Mass Effect: Andromeda

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  1. padonax
    Mar 23, 2017
    0
    1. Убогая анимация.
    2. Примитивные диалоги. Такое ощущение, что диалоги ведут подростки лет 16.
    3. Посредственный сюжет. Атмосферы первопроходства, которую ЕА форсили, в игре нету. 5. Унылое сканирование, которое очень быстро надоедает. 6. Такое ощущение, что мультиплеер сворован у Warframe. 7. Под влиянием SJW-скама всех женский персонажей в игре сделали уродливыми, противно на них    1. Убогая анимация.
    2. Примитивные диалоги. Такое ощущение, что диалоги ведут подростки лет 16.
    3. Посредственный сюжет. Атмосферы первопроходства, которую ЕА форсили, в игре нету.
    5. Унылое сканирование, которое очень быстро надоедает.
    6. Такое ощущение, что мультиплеер сворован у Warframe.
    7. Под влиянием SJW-скама всех женский персонажей в игре сделали уродливыми, противно на них смотреть.
    8. Отвратительный контроль качества, а следствие и похуистическое отношение к игрокам.    … Expand
  2. 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
  3. kirillgil
    Mar 23, 2017
    0
    Unplayable. The inventory system is a mess. Combat is eh. Dialog....who wrote this? Acting is awful too.... There is absolutely no investment into characters or the role that you are supposed to play. I cared more about a single person in other games than I did about the 10,000 people onboard the ship. Not sure what is happening with the character creation, I could not make a decentUnplayable. The inventory system is a mess. Combat is eh. Dialog....who wrote this? Acting is awful too.... There is absolutely no investment into characters or the role that you are supposed to play. I cared more about a single person in other games than I did about the 10,000 people onboard the ship. Not sure what is happening with the character creation, I could not make a decent looking female character no matter how much I tried.

    Played for 4-6 hours, asked for a refund. I do have to say the refund process was painless    … Expand
  4. Skyars
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    Aaaa im burning why u can't do it right.This really bad: bad animated, the animation of running is terrible.those faces and miserable faces with bad combats just kills **** characters and predictable story make me feel badly.bioware never learn how to do good games thats all.i just wasted my time
  5. 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!
  6. Bl00dyGr0und
    Mar 26, 2017
    3
    As a huge fan of the previous mass effect games I'm sorry to play this wasted potential of a game. Whilst the combat in game is alright (similar to ME3) it doesn't distract you enough from Andromeda's bigger problems. The story concept whilst an interesting one is dull and predictable and side quests are much the same. The emphasis on voice acting is clear yet with dull writing andAs a huge fan of the previous mass effect games I'm sorry to play this wasted potential of a game. Whilst the combat in game is alright (similar to ME3) it doesn't distract you enough from Andromeda's bigger problems. The story concept whilst an interesting one is dull and predictable and side quests are much the same. The emphasis on voice acting is clear yet with dull writing and absolutely disgusting animations Andromeda feels more like a parody/fan-fiction of ME3. As I wrote this review my score changed from a 4 to 3 because this game... even after 5 years of development has some major bugs. As a game designer I understand that there will always be bugs that will always need fixing, however the sheer amount of bugs in this are amazing, from clipping into the floor in a continuous cycle to being stuck in T pose whilst only being able to jump to move, the list goes on. Don't spend your money here, wait until the game is at least $40 or under… Expand
  7. Satanski
    Apr 23, 2017
    3
    I'll keep it short. IMO, only graphics and combat is _ok_. The rest is just a painful experience - from **** interface, through characters, most of which i, mildly speaking, don't like, to not interesting story, to tv soap opera like dialogs and personal stories. I don't remember skipping one dialog line in previous ME games, but here i couldn't force myself to endure it all for more theI'll keep it short. IMO, only graphics and combat is _ok_. The rest is just a painful experience - from **** interface, through characters, most of which i, mildly speaking, don't like, to not interesting story, to tv soap opera like dialogs and personal stories. I don't remember skipping one dialog line in previous ME games, but here i couldn't force myself to endure it all for more the two hours straight, even while i skipped like 50% of lines, just quickly scanning them in case i'll miss something valuable, which there weren't. I wont mention ridiculous animations and bugs, couse there is a ton of videos on YT showing it.… Expand
  8. Boiledeggs
    Mar 27, 2017
    0
    Don't know what is worst, the graphics, the game mechanics or the absolutely appaling writing.

    One can only hope that the entire team behind this disaster of a game gets the boot.

    Duke nukem forever was better.
  9. Maleficento
    Mar 31, 2017
    0
    If mass effect was a tire, and two was a hover tire, this game would be the equivalent of a wooden cart wheel.

    An step backwards in a franchise that use to be great.
    That's what happens when you let sjws run your studio.
  10. dreadcannibal
    Mar 25, 2017
    0
    After 5 long years of waiting, we finally get mass effect andromeda, sadly the game is terrible.
    I heard this game had a budget of 40m dollars. I can compare this product to some indie games out there that will put this game to shame.
    The terrible writing, the repetitive gameplay, the awkward cutscenes and not to mention the animations. If this was a cheap game made by some uknown    After 5 long years of waiting, we finally get mass effect andromeda, sadly the game is terrible.
    I heard this game had a budget of 40m dollars. I can compare this product to some indie games out there that will put this game to shame.
    The terrible writing, the repetitive gameplay, the awkward cutscenes and not to mention the animations.
    If this was a cheap game made by some uknown developer i might have given this game something around 3/10 but taking into consideration it's bioware and it's compared to the previous titles its a solid 0 for me.    … Expand
  11. googldocs1101
    Mar 22, 2017
    3
    Played the original and I guess I went into this one with too much hype. The combat system is alright and the story is good. It is not as good as the original trilogy however. The characters are kinda likable? I don't find myself caring for them as I have found myself caring for the originals and then the ones added in 2&3. I do believe politics played too much of a role in the productionPlayed the original and I guess I went into this one with too much hype. The combat system is alright and the story is good. It is not as good as the original trilogy however. The characters are kinda likable? I don't find myself caring for them as I have found myself caring for the originals and then the ones added in 2&3. I do believe politics played too much of a role in the production as well. The animations are poor and the dialogue doe not match with the character's mouth movement. Bioware has missed the mark on this one.… Expand
  12. dedlunk
    Mar 23, 2017
    0
    Хорошая задумка, отличные прошлые части, неплохая графика, НО
    Худший исскуственный интелект (играл на максимальном уровне сложности).
    Сюжет слабый, постановка никакая, тупые диалоги (зачем там еще и чето выбирать непонятно). Такое ощущение что все дебилы. Сопартийцы вообще не активны: стоят рядом с гранатой, не прячутся в укрытия: от этого постоянно гибнут. Стреляют крайне редко.    Хорошая задумка, отличные прошлые части, неплохая графика, НО
    Худший исскуственный интелект (играл на максимальном уровне сложности).
    Сюжет слабый, постановка никакая, тупые диалоги (зачем там еще и чето выбирать непонятно). Такое ощущение что все дебилы.
    Сопартийцы вообще не активны: стоят рядом с гранатой, не прячутся в укрытия: от этого постоянно гибнут. Стреляют крайне редко.
  13. chrissu
    Mar 24, 2017
    4
    Not a Mass Effect game. I'll put it like this: bad writing, terrible animations, decent game play (that's why it has 4/10) , but this is not Mass Effect. Better find a new brand name for this.
  14. pipegrepper
    Mar 24, 2017
    0
    I have not bought this game and I refuse to buy it. When your company cares more about how diverse their staff is than their actual qualifications, you end up with crap like this. Without even playing it I can tell this game is catering to every SJW trope they can cram into it. I sincerely hope this tanks BioWare. We don't want your liberal agenda's crammed down out throats, we don't wantI have not bought this game and I refuse to buy it. When your company cares more about how diverse their staff is than their actual qualifications, you end up with crap like this. Without even playing it I can tell this game is catering to every SJW trope they can cram into it. I sincerely hope this tanks BioWare. We don't want your liberal agenda's crammed down out throats, we don't want your transsexual agenda shoved down our throats. It's a video game, not a place for you to spew your worthless social ideologies. kys… Expand
  15. JadedGamerDude
    Mar 27, 2017
    0
    Inept studio wearing the Bioware name using Bioware's IP. There are better looking Indy games. I don't care why or how it happened, the game is a shocking travesty of incomplete assets, terrible writing and IP raping for profit. Not worth $5 in it's current state. Even if it wasn't inherently broken it would still be a bad game, far from the standard set by previous titles in theInept studio wearing the Bioware name using Bioware's IP. There are better looking Indy games. I don't care why or how it happened, the game is a shocking travesty of incomplete assets, terrible writing and IP raping for profit. Not worth $5 in it's current state. Even if it wasn't inherently broken it would still be a bad game, far from the standard set by previous titles in the franchise. Any game that is more focused on pushing a social/political agenda than entertaining it's players is going to be terrible. ME:A does exactly that. The romance options are destroyed by being romanceable by anyone rather than having particular same sex romance options that are properly written and real seeming. The overall character arc is weak, juvenile and uninteresting as are the storylines.

