Mass Effect: Andromeda

pdaz

Apr 15, 2017

0

I find it incomprehensible that anyone but a paid employee of Bioware gave this game more than 4/10. Personally I am giving it 0/10 because as far as a game goes the things it gets wrong are fundamentally indefensible.

If you are the kind of gamer who plays and enjoys games like Mass Effect 1-3, this game will be an astonishing disappointment. If you believe a good RPG game of thisI find it incomprehensible that anyone but a paid employee of Bioware gave this game more than 4/10. Personally I am giving it 0/10 because as far as a game goes the things it gets wrong are fundamentally indefensible.

If you are the kind of gamer who plays and enjoys games like Mass Effect 1-3, this game will be an astonishing disappointment. If you believe a good RPG game of this scale should have: good dialogue, good visual design and aesthetics, immersive atmosphere, a high level of polish, interesting plotlines, you will be sorely disappointed in Andromeda.

As it stands this is the equivalent of a carnival shooting range, lots of things to shoot and lots of different backgrounds to shoot them in, but what is the point without good context? People play games like Andromeda to fantasize about living in the world of the game, to imagine being the protagonist, to feel truly immersed in the elaborate worlds these games build. This is literally impossible to achieve when your cross-eyed character constantly clips, when glitches happen frequently and completely shatter any suspension of disbelief you could build up. This game rapidly becomes a chore, the only person I can imagine enjoying this game is someone who has been in a coma for the last decade and this game was the first thing they played after waking up. Even then they'd become sorely dispirited after discovering that in ten years games had improved so little.

But above all else Andromeda's greatest sin is it's scale. Considering that this game is so lacking in quality playing it would be a waste of time, the amount of hours one would sink in to beating this game could better be spent playing literally dozens of other far more immersive games. It is ironic that apologists for this game reference it's scale and scope as positives, which is like shouting about what a great deal an all you can eat buffet of diarrhoea.… Expand

TravisBickle01

May 28, 2017

4

ME:A is a poor addition to the series. I've played the others many times but will stay with my ONE pass through this installment. A number of things are sub-par including:
- weak, cliched, and utterly boring dialog
- grotesque looking characters and CC choices - monotonous busywork quests (chores) - cheap, annoying Sudoku puzzles substituted for story and plot elements - forcedME:A is a poor addition to the series. I've played the others many times but will stay with my ONE pass through this installment. A number of things are sub-par including:
- weak, cliched, and utterly boring dialog
- grotesque looking characters and CC choices
- monotonous busywork quests (chores)
- cheap, annoying Sudoku puzzles substituted for story and plot elements
- forced repeat cut-scenes galore - you will spend more time watching the same cut-scenes, like your ship taking off and landing, than actually playing the game
- dumbed-down combat, squad mechanics largely removed from the series
- ridiculous looking new species with a main antagonist that looks simian and not scary

I had think about what went wrong with this installment and wonder if ME has a chance to get back on track with future installments and DLC. There're two root causes to this disaster.

Root Cause 1: This isn't BioWare anymore.
We've seen the news articles of the past few years, EA has either chased out or given no good reason for much of the original talent to stay and they have moved on. This game was developed by a group that had never developed a game before, let alone a AAA and an ME installment. Games are art, and good art is greater than the sum of its parts. What EA has done is like if a media giant bought out Harry Potter after the first couple books, fired Rowling, and assumed they could have HR fill in the void with "some writing positions". On this note, I don't see how the ME series will ever be resurrected, we should expect future additions to be the same corporate-form-driven empty shells.

Root Cause 2: Lack of understanding of the target audience and/or trying to please everyone, leading to so many contradictions, below are some examples:

The "M" rating. If we forget about the "romance", which I'll discuss in a second, there is no reason this game should have an "M" rating. The G-rated, family friendly dialog and subject matter is clean cut. Characters sound like awkward teenagers rather than mature adults.

Then there's the awful romance which is a mystery why they even bothered. Due to political correctness pressures they made the characters, and especially the females, plain to grotesque. Asari, long considered in the lore to be "attractive to all species" are horrifically done and all but one of them have the same head! What kind of sense does it make to advertise "sizzling hot romance" but then populate the game with ugly choices! How many romance novels are there that feature ugly people on front cover? How many soap operas deliver up a cast of plain looking fugmos? How many people surf porn looking for unattractive people? On top of all that they made it a hollow "press the heart button/choice for romance" process. I would argue they probably should have just dispensed with the half-azzed romance which would have allowed them to lower the rating from M.

And this segways into the next mind boggling contradiction, the ugly player character. Apparently they are concerned our self-esteem will suffer if we [shudder] see an attractive person on the screen. How ridiculous is this position? "You will feel awful about yourself if you play as an attractive person, so we made it so you have to play an ugly person/avatar, that will be best for your self-esteem!"

Open World: They are trying to simultaneously please (and failing) people who prefer open world shooter games with their core fanbase that prioritizes role playing elements and a solid story above all else. The result: crappy story with a huge open, but largely empty and boring world.

Combat: We now have the freedom to assemble ANY collection of skills and make our own "class", but alas, we can now only use 3 powers at a time. Gone is the power wheel. Gone are squad controls. Since you can only field 3 powers and can no longer control squad-mate power execution, they've transformed it into primarily a shooter as it is now difficult to be a powers-mostly class.

Yet another contradictory element, the bragged about "15,000 lines of voiced dialog". It didn't occur to them that quality is far more important than quantity. The dialog is so empty, cliched, full of one-liners, and boring that you'll be space-barring through it.

They tried to appeal to the LBGT community and managed to insult them as well has crush the toes of their more conservative customers. The most egregious example is the checklist in-your-face addition of a transgender individual. This could have been well done e.g. have someone in the crew whose gender is ambiguous, perhaps if the PC earned their trust they would confide some secrets, or perhaps not and leave it a mystery for the forums to discuss. But no, that would be interesting writing. Instead we get: "Hi I'm Hainly, I never met you but I'm a transgender person!"

There's plenty more but I'll leave it there.

