARS to make and they came out with this **** Dragon age: Inquisition is the same engine, 3 years older and its animations and combat are WAY better than this pile of **** This studio, Bioware Montreal, needs to be shuttered. Its obviously they barely worked on the game and jerked around til the last minute. Now, they are trying to save their asses by making some fixes after the fact. They're completely inept. They were told months in advance that the animations were **** What did they do? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. With that being said, the only redeeming thing about this game is the combat. The combat is a vast improvement in the franchise but without the storytelling to go with it, it is not Mass Effect.… Expand
  63. les01
    Apr 19, 2017
    2
    Goodbye BioWare. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice ...

    I will never again pre-order, nor even buy a BW game until its been well reviewed (by users, not bogus "professional critics"). Do not be fooled by the 8-10 ratings, EA/BW employees are on here creating fake reviews to try to put lipstick on this boring boring pig. There's no way anyone who played and loved prior ME titles    Goodbye BioWare. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice ...

    I will never again pre-order, nor even buy a BW game until its been well reviewed (by users, not bogus "professional critics"). Do not be fooled by the 8-10 ratings, EA/BW employees are on here creating fake reviews to try to put lipstick on this boring boring pig. There's no way anyone who played and loved prior ME titles could accept this horrible addition.

    I have been a BioWare fan for the longest time, from KOTOR, to Dragon Age and especially the Mass Effect series which I've literally logged thousands of hours on. I would count down the days to their next release. I'm one of the few that loved ME3, I didn't have a problem with an ending with the death of the player or even crew, everything has to end sometime and I was ready for a new setting.

    DA I was the first long anticipated release for me of a game I never did a second playthrough despite many play throughs in prior titles of the series. I hoped the ME series would be spared this, but apparently not.

    There is so much that is wrong with this game!

    I've come to expect great story telling from a BioWare title and this fails at that with an awful and boring story that only starts to get mildly interesting towards the end.

    BioWare chose high volume, low value corporate form fitted checklist content over substance and art. The game is replete with boring, excessive, pointless dialog, delivered emotionless and without the gravitas of the prior titles. You can easily see this YouTubing some dialog from ME1-3 and compare to some dialog in ME A. The dialog drones on in monotone from emotionless faces (even with the latest patch), making you want to skip it all.

    The checklist style seems to have bled into the quests, which like DAI are MMO style low value boring fetch quests that have little to no impact on the core story. In ME1-3, the side quests for the most part had everything to do with the core story!

    There's even checklists for political correctness issues which are awkwardly forced into the game seemingly for no other purpose than for people to see that BioWare is a very progressive organization. They don't contribute to the story, only distract from it.

    The squadmates are bland and completely forgettable. The new alien species and planets are cliche - desert world, ice world, oversized mushroom world, ....

    Instead of quests ending with plot twists, like Cerberus spoiling your plans and setting up for a Reaper takeover of Thessia, we get anti-climatic alien Sudoku puzzles! How do these even fit into an RPG? That is nothing but laziness!

    Oh, and because BioWare apparently views women as some sort of inferior gender that will suffer psychologically by seeing attractive models in a game, they made all character models butt ugly. I mean really ugly, especially compared to prior releases (they did the same in DA I). Not only that, clearly they wanted to prevent us from making an attractive player in the character creation by allowing a choice of 8 hideous heads and minimal ability to modify them. The CC has been gimped, you can make a clown but you can't make a character that looks like you or is attractive.

    While I like the enhanced mobility of the jump jets and the flexibility on the skills, taking out the pause (situational awareness), ability to load out teammates, and the ridiculous 3 power limit dumbs down the action to a basic shooter. I think that is the point. BioWare wants to move this to multiplayer and microtransactions so they wanted SP to be exactly like MP play.

