Mass Effect: Andromeda

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  1. Allmass
    Mar 22, 2017
    1
    Bioware is dead, time to admit it. All last members of senior creative staff left early 2016, and this abortion of a game was made by interns and students.

    - zero creativity and reused story concepts: remnants/protheans studied by Liara/PB, badass krogan Wrex/Drack, evil antagonist Saren/Archon, generic evil cannon fodder geth/kett and so on - writing looks like it was done by 15 year    Bioware is dead, time to admit it. All last members of senior creative staff left early 2016, and this abortion of a game was made by interns and students.

    - zero creativity and reused story concepts: remnants/protheans studied by Liara/PB, badass krogan Wrex/Drack, evil antagonist Saren/Archon, generic evil cannon fodder geth/kett and so on
    - writing looks like it was done by 15 year old fangirl, and is downright retarded in some places
    - mindnumblingly boring and repetitive open world activities look like they were ripped from generic ubisoft game
    - do I even need to beat a dead horse of horrible facial animations and Sara's atrocious face? Holy **** I honestly feel bad for Jayde Rossi

    EA just decided to cash in on diehard fans of a dead franchise before the end of 2016 fiscal year and call it a day.
    Bioware will be dissolved shortly after they push couple of crappy DLCs for this monstrosity.
    Fifth fleet out.    … Expand
  2. Ogi79
    Mar 22, 2017
    1
    This game is soo bad its not worth even piracy !! This game is not worth piracy! Yes , its that bad! Yes its that bad! Dont waste time and money on this crap.
  3. Shmorgan
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Terrible, terrible game. Animations are so bad, story is seriously bad.

    Pros + Improved combat + Yay for bringing a vehicle back to drive on open planets. Cons - Dialogue wheel - MP with micro-tranactions - MP uses P2P instead of dedicated servers and no server browser list. Just like ME 3 on PC. - Terrible inventory management for a game on PC. - Exclusive to    Terrible, terrible game. Animations are so bad, story is seriously bad.

    Pros

    + Improved combat

    + Yay for bringing a vehicle back to drive on open planets.

    Cons

    - Dialogue wheel

    - MP with micro-tranactions

    - MP uses P2P instead of dedicated servers and no server browser list. Just like ME 3 on PC.

    - Terrible inventory management for a game on PC.

    - Exclusive to Origin because EA. I still bought the game, but EA games exclusive to Origin make me mad.    … Expand
  4. XmasonX
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Game is buggy

    AI sometimes goes in a T pose in combat.

    Bad animations

    Bad dialog

    Bad writing

    Bad dialog wheel

    MP uses p2p instead of dedicated servers.
  5. NoMoreTrolls
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Who let this game pass quality control? This game is worse than ME1, game is big and looks ok though the rest of the game is so bad. AI is poor like others said, companions freeze sometimes.
  6. Dreavus
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    2017's biggest AAA release, lacking in content and full of bugs. Sometimes jumping on edges makes you or companions freeze, ai has poor navigation sometimes, story has no emotions.
  7. Azuran
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Abysmally written story, one Bioware dev said it would have meaningful choices like in Witcher 3. Sadly that is not the case full of fetch quests like Dragon Age Inquisition and emotionless characters. Dialog is horrible.

    Shame on Bioware, last game from them I'll ever buy.

    Pretty sad when CDPR set a industry standard for RPGS!
  8. Discusguy
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    This game just isn't sucking me in, horrible story, horrible dialog, buggy ai.

    I'm done w/ Bioware ME 3 fool me once, DA I shame on me, ME A shame on you.
  9. Thraktor
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    This isn't even a RPG anymore its a shooter game now, Bioware has chased the CoD market. To also mention that game has lame writing, bad animations & poor AI.

    MP uses P2P instead of dedicated servers.
  10. Prommy
    Apr 30, 2017
    1
    An open racist, cosplayer and a bunch of other incompetent people walks into a room. Thats not a start of a bad joke, thats developing team of ME: Andromeda. Result is not suprising. Its stinky when you cant see many gameplay videos (same what happended to fallout 4)
  11. Suplexer
    Mar 22, 2017
    1
    Absolutely terrible game. Terrible writing, terrible animations, terrible dialog, buggy AI, Multi-Player uses P2P instead of Dedicated Servers.

    DICE do a fine job with the Battlefield games on PC using Dedicated Servers, but EA allowed Bioware to use P2P? Shame on you EA, I pray that you will come to you're senses and have Bioware introduce Dedicated Servers and replace P2P and add a    Absolutely terrible game. Terrible writing, terrible animations, terrible dialog, buggy AI, Multi-Player uses P2P instead of Dedicated Servers.