    Do not waste your money on this one, wait for it to be an "on the house" title from origin and save yourself the refund request headaches. Hopefully by then the game will have been patched to completion.    … Expand
  16. 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.
  17. 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
  18. IE-33
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    - Horrible animations
    - Cringe-worthy dialogues
    - Tons of bugs, ranging from graphical issues to gameplay-related bugs (quests etc.) - Poorly optimized game - Average graphics, Frostbite power is not shown in what we see in this game, which then brings me the question... why does it run so poorly? - Most of the side-quests are so called "fetch" quests, plain boring. - UI is painful    - Horrible animations
    - Cringe-worthy dialogues
    - Tons of bugs, ranging from graphical issues to gameplay-related bugs (quests etc.)
    - Poorly optimized game
    - Average graphics, Frostbite power is not shown in what we see in this game, which then brings me the question... why does it run so poorly?
    - Most of the side-quests are so called "fetch" quests, plain boring.
    - UI is painful to use

    The only part of the game that I enjoy so far is it's awesome combat system, granted the game doesn't drop frames / lag as it tends to do in several places for no reason at all. Gameplay wise it's the old ME but better, a lot better... however the amount of issues ruins the whole experience.

    This game is not worth your time if it costs 60$, I don't have to remind you that this is AAA product, and in it's current state avoid it like plague, this game is buggy, unoptimized, and feels like it was rushed.

    After patches, and when it will cost 30$ you can buy it, don't pay more for this crap - it's simply not worth it.    … Expand
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. GDawgTUK
    Mar 26, 2017
    3
    This isn't Mass Effect. While I play, it feels like a fan made mod that I am just putting up with because I'm desperate for more Mass Effect. If it was free, I wouldn't feel so cheated.
  22. mike299
    Mar 22, 2017
    5
    nice combat system, buggy and unpolished, kinda repetitive, dialog wheel not representative of what the character says, soundtrack is average, all and all a typical Bioware game. Nothing Memorable about the characters or story. Haven't try multiplayer yet
  23. schindlabua
    Mar 30, 2017
    3
    So, back home in the ol' milky way, the species on the citadel had plenty of time to figure each other out. Lore says they are using translator modules to communicate, so if Mordin wants to go all scientist salarian on me I can understand the nitty-gritty details no problem. Cool.

    But why on earth do those alien things from a different freaking galaxy speak perfect, fluent english, the    So, back home in the ol' milky way, the species on the citadel had plenty of time to figure each other out. Lore says they are using translator modules to communicate, so if Mordin wants to go all scientist salarian on me I can understand the nitty-gritty details no problem. Cool.

    But why on earth do those alien things from a different freaking galaxy speak perfect, fluent english, the second I walk out of my ship? And why do they look humanoid? And wait a second, are these *latin* letters on their computer monitors? Arabic numerals too?
    Yup, "RW-DRB32". That's what it says.

    So apparently 13th century europeans moved to a galaxy far, far away and interbred with the Twi'lek or something, who knows really. Trying to interpret any of this gives BioWare too much credit, they clearly didn't even try to make any of this interesting. When I first met the baddies and my AI tells me they are DNA-based I thought that that was a great little piece of foreshadowing, but turns out it was just bad and lackluster writing.

    And lacklusterness is the common theme in this game. The dialogue is plentiful but pretty bland, my crew are pretty bland (although they do have their moments), the side quests are pretty bland, the bad guys are pretty bland, and the game in general is.

    ggwp BioWare, bland/10. The combat is pretty good but if I'm only doing it for useless and boring quests then that's not enough to pull me into a game, I'm sorry.

    PS: This whole game is blue/orange, what the hell. The menus, the people, their outfits, the plants, the rocks. To top it off they put a blue filter on top of the screen in half the areas, so even the greens are blue. I know it makes for good contrast but man, this game is overdoing it big time.    … Expand
  24. GAGMR
    Apr 2, 2017
    0
    Everything about this game is half assed. From it's animations, to it's puzzles, to it's characters. It's Half-Assed Effect: Scandromeda.

    The biggest complaint I have is the god damn sudoku puzzles. **** YOU BIOWARE for even putting these in your fricking game. I hate sudoku. It's NOT FUN! If I wanted to go play Sudoku I'd go ****ing play Sudoku, but this game forces you to play    Everything about this game is half assed. From it's animations, to it's puzzles, to it's characters. It's Half-Assed Effect: Scandromeda.

    The biggest complaint I have is the god damn sudoku puzzles. **** YOU BIOWARE for even putting these in your fricking game. I hate sudoku. It's NOT FUN! If I wanted to go play Sudoku I'd go ****ing play Sudoku, but this game forces you to play them in order to terraform planets.

    Then there's all the half assed little details, rocks & plants floating in the air, they couldn't even be bothered to make an animation for when you get in/get out of the nomad/mako. They couldn't be bothered to make it so YOU CAN GET IN YOUR SHIP WITHOUT BEING IN FRICKING ORBIT! So you gotta watch a god dam cutscene every fricking time you go into your ship. They couldn't even be bothered to make space travel like it is in The Old Republic, either! Where you can still control your character while flying between planets on your ship. You know, like it should be? Half the voice actors sound like they are outsourced from India, the character customizations suck (DA:I had a lot more options than this game & even that was still limited) the combat is glitchy, enemies teleport around, companions are stupid & don't use cover or just take every bullet to the face, you can no longer control your companions freely like in previous games, crafting ****ing sucks because EVERYTHING REQUIRES EZO & EZO IS THE FRICKING RAREST ELEMENT! So you can't even ever craft anything because you can't find any god dam ezo! The UI sucks, & is a big fat cluster-fark, the UI glitches out constantly, the Nomad doesn't even have a fricking gun on it, the mako had a gun! Why doesn't the "New Mako" have a fricking gun? In Combat you get stuck on the smallest rocks, the camera is too close to you, & fixing the FOV barely does anything unless your outside combat, progression is slow as balls, the "Open World Elements" involve mostly driving around scanning **** etc.

    The story was written by morons. "Fix this broken computer by using audio frequencies" "We can send messages to our family we left behind in the Milky Way 600 years ago WHO ARE FRICKING DEAD & it would take a million years for it to reach them! Daddy leaves messages on planets he's never fricking been to! The Remnant are just geth & the Kett are basically Chosen from the first games. "Planets" are just flat maps that you go between like in Dragon Age Inquisition, it's basically DA:I in space just like everyone thought it would be.