Overall rating: Not recommended.… Expand

killrog_deadeye

Apr 5, 2017

0

+4 large open worlds

+2 when locations are found combat is fun -3 things in open worlds are too far apart +4 all lines are voiced -2 character animations need QA testing. should have not left alpha in this state -6 crash to desktop bugs are present in launch state game. -2 campaign progress hauting bugs are present in launch game. +6 multiplayer connects and has+4 large open worlds

+2 when locations are found combat is fun

-3 things in open worlds are too far apart

+4 all lines are voiced

-2 character animations need QA testing. should have not left alpha in this state

-6 crash to desktop bugs are present in launch state game.

-2 campaign progress hauting bugs are present in launch game.

+6 multiplayer connects and has matchmaking

-4 multiplayer has crash to desktop in launch state

-2 multiplayer d-sync is present in launch state.

-2 multiplayer lag spikes disconnect entire party, no bandwidth fluctuation notifications.

+4 crafting system combines resources gathered to improve combat system guns, armor and vehicle.

+2 scan data ties into crafting system

-2 crafting system only has 1 level of augments to modify blueprints.

-2 research points require dedication to unlock all tiers of a single weapon or armor type. "lock in"
effect of research requires save scumming to "test" other weapons or armors to not waste points.… Expand

Xiehu

Apr 2, 2017

1

this game is such a disappointment.
The game is boring and ugly.
The story is so disengaging I did NOT want to know what would come next.
Characters are flat and dull.
Any choice you make is an illusion.
Looks more like fan mode than 60 $ game.
Stay away.

TUmaDO

Apr 22, 2017

4

I Am a hardcore fan of mass effect series ,and some parts of mass 2 and 3 left me in tears,it was a amazing experience!
So i was so hyped about Andromeda , i could n´t even sleep right , as soon it was out i bought ,even knowing about all the terrible gifs and videos from the beta,and people saying it would get better after 10 hours...
I finished about a week ago,my view of "theI Am a hardcore fan of mass effect series ,and some parts of mass 2 and 3 left me in tears,it was a amazing experience!
So i was so hyped about Andromeda , i could n´t even sleep right , as soon it was out i bought ,even knowing about all the terrible gifs and videos from the beta,and people saying it would get better after 10 hours...

I finished about a week ago,my view of "the game" is a absolute disappointment,the terrible animation even with (1.5 update) it toke 85 hours to complete everything,the planet scanning is useless , it looks like the game is racist agains withe people because all the human dead bodies are bold and all withe, some upgrades are useless conversations feel like nothing you don´t get " that feeling of immersion",the amount of bugs and glitches reached the " next level"( can check my bug/glitch video).

All the people who said "gets better within 10 hours" no it doesn´t!,it goes beyond worst,broken quests or stuck,frustration with conversation that trigger the same answer,(basically saying what i dont want or misunderstanding of the question/answer) everyone said "ho its a new galaxy with new planets unexplored" almost all of the useless planets already have information about the *spoiler!* Angara people exploring them or the exile,the arks where very disappointing, i thought it would be epic to find them and free them but no its frustrating.

who suffer with epilepsy STAY AWAY!)
there is a glitch that hapends often that flashes in white (check part 2 video)

graphics are ok,looks clean and sharp ,but it need a lot of optimization(tested on pc)
game play is great,but if i was you compare Battlefront(third person) vs mass effect, they move and feel practically the same .

The explorable planets they all have they'r difference but after spending a lot of time doing every single quest/sidequest it begins to feel the same,you will find the same animals in all the planets,some mission are become repetitive,in *spoiler!* Kadar after you save the planet you can walk in the acid pools but there is no interaction so you can stand underwater,there are some unfinished places,you can find one in eos where there is a mountain floating and you can go with nomad just under it.

Mass effect Andromeda is a mess made by a sub studio with clearly no experience in making story rich games.

I slash a 4/10
Don´t buy wait until they partially fix it (because its impossible to fully fix),and get it cheaper,the money they ask for the game is not even close to acceptable.… Expand

AberrantResolve

Apr 21, 2017

2

The Mass Effect Trilogy is my favorite game series of all time, and this latest installment fails to measure up. I've been patiently waiting for nearly five years for it and it is a huge disappointment. Forget about the facial expressions, animations, menus, bugs, etc. I could live with those or wait for them to be patched. What they can't fix is the story and writing. It just isn'tThe Mass Effect Trilogy is my favorite game series of all time, and this latest installment fails to measure up. I've been patiently waiting for nearly five years for it and it is a huge disappointment. Forget about the facial expressions, animations, menus, bugs, etc. I could live with those or wait for them to be patched. What they can't fix is the story and writing. It just isn't engaging like the previous titles. Having spent about 40 hours grinding through this game the first few weeks, I have no desire to even finish it.… Expand

rkraiem100

May 4, 2017

0

This game does not exist.

The mass effect series died a glorious (although controversial) death with the end of mass effect 3. Was it a good ending, eh if you go by the indoctrination theory i guess but it was good for what it was. THEN COMES ALONG MASS EFFECT ****ING ANDROMEDA TO RUIN THE GREATNESS OF THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY!!! While the original trilogy was known for its amazing story,This game does not exist.

The mass effect series died a glorious (although controversial) death with the end of mass effect 3. Was it a good ending, eh if you go by the indoctrination theory i guess but it was good for what it was. THEN COMES ALONG MASS EFFECT ****ING ANDROMEDA TO RUIN THE GREATNESS OF THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY!!! While the original trilogy was known for its amazing story, great writing, unforgettable squad mates, and more, Andromeda takes all that and throws it out the air lock.

I think I now understand how star wars fans felt when the prequels came out cus this game is so ****ing terrible that if Bioware literally released a game where you play as Jar-Jar ****ing Binks and you just run around the citidel running errands, THAT would be a better game, in fact that would be such a good game by comparison I wouldnt even hesitate to give it game of the ****ing century when compared to this turd.