    DICE do a fine job with the Battlefield games on PC using Dedicated Servers, but EA allowed Bioware to use P2P?

    Shame on you EA, I pray that you will come to you're senses and have Bioware introduce Dedicated Servers and replace P2P and add a server browser list for Mass Effect Andromeda on PC.    … Expand
  12. PhilGPT
    Mar 22, 2017
    1
    This has got to be the most shallowest game I've ever played. It's even shallower than Dragon Age: Inquisition. There is just a lot of lack of content on the worlds you explore, the animations are poor, the story doesn't feel right.

    This is a AAA game? It feels more like a budget indie game. EA would do right if they get Bioware to just release dlcs for free and make up for this    This has got to be the most shallowest game I've ever played. It's even shallower than Dragon Age: Inquisition. There is just a lot of lack of content on the worlds you explore, the animations are poor, the story doesn't feel right.

    This is a AAA game? It feels more like a budget indie game. EA would do right if they get Bioware to just release dlcs for free and make up for this mistake.

    I think I'm done buying games from Bioware/EA. I'll just have to look around and find another AAA dev who can make better RPG games.    … Expand
  13. BPoole
    Mar 22, 2017
    1
    Dragon Age: Inquisition 2.0, now with space travel!

    Such bad animations

    Really poor dialog

    Lots of fetch quests, without meaningful choices & consequences.

    AI gets in the way. How did AI get this bad?

    Only good thing from the game is the feel of the combat.
  14. Oersted
    Mar 26, 2017
    1
    EA, Mass Effect: Andromeda is a catastrophe of proportionate levels.

    For our hard earned money we earned you owe us FREE DLCS for 2 YEARS for this game have Bioware make up for this catastrophic game that was supposed to be AAA. Also P2P needs to be removed from MP on PC and replaced with dedicated servers PLEASE. I won't be buying anymore Bioware/EA games until I see this game's    EA, Mass Effect: Andromeda is a catastrophe of proportionate levels.

    For our hard earned money we earned you owe us FREE DLCS for 2 YEARS for this game have Bioware make up for this catastrophic game that was supposed to be AAA.

    Also P2P needs to be removed from MP on PC and replaced with dedicated servers PLEASE.

    I won't be buying anymore Bioware/EA games until I see this game's animations patched to be fixed and FREE dlcs.    … Expand
  15. Navinor
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    What enrages me most is the fact the game is trying to teach me about political correctness.

    The characters are slapping me their feminist and SJW ideology right in my face. Dear Bioware (well we all know you are not Bioware anymore...) please, PLEASE stop trying to teach me stupid political agendas through your games. The only thing you are achieving is fueling my fury. And you    What enrages me most is the fact the game is trying to teach me about political correctness.

    The characters are slapping me their feminist and SJW ideology right in my face.

    Dear Bioware (well we all know you are not Bioware anymore...) please, PLEASE stop trying to teach me stupid political agendas through your games.

    The only thing you are achieving is fueling my fury. And you do not wand that. Because nothing enrages me more, when my beloved universe is occupied by SJWs and feminists.

    My only reaction to this is making shure your game will turn to ash. And i will gladly work on it.

    +

    Bad animations

    Bad dialog

    Bad writing

    Bad dialog wheel

    MP uses p2p instead of dedicated servers.    … Expand
  16. icedog
    Apr 21, 2017
    1
    I loved the other Mass Effect games in the series but this one has been poorly made .Story line has been done before and the fighting mechanics is slow and difficult . Graphic is average but there are odd times when your legs dont move but you are walking around .The game was should be properly fixed before releasing the game with all these bugs .
  17. rbt53
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Плюсы:
    Оно наконец-то вышло.
    Можно побегать до релиза какой-нибудь другой игры получше. Неплохие виды (и в космосе и на планетах). Сиськи (подозреваю что это единственное на что вообще были потрачены хоть какие-то деньги и время). Минусы: 1000 и 1 задание про сканирование (и вообще очень много тупейшего гринда). Сюжет расчитанный на младший школьный возраст. Невероятно    Плюсы:
    Оно наконец-то вышло.
    Можно побегать до релиза какой-нибудь другой игры получше.
    Неплохие виды (и в космосе и на планетах).
    Сиськи (подозреваю что это единственное на что вообще были потрачены хоть какие-то деньги и время).

    Минусы:
    1000 и 1 задание про сканирование (и вообще очень много тупейшего гринда).
    Сюжет расчитанный на младший школьный возраст.
    Невероятно отвратительная реализация анимаций.
    Десятки критических багов.    … Expand
  18. Mandra
    Mar 26, 2017
    1
    It's really heartbreaking to give a game labelled "Mass Effect" such a bad grade...