    This game is a ****ing joke. If it weren't for the combat (which is sub-par overall but still enjoyable) the game wouldn't even be worth playing. The game just screams "Lazy" & "Half Assed" everywhere you look. Every NPC is lifeless, & does the same animation over & over when in world hubs, same with your companions. You'd think after games like Witcher 3 bioware would bring their RPG's into the fricking next generation, but nope. Just new generation graphics with the same dull tropes of the past, if not lamer tropes. $40million dollars... You'd think with that kind of budget they'd get some actual talent to make the game.    … Expand
  25. 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.
  26. KaniNa
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    I did not want to believe the stories that were floating around the interweb, but alas, I'm a victim of my optimism toward an EA run Bioware. . .I get what I deserve. As it is, the death-touch of EA claims Bioware, for good this time. This game is an absolute bloody mess from the start. Poor animation, laughable dialogue, the same tired combat system(Oh look, in all the years of theI did not want to believe the stories that were floating around the interweb, but alas, I'm a victim of my optimism toward an EA run Bioware. . .I get what I deserve. As it is, the death-touch of EA claims Bioware, for good this time. This game is an absolute bloody mess from the start. Poor animation, laughable dialogue, the same tired combat system(Oh look, in all the years of the same combat, we now have bloody jump jets, haha-hehe), and a story that would make Ed Wood beam with pride. This is the very essence of a B-Movie turned into a game, and it's not funny.

    :sigh: Do yourselves a favor, watch the gameplay vids before you buy this "game." This is one of those games where you want spoilers.    … Expand
  27. Frakir
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    Бросил играть после 18 часов. Это не RPG. Диалоги не интересны, а выбор в них практически ни на что не влияет. Возможности по отыгрушу для основного персонажа отсутствуют. Исследование свелось к тупому гринду со сканированием - бесит.
    Почему это относят к RPG я не знаю. Это стрелялка с гриндом.    Бросил играть после 18 часов. Это не RPG. Диалоги не интересны, а выбор в них практически ни на что не влияет. Возможности по отыгрушу для основного персонажа отсутствуют. Исследование свелось к тупому гринду со сканированием - бесит.
    Почему это относят к RPG я не знаю. Это стрелялка с гриндом.
  28. TheTG
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    Absolute garbage and waste of my money, very bad game. Full of glitches and bugs, boring gameplay and terrible story and animations. Poorly optimized, everything about this game is an epic failure, how could this have happened?
  29. ShepardN77
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    NO! Just no ! Wtf is this "game" one more mmo open world... why ? I love me1-2-3! But this ? I cant say anything good about this **** inquisition was my last bioware product ...
    Did you see witcher 3?
  30. Polina40912
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    They have a lot of balls to release something like this after the stunt they pulled with ME 3.
    Did they progressively delude themselves to think it would be fine regardless of how low the quality of product is? Its as if they were sheltered people that have never played any other decent game to be able to make a comparison and see just how ridiculous everything turned out to be.
  31. ftsforever
    Mar 28, 2017
    3
    Ok, now that i have put more than 40 hours into this i can safely say.. yes it is this much of a mess, the game runs like crap on pc with framerate drops (from 60 to as low as 1) on a **** 1070 8gb, it glitches all the time, there are even side missions you cant complete due to glitches (the hitbox for something you have to interact with is underground so you can do it even when standingOk, now that i have put more than 40 hours into this i can safely say.. yes it is this much of a mess, the game runs like crap on pc with framerate drops (from 60 to as low as 1) on a **** 1070 8gb, it glitches all the time, there are even side missions you cant complete due to glitches (the hitbox for something you have to interact with is underground so you can do it even when standing on top of the damn thing)... the story is just sad, it resembles more fan fiction than it does a 40 million dollars triple A bioware title, the plot twists are so infantile you would have to be a potato to not see it coming, the dialogue as well is just cringe worthy for the most part.
    the game is just absolute garbage with its only redeeming quality being that combat is actually really really really fun, when it works and you can actually move without your framerates killing you ¬_¬
    all in all i wish i could have money back    … Expand
  32. 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.
  33. 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
  34. CrameBender
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    Compared to other Mass Effect games this one has the worst writing (both plot and dialogues are extremely weak, even SWTOR has better dialogues), the worst facial animation (yes, worse than Mass Effect 1, because almost every human character in Andromeda behaves like a junkie suffering from a withdraw constantly blinking and shaking), the worst UI (too many windows that take too long toCompared to other Mass Effect games this one has the worst writing (both plot and dialogues are extremely weak, even SWTOR has better dialogues), the worst facial animation (yes, worse than Mass Effect 1, because almost every human character in Andromeda behaves like a junkie suffering from a withdraw constantly blinking and shaking), the worst UI (too many windows that take too long to navigate between them, they really managed to create a UI worse than in any other ME), the worst scanning mechanics (you spend too much time to scan 1 planet)

    Compared to other games released in 2016-2017 graphics are weak, gunplay is sub par and multiplayer is constantly crashing.    … Expand
  35. slackrabbit
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    They made the female look like Anita Sarkeesian, I thought this was a coincidence.
    If you thought you were buying a game, you're actually buying social justice lecture, I stopped at hour number 2.
    Sorry Shepard; I really tried....
  36. Honou
    Mar 23, 2017
    0
    So glad i tried this game on origin access before buying it. I feel like spending money on this title would just encourage them to make more and more game like it. Unfinished, buggy, chaotic and boring. Mass effect: andromeda just feels like a slap in face for the fan of the original trillogy. Never again EA, never again...
  37. Nemrodh
    Mar 24, 2017
    0
    more issue then i want to list. controls. animations, combat is clunky. me3 was better, and its 5yrs old now. witcher3 has better graphics. and the dialog is ridiculously stupid.
  38. HarryLesch
    Mar 21, 2017
    3
    Absolutely terrible. You can easily tell that this is not the Bioware that worked on Knights of the Old Republic or the original Mass Effect games. There is nothing particularly good about this game. The terrible animations have been mentioned enough times but the story telling and dialogues are a disaster as well. Mass Effect was never known for it's amazing gameplay. The story and mostlyAbsolutely terrible. You can easily tell that this is not the Bioware that worked on Knights of the Old Republic or the original Mass Effect games. There is nothing particularly good about this game. The terrible animations have been mentioned enough times but the story telling and dialogues are a disaster as well. Mass Effect was never known for it's amazing gameplay. The story and mostly the dialogues were what made it special. Now both of them are terrible. The gameplay might be improved but that won't save the game. Fallout 4 pretty much had the same problem. The gameplay is improved but everything else is worse. Only that this is even a bigger failure than Fallout 4. Mass Effect has never been for the mainstream. None of the 3 previous games sold particularly well but there was something special about this game and a very dedicated fanbase was created around this franchise. Now they've pissed of the only group of people actually hyped for this game. I fear this will mark the end of this franchise. EA decided to end Dead Space after the third game did pretty bad and i see no future for the Mass Effect franchise. Should have left it were it was. Mass Effect is over. This is merely a cash crab trying to squeeze out what is left off the fanbase after Mass Effect 3's ending already pissed off many people. I definitely understand why nearly everyone from the original team left Bioware a few years ago. Bunch of unexperienced racists (look at the Twitter profiles of people working on this game) thinking they could trick people into buying their garbage just because it's named after a once admirable franchise. R.I.P Bioware and R.I.P Mass Effect.… Expand
  39. sashaCZ1
    Mar 27, 2017
    3
    This is awful. Most notably, the face animations are beyond bad. It's like going back in time back to early 2000's when motion capture wasn't a thing in video games. Even graphically, the game doesn't look next-gen. The story isn't enjoyable, it's actually pretty boring and not interesting to play or watch. Perhaps this game will get the No Man's Sky award of 2017. 3/10.
  40. Nitaela
    Mar 27, 2017
    0
    Quick tip : If you consider yourself a true series fan, don't buy it. In its present form playing it will hurt you a lot. And nobody will pay you for testing unfinished game.
  41. iSimon420
    Feb 8, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Everything about this game is an absolute disgrace to the once legendary name of Mass Effect. This EA abomination has about as much to do with Mass Effect as S&M relates to M&M's. I don't even know where to begin on how awful this game truly is. It is an absolute travesty, an abomination. The characters are paper-thin cutouts who you will never give two **** about ever. All the wonderful and amazing cast from the original trilogy now have to take a backseat to disgustingly glitchy facial animations, broken camera, buggy ass game-play, boring useless sidequests, and childish cringe-level 9000 dialogue. Player choice means jack **** the entire game, there is no weight or gravity to any decisions you make.