Here are a list of complaints I personally have with the game:

- The writing comes across as bad fan fiction AT BEST. All the characters are bland and boring, uninspired, etc. I've played indie games with a fraction of the budget that have better writing. When games like Hyperdimension Neptunia, a meta joke of a franchise literally with 1/1000th of the budget specifically made to make fun of the video game industry have better writing than your AAA multi-million dollar game, you know you ****ed up (and I'm not saying Neptunia is bad (its actually super underrated), I'm saying that its sad that such a tiny game has better writing than a game with some of the best writers in video games)

- THERE IS SJW PANDERING EVERY 2 ****ING SECONDS!!! I WANTED TO ENJOY THIS GAME, I REALLY DID BUT THERE IS SO MUCH PANDERING I LITERALLY CANT PLAY IT WITHOUT PUKING!!! HOW THE FLYING **** DO U GO FROM GEMS LIKE MASS EFFECT 2 AND ARGUABLY 3 (except the ending), WITH SMART AND UNBIAS POLITICAL COMMENTARY, WHERE YOU DECIDE WHATS RIGHT, TO SOMETHING THAT IS SO BIAS AND PANDERING TO SJWS THAT ITS UNPLAYABLE??

- THE GLITCHES!!! Keep in mind that i generally dont care if a game is buggy as long as its good. For example, Xcom 2 is broken on PC to this day but it is so fun I can look past the bugs and give it a 10/10. When the story is bad, the writing is bad, the game is boring, AND THEN U ADD ON A TON OF GLITCHES, thats when I care about glitches

- THERE IS NOT A SINGLE INTERESTING CHARACTER IN THE ENTIRE GAME!!! FOR ****S SAKE KHALISAH AL-JILANI (The reporter that gets punched a lot from the original trilogy) HAD MORE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT THAN ANY CHARACTERS IN THIS ENTIRE ****ING GAME!!!

- SQUADMATES ARE USELESS

- SQUADMATES ARE BORING, ALSO PEEBEE HAS THE VERY DEFINITION OF A STEREOTYPICAL SJW VOICE!!! I WANTED TO ROMANCE HER BUT I CANT GET PAST HOW MUCH OF A ****ING PSYCOTIC SJW SHE SOUNDS LIKE... Ok fine Drax is a ok character but thats it. I WISH HE WAS IN THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY THO, A 1500 YEAR OLD KROGAN, HOW LEGEND!!!

- EXPLORING IS BORING

- THEY ****ED UP MULTIPLAYER, ME3 multiplayer was good, they ****ed up the balance and now its really really bad.

- CAN YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THERE ARE LITERALLY ONLY 2 ALIENS IN THE ENTIRE GALAXY??

- The game doesnt even respect its own lore let alone previously established lore. Pay attention while playing, soooo many inconsistencies. Also why the **** would they not bring omni-gel, this stuff literally heals any life threatening wound in seconds and works on most species yet you chose not to bring this amazing invention?

- I couldnt care less about the bad guys

- The menus are worse than vanilla skyrim

- No paragon/renegade.

- it does not feel like a mass effect game.

- I CANT RUN THE GAME WITH MY GRAPHICS CARD OVERCLOCKED SINCE IT THINKS I REMOVED IT IF I RUN OVERCLOCK, IF THAT WERE THE CASE I WOULD GET A BLUE SCREEN.

- I was hyped for 5 ****ing years for this turd. 5... *****ING... YEARS... This game is the most blatant cash grab I've ever seen

- I would list more... but my face is tired

Anyways. I will never, EVER, be buying a bioware game ever again. This is the worst game I've ever played NO QUESTIONS ASKED, and no i'm not exaggerating. Now if you will excuse me I'm going to go play big rigs since that is a FAR superior game… Expand

ShiverinEskimo

Apr 18, 2017

4

Huge fan of the first trilogy which I replayed prior to release to get back in the groove. Probably the worst thing I could have done in hindsight as it only highlighted even more the fall from grace that Bioware have achieved with Andromeda. In the first hour you'll experience the tedium that stays with you for the rest of your experience. The breadcrumb-style fetch quests and totalHuge fan of the first trilogy which I replayed prior to release to get back in the groove. Probably the worst thing I could have done in hindsight as it only highlighted even more the fall from grace that Bioware have achieved with Andromeda. In the first hour you'll experience the tedium that stays with you for the rest of your experience. The breadcrumb-style fetch quests and total over-reliance on scanning ends up turning everything you do into such a chore to the point where even Ryder themselves makes frequent comments about the fact that 'nothing is ever simple'. When loading times and travel times between zones and planets are this long and you're on stage 4 of a 5 or 6 stage fetch quest between planets you start to get pretty frustrated pretty fast. Navpoint after navpoint for simple, non-consequential quests become infuriating and the rewards for completing these quests are minimal.

The main protaganist is as far away from Shepherd as Andromeda is from the Milky Way in terms of being a character you can invest in and relate to. Where a huge part of Shepherd's character was being a champion of a cause that people could rally to, Ryder comes across throughout as a character out of their depth and painfully cringey in certain conversations. Perhaps having the Andromeda Initiative being a corporate-type project means that it loses that sense of authority or duty and ends up feeling like you're playing as an employee of a company you find hard to care about. Having the military theme in the original trilogy representing the species gave a sense of gravity to your actions. Not so in Andromeda.

While there are quite a few technical hiccups throughout the game it's not these technical issues that hold the game back. It's a huge, lush canvass that Bioware did a great job in building and decorating but it's the lack of engaging characters, storylines and quests that let the game down. None of the crew of the tempest evoke anything close to what the crew of the Normandy did with ease in the original trilogy and this results in even their personal quests becoming yet another distraction and a further chore on a long list of chores. The enemies you fight aren't nearly varied enough and while there are a few hairy situations thrown at you, overall you'll find a one-fits-all strategy early on and then go through the motions with it throughout. Not having access to your companion's powers in combat only highlights how removed your companions are from the experience. Combat often feels like a lonely affair as a result and the devastating combos you could launch in the original trilogy are underpowered and restricted to your own three powers only. The gun play and cover system is good but the choice to remove control over your companions was a mistake in my opinion as your companions just aren't as valuable to you in combat as they were in the original trilogy.

Overall a huge disappointment that failed in the writing room long before the artists and designers got to work. Bugs can be patched but there's nothing they can do about childish writing, hammy dialogue and soul-less breadcrumb quests. Swing and a miss from Bioware.… Expand

dukaduka12

Apr 25, 2017

3

I was so hyped for this game a year ago, now because of that my disappointment is even greater.
I couldn't believe that was even possible for a Bio-ware game, such an amazing studio once, to fall in every aspect of this game so deep that it looks like it was made ten years ago by some indie studio.
Now i tried to play this game, even made like half way through and it wasn't theI was so hyped for this game a year ago, now because of that my disappointment is even greater.
I couldn't believe that was even possible for a Bio-ware game, such an amazing studio once, to fall in every aspect of this game so deep that it looks like it was made ten years ago by some indie studio.