    I asked for a refund after playing like 3 or 4 hours because the immersion was constantly broken by something. Here is a quick list : - Ugly characters and facial expressions (one of your team members seems to be constantly smiling, even when announcing the death of someone, everybody's eyes seem to    It's really heartbreaking to give a game labelled "Mass Effect" such a bad grade...

    I asked for a refund after playing like 3 or 4 hours because the immersion was constantly broken by something.

    Here is a quick list :
    - Ugly characters and facial expressions (one of your team members seems to be constantly smiling, even when announcing the death of someone, everybody's eyes seem to be popping out)
    - Everyone seems to be black, there's no way to have a white or asian skin for your character
    - The character creator itself seems outdated and almost have less options than Dragon Age 2
    - Important dialogues permanently cancelled by NPCs you pass by
    - A lot of dialogues seem to have been written by angry teenagers
    - Broken animations (I spoke to NPC's in T-Pose)
    - Rain falls on characters face, not helmet
    - The UI lacks polish and has unexpected behaviors (scrolls not draggable or that reset the scrolling to the top, very simplistic buttons design, almost ugly sometimes)
    - You can unlock a lot of powers in each spec, but can only have 3 active at once (sure you can switch between 4 loadouts but then again that's just shortcuts for shortcuts, let us at least have 6 powers active at the same time, that's a minimum)
    - Overall menu navigation is tedious, especially the quest tracking (very irritating)

    All those things totally broke my experience and as a result I didn't feel in a Mass Effect game, I felt in a broken imitation and I'm upset because I've been waiting for this game for a very long time and I absolutely adore the series.

    I might buy it again one day if there are patches, but for me as of march 26th 2017, that's not a Mass Effect.

    Also : I pre-ordered, I shouldn't have, nobody should EVER (except for limited editions and such), so that EA doesn't start thinking "oh ok they'll throw money at us even if the game is unfinished, ship it guys!"    … Expand
  19. ValeraLenin
    Feb 18, 2019
    1
    -boring
    -repetitive
    -ugly characters
    -bad animations
    -fetch quests
    -MMO style world
    -awkward writing
  20. AnnaBorshen
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Poorly optimized PC port. The gameplay is the only redeeming quality of Mass Effect Andromeda, but even that is locked at 30 fps. You'd think this game was developed by an indie studio on a small budget.
  21. TheMarshmallow
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    What do you get when you mix a team of politically minded developers with a high-profile game series? Andromeda apparently. Characters who present their Religion, Sexuality, and Politics first and foremost, in a game where none of it matters, shatter immersion for anyone who has sour history with the subjects. Couple this with often times utterly non-existent facial animation (savingWhat do you get when you mix a team of politically minded developers with a high-profile game series? Andromeda apparently. Characters who present their Religion, Sexuality, and Politics first and foremost, in a game where none of it matters, shatter immersion for anyone who has sour history with the subjects. Couple this with often times utterly non-existent facial animation (saving spotty Lip Sync which are completely separate files that are used universally) and broken animations (arm twists that create an effect that reduces a characters arm to paper, or guns being held backwards) and you have a broken product.

    The only and I mean only redeeming quality of this game as a returning fan of the series is the Gameplay, which is supposed to be a secondary consideration for a BioWare game.

    What happened to the titans of the genre? They fled the studio four-five years ago and left it to the vultures is what.