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

    Bioware needs to realize EA is pure evil, give them the finger, run far away from them,and then ressurect Commander Shepard in the TRUE Mass Effect 4 all of us loyal fans deserve over this blatant garbage!!! Avoid at all costs if you, like me, adore the original Mass Effect series, and want a return to form!!!    … Expand
  42. username1222
    Mar 23, 2017
    0
    This game is total garbage, the animations are a joke, the writing is flat, the story is boring and makes no sense (why the hurry in going to another galaxy?!?) it's total total garbage. PASS.
  43. jlug
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    After Inquisition the next disaster from Bioware.
    The key element of the Mass Effect series is linear gameplay with focus on story, companions, engaging quests and cinematics and NOT on exploration and open worlds!
  44. 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.
  45. Scarlet_review
    Apr 3, 2017
    0
    After playing the game for around 11 hours I feel that I am ready to submit a review, I never liked the ME series too much but there were some elements that kept me playing, mostly the characters and the dedicated team behind the games, there was a stain on the last three games by the end of it as ME3 ended in an horrible way,

    I was hoping that the team would come back and fix this with    After playing the game for around 11 hours I feel that I am ready to submit a review, I never liked the ME series too much but there were some elements that kept me playing, mostly the characters and the dedicated team behind the games, there was a stain on the last three games by the end of it as ME3 ended in an horrible way,

    I was hoping that the team would come back and fix this with an awesome game with strong character development and a solid core, however as I was reading into the new team I notice some of the team had never worked on a game before and that something that I can put up with but it crossed the line when I found out who these people are, some of them are pretty extreme racists and extreme sexists, or a variation of the two. the facial animator has never worked on a game before which is fine HOWEVER this woman also made a video online entitled "I hate men" as usual kotaku tries their best to defend these absurd actions, she didnt stop there she was on the news a short while ago in america talking about how you can be sexually attacked and assaulted IN A GAME (GTA 5 for those interested).

    An animator that worked on this game was and still is openly racist towards white people on twitter, this is an all around shocking discovery for me, I wanted to love this game I really did but these social/ racist/ sexist extremists pushed their own views on the game purposely making the females less attractive and the animations made the character interaction the worst I have seen in pretty much forever and i've been gaming for 20~ years, from the characters and the team onto the game itself.

    Now the combat feels a little less like a mass effect game and more like halo 1, lots of low-polly cover and the battlefields are fairly empty and not very interesting the combat is alright but the squads are now useless so if you enjoyed them being useful or if you even remember them being there then forget about it, they've ripped it out of the game. The worlds are barren of any kind of entertainment or appeal, the only saving grace of this game is most of the time it looks really good, it's like the had some really talented artists that just wanted to make the game for the players and the experience but was ultimately let down by a script written by a 5 year old, animations and voice acting that makes Tommy wiseau a master at delivering his lines, empty worlds, impenetrable menus, the most boring quests you'll ever see and SO MANY BUGS.

    If this game stood alone I'd give it a 3.5/10 for the 40m spent on it and the time it took to come out however thats not the case due to the terrible nature of some of the team that worked on this game and the fact this is supposed to carry the torch from ME 1, 2 and 3 but honestly its not even playable in comparison.

    my recommendation; don't waste your time or money on this game and go buy NieR: Automata or ME 1/ 2    … Expand
  46. Spandex
    Apr 2, 2017
    1
    Anybody who gives to this game more than 6 are idiots. Sorry, but this is true. This game suck balls. Original trilogy was an amazing game with epic story, breathtaking dialogs and excelent characters. Congrats BioWare Montreal. U re **** up the biggest legacy of old BioWare team. There are no words to count how much things this game ruined. My soul is first one. Dialogs in this game areAnybody who gives to this game more than 6 are idiots. Sorry, but this is true. This game suck balls. Original trilogy was an amazing game with epic story, breathtaking dialogs and excelent characters. Congrats BioWare Montreal. U re **** up the biggest legacy of old BioWare team. There are no words to count how much things this game ruined. My soul is first one. Dialogs in this game are boring and stupid. You don't give a **** about the charactes, there are boring and not intresting. Story is ridiculous. 12-13 hours of story. Is this an action-rpg game? Really? No, of course it's not. Side quests are monotonous. I hate this game. This is not Mass Effect. This is mistake! 1/10. Good bye.… Expand
  47. SummerRain
    May 14, 2017
    1
    If you believe the glowing reviews of the "Critics" who, I am sure, not at all influenced by the publishers, or you are a SJW, or just a mentally challenged 12yr old kid, this game is for you. Stop right there and go buy Collector edition. Do it.

    Otherwise, keep reading. I pre-ordered the game because it is Mass Effect! Right? RIGHT? Nope. It is not. It is a DA: Inquisition in space,    If you believe the glowing reviews of the "Critics" who, I am sure, not at all influenced by the publishers, or you are a SJW, or just a mentally challenged 12yr old kid, this game is for you. Stop right there and go buy Collector edition. Do it.

    Otherwise, keep reading.

    I pre-ordered the game because it is Mass Effect! Right? RIGHT? Nope. It is not. It is a DA: Inquisition in space, but with even worse writing.

    What is wrong with the game (hint: everything that matters):

    1. Ridiculous, boring story that makes no sense whatsoever. Plot holes everywhere.
    2. Absolutely terrible fanfic-level writing.
    3. No even rudimentary speech-checks so you can't really fail anything.
    4. No meaningful choices and consequences.
    5. Bland, juvenile NPC.
    6. Retarded pajama boy/tumblr girl protagonist.
    7. SJW crap starting from the multiple ugly feminazi running everything to the racist anti-white propaganda.
    8. Bugs galore.
    9. Terrible animations (even after the patch).
    10. Mediocre art direction.
    11. Mediocre VO.
    12. Mediocre music.
    13. Total lack of character customization.
    14. Atrocious UI.
    15 MMO type "tasks."
    16. Abuse of the certain "features" like scanning and jumping.
    17. Generic enemies that keep respawing immediately after you kill them, right in front of you.
    18. Idiotic, cumbersome crafting system.
    19. Repetitive combat.

    In short, the game is made by SJW NON-professionals for SJW consumption. Epic fail.    … Expand
  48. oreofoxy
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    If you liked previous Mass Effect entries, avoid this piece of trash at all costs!
    The history is bad, it lacks on the RPG aspect more than Fallout 4, and hell, the bugs!
    The facial animations are hilarious tho.
  49. DonMega
    Mar 26, 2017
    0
    horrendous game that's made by known outspoken racists like the lead game play developer Manveed Heir.
    Also the fake reviews are ridiculous, every 10 score you click on is a fake account with 1 review for ME:A.
    Seriously click on the account name of any account that gives this game a 10. EA/BIOWARE ruined this franchise and ran it into the ground.
  50. 6wg
    Mar 24, 2017
    0
    Game about inadequate invaders from the earth. Boring dialogs, crap animation and gameplay. Dirt and terrible game, such a space we do not need.

    0/10 for sodomites
  51. pafciu
    Mar 23, 2017
    0
    Massive disappointment. Bugs, glitches, crashes, bad animations, pathetic dialogues, boring and very tedious side quests, annoying and flat characters, shallow story, having to SCAN every single stone in the game. AVOID THIS GAME unless you find it on sale for $10 in 2018.
  52. Chain-Impact
    Mar 26, 2017
    0
    lol, I can't believe they released this game with so many bugs. These people were banking on the franchise to just make money and I was a sucker to buy it. So frustrating to get stuck because of object interactions not working properly. Even if you progress in the story, it feels so empty with these poorly done cut scenes and even dying due to enemies still shooting while talking to NPCs.
  53. StrangerEFS
    Apr 4, 2017
    1
    полнейший мрак, до чего докатилась BioWare?! эта игра должна была выйти с пометкой "ранний доступ" или бэта-это что касается багов, но больше всего бомбит от противоречий сценария с заявленными канонам их же вселенной, пример-аудиозапись имени Лиары Т'Сони: "Цитадель была создана Протеанами" WTF?!