Now i tried to play this game, even made like half way through and it wasn't the horrible animations or the terrible looking characters that were the worst part of it. Oh no. The writing and the voice acting in this game are absolutely the worst i have seen in a triple AAA game in my life. And I've been playing games for 20 years now almost.

The writing is so bad, uninteresting, boring, stupid, the stuff that's coming out of their mouth looks like it was written by a 13 year old, and combined with hideous voice acting makes the whole game looking like a joke, like couple of kids went to space to have fun.
Characters laughing in death threatening situations, making stupid jokes all the time, saying sentences that would never be used in real life by humans, main character with a voice actor so bad, that it's a chore to play. There is basically no any kind of emotion shown by any of the characters, the whole thing looks terrible.

Graphics are nothing special, combat is interesting but far less then previous Mass Effect games in my opinion, personally i didn't like the new automatic cover system but that's subjective.

The whole exploration thing just doesn't suite to a Mass Effect game. Quests are boring and annoying most of them is just killing enemies and fetching some thing over and over and over again.
The interface options, weapon crafting and menus in general are a complete mess. Map is also bad looks really poor.
Every aspect and game component of this game is so downgraded and so bad, except maybe the combat, that i think it deserves the user rating it received.… Expand

Winterpsy

Sep 7, 2017

4

Animations, voice acting and facial graphics would had been good 10 years ago. Sadly, Mass Effect cannot compete with today's most popular games. Even more, new games released in the past couple years raised the expectation so much it hurts to look at Andromeda. Feels like playing with an old-timer game.
UI: Menus are a maze, no minimap, or quick access to the map. You get a new codex /Animations, voice acting and facial graphics would had been good 10 years ago. Sadly, Mass Effect cannot compete with today's most popular games. Even more, new games released in the past couple years raised the expectation so much it hurts to look at Andromeda. Feels like playing with an old-timer game.
UI: Menus are a maze, no minimap, or quick access to the map. You get a new codex / journal entry every second, so it's very easy to get lost in what's going on.

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

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

Cover-system is very unreliable and clunky.… Expand

DarknesShade

Aug 30, 2017

10

Amazing Story, Amazing Characters, Amazing Gameplay and Amazing Soundtrack
why people choose this game to hate on? i have no idea, the graphics? really? is so weird seeing people dissing the graphics, they are fine! and bugs on launch day? like with most games?
the only negative thing in this entire game will be the lack of DLC

Merithyn

Apr 17, 2017

5

Music: What happened? Composer change? They supposedly (as they put it) "modernized" already established music from the original trilogy. But in reality If you ask me they cut the good parts out and what was left is pitiful.

Combat: Great actually. Exploring space: Please no more zooming in and zooming out. I got a headache after 3 planets! And guess what it cannot be skipped.Music: What happened? Composer change? They supposedly (as they put it) "modernized" already established music from the original trilogy. But in reality If you ask me they cut the good parts out and what was left is pitiful.

Combat: Great actually.

Exploring space: Please no more zooming in and zooming out. I got a headache after 3 planets! And guess what it cannot be skipped.

Story: There is a ton of MMO style side quest which make playing the game feel like a chore. The main story is not actually that bad but could be much, much better. Weak start, weak middle and then at the end there is a ton of action, revelations, emotions and dialogues all packed into maybe 2 hours?
As it is the epilogue just painfully points out all the lacking things leading to it.

Dialogues: Didn't feel like there was any choices at all. And jokes... so many jokes. Why put in so many jokes in the space opera? It felt dumbed down. If the target audience is young children I understand otherwise...… Expand

HeadyWook

Aug 27, 2017

6

Finally got around to playing it. It was fun but it got pretty boring after the initial 2-3 planet terraforming completions. It was an entertaining game while the moment lasted but I wasn't even inspired enough to finish the main story line.

Hirdannen

Apr 9, 2017

7

This second review is based upon completion of the Game on a lower-end PC. It includes some of the modifications from patch 1.05. I sold my PS4 game, bought at discount the PC version in English. I played the PS4 version in french, where voiceover was just tragical... In English it's slightly better. Game is more playable thanks to the controls. On a Asus G75VW with a GTX660M, MEA runsThis second review is based upon completion of the Game on a lower-end PC. It includes some of the modifications from patch 1.05. I sold my PS4 game, bought at discount the PC version in English. I played the PS4 version in french, where voiceover was just tragical... In English it's slightly better. Game is more playable thanks to the controls. On a Asus G75VW with a GTX660M, MEA runs fairly well I must say and I'm astonished to see very few difference with the PS4 version in terms of graphics. Facial animation is equal to my graphic quality, so i'm less shocked by it now.

Mass Effect Andromeda has shocked upon its release because it couldn't be compared to older brothers ME2 & ME3. And it is the case, if you remove the Mass Effect Unvierse, it has very few similarities with its ancestors. However, it is still a game worth of your time if you like Science-Fiction or Action-TPS. And if you really like Mass Effect, it is still a pleasing experience given time.

My first review on PS4 was based on the beginning of the game which was poorly written. Also I had much more trouble playing MEA with a gamepad than with the keyboard + mouse. Some of the defaults I pointed out are still there, but you can adapt to most of them.

Characters don't start as intereseting but their interactions and loyalty sidequests make them more interesting with time. The interactions between your companions in the Nomad Buggy are better than the rest, and some puns are actually funny. I began to interest myself in them because of these moments. Also in the end of the game, they become useful despite their poor AI (the Krogan ressurects itself, Cora regenerates your shield constantly, that kind of things...).

The planets are bigger once you've "unlocked" them and in the latter game. I find the first 3 planets to be boring compared to the last ones, which is why I found exploration to be useless at first. But you will spend a lot of time in your buggy just rolling around, mining and fighting to get some loot. There is a lot of little sidequests everywhere which feel exactly like ME1, but with a lot more content.