    This game is a boring waste of time. Do not buy unless you like a space shooter and don't care about terrible story, voice acting, dialog, etc... BioWare is just a shell company now, banking on nostalgia to carry them through the next few limp-wristed deliveries.    … Expand
  64. bsevenk
    Apr 19, 2017
    2
    imagine a game with pretty character, exciting space exploration, intense battle with alien monster and a story that makes you drown in emotions .... ya this game has none of those.
  65. iznano
    Apr 20, 2017
    2
    Здравствуйте дорогие игроки. Я играл во все предыдущие части ME. Однако андромеда это плохая игра. Про анимацию и диалоги сказано много. Хочется отметить плохую боевку. ИИ напарников очень плох, бросают гранаты в стены, не атакуют противника - не выполняют команды. Развитие планет должно было быть как в классических песочницах, сначала орбитальный модуль, потом космопорт, потом строения,Здравствуйте дорогие игроки. Я играл во все предыдущие части ME. Однако андромеда это плохая игра. Про анимацию и диалоги сказано много. Хочется отметить плохую боевку. ИИ напарников очень плох, бросают гранаты в стены, не атакуют противника - не выполняют команды. Развитие планет должно было быть как в классических песочницах, сначала орбитальный модуль, потом космопорт, потом строения, все это улучшать, добывать ресы и т.п. Однако этого нет. Есть маяк - черный экран (даже эпичной заставки под 2 spers from helll нету, сэкономили) - готовая колония на 10 домов. И все. Особенно бредово выглядит внутреннее убранство корабля которое больше чем корпус. Вообщем игру оцениваю на 3 из 10. Какая-то плохая смесь borderlands и трешачкового космосима.… Expand
  66. AberrantResolve
    Apr 21, 2017
    2
    The Mass Effect Trilogy is my favorite game series of all time, and this latest installment fails to measure up. I've been patiently waiting for nearly five years for it and it is a huge disappointment. Forget about the facial expressions, animations, menus, bugs, etc. I could live with those or wait for them to be patched. What they can't fix is the story and writing. It just isn'tThe Mass Effect Trilogy is my favorite game series of all time, and this latest installment fails to measure up. I've been patiently waiting for nearly five years for it and it is a huge disappointment. Forget about the facial expressions, animations, menus, bugs, etc. I could live with those or wait for them to be patched. What they can't fix is the story and writing. It just isn't engaging like the previous titles. Having spent about 40 hours grinding through this game the first few weeks, I have no desire to even finish it.… Expand
  67. Leijonamieli
    May 22, 2017
    2
    I am just so incredibly pissed off how this release was treated and the lack of updates for 2 months for legion of gamebreaking bugs that prevented people to play the story, do loyalty missions, colonize planets, or play multiplayer properly not to mention all the broken stuff with sidequests and game and gun balancing that sucked the fun out of game. This was last mass effect game for me.
  68. ar1urius
    Dec 10, 2017
    2
    First Dragon Age Inquisition and now this. Bioware is dead. Probably they will close the studio in a couple of years (as is the custom with EA as soon as they canibalise the companies they had bought.)
    ME1, 2, 3 was magnificent. DA Originis was outstanding DA2 was a mistake but DA Inquisition and ME Andromeda are just painful to play hwen you see how gamemaking is going downhill.
    Going    First Dragon Age Inquisition and now this. Bioware is dead. Probably they will close the studio in a couple of years (as is the custom with EA as soon as they canibalise the companies they had bought.)
    ME1, 2, 3 was magnificent. DA Originis was outstanding DA2 was a mistake but DA Inquisition and ME Andromeda are just painful to play hwen you see how gamemaking is going downhill.
    Going back to Andromeda - I'm 75 hours in and completed about 35 % of the game. Most of that time is a painfull, unfulfiling grind and fetch quests. Now I feel like I just run a marathon and simply cant make myself finish this game.
    I wont buy an EA game ever again and the new Anthem game coming from Bioware will be its last - mark my words.    … Expand
  69. 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
  70. 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
  71. Babylon6
    Feb 25, 2019
    2
    Mass Effect Andromeda is what happens when you replace most of your Dev-team with low skill crazed faminists who want to promote their political agenda over writing a good story and good characters. They completely destroyed this franchise in one go. Such a shame, I really love ME1-3
  72. Sajgoniarz
    Dec 14, 2019
    2
    Till the end of one hour long prologue i counted around 20 unthinkable managment/surival/military/science errors, which would lead to complete catastrophe of such mission in reality. What makes me fun i forgot all those errors after uninstallation, because my brain rejected to remember them... This game was literally pushing me out of it with every NPC sentence. For such production thereTill the end of one hour long prologue i counted around 20 unthinkable managment/surival/military/science errors, which would lead to complete catastrophe of such mission in reality. What makes me fun i forgot all those errors after uninstallation, because my brain rejected to remember them... This game was literally pushing me out of it with every NPC sentence. For such production there should be some tag/genre called CrAAAp. I feel pity for all who bought it and all programmer, designers and modelers.… Expand
  73. b4ll3r11968
    Jul 7, 2020
    2
    I finished the game but it wasn't enjoyable.
    I appreciate the effort of game developers to improve the game with updates.
    Pros: - combat is fun - graphics is pretty nice - bugs were fun Cons: - forgettable squad-mates - world is empty - story is simple and unattractive This game shouldn't bear name "Mass Effect". Only thing I care about in Mass Effect is story. Bioware    I finished the game but it wasn't enjoyable.
    I appreciate the effort of game developers to improve the game with updates.