    очень жаль, что денег в ориджине не вернуть. единичку ставлю только за бои, более-менее    полнейший мрак, до чего докатилась BioWare?! эта игра должна была выйти с пометкой "ранний доступ" или бэта-это что касается багов, но больше всего бомбит от противоречий сценария с заявленными канонам их же вселенной, пример-аудиозапись имени Лиары Т'Сони: "Цитадель была создана Протеанами" WTF?!

    очень жаль, что денег в ориджине не вернуть.

    единичку ставлю только за бои, более-менее динамично    … Expand
  54. Detrick-Barron
    Apr 2, 2017
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Joke of a game, do not waste your money. they will penny and dime you for dlc, there is no season pass. Design team is a bunch of hypocrites, advocating social equality and racial equality yet turn around and post anti white sematic and 9/11 jokes on their social media accounts in the case of lead game designer Manveer Heir. There is no actual assortment of romantic encounters that promote equality, as a female there are only 2 humans you can romance that are male, Hispanic and African American. there are no Indians, Asians, Caucasians, ect. as the male character there are quite a few more options but there is no equality there. the character presets are absolutely horrible and the games character graphics are worse that mass effect 1. The game is horrible as it has a serious lack of emotion and there are a lot of bugs and the story is incredibly underdeveloped. This is 2017 there are so many standards that are in games now that are %100 expected and delivered artistically by every other major game company out there and Bioware should never be allowed an exception. They did not do their job and flat out wasted 5 years and 40 million dollars by selling everyone this joke of a game. Bioware Edmonton will have to take control of this game and fix Montreal's stupid social justice warrior pride statement into an actual game that is respectable. Stay away until the next one is announced or you get bored and they have actually finished rolling out the last DLC. This review is pretty sugarcoated if you want to research my claims its not hard to read news bulletins on google or bing about the problems that this "game" has caused in the gaming community. heck pewdiepie has made a video bashing it.… Expand
  55. 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
  56. Rocharox
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    This game deserves a refund, The graphical problems are just one of its aspects. The gameplay is bad, the story is tedious and "open world" is very badly done.

    After all that controversy with Mass Effect 3, this game managed to one up the cringe factor...

    Dont buy it;
  57. Solitary_Freedo
    Mar 21, 2017
    5
    Such a dissapointing game :/ Alot crucial for a fan of the series flaws, its really like inqusition in space. But with more time requirement and worse quality.
  58. shlammer
    Mar 22, 2017
    3
    + Pretty colors! Shiny things!
    +/- This game may 'work' for you, or you may feel like you are working for it.
    +/- Mild excitement, like playing with a new toy, until it breaks. - Petty industry BS resorts to a 'divide and conquer' mentality for publicity, insulting the end user. Thankfully, for multi-billion dollar monsters such as EA, people with skills can be bought and sold and    + Pretty colors! Shiny things!
    +/- This game may 'work' for you, or you may feel like you are working for it.
    +/- Mild excitement, like playing with a new toy, until it breaks.
    - Petty industry BS resorts to a 'divide and conquer' mentality for publicity, insulting the end user.

    Thankfully, for multi-billion dollar monsters such as EA, people with skills can be bought and sold and put to work for whatever the corporate design demands, in order to influence the masses away from being effective.

    The real-world wonder and discovery of extra-terrestrial life and technology is, most likely, filtered and manipulated by government and the aptly named "elite". In which case, Mass Effect: Andromeda does a great job as it mirrors the constant watering-down of our potential, for temporary monetary gain.

    The question remains, why do key elements suffer on a $40 million blockbuster???
    Wise consumers see through the hype and cheap tricks, sooner or later.    … Expand
  59. Jmaconpc
    Apr 15, 2017
    4
    Here's some words to describe this game:
    -G rated
    -Family friendly -Fetch quests -Awkward -Cringey -Unfinished -Lazy I have never cringed so hard and so regularly through a game. Finished the game hoping every hour that it would get better. It doesn't. I spent more time watching my ship take off and land than I did playing the game. The animations are laughable, facial    Here's some words to describe this game:
    -G rated
    -Family friendly
    -Fetch quests
    -Awkward
    -Cringey
    -Unfinished
    -Lazy

    I have never cringed so hard and so regularly through a game.

    Finished the game hoping every hour that it would get better. It doesn't.
    I spent more time watching my ship take off and land than I did playing the game.
    The animations are laughable, facial expressions, zig zag running, clipping, even crossed arms are broken.
    The combat feels good but it is repetitive so you have to change it up a lot. The enemies are all the same and very easy.
    The dialogue options are fallout 4 level bad and decisions mean nothing.

    I bought this game because I read some positive reviews, it appears that those positive reviews were paid or are SJWs or something...    … Expand
  60. 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
  61. Necrolord
    Mar 24, 2017
    0
    I bought this game and now I regret it. This game is the next E.T. the Extraterrestrial, and, I guarantee, it will be the worse game of 2017, unless someone tries REALLY hard to do something even worse. This is actually sad, Mass Effect 2 was one of the best games I've ever played, and I've been a big fan of the series ever since.

    The story is superficial, the animations are terrible    I bought this game and now I regret it. This game is the next E.T. the Extraterrestrial, and, I guarantee, it will be the worse game of 2017, unless someone tries REALLY hard to do something even worse. This is actually sad, Mass Effect 2 was one of the best games I've ever played, and I've been a big fan of the series ever since.

    The story is superficial, the animations are terrible (even Mass Effect 1 animations are more realistic), It has more bugs than Skyrim, the physics are lame (Mass Effect 1 physics are far better) and It's impossible to create a bond with the characters, since they do not express emotions properly (like the scene when the character says that her father is dead while she smiles).

    Playing this was a painful experience and sometimes I had the impression that I was actually playing a Gamer Poop from Mans1ay3r.

    Bioware is dying since Dragon Age Inquisition. Seriously, do not waste your money on this game, go play Space Invaders instead and you'll have a far better experience.    … Expand
  62. pulseboy
    Mar 28, 2017
    3
    (42 hours played) This is not a bad Mass Effect game, this is just a bad game period. Overall an extremely unpolished, tedious, derivative offering littered with poor design decisions from a major developer who should know better. I cannot stress the word tedious enough when it comes to this game.

    Character development and story progression (the core of the Mass Effect series) is at    (42 hours played) This is not a bad Mass Effect game, this is just a bad game period. Overall an extremely unpolished, tedious, derivative offering littered with poor design decisions from a major developer who should know better. I cannot stress the word tedious enough when it comes to this game.

    Character development and story progression (the core of the Mass Effect series) is at best average/acceptable for a developer of this size and with their wealth of experience. The dialogue is so cheesy and lame it is frankly embarrassing. The protagonist feels completely detached from everything going on, the team are not particularly engaging and there is no sense of investment and attachment in getting to know them. Although the game is large it does not feel as rich and well-crafted as other open world style RPG games that have come out over the last few years.

    Graphics and animation quality are terrible with low res textures, janky movements and comically bad expressions. When compared with some recent 3rd person offerings such as Witcher 3 & The Division (and Battlefield which shares an engine with ME:A), the lack of quality is genuinely shocking.

    The controls and movements feel sloppy and the user interface is an exceedingly unintuitive, overly complex mess which is irritating to navigate. The ability to control and customize squad mate combat has been removed making combat and involvement with the crew even less engaging.