Crafting is difficult to understand at first and very costly in terms of materials, which makes experimentation very difficult. It's very easy to make a completely useless weapon with this system. However when you know what you do, you can make some weird but enjoyable weapon combinations (a continuous laser blaster whose ammunitions bounce everywhere, a sniper rifle transformed in some sorts of overpowered cluster grenade launcher or a rifle which uses your health to fire without ammunition or reloading) which make it worthwhile to scout the galaxy in search of precious materials.

Combat favorites are unintuitive when you come from ME2 and ME3. You can really enjoy them when you've got a lot of experience points to spare to make builds for each type of encounter. For example my Ryder is a Adept/Engineer with pure biotic builds, sentinel builds and engineer builds depending if I fight humans, robots or armored enemies.

Game is still mostly buggy, but at least it never crashed on my pc. Bugs can be overlooked when it doesn't stop you from playing 11 hours straight.

In the end, I raised the note to a 7, because I still enjoyed the game. The combat is the best part for sure, the universe and social interaction are less than ME2 or ME3 but still better than competition. And frankly I don't know many better sci-fi games than this one actually.… Expand

miraneitan

Jun 20, 2017

3

I've only returned two games in my "Career" as a gamer. I've been playing space simulators and science fiction games since the atari, and I have to say, I'm actually impressed at how poorly executed this game was. I hate to throw rocks at game makers, as I know it's not an easy job, but come on. You're a multimillion dollar company, how about putting some of that into your product ratherI've only returned two games in my "Career" as a gamer. I've been playing space simulators and science fiction games since the atari, and I have to say, I'm actually impressed at how poorly executed this game was. I hate to throw rocks at game makers, as I know it's not an easy job, but come on. You're a multimillion dollar company, how about putting some of that into your product rather than advertising. Riding the wave of three previous best sellers should give you some umph behind your product.

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

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

It didn't hook me in the slightest. I played it for about eight hours and was still able to return it. Might return in a year or so when it drops to the bargain bin.… Expand

GullsFan

Jul 15, 2017

10

I have played the campaign numerous times and enjoyed the content and story very much. I ignored all the negative press and played it and loved it! There are so many quests and missions and some of your crew are so well written ... notice I said some. I am an avid Mass Effect series fan this has to played as a separate story. If you go into it as a continuation than you will have somethingI have played the campaign numerous times and enjoyed the content and story very much. I ignored all the negative press and played it and loved it! There are so many quests and missions and some of your crew are so well written ... notice I said some. I am an avid Mass Effect series fan this has to played as a separate story. If you go into it as a continuation than you will have something to complain about. You shouldn't... but people do.… Expand

VashTheStampede

Aug 7, 2017

10

Fantastic game! First Mass Effect game for me and I loved it! Graphics are awesome, quests are deep and driven, characters are intriguing and unique, open space exploration is just phenomenal. Overall, awesome game takes you for a great ride! Would recommend to any gamer!

Szandos

Sep 11, 2017

9

Much better than I was lead to believe from the internet. The game has taken a huge bashing, which is not fair.

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

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

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

However, it is a beautiful game, the fighting is awesome and the companions are fun. Even if it's not the best in the seriies, it is still well worth getting and much much better than the critics on the internet might have lead you to believe.… Expand

Sitropy

Jun 26, 2019

10

Waaaay underrated.

I have played all mass effect games and Andromeda is a great game, with new characters and story.
Give it a try, just don't expect Shepard.

Vulf

Mar 26, 2017

1

Bioware games until now have always made me care about my companions. And this game breaks it. Taking away the option to control their powers in combat is a stupid decision. WTF bioware. Why are they even in my squad when I cant even control them? All I can ask them to do is - go here, go there. The joy of working together with your companions to bring down an enemy was awesome in theBioware games until now have always made me care about my companions. And this game breaks it. Taking away the option to control their powers in combat is a stupid decision. WTF bioware. Why are they even in my squad when I cant even control them? All I can ask them to do is - go here, go there. The joy of working together with your companions to bring down an enemy was awesome in the trilogy. This game offers none of it. Wish I never pre-ordered it.… Expand

Skyrant

Mar 29, 2017

4

It is not the very limited character Editor, not the uncanny looks of the characters faces. it's not the amateur animations, not the horrible AI of your companions. It is not the many bugs or the repetitive and boring scanning mechanic.

It is all the above combine with some of the worst, cringe worthy, worse than fan-fiction writing that makes this 4th incarnation of Mass Effect theIt is not the very limited character Editor, not the uncanny looks of the characters faces. it's not the amateur animations, not the horrible AI of your companions. It is not the many bugs or the repetitive and boring scanning mechanic.

It is all the above combine with some of the worst, cringe worthy, worse than fan-fiction writing that makes this 4th incarnation of Mass Effect the worst and possible the last of the series.

If we consider that a 1 means unplayable, 5 would be an average game and 10 a game of the century classic, i think a 4 is well deserved and probably too nice still.

#BelowAverage #BargainBin #DonNotBuy… Expand

gimus

Apr 22, 2017

0

Thanks to a bug (one of millions) I can not end the game and load it from last save point, I must play again from the beginning, frustrating! And no response from Origin or EA. Thank you, very big pitty of money. I love ME 1-3, but this is not mass effect, this is **** Be carefull on your wallets.

Noalan

Apr 1, 2017

0

As it stands now this game should not have been released. It's buggy and ugly. Bioware has promised to update it, I'll revisit this score after that happens. For now, do not buy, wait for a big price drop (Maybe even humble bundle), patches, and/or for the modding community to fix it.

icedog

Apr 21, 2017

1

I loved the other Mass Effect games in the series but this one has been poorly made .Story line has been done before and the fighting mechanics is slow and difficult . Graphic is average but there are odd times when your legs dont move but you are walking around .The game was should be properly fixed before releasing the game with all these bugs .

ShaneHido

Jun 11, 2017

3

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Andromeda is another reminder why not to pre-order games. I have lost all faith in Bioware after this title. Just such a shame, it could have been so great! The god-awful characters/dialogue/storyline make this a waste of time. The story was remarkably annoying and lets just say the wrong character dies at the start of the game.… Expand

lokk

May 5, 2017

4

Mass Effect Andromeda is not a bad game. It's good game with many good positive things, but it is not enough to be the awesome, great game like Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for example.