    Pros:
    - combat is fun
    - graphics is pretty nice
    - bugs were fun

    Cons:
    - forgettable squad-mates
    - world is empty
    - story is simple and unattractive

    This game shouldn't bear name "Mass Effect". Only thing I care about in Mass Effect is story. Bioware somehow managed to ruin the story even with the budget they had. They should have used the money to hire better screenwriter instead of using it all on ads.    … Expand
  74. delaware80
    Mar 11, 2021
    2
    When I think of the game ME Andromeda it is a never ever blockbuster.
    When thinking of discovering the outer world I think of action, thrilling moments an cinematic feelling.
    Instead you feel like in a big library with boring books: you can drive on planets - but no action, talk to a lot of people - but no feelings and so on. Better make a remake by cutting 80% of garbage content and    When I think of the game ME Andromeda it is a never ever blockbuster.
    When thinking of discovering the outer world I think of action, thrilling moments an cinematic feelling.
    Instead you feel like in a big library with boring books: you can drive on planets - but no action, talk to a lot of people - but no feelings and so on.
    Better make a remake by cutting 80% of garbage content and produce a game where you feel like in a linear FF. :-)    … Expand
  75. Bushido95
    Sep 27, 2021
    2
    Если даже рассматривать Андромеду отдельно от самой серии Mass Effect это очень плохая игра. Она будто специально сделана так чтоб тебе было не интересно с первой же секунды и для этого действительно нужен талант.
  76. Cossack1980
    Mar 5, 2023
    2
    The game from Kanadians encouraging war in Ukraine. Everything you need to know about it. Buying the game - you support the killing of Ukrainians.
  77. Vulf
    Mar 26, 2017
    1
    Bioware games until now have always made me care about my companions. And this game breaks it. Taking away the option to control their powers in combat is a stupid decision. WTF bioware. Why are they even in my squad when I cant even control them? All I can ask them to do is - go here, go there. The joy of working together with your companions to bring down an enemy was awesome in theBioware games until now have always made me care about my companions. And this game breaks it. Taking away the option to control their powers in combat is a stupid decision. WTF bioware. Why are they even in my squad when I cant even control them? All I can ask them to do is - go here, go there. The joy of working together with your companions to bring down an enemy was awesome in the trilogy. This game offers none of it. Wish I never pre-ordered it.… Expand
  78. MaxOverload
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    It's really just Mass Effect: Badly. Badly written, badly animated, badly rendered. There is no patching their way out of this. There's no talent left at Bioware capable of doing better than this. Time to let the franchise and the studio die while they can still be remembered fondly.
  79. 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!
  80. Fuzi0n
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Worst. Bioware. Game. Ever. Avoid!