    Unavoidable in game cinematics when transitioning between the ship, planets and galaxy map are painfully tedious and serve as the icing on the cake that is Mass Effect Andromeda.    … Expand
  63. Nareke
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    The AI is a mess. If the AI is bad in the first 10 hours, it's going to be bad throughout the game. There's no reason why it would suddenly magically improve later.
  64. ThracianT
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    --RATING 0 OR 10 DUE TO HOW METACRITIC HANDLES USERSCORES--

    Pros: - Movement feels a lot better than previous ME games. Cons: - Enemy AI is not only NOT improved over previous ME games, it's worse. - Level design is also NOT improved, but worse, with lots of open, empty space. - Writing ranges from average to "did Google Translate write this" levels of bad. - Facial animations    --RATING 0 OR 10 DUE TO HOW METACRITIC HANDLES USERSCORES--

    Pros:
    - Movement feels a lot better than previous ME games.

    Cons:
    - Enemy AI is not only NOT improved over previous ME games, it's worse.
    - Level design is also NOT improved, but worse, with lots of open, empty space.
    - Writing ranges from average to "did Google Translate write this" levels of bad.
    - Facial animations range from average for 2001 to average for 2001.
    - Character designs seem to be intentionally unattractive.
    - There is a disturbing lack of white people in the game, everyone seems brown.
    - Various plot inconsistencies.
    - Various lore inconsistencies.
    - Stilted to downright hilarious animations.
    - MMO styled sidequests
    - Certain bits of dialogue sound like they were written by 13 year old girls from Tumblr.
    - Overall not a fun game.    … Expand
  65. Comrade_007
    Apr 27, 2017
    0
    It`s not Mass Effect. it`s Dragon Age Inquisition: Space Edition.
    And this game is so bad that I almost cried. I've been waiting for 5 years to play this piece of sh**.
    Unbelievably sad.
  66. Shaded
    Mar 28, 2017
    0
    SJW's in space. Ugly characters to boot. You saw facial animations on the PS2 that where more immersive. Buy this if you are a the type of fan boy that defended No Man's Sky when that disaster hit the shelves. Or if you really hate money.
  67. Gordonox
    Apr 29, 2017
    0
    This game is a big **** thanks EA for ruining my fav game series. **** you.
    . .......................................
  68. Harmont
    Mar 30, 2017
    0
    Игра просто не загружает сохранения, бесконечная загрузка. Самое смешное 9 дней прошло с момента выхода и до сих пор нет никаких патчей или фиксов. Я для чего игру купил, чтобы на форумах целыми днями сидеть?
  69. Ober
    Mar 28, 2017
    4
    Where do I begin, between the cringe worthy dialogue, crappy main story/villain, forced diversity bs, glitches, lore rape, ugly character design your characters look and feel like they are consistently suffering from Vietnam flashbacks with blank faces and thousand yard stares boring side quests that feel like chores

    There are good things about this game but none of them, let me repeat,    Where do I begin, between the cringe worthy dialogue, crappy main story/villain, forced diversity bs, glitches, lore rape, ugly character design your characters look and feel like they are consistently suffering from Vietnam flashbacks with blank faces and thousand yard stares boring side quests that feel like chores

    There are good things about this game but none of them, let me repeat, NONE OF THEM, make up for it, get it on sale at mcdonalds dollar menu prices if you want to buy it, otherwise it's not worth the money.    … Expand
  70. Vertexus
    Apr 5, 2017
    0
    It is not Mass effect, it sims in the space with scan simulator. The developers just spit in the face of gamers, close this office and dismiss the staff
  71. PurpleBix
    Mar 30, 2017
    3
    I wanted to love this game, but Bioware have made it difficult to even like MEA.
    Good:
    Combat setpieces and Jet pack. Bad: Navigation markers on all maps ( in my case they move themselves and I have wasted hours driving in the wrong direction) Horrible confusing time sucking menus Ridiculously complex crafting Bugs - I have the stuck on loading screen problem which means I can spend    I wanted to love this game, but Bioware have made it difficult to even like MEA.
    Good:
    Combat setpieces and Jet pack.
    Bad:
    Navigation markers on all maps ( in my case they move themselves and I have wasted hours driving in the wrong direction)
    Horrible confusing time sucking menus
    Ridiculously complex crafting
    Bugs - I have the stuck on loading screen problem which means I can spend 20 minutes just trying to the game going
    Secondary quests are numerous and uninteresting. The standard pick up 3 caches of something becomes 10 times more frustrating when the map moves the quest markers.

    I have played 40 plus hours and am struggling to find a good reason to keep going. I have just finished Witcher 3 + expansions ( best game I have ever played) . Andromeda is light years behind Witcher in all respects.    … Expand
  72. AliciaMarkudu
    Mar 30, 2017
    0
    Here are the pros and the cons of our beloved game : Mass Effect Andromeda :
    A. Single Player /Campaign Mode :
    ================================ Pros : 1. Better graphics and textures compare to previous series (several bad textures on NPC too!) 2. Better combat mechanics. 3. Okay voice acted, some NPC feels generic. 4. Okay sound effects 5. Music/theme is okay but the timing and    Here are the pros and the cons of our beloved game : Mass Effect Andromeda :
    A. Single Player /Campaign Mode :
    ================================
    Pros :
    1. Better graphics and textures compare to previous series (several bad textures on NPC too!)
    2. Better combat mechanics.
    3. Okay voice acted, some NPC feels generic.
    4. Okay sound effects
    5. Music/theme is okay but the timing and placement of it is BAD
    6. It has bigger open world and environment compare to previous ME's

    Cons :

    1. Player customisation is limited and horrible and ugly default face type available.
    2. The story line is predicted, shallow and boring. This is came from Inexperince writer and stupid game director.
    3. Horrible mission design which is tedious, not memorable and repetitive.
    4. Amateur and horrible camera angle and cutscene (almost 90% of all cutscene are garbage)
    5. All main characters , NPCs are all bland and unattractive at ALL, all of them. Dont ask me how i feel about them when im playing them/interact, i dont feel at all :)
    6. This game IS NOT an RPG story driven game, its an exploration and shooting game. The story is there but it has no impact on the game overall.
    7. The open world is an empty open world. No Interesting places, No interesting events, No interesting PLOT and NPC ,
    8. Bad UI design , a real bad .
    9. Bad Optimisation for frame rate per second.
    10. Amateur and horrible animation, Horrifying facial expression, Disastrous lipsync.
    11. SP Campaign have 0 replay value . Yes it is a ZERO REPLAY VALUE.
    12. The game is buggy here and there. LOTS of it.

    B. Multiplayer Mode :
    ================================
    Pros :
    - None

    Cons :
    1. Boring and grindfest Horde Mode. Yes there is only 1 mode here just shoot the horde!
    2. Money grab EA style for treasure and items, which offers Pistols? Sniper rifle for Horde? I NEVER USE THAT THING!

    I would like to like this game, but I cant. This game is real garbage ever exist since No mans sky. Yet this come from amateur , lazy and greedy people at EA-Bioware.

    Thanks to you EA-Bioware for again dissapoint me as Huge Fans of ME2 and Dragon Age Origins. This game is worth$10 MAX, too many **** in this stuff, too many discrepancies not including the bugs.

    My final verdict is 0/10 (Yes its ZERO out of TEN) TOTALLY DISSAPOINT)

    Reviewed using : Inteli7700k// 2xGTX1080i//32RAM @4 k resolution    … Expand
  73. NeoCyrus
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    - Game breaking bugs (falling through the map, getting stuck in objects, freezing, random stopping during pre-scripted scenes, etc).

    - The combat is a dumbed-down wall-hugging shooter with wall hacks which as a whole removes any skill requirement, everything is AI assisted. - The animations are comically broken and terribly done to the point that I couldn't believe the actual game    - Game breaking bugs (falling through the map, getting stuck in objects, freezing, random stopping during pre-scripted scenes, etc).

    - The combat is a dumbed-down wall-hugging shooter with wall hacks which as a whole removes any skill requirement, everything is AI assisted.

    - The animations are comically broken and terribly done to the point that I couldn't believe the actual game could be like that. This alone is so distracting and horrid that it makes the game unplayable.

    - The voice acting is so bad it's almost like they intentionally wanted it to be horrible. Completely detached from what's going on.

    - SJW/brain damaged virtue signaling everywhere, absolutely everything reeks of it.