MEA has strong connection with previous games in ME universe. And this is a main reason why so many people hate MEA and why this game has been forgotten so fast. The trilogy had a really strong characters,Mass Effect Andromeda is not a bad game. It's good game with many good positive things, but it is not enough to be the awesome, great game like Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for example.

MEA has strong connection with previous games in ME universe. And this is a main reason why so many people hate MEA and why this game has been forgotten so fast.

The trilogy had a really strong characters, excellent story, interesting gameplay things like dialogue system, paragon/renegad system and more. All these things made Mass Effect a super action-rpg.

Unfortunately MEA mostly has bad things like bad animations, bugs, poor story, bad characters including main character which you are playing. Scott/Sara Ryder is nothing more than son/daughter of Alliance hero Alek Ryder without SAM. Without SAM you can't solve about 80% of problems in Andromeda, you just a body who can shooting and killing. On other side shooting part in this game is really cool, nice combinations of skills, jet-pack, profiles which allow you to play so many different roles in combat.

As a ME fan i am really dissapointed in this game and wouldn't reccomend to buy it to someone.… Expand

Galarto

Jul 11, 2017

8

I start playing the game after release of the 1.08 patch. Despite of many bad reviews from here, i was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the content. The experience of exploration is amazing with very good SF details, the graphics is high level and i love the main theme music. The storyline become solid only if your involvement is deeper, reading of the scrip from reports, emails orI start playing the game after release of the 1.08 patch. Despite of many bad reviews from here, i was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the content. The experience of exploration is amazing with very good SF details, the graphics is high level and i love the main theme music. The storyline become solid only if your involvement is deeper, reading of the scrip from reports, emails or codex is a part of RPG style. The gameplay is very exciting and entertaining. What i have to reproach, is the poor optimisation, low level of cast & crew, and some animations. This game is massive underrated, but i don't surprise me, especially when I see so many maincraft players.… Expand

Tecco

Apr 16, 2017

4

Why does everything have to be openworld nowadays, it just waters down everything.
ME:A is no different.
They spent so much time making "Open World" and so little making a what made the ME games truly special and lovable. We dont want a billion cubicmeters of coal Bioware! We want a flawless gem!, The size is irellevant!!! Quantity is worthless without quality. To be honest it feelsWhy does everything have to be openworld nowadays, it just waters down everything.
ME:A is no different.
They spent so much time making "Open World" and so little making a what made the ME games truly special and lovable.
We dont want a billion cubicmeters of coal Bioware! We want a flawless gem!, The size is irellevant!!!
Quantity is worthless without quality.
To be honest it feels like it is made by completely different people. People who dont understand the universe, and just dont really care.… Expand

Hitmanforrent

Mar 30, 2017

4

It's pretty bad. The combat feels okay, but the story and characters are lifeless. The main character is painfully boring. Technical issues don't help the story.

Deliverance91

Apr 1, 2017

3

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Its like bioware is really trying hard to make their games **** on every iteration. Like inquisition, andromeda lacks soul. Its just an insane timesink, walking through emtpy worlds killing of enemies that will respawn 2 moments later. Companions are stereotypes and boring. No plottwists, no interesting stories to them. Main story line is just another version of biowares 'evil race comes from nowhere and mutates other races' as already seen with the darkspawn and the reapers. The combat is entertaining for some time but thats all this game has. Biowares trademark was in developing sophisticated characters and after this mess im inclined to say, they have lost the people who could create them.… Expand

MaxShine

Apr 2, 2017

4

The review is only concerned with the single player. I liked this game better than DA:I because at least the combat is quite fun. Maybe this is the new Bioware style where there is a quasi open world with huge areas where you can collect stuff that you don't need (really you don't need all this stuff) in a single player MMO fashion.
Bioware's Mass Effect was known for being a story-drivenThe review is only concerned with the single player. I liked this game better than DA:I because at least the combat is quite fun. Maybe this is the new Bioware style where there is a quasi open world with huge areas where you can collect stuff that you don't need (really you don't need all this stuff) in a single player MMO fashion.
Bioware's Mass Effect was known for being a story-driven action RPG. In this game only the main quest is truly story-driven. Even the companion quests have very few cutscenes and are not nearly as intense and connected to the main quest as in ME2, they are really shallow and I did not even do some of them which seemed to have no consequences.
This is really a game where I would have wished for less content and smaller worlds, but then let the side or companion quests be more intense and not fetch X from A and bring it to B.
You can get easily sidetracked by such quests and then get bored to death. I really recommend not doing these quests if you want to enjoy the little parts of this game that are enjoyable.
If this quasi open world type of game is the new Bioware style, I have to say I don't like it at all. I don't buy Bioware games for fetch quests and grinding. I would really like to see Bioware returning to making less quests and smaller game worlds, but better and more polished quests and places.
Couple that with the ridiculous SJW agenda, creepy animations and a lot of the humans being some kind of grotesque ethnomix you get a game of which one wants to avoid a lot of the content to not get bored, enraged or repulsed. In previous Mass Effect games the soundtrack contributed a great deal to the epic gaming moments these games delivered. While the main quest of this game has some good moments it never reaches the level of epicness, immersion and intensity of its predecessors.… Expand

Bigtrav

Apr 2, 2017

3

This game would rate at an 8 or 9 if it wasn't for all the game breaking bugs. These bugs where reported weeks ago with hundreds of other people having the same problems and nothing has been done not even an acknowledgment that they are working on a fix.

pescyn

Apr 5, 2017

3

welcome to ME:A glitch simulator, You will be amazed by some sh*t You will see here .... oh and one more thing - we don't have attractive female protagonist because it's 2017.

sirArterius

May 12, 2017

0

PEOPLE DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. IT IS NOT WORTH EVEN A HALF OF THE PRICE.
IT IS NOT MASS EFFECT AT ALL
I am a big Mass Effect fan. I played M1, M2, M3 more than 2k hours in total. I've completed ME2 10 times. I played 300 hours in ME3 Multiplayer. I've preordered Mass Effect Andromeda ... I knew the single player could be a total disaster and it is a TOTAL DISASTER. Even worse than IPEOPLE DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. IT IS NOT WORTH EVEN A HALF OF THE PRICE.
IT IS NOT MASS EFFECT AT ALL
I am a big Mass Effect fan. I played M1, M2, M3 more than 2k hours in total. I've completed ME2 10 times. I played 300 hours in ME3 Multiplayer.
I've preordered Mass Effect Andromeda ... I knew the single player could be a total disaster and it is a TOTAL DISASTER. Even worse than I expected.
But at least I hoped for a decent Multiplayer ... it's not. I tried, I really tried hard to like it. I returned back to Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer now.
Don't repeat my mistake. Don't buy it.… Expand