    Awful animations. Terrible writing. Lame story. Boring combat. Flimsy world design. Bland exploration. Laughable character design. Subnormal AI. Appalling directing. Lousy voice acting. Insufficient RPG mechanics... the list is long. Pack all of this terrible game design into an awkward alien sexual fantasy soft porno and you have Mass Effect 4...    Worst. Bioware. Game. Ever. Avoid!

    Awful animations. Terrible writing. Lame story. Boring combat. Flimsy world design. Bland exploration. Laughable character design. Subnormal AI. Appalling directing. Lousy voice acting. Insufficient RPG mechanics... the list is long. Pack all of this terrible game design into an awkward alien sexual fantasy soft porno and you have Mass Effect 4...

    Mass Effect 2, Baldur's Gate 2 and Dragon Age: Origins are three of my favorite games of all time, it is so sad to see how far the once legendary Bioware studio has fallen from greatness. RIP Bioware.    … Expand
  81. a20012322
    May 26, 2017
    1
    Plot goes nowhere and EA has put the series on hiatus so don't expect and sequels any time soon. Given that they are much more likely to just reboot it again this entry is basically a soft-reboot that never happened. Probably for the best given the writing is horrible.
  82. E71
    Jul 4, 2020
    1
    BUGGY, ABANDONED AND BORING.

    ***PROs*** + Nice graphics. + Exploring is kinda fun especially in new, faster Mako-like vehicle. + (Some) nice voice acting (namely all the Ryders, Cora, etc). + Nice music (especially main theme). + Intriguing mysterious connection to original trilogy story arc. + Decent gunfight engine. + Autosave tends to do a somewhat decent job (strictly in    BUGGY, ABANDONED AND BORING.

    ***PROs***

    + Nice graphics.
    + Exploring is kinda fun especially in new, faster Mako-like vehicle.
    + (Some) nice voice acting (namely all the Ryders, Cora, etc).
    + Nice music (especially main theme).
    + Intriguing mysterious connection to original trilogy story arc.
    + Decent gunfight engine.
    + Autosave tends to do a somewhat decent job (strictly in that it saves regularly).
    + Some surprise treats for fans of the original series.
    + Ability to switch activate powers on the fly.
    + Independent power cooldowns.
    + Full keyboard customization (yeah, I know, it's 2017 and there *are* games out there that reserve certain keys that end up screwing you over).
    + Native controller support (tested with XBOX ONE wireless controller).

    ***CONs***

    - DENUVO! Yuck!
    - Half the people are British accented... It's like Harry f'ing Potter in space.
    - A lot of British English words and phrases (like they wanted to rub it in that they went all British).
    - Dull antagonist factions.
    - Dull non-Milky-way ally faction.
    - Dull filler tasks/missions make up the majority of the game (often needing you to constantly go back and forth across the galaxy).
    - Unskippable cutscenes when landing on planets (normally not an issue but given the back and forth nature of the side missions, it's excruciating).
    - Buggy AF (getting stuck, autosave issues, random dialog spurting, invisible objects/people, mission bugs, etc).
    - No QuickSave/QuickLoad!
    - Can't control squad-mate powers in battle.
    - Can't customize squad-mate loadout.
    - Mission/assignment journal is a disorganized mess.
    - Too many random location tasks which require a ridiculous amount of wandering around to finish.
    - Too few biotic primer powers (several key signature powers from original trilogy are gone).
    - Everything is f'ing "balanced" (serious impedance to leveling up player/weapons/powers/etc).
    - No renegade/paragon (often wanna sound tough but lack of dialog choice makes you sound like a complete wimp). Some dialog choice "labels" are misleading and makes things even worse.
    - I have no problem with gay love interests existing in this game but every other dialog option with certain male characters had the "heart" (romance) icon next to it and this made me feel quite uncomfortable and always suspicious if I'm leading down some homosexual path with some of the characters, especially with some who you meet that are either, um, somewhat "emotional" or just plain give off a gay vibe.
    - Bioware won't be releasing any DLCs or even bug-fixing patches for this game! Completely abandoned.
    - Unsatisfying final boss fight, though the lead up to it is great.
    - My favorite pistol is missing (Arc Pistol)... okay, I understand it's not fair to include this in the list but I needed to get it off my chest!