    - Insufferable cast of "look at at us we're diverse and not cis white men" jack-offs who couldn't possibly be more repugnant if the writers tried.

    - The writing is so poorly done that I don't believe it was written by anyone with any past experience.

    I guess this is what happens when a team of experienced game producers quit and the jobs are given to psycho SJWs with zero past experience in the field whose only goal is to hate on white people. Turns out it makes for a pretty broken and unplayable game.    … Expand
  74. BUCKinFL
    Mar 27, 2017
    0
    I had high hoped for this game. Bioware is a shell of its former self. Pass this one up, even when it hits the bargain bin. You will be happy you did. Yes...it's that bad, and that is without even mentioning the horrible radical feminist BS they just had to drop on this game.

    boring, repetitive game play ugly characters, especially the females horrible writing that is often very    I had high hoped for this game. Bioware is a shell of its former self. Pass this one up, even when it hits the bargain bin. You will be happy you did. Yes...it's that bad, and that is without even mentioning the horrible radical feminist BS they just had to drop on this game.

    boring, repetitive game play
    ugly characters, especially the females
    horrible writing that is often very cringy
    bad animations

    You only have a limited budget of time and money to play games. Don't waste it on this Massive Wreck.    … Expand
  75. 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
  76. Firestopper
    Mar 26, 2017
    0
    Personally, I consider it an insult to the original series. When Mass Effect 3 came out a lot of people got mad about the ending, but I'm kind of person that wasn't bothered by it. It takes a special kind of bad to make me angry like this. Andromeda had twice the development time of any of the other games and a far larger budget, yet the game felt lazier, sloppier. You've probably seen thePersonally, I consider it an insult to the original series. When Mass Effect 3 came out a lot of people got mad about the ending, but I'm kind of person that wasn't bothered by it. It takes a special kind of bad to make me angry like this. Andromeda had twice the development time of any of the other games and a far larger budget, yet the game felt lazier, sloppier. You've probably seen the countless articles talking about the terrible facial animations but they're only the tip of the iceberg. Throughout 9 hours of playtime I had the game crash twice, countless graphical glitches (bizarre model clipping, models snapping to T-positions etc.) and sporadic framerate drops (from around 100 fps to 20 for several seconds).
    Gameplay-wise, I will admit that the combat feels more fluid than the previous games, but who the **** plays Bioware games for the combat? Every side mission was a massively boring side quest. The dialogue options are completely pointless as every decision is essentially the same thing but worded differently. Some of the voice acting was VERY questionable and none of the voice actors seemed like actual professionals. The characters were very difficult to empathise with, largely due to the fact that their facial expressions never match the tone of what they are saying. I haven't tried out the multiplayer yet because I was intending to play with my friends, but none of them are willing to buy the game and I honestly can't blame them.

    As someone who has 300 hours on Mass Effect 2 alone, I don't see anything that I liked in the original trilogy in this game. It all just seems like a cheap cash-in on the Mass Effect name.    … Expand
  77. theirrelephants
    Mar 28, 2017
    0
    I read a review by Glixel that said it best, really.

    "Andromeda is a game about exploration that gives you no space or reason to explore." Between the terrible story, boring and ugly characters, garbage plot and "villains", there is no reason to play this game at all. If you decide to do so anyways, you are gifted with abundantly bad facial animations, bugs, and graphical glitches    I read a review by Glixel that said it best, really.

    "Andromeda is a game about exploration that gives you no space or reason to explore."

    Between the terrible story, boring and ugly characters, garbage plot and "villains", there is no reason to play this game at all. If you decide to do so anyways, you are gifted with abundantly bad facial animations, bugs, and graphical glitches that you'd expect from an indie studio, not a studio that USED to make AAA games.

    Probably the worst use of Frostbite I've seen since... well, the last bioware game.

    Jesus christ what happened to their animators and modelers? To their writers? This game almost makes DA:I look GOOD.    … Expand
  78. markzaku
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    Let me preface this by saying that I've owned and played every CRPG that Bioware has ever made (minus SWTOR). Mass Effect 2 is probably my favorite game of all time.

    Mass Effect: Andromeda couldn't be more of a disappointment if it tried. Bioware learned nothing from Dragon Age: Inquisition, and ME:A "borrows" all of its terrible aspects, while retaining very little of the few things    Let me preface this by saying that I've owned and played every CRPG that Bioware has ever made (minus SWTOR). Mass Effect 2 is probably my favorite game of all time.

    Mass Effect: Andromeda couldn't be more of a disappointment if it tried. Bioware learned nothing from Dragon Age: Inquisition, and ME:A "borrows" all of its terrible aspects, while retaining very little of the few things that were decent in DA:I.    … Expand
  79. 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
  80. Lautrecc
    Mar 22, 2017
    3
    Andromeda was Bioware's 'Break in case of emergency' game, and it certainly was an emergency for the company. However, the game has so many overarching flaws that it fails to live up to the low expectations that ME3 left.

    Bioware certainly succeeded in their goal of diversity in the galaxy, and they deserve their props for it. But that was pretty much the only thing noteworthy in    Andromeda was Bioware's 'Break in case of emergency' game, and it certainly was an emergency for the company. However, the game has so many overarching flaws that it fails to live up to the low expectations that ME3 left.

    Bioware certainly succeeded in their goal of diversity in the galaxy, and they deserve their props for it. But that was pretty much the only thing noteworthy in Andromeda, and even then it's draped in a cocktail of cringey writing and animations that're blown out the water by the SFM porn community. The world(s) is pretty, but uninteresting. What a shame.    … Expand
  81. savegaming
    Mar 23, 2017
    0
    This is without a doubt the worst game i have ever played, ( I normaly stay away from bad games but i did the free trail)
    Boring game.
    Repetitive combat. bland world. empty characters cringe writing. character customisation is so bad you are being forced to play the male protagonist. horrifying graphics. And the biggest fail of all: ORIGIN! haha srsly EA you are the worst company    This is without a doubt the worst game i have ever played, ( I normaly stay away from bad games but i did the free trail)
    Boring game.
    Repetitive combat.
    bland world.
    empty characters
    cringe writing.
    character customisation is so bad you are being forced to play the male protagonist.
    horrifying graphics.

    And the biggest fail of all: ORIGIN! haha srsly EA you are the worst company in the universe, forcing people to come to youre pathetic platform becouse you tards won't even sell it on steam. i hope the devs and publishers die in hell. If you realy want to play it wait for a crack becouse this game is i no way worth your money, and for the sake of PC GAMING DON'T SUPPORT ORIGIN!    … Expand
  82. MarcusAgrippa77
    Apr 18, 2017
    0
    Bioware has made some of the best games ever,however this is not one of them. Animations,story and voice acting are all terrible. Even Dragon Age 2 is better than this.
  83. OfCourse
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    Continuation of a downward spiral of BioWare. Worst Mass Effect, bad rpg and terrible game. Maybe they would know how to make a good game if they hired talented developers instead of racist ideologues.
    I we want better games, we need to stop buying garbage like this.
  84. Yorha
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    I waited 5 years for bad animations, ugly characters and boring main story.

    Not buy this game, save your money.