Aeon_Amadi

Apr 2, 2017

1

TL;DR - There's a lot wrong with it, but all you need to know from me is this: FPS drops like crazy, hard-freezing galore, rubber-banding in multiplayer, etc. Game will lock down your entire PC and EA Support will just tell you to turn off Origin Overlay over and over again instead of actually helping you. Only game I have in my library (out of over $2,500 worth of games on Steam/Origin)TL;DR - There's a lot wrong with it, but all you need to know from me is this: FPS drops like crazy, hard-freezing galore, rubber-banding in multiplayer, etc. Game will lock down your entire PC and EA Support will just tell you to turn off Origin Overlay over and over again instead of actually helping you. Only game I have in my library (out of over $2,500 worth of games on Steam/Origin) that does this. I'd play the story mode if it was worth a **** but this un-optimized trash might melt my rig.… Expand

TEJR

Mar 31, 2017

3

Exactly those animations who everyone talks about, are the main reason I just couldn't take this game seriously nor get into the story properly.
When Liam's head just turns around 20 times while I was talking with him... just no.
Stop trying to protect those who did this, give them hell people, when you will keep your **** pink glasses on they won't stop making **** like this. Fire thatExactly those animations who everyone talks about, are the main reason I just couldn't take this game seriously nor get into the story properly.
When Liam's head just turns around 20 times while I was talking with him... just no.
Stop trying to protect those who did this, give them hell people, when you will keep your **** pink glasses on they won't stop making **** like this.
Fire that **** who was a leader of the animation team, hire someone who knows what's up.
You would be fired in any other job for doing your job miserable so I don't know why it can't be the same here. On the other hand space itself looks awesome, until you wanna travel somewhere and watch that stupid animation 50 times.… Expand

Spiritwalker13

Mar 31, 2017

3

Game is choppy, and crashes. The Characters have the jitters while talking to them, seem to be paranoid with rapid eye movements, and wide eyed frightened stares. Some choices are made before the player gets to decide. I had an issue with deluxe items for the single player campaign failing to load (Armors and weapons only), and was told by EA Help it was unsolvable, I had to wait and seeGame is choppy, and crashes. The Characters have the jitters while talking to them, seem to be paranoid with rapid eye movements, and wide eyed frightened stares. Some choices are made before the player gets to decide. I had an issue with deluxe items for the single player campaign failing to load (Armors and weapons only), and was told by EA Help it was unsolvable, I had to wait and see if the next update would might fix it. Overall it is a prime example of the poor judgement Bioware used in allowing EA the entangle them in a massive, uncaring, money only mentality.… Expand

iznano

Apr 20, 2017

2

Здравствуйте дорогие игроки. Я играл во все предыдущие части ME. Однако андромеда это плохая игра. Про анимацию и диалоги сказано много. Хочется отметить плохую боевку. ИИ напарников очень плох, бросают гранаты в стены, не атакуют противника - не выполняют команды. Развитие планет должно было быть как в классических песочницах, сначала орбитальный модуль, потом космопорт, потом строения,Здравствуйте дорогие игроки. Я играл во все предыдущие части ME. Однако андромеда это плохая игра. Про анимацию и диалоги сказано много. Хочется отметить плохую боевку. ИИ напарников очень плох, бросают гранаты в стены, не атакуют противника - не выполняют команды. Развитие планет должно было быть как в классических песочницах, сначала орбитальный модуль, потом космопорт, потом строения, все это улучшать, добывать ресы и т.п. Однако этого нет. Есть маяк - черный экран (даже эпичной заставки под 2 spers from helll нету, сэкономили) - готовая колония на 10 домов. И все. Особенно бредово выглядит внутреннее убранство корабля которое больше чем корпус. Вообщем игру оцениваю на 3 из 10. Какая-то плохая смесь borderlands и трешачкового космосима.… Expand

Calders

Apr 1, 2017

2

Very meh in every way... maybe some nice looking environments but ultimately it leaves you feeling unfulfilled. Just like DAI it proves that open worlds and exploration are the enemy of well paced and well constructed story telling. As for the look of all the female characters in the game I have no words... put it this way, we know how the Asari selected their recruits for the missionn.Very meh in every way... maybe some nice looking environments but ultimately it leaves you feeling unfulfilled. Just like DAI it proves that open worlds and exploration are the enemy of well paced and well constructed story telling. As for the look of all the female characters in the game I have no words... put it this way, we know how the Asari selected their recruits for the missionn. This is an own goal for Bioware because it makes the game feel uninspiring and ugly. It seems clear that Bioware are more interested in pleasing feminists than they are interested in pleasing gamers.… Expand

Sbiritou

Jul 15, 2017

0

I finally understood why Andromeda didn't include Quarians: It's because Tali have better facial animations than this garbage of a "game". No amount of Garrus calibrations can save this trainwreck. For once EA made a good decision by dropping the ball on the current hacks. Bioware is in urgent need for a reboot., yet some diehard biodrones fail to see how low the company sunk and all theyI finally understood why Andromeda didn't include Quarians: It's because Tali have better facial animations than this garbage of a "game". No amount of Garrus calibrations can save this trainwreck. For once EA made a good decision by dropping the ball on the current hacks. Bioware is in urgent need for a reboot., yet some diehard biodrones fail to see how low the company sunk and all they care about is their alien sex fix. Animations are crap but so is the story, ui and dialogues. i expected nothing and still I was disappointed.… Expand