    I'd give the game a 7/10, possibly higher if they had released good DLCs for it, but those first three points on the cons list really p*** me off, so it gets a 1/10.    … Expand
  83. clarky
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Bioware does an amazing job at making a lifeless game with depth and visuals straight out of 2003 Unsurprisingly pushed into hands of the feeble minded masses by boss EA. My time with Bioware has now ended.
  84. tirith2708
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Complete Mess.
    This "game" is rushed cash-grab made by completely different people than ME trilogy. Aside from obvious technical flaws and bugs it also panders to SJW community which already ruined enough things in this world.
  85. Aeon_Amadi
    Apr 2, 2017
    1
    TL;DR - There's a lot wrong with it, but all you need to know from me is this: FPS drops like crazy, hard-freezing galore, rubber-banding in multiplayer, etc. Game will lock down your entire PC and EA Support will just tell you to turn off Origin Overlay over and over again instead of actually helping you. Only game I have in my library (out of over $2,500 worth of games on Steam/Origin)TL;DR - There's a lot wrong with it, but all you need to know from me is this: FPS drops like crazy, hard-freezing galore, rubber-banding in multiplayer, etc. Game will lock down your entire PC and EA Support will just tell you to turn off Origin Overlay over and over again instead of actually helping you. Only game I have in my library (out of over $2,500 worth of games on Steam/Origin) that does this. I'd play the story mode if it was worth a **** but this un-optimized trash might melt my rig.… Expand
  86. Kordun
    Mar 27, 2017
    1
    A disaster!!!! EA shows us how good they are in one thing. To put a top company like BIOWARE in the dirt and make an epic game finally broken. As soon as EA has the finger in a company everything ends in a disaster!

    In my opinion, the whole feminist influence our generation and the gender delusion has helped to make all women look so cruel in this game. Certainly not the main reason but    A disaster!!!! EA shows us how good they are in one thing. To put a top company like BIOWARE in the dirt and make an epic game finally broken. As soon as EA has the finger in a company everything ends in a disaster!

    In my opinion, the whole feminist influence our generation and the gender delusion has helped to make all women look so cruel in this game. Certainly not the main reason but nevertheless not to neglect.    … Expand
  87. Steyraus
    Feb 18, 2021
    1
    What an embaresment, bad story, ugly unlikable characters. Boring generic gameplay.. All the good Bioware game have characters that make the player feel for them. Sometimes you hate a bad guy , sonetimes you love a compainion. The characters in Andromeda were so dull and safe all you got from them was to not want to be anyware near them.
  88. BRubble
    Mar 23, 2017
    1
    5 YEARS? It took 5YEARS to throw this POS together?! Really? ....really? 5 years.
    This is what happens when you farm out to sweat shop teams. This is what happens when Bioware hires based on ethnicity (so they can pat themselves on the back for their diversity) instead of actual talent. This is what happens when your focus is more on the trans/lgbt/alien sex than the important aspects of    5 YEARS? It took 5YEARS to throw this POS together?! Really? ....really? 5 years.
    This is what happens when you farm out to sweat shop teams. This is what happens when Bioware hires based on ethnicity (so they can pat themselves on the back for their diversity) instead of actual talent. This is what happens when your focus is more on the trans/lgbt/alien sex than the important aspects of the game. This is what happens when you give the writing to some college undergrads. This is what happens when EA gets their little rat claws too deeply involved. I could go on and on but you get the point, Its garbage. THIS is what happens.    … Expand
  89. rBose
    Mar 22, 2017
    1
    Pure cancer and pure propaganda, ignore like the plague.