    Worst....... Bioware....... Game...... Ever......
  85. steme94
    Mar 27, 2017
    0
    I wanted this to be good but I can't say that this is the game I waited so much.. Poorly optimized. Massive amount bugs and crashes. Exploring becomes very boring after 15 minutes. And THOSE ANIMATIONS. multiplayer is clunky.
  86. quebecname
    Apr 3, 2017
    0
    As a huge fan of the original series, I anxiously awaited this game. As you have probably already heard, there is a large number of technical problems and such. If you want a good laugh, you'l love scenes when speaking to npcs as the facial animations almost make me feel like Im playing a game as polished as goat simulator. Continuing the multiplayer from ME3, this game put a greaterAs a huge fan of the original series, I anxiously awaited this game. As you have probably already heard, there is a large number of technical problems and such. If you want a good laugh, you'l love scenes when speaking to npcs as the facial animations almost make me feel like Im playing a game as polished as goat simulator. Continuing the multiplayer from ME3, this game put a greater emphasis on this aspect and yet still uses p2p connections. This limits the viability of playing with friends at any real-world distance and since there is no ensuring the quality of the host's connection (anyone can establish a game and can then be host to other players searching for random matches) you'll find yourself iceskating on the maps- that is if your game does not crash in one of the latest rounds. The game barely adds anything new to the original series but a couple of new alien species... how can this happen? Who made this game? Whatever the answer, it isn't the same developer of years passed.… Expand
  87. Greenbob
    Mar 25, 2017
    0
    this game can be summed up as "wonky", from the character animations, (you're on the internet so i don't have to explain that bit.) right down to the controls for general movement in and out of combat. it feels like you're trying to control a toddler with a jump pack. pair this with one of the most claustrophobic over the shoulder cameras and an auto cover system that is absolutelythis game can be summed up as "wonky", from the character animations, (you're on the internet so i don't have to explain that bit.) right down to the controls for general movement in and out of combat. it feels like you're trying to control a toddler with a jump pack. pair this with one of the most claustrophobic over the shoulder cameras and an auto cover system that is absolutely annoying.

    things that look like they may provide cover do not, some that do are total cheese spots and give you the magical ability to shoot through what should be otherwise impossible angles. and in reverse may just get you killed because you'll shoot the inanimate blockade you've chosen while staring down an enemy that can now shoot through aforementioned rock/wall. theres really no safety while moving in this auto cover system, because seemingly Ryder will magically have enough of this **** and just stand strait up to change directions and be met in kind with an auto aim, perfect firing line accuracy the enemy possesses from a quarter of a mile away using their smg/assault rifles .

    you too possess a smg assault rifle but i think your manufacturer may have left out any type of recoil compensation or rather Ryder being an elite trained operative was never tested on how well his grouping had been. so far as i can tell, all the abilities are the exact same from ME1, 2, &3. that may be a bonus for you, for me its a rather dull repetitive experience.

    voice acting seems to have been done in a studio far removed from the game dev team, being that whatever script was given to these poor souls had no descriptors on wtf was actually going on in any of these scenes. the emotional inflection or lack there of seems to plague about 90% of all game content..

    IMO most of the level designs seem a jumbled mess of procedural generated assets that the devs kept randomizing until they felt the cobbled together mess was considered playable. some of this is a true eyesore. But in all i think the most telling thing of this whole cash cow "member berry" experience (that i myself am not removed from) Is the lead designer of this project, you should watch out for these type of people, and no, I'm not referring to any type of race or ethnicity. rather a moral corrupt narcissist that believes the legitimate concerns of his fan base are to be blamed on the color of their skin rather than the evidence provided that he and his development team did in fact ship us **** and alot of it.

    he screams racism because you don't like the cringe worthy animations, narrow character customization, bad voice acting, graphical down grades, laggy controls and 80s action movie narritive, while without fans like you he wouldn't have had a job (and a damn good one at that), that gave him the ability to slag off a lead designer position in the first place. But just remember its not his fault, he made a good game, and if you dont think so your probably just a white racist, "writes this native american"

    but don't believe so, anyone who does a bad job and blames it on everyone else, well, we have a title for them, its called **** bag". btw, aforementioned lead designer was fired from his position and now leads an indie gaming company. feel free to check out any upcoming titles from him. I'm sure you'll want to purchase whatever this man produces effective immediately.    … Expand
  88. Hun73rdk
    May 31, 2017
    0
    Worst game ever and worst animations ever worst face animations ever
    they need to fix that and a lot more so the new origin 10 is useless and this game is useless

    This is a Game made by SJWs and A racist called Manveer Heir
  89. superuser
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    Do not believe all the good reviews here. The ugly characters and animations are making the whole gaming experiences unplayable. Since dragonage time till now, no improvement on the character design. Bioware should fired the director and designer.
  90. DarthPadme
    Mar 27, 2017
    0
    Lol. No. How this studio got away with putting out this broken, unfinished, half-baked, over-budgeted mess of a game is beyond me. This is possibly one of the worst video game releases of all time - bugs galore, the ugliest and most hideous faces, facial animation, and character animations of all time, and the story, which few seem to actually be talking about, is the atrocious icing onLol. No. How this studio got away with putting out this broken, unfinished, half-baked, over-budgeted mess of a game is beyond me. This is possibly one of the worst video game releases of all time - bugs galore, the ugliest and most hideous faces, facial animation, and character animations of all time, and the story, which few seem to actually be talking about, is the atrocious icing on the cake. Avoid this title at all costs - even free.… Expand
  91. Gwinch
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    Mass Defect. Embarrassment to the saga. I'd have considered this game retrievable if it weren't for the fact that the flaws lay in the fundamental game mechanics, voice dialogue, facial expressions/animations, user interface, lackluster story line... I think you get the idea.
  92. Syrusman
    Mar 27, 2017
    1
    I am a real fan of the Mass Effect series. I really wanted this game to be good but it just is not. The writing is the worst I have ever heard in a game. The voices are just pathetic. The Krogan should have deep bold voices but they all sound lame. I heard one Krogan who had a normal unfiltered voice. The bad animation is the least worse thing about this game. It is so bugged out.
    - My    I am a real fan of the Mass Effect series. I really wanted this game to be good but it just is not. The writing is the worst I have ever heard in a game. The voices are just pathetic. The Krogan should have deep bold voices but they all sound lame. I heard one Krogan who had a normal unfiltered voice. The bad animation is the least worse thing about this game. It is so bugged out.
    - My character stuck in T-pose
    - Npcs stuck in T-pose
    - Npcs warping and blinking all over
    - Enemies attacking during a cut scene
    - Glitched under the ground traped    … Expand
  93. Starline
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    Poorly written, badly animated, superficial and static in some aspects with nonsensical story and a good few steps backwards from it's predecessors. As many other fans I went into the fray to pre-order Andromeda but recently got to play the 10 hours access on Origin and I have to say I am very disappointed. So much so that I even cancelled my pre-order. There is nothing that makes me wantPoorly written, badly animated, superficial and static in some aspects with nonsensical story and a good few steps backwards from it's predecessors. As many other fans I went into the fray to pre-order Andromeda but recently got to play the 10 hours access on Origin and I have to say I am very disappointed. So much so that I even cancelled my pre-order. There is nothing that makes me want to play this game. I'm so grateful I got to play it for myself and see this failure of a game with my own eyes. Andromeda forgot the basics, forgot it's roots and most importantly forgot how to be the the lead defining genre game that it was in the past.

    I'll have to skip this one and I'm not even sure I will pay for such a thing even when it goes all the way down to 2 euros brand new on the bay like the others from the series. Yeah. It's that bad.

    What a letdown.    … Expand
  94. MaxRokatansky
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    It is horrible. No plot, no heroes, no action. Boring and disguisting simulatinuous.
    I was ready that it will not be even close to original trilogy but when I've started the game... I don't have proper words to describe my feelings.
  95. 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
  96. 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
  97. phantom2
    Mar 23, 2017
    0
    I think EA should focus on FIFA and Need for Speed franchises and drop all the other ones. the game is a travesty. got 10 hours trial but the game was so boring and ugly I deleted it after an hour. I don't know how can a studio comes up with such a bad animation, graphics, story and game-play

    DO NOT BUY. WASTER OF MONEY
  98. 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
  99. mowca
    Mar 30, 2017
    0
    (-) Horrible story
    (-) Never-ending, often boring side missions which require you to progress main story
    (-) Unskippable animations
    (-) Your decisions have almost no impact
    (-) Bad writting, poor voice acting, awful facial animations, flat characters
    (-) After a while very repeatable

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

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

    EDIT: They stopped support to this game. There are game breaking bugs, I had to restart my PC after a crash, nothing else would work. You need to reduce graphics just for the sake of the game not crushing and this issue was known for months. Not fixed. **** them and their garbage.    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 37 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 37
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  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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