    Pile on the controversies surrounding developers (Manveer and Aliie) and the Studio's Leadership eagerness to lie, and protect one deplorable human being and another incompetent animator and its a wonder how this game reached golden. It is golden write -- released? I'm not playing a Steam Early Access Game right?    … Expand
  22. 4Core
    Mar 22, 2017
    1
    Do Bioware have any QC? This game should have never leave the studio. It's unfinished crap with a lot of bugs, bizarre animations and crashes. I needed to restart game 5 times to finish one mission because it was so bugged i cannot continue. Even gameplay isn't strong thing for this game. Story is mediocre the whole plot is idiotic that seems to be written by 12 years old from DeviantArt.Do Bioware have any QC? This game should have never leave the studio. It's unfinished crap with a lot of bugs, bizarre animations and crashes. I needed to restart game 5 times to finish one mission because it was so bugged i cannot continue. Even gameplay isn't strong thing for this game. Story is mediocre the whole plot is idiotic that seems to be written by 12 years old from DeviantArt. Every character is bland and boring they can't even compete with characters from OT. This game should have never exist.… Expand
  23. Positivus
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    A developer with such an attitude towards buyers is not applicable. Joke animations, joke voice acting, joke story. The game should have been labeled as an indie game with the appropriate price tag. Instead of delaying the game to port to another frostbite engine, they had decided to release it with awfully load of bugs on the 21st of March.
  24. Phazid
    Mar 26, 2017
    1
    Bad. So, very, very bad. Now I can go into the absolutely atrocious animation like just about everyone else has, but let me tell you that what makes this game so terrible in comparison to it's predecessors. The writing is absolutely terrible, I'm talking full-on Cringe Express with this **** You can't really take anything a lot of these characters are saying seriously and when coupled withBad. So, very, very bad. Now I can go into the absolutely atrocious animation like just about everyone else has, but let me tell you that what makes this game so terrible in comparison to it's predecessors. The writing is absolutely terrible, I'm talking full-on Cringe Express with this **** You can't really take anything a lot of these characters are saying seriously and when coupled with the aforementioned god-awful animation, it's made that much worse. The story by extension of this tripe and predictable. Then there's the host of glitches that would make even Todd Howard shake his head in disgust. Though I will give credit where credit is due, the out of place combat is showing of some potential.
    Ever play a cover based shooter like Gears of War? That's not too different from what this is. It's not exactly terrible and could likely be made fun if the enemies weren't all bullet sponges who take an entire clip to the face. The entire game just reeks of laziness and with a five year development time and 40 million dollar budget, there's just no excuse.
    As a quick warning - Be wary of the people who give this game tens, as I can promise you they are only doing so out of their love of the franchise and little else. I can't say I blame them, it must be hard to see a series you love tank this hard, but think with your wallet. This game just isn't worth it.    … Expand
  25. XanGambit
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA is a massive disappointment. Yet another game that was rushed to the market long before it was ready. The game is plagued with bugs, the dialogue is terrible and the story is bland and recycled. It's another money grab from EA.

    Additionally, another thing that's a big turnoff is that there is no character creation option for Caucasian skin. I thought this may have    MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA is a massive disappointment. Yet another game that was rushed to the market long before it was ready. The game is plagued with bugs, the dialogue is terrible and the story is bland and recycled. It's another money grab from EA.

    Additionally, another thing that's a big turnoff is that there is no character creation option for Caucasian skin. I thought this may have been by mistake, but apparently the game's devs actually left this out intentionally because of political beliefs. That's right. This game allowed its creators to inject racism and politics into probably one of the most-used means of escape from the dregs of every day life by people: video games.

    Back to the game, though. It's rushed, incomplete and buggy. There are a lot of side quests, but their quality is low. The content overall is just poor. Crafting is pointless, combat is over-simplified and limited, and the quality of animation is some of the worst I've seen of games in the past couple of years.

    Basically, stay away from this title. It's probably just a good idea to stay away from EA in general. This isn't a "one off" for them. It's become the norm. And lastly, don't support games that knowingly and intentionally build in their real world hatred and bias into them. Seeing video games politicized is something I never expected to see.    … Expand
  26. evonre
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    joke animations
    joke dialogue
    joke writing
    boring gameplay
    decent multiplayer

    This is just a bland MMORPG, nothing more. Maybe I have unreasonable expectations on BioWare, I'll remember next time. BioWare is only a second-tier studio now.
  27. Redcon605
    Mar 22, 2017
    1
    Ugh.. If you can get past the first 2 hours running around.. lost.. boring... then this game is for you. O wait then you get on a ship and need to talk to every fing thing alive. While running around. I feel like Tom Hanks in Forest Gump.
  28. angrymax
    Mar 22, 2017
    1
    This is not Mass Effect, this is crap! I got stuck in a wall, TWICE, and so does the NPC. The control is horrible, and there is no story.

    Trying to refund my ps4 copy now!
  29. thejesterbot
    Mar 23, 2017
    1
    Such a step backwards from the trilogy. I actually thought (for the most part) that each of the original 3 managed to improve upon the series. This however, appears to be a gross departure in terms of quality, customization, etc. Even the character creation options have been chopped to a mere fraction of the previous two titles! Add stony dialog, terrible voice acting, and a lack ofSuch a step backwards from the trilogy. I actually thought (for the most part) that each of the original 3 managed to improve upon the series. This however, appears to be a gross departure in terms of quality, customization, etc. Even the character creation options have been chopped to a mere fraction of the previous two titles! Add stony dialog, terrible voice acting, and a lack of quicksave, and this is nothing but a generic-console-game that tacks onto a pre-existing franchise for IP. Thumbs way down, and a huge disappointment after pre-ordering!… Expand
  30. ui876will
    Mar 24, 2017
    1
    Reasons to buy

    - It's called Mass Effect

    Reasons NOT to

    - It is boring
    - The story is cheesy
    - The animations are a joke
    - The graphics were downgraded
    - The characters,specially the women,are horrible
    - It was made by SJWs

    Now,if you still want to buy it,it will be your problem. I did my part to advertise you.
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 37 Critic Reviews

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