    It's like the worst possible thing you can play, don't pay more than 1$ for this pile of trash
  90. sniperfoxdls
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    If you were looking for an overhyped flop, you came to the right place. Not quite on the same level as No Mans Sky, but still and avoid-at-all-costs game, at least for right now. Horrible writing and animations and bugs upon bugs upon bugs ruin what could have been a good game. Another Bioware miss.
  91. mevsthevoices
    Apr 12, 2017
    1
    As a game, it sucks. It's painful to see so much work to go in to something so bad. Shoot. Wait for shields, pop out and shoot again. Easily one of the most boring and uninspired things I've ever played.
  92. Srfrogg23
    Mar 26, 2017
    1
    I don't recommend this for PC. My PC uses an i5-4690 cpu and a GTX 970 with 8GB of RAM and 4GB of VRAM. This is the first game I have ever bought that I could not play on my PC using settings that at least rivaled the PS4 in quality. This game had my CPU load at 100% and such low FPS that I couldn't even play it. That is neither normal nor acceptable. I'd strongly suggest getting theI don't recommend this for PC. My PC uses an i5-4690 cpu and a GTX 970 with 8GB of RAM and 4GB of VRAM. This is the first game I have ever bought that I could not play on my PC using settings that at least rivaled the PS4 in quality. This game had my CPU load at 100% and such low FPS that I couldn't even play it. That is neither normal nor acceptable. I'd strongly suggest getting the PS4 or XB1 version over the PC version.… Expand
  93. DaedricLord
    Apr 25, 2017
    1
    I am an absolutely HUGE fan of the original trilogy (minus the ME3 endings), but I still gave this game a chance despite all the bad reviews, yes I was that desperate for new Mass Effect content, however I quickly found out the bad reviews are mostly correct. This game was not made by the original team and it shows EVERYWHERE.

    The Bad: -SJW propaganda and militant feminism all over    I am an absolutely HUGE fan of the original trilogy (minus the ME3 endings), but I still gave this game a chance despite all the bad reviews, yes I was that desperate for new Mass Effect content, however I quickly found out the bad reviews are mostly correct. This game was not made by the original team and it shows EVERYWHERE.

    The Bad:

    -SJW propaganda and militant feminism all over the place. It is a fantasy world, keep your personal world views personal and away from games, I have no problems with non white people and homosexual people in games, but propaganda in this game went way too far, especially militant feminism that is ALL over the game, nearly every major/important/powerful character is female, game also has racist overtones as white people tend to have white names, white faces and dark skin. Imagine the outrage if someone made NPCs with black names, black faces but white skin.

    -Shoestring budget level voice acting, FAR worse than original trilogy that excelled in voice acting.

    -Atrociously ugly potato heads, hairstyles and animations, even worse than Dragon Age Inquisition.

    -Childish dialogue and poor attempts at humor.

    -Uninteresting characters and squadmates with no soul, I couldnt care less if they all died.

    -Weak main story full of cliches and recycled elements from the original trilogy.

    -Main antagonist looks like a monkey and is not threatening at all, he looks pathetic.

    -Bad alien design, out of so few new alien races none of them are well designed, Angara especially look like slightly modified Twilek clones.

    -Unnecessarily complicated crafting which doesnt really influence the game that much anyway, I didnt bother to craft nearly anything and yet had no problems finishing the game.

    -Too many grinding quests similar to those in Dragon Age Inquisition, slightly better written though, but only slightly. Thank God they are not mandatory like in DAI where you couldnt progress further without Power Points.

    -Combat is worse than in ME2 and ME3, not terrible, but definitely worse, cover doesnt work as well as in previous games, you are limited to three powers in combat, there is no power wheel so you have to use 1/2/3 keys, combat has obviously been dumbed down and catered to console players, lack of power wheel and limit to only three powers proves it, now it is more like a classic shooter than an action RPG like in the original trilogy where I could build power oriented characters and barely fire any weapon once, in Mass Effect Andromeda that is no longer possible.

    -Buggy and with performance drops in cutscenes that often stutter even though the game itself has mostly stable framerate.

    -Terrible music that is nowhere near the soundtrack masterpieces of the original trilogy. Music was always a big boost to Mass Effect atmosphere, but that is completely absent in Mass Effect Andromeda because music is terrible, it is so bad you dont even notice it is there.

    -You cant play Ryder as a Renegade and there arent even Renegade dialogue choices, game forces you to play as Paragon, all your dialogue options are basically various shades of Paragon answers.

    -Your choices matter very little in the end, again same as in Dragon Age Inquisition, no wonder some people call this game Inquisition in space.

    The good:

    -Some environments look nice like the Nexus, Tempest and some planets.

    -Some quests are somewhat decent, not too many though.

    -SAM is a clever way of making certain things in the game happen while being somewhat consistent with the lore.

    Overall it is a game that is Mass Effect in title only, it has none of the quality and spirit of the original trilogy, lacks atmosphere, depth, writing and a whole lot of other things. It is also created in a way that they will certainly attempt to milk the franchise further because the story leaves way too many loose ends so I am expecting Mass Effect Andromeda to continue, unless sales flunk and EA decides to end the franchise. It is an empty shell of what Mass Effect once was, a brilliant masterpiece of scifi and RPG in general, but EA managed to ruin even that with ME3 endings, some elements of ME3 and its endings and especially Dragon Age Inquisition showed the steep decline in quality of Bioware games and now with original team mostly leaving there is no more Bioware at all, only name survives, nothing else.

    If you are that desperate to play this game wait until there is a ultimate edition for 10-20 euros, I wasted 60 euros on this crap because I was too needy for new Mass Effect content, dont waste money like I did, wait until all DLCs come out and there is cheap ultimate edition available, then buy it if you want to play. Mass Effect is dead and Bioware with it, DA2 and ME3 were the first signs of a continuous decline and Inquisition and Andromeda are merely the last nails in their coffin.    … Expand
  94. 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.
  95. Hawk235
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Никакой сюжет и персонажи.Зато завезли графон и боевку.Не стоит тратить время на эту игру.Боевка и гарфон много где лучше,а вот все остальное,что было в серии здесь похерели.Ах,да!Вернулся крафт и его очень много даже.Если нравилось извращенские поездки в масс эффект 1,то может андромеда и понравится.Никакой сюжет и персонажи.Зато завезли графон и боевку.Не стоит тратить время на эту игру.Боевка и гарфон много где лучше,а вот все остальное,что было в серии здесь похерели.Ах,да!Вернулся крафт и его очень много даже.Если нравилось извращенские поездки в масс эффект 1,то может андромеда и понравится.
  96. GiantMoth
    Mar 23, 2017
    1
    I'll be perfectly honest: I wanted to like this game. I really, really wanted to like this game. I bought a new computer with a GTX1060 so that I'd be able to run it properly. I signed up for EA/Origin's Early Access trial so that I could play it sooner. I even ignored all of those people who were poking fun at the game's (admittedly terrible) animations.

    ...But it's impossible to    I'll be perfectly honest: I wanted to like this game. I really, really wanted to like this game. I bought a new computer with a GTX1060 so that I'd be able to run it properly. I signed up for EA/Origin's Early Access trial so that I could play it sooner. I even ignored all of those people who were poking fun at the game's (admittedly terrible) animations.

    ...But it's impossible to like.

    ME:A is nothing like previous Mass Effect games. In fact, it's pretty much their opposite.

    - Mass Effect was story-driven, whereas the story in ME:A feels like an afterthought

    - Mass Effect had gravitas, genuine humor, and meaningful choices. ME:A is just childish and silly, its attempts at humor fall flat in cringeworthy fashion, and none of your character's choices feel meaningful. Oh, and forget about the Paragon/Renegade spectrum -- it's paragon-only.

    - Mass Effect had well-defined, interesting, and meaningful quests. ME:A wants you to run around ridiculous open worlds on fetch quests, and quests like "scan 16 rocks." ME:A also forces you to play an awful lot of sudoku, which is totally infuriating. (Between the sudoku and the fetch quests, I had had enough, and returned the game for a refund.)

    - Mass Effect set a very high bar with its NPCs, who grew and evolved along with Cmdr Shepard. (Especially Garrus and Tali.) ME:A's NPCs are uniformly terrible. Especially bad are Peebee, who is basically an ugly and annoying version of Liara, and Cora, a human who LARPs as an Asari commando.

    Now, as for combat, people say that the combat in ME:A is fine. I'm not sure I agree. I think that playing as a sniper is more rewarding and more interesting in ME:3. In ME2 and ME3, engagment distances were kept short due to the way the game was designed, but it was still possible to find a nice little nest and pick enemies off at a distance. In this game, due to the "open world", you can spot enemies from hundreds of meters away... but it's almost completely impossible to HIT anything past 120 meters in this game with the Black Widow sniper rifle, which is incredibly frustrating. (This is funny, as WWI infantrymen were effective at up to 1200 meters with their old 30'06 rifles, and engagements at 500m were, and remain, downright common. For more info see the US Military monograph: "Increasing Small Arms Lethality in Afghanistan: Taking Back the Infantry Half-Kilometer.") Also, the fact that you're limited to three skills, and can't control party members, really limits your options.

    And there's no cannon or machine gun on the Mako/Nomad. This is also frustrating. A very questionable design choice.

    If you like grinding MMOs, you might like this. If you like the Mass Effect of old, stay far away. This isn't really a Mass Effect game.    … Expand
  97. gameren82
    Apr 1, 2017
    1
    Please change the title of this game so that people could never associate it with the original Trilogy:

    - No (optional) pause during combat - No (optional) control of squad members' powers. - Poor AI on high difficulties. The squad members made useless. On high difficulties they simply die. Bring back the option to control their power during pause. - Very poor writing! I mean, VERY    Please change the title of this game so that people could never associate it with the original Trilogy:

    - No (optional) pause during combat
    - No (optional) control of squad members' powers.
    - Poor AI on high difficulties. The squad members made useless. On high difficulties they simply die. Bring back the option to control their power during pause.
    - Very poor writing! I mean, VERY POOR!
    - Amateur dialogues. They seem so shallow.
    - Plastic appearance of the characters. I need badass epic realistic, authentic characters, not children.
    - Many characters look like caricatures. children, no badass heroes.
    - Music is very average. It doesn't give the same "KICK in the Ass.
    - Hire great musician, not ameteurs.
    - Next time hire Cris Velasco & Sascha Dikiciyan, Clint Mansell, Sam Hulick, Jack Wall and the rest of the people they worked with. They know how to the things RIGHT.
    - The real problem with dialogue system is that choice "either puts you on the same route with the same quest objective or just nets you a "come back later if you change your mind mane" response. Illusion of choice.
    - Artificial poor voice acting.
    - Akward animations.
    - Generally, lots of artificiality in this game. It feels CHEAP and Shallow!    … Expand
  98. 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
  99. dair
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Dragon Age Inquisition in space:

    -boring
    -repetitive
    -ugly characters
    -bad animations
    -fetch quests
    -MMO style world
    -awkward writing

    What the hell happened with BioWare...
  100. Derrik4999
    Mar 24, 2017
    1
    It's too boring yet it can be fun

    It's VERY repetitive,what you do from the start of the game you do 10 hours later,the same **** New area: Kill a bunch of people,talk with people,kill a bunch of more people,do some retarded stuff and go to the new place. the fighting is fun but that's all there really is,the animations and voice acting is **** for such a high budget game. really dissapointing.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 37 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
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  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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