eyalbentancur

May 16, 2017

0

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

meskus123

Mar 30, 2017

4

This just isn't a good Mas effect or game in general. As with Dragon Age developer went wrong way and lost it. Technical problems it has are something that AAA game shouldn't have on release, even indie games usually don't have so much of them in early access. So for price they charge those are offending for buyers. I see many people say that bugs and glitches will be correctedThis just isn't a good Mas effect or game in general. As with Dragon Age developer went wrong way and lost it. Technical problems it has are something that AAA game shouldn't have on release, even indie games usually don't have so much of them in early access. So for price they charge those are offending for buyers. I see many people say that bugs and glitches will be corrected later, sure, but right now they are still there and influence what you get out of it so much that it must be shown in scoring. Therefore score of 10 is just impossible, pure fantasy if you played game at all. I really don't think graphics are or should be most important in this kind of games, few glitches or bad animations don't make me hate a game, but also just good graph. doesn't make me love it. There must be at least some level of standard in place. Below standard story, characters and experience sadly can not be fixed so easily. Like in last Dragon Age they made a single player MMORPG 'open world game' with lot of fetch or go there missions and lost a core of Mass Effect universe and feeling. If you wanted to make ME online it would probably be right way to go but even then more would be needed. To be honest its not so bad as to get 0 score outright, that also is mistake. It has good points, some very good even, combat, driving, free exploring, arcade jumping and puzzle solving, but that's not what ME game should be. I mean if you like those things Myst, Truck simulator, Call of duty, Far cry, Horison ND or Tomb rider does it better respectfully. I understand that, maybe, someone wanted to go in new direction, try something new and its OK. Look at original ME or Witcher, every game something new, some better some not. But then you must do much better job and preparations . For me this game go in same basket with likes of X-com and C &C shooters, D&D fighting games Minecraft adventures etc., nice try, fresh ideas and so, but not good enough. It can be done, Star Wars proved it by having good and great games in wide range of genres. When it isn't up to the level better to scrap it or redo it like Blizzard did few times . Of course EA is in it for cash and all other be damned so they will continue to ship half finished, bad games for full AAA price. They tricked me with Dragon Age Inq. , for this game I had my doubts but choose to put my faith in Bioware and reviews saying that its not so bad, my bad as it happens. This game has lots of good ideas, some even work, others don't. I used to respect and trust Bioware , sadly not anymore. EA killed Bioware we loved and left a Zombie in its place moaning "we will improve, just give cash, more cash". Not for me. CD Red proved that you can make evolution/ revolution in a series and genre with Witcher and Gwent even, inXile that you can make good games with old formula and little creativity. EA and Bioware of today have shown us how not to do it and how to kill good ideas and series with bad work and conviction that anything sells with good enough marketing. Funs will by for old glory sake and others will by if you make it simple and just a little more LGBT and creationist "correct". Go with a time man, who needs story, characters and immersion, funny faces, jumping and dirt racing is a must. Next one will probably be ME Andromeda Farmville… Expand

Amoren

Apr 2, 2017

2

A complete disappointment on every level. The only aspect of the game that's remotely descent is combat. But its a bugged experience, with every minute finding a new way to betray the setting's established lore. Combat quickly becomes easy and generic with few enemies that all use the same tactics and an AI that is so bad that it'll not properly use cover and focus on enemies on the otherA complete disappointment on every level. The only aspect of the game that's remotely descent is combat. But its a bugged experience, with every minute finding a new way to betray the setting's established lore. Combat quickly becomes easy and generic with few enemies that all use the same tactics and an AI that is so bad that it'll not properly use cover and focus on enemies on the other side of the room over you being right next to them. What there is of a story is paper thin and still feels stretched over a short game, the side content feels more tedious than interesting or engaging, and nothing you do feels like it has an impact on the world. Made all the worse that the ending doesn't care what actions you've taken, and in fact makes all the efforts of the character up to that point pointless.

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

dadovan

Apr 5, 2017

3

I love the Mass Effect series, but the current state of this game is unfortunately quite buggy. I don't mean perf issues or crashes, I mean simple, obvious bugs:

* NPCs have triggers so they say important things at important times which is great, except every time I walk over the trigger spot I hear "Watch out - Kett!" even long after I've dispatched that batch of enemies. * I getI love the Mass Effect series, but the current state of this game is unfortunately quite buggy. I don't mean perf issues or crashes, I mean simple, obvious bugs:

* NPCs have triggers so they say important things at important times which is great, except every time I walk over the trigger spot I hear "Watch out - Kett!" even long after I've dispatched that batch of enemies.
* I get lost easy (my fault; not the game's) so I am a heavy user of the overlay map. I find myself always having to zoom in on the overlap map and getting frustrated by the very slow zoom speed.
* Like everyone else mentions, there are issues with some of the voice acting and animations. (Technically, these may not be classified as bugs but since they break my suspension of disbelief, I'm lumping them in here)
* Lots of times when I'm talking with NPCs, they completely disappear from view (usually hidden behind some in-world object, sometimes by my own avatar).

I pre-ordered the Deluxe Edition on Origin and now regret that decision. I've stopped playing and uninstalled the game (hoping EA is watching the uninstall count Origin reports). Like I said, I love the series and the story so far is interesting. My current plan is to give EA time to fix the annoyances I've found (and the ones I hadn't yet encountered after only 8 hours of gameplay). I'll revisit at the end of the year.… Expand

teufelsdroch

May 24, 2017

0

Oh no! It's a poorly written Bioware game! I bought it because I thought the criticism was about the graphics, which have changed little since the original ME...it's not that, it's that the writing & universe are wooden and unthinking...not because the project was too big but because EA has at last killed off/ignored all the creative individuals associated with this project...I'm sureOh no! It's a poorly written Bioware game! I bought it because I thought the criticism was about the graphics, which have changed little since the original ME...it's not that, it's that the writing & universe are wooden and unthinking...not because the project was too big but because EA has at last killed off/ignored all the creative individuals associated with this project...I'm sure they're there but no one creative was in charge of this thing. I am joining the rest of the mass effect fans saying this is awful, it's a replay of Dragon's Age 2 sucking the life out of a Bioware property...stay away, even if you like the series. May be the end of mass effect probably the last one I'll buy....EA put a writer in charge not MANY writers A writer!… Expand

Tempis

Jul 6, 2017

0

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

MRItech1211

Apr 5, 2017

5

60 hours in so far....The story is unoriginal, there is no sense of urgency. The planets are essentially a list of chores to do. The combat is good, but not good enough to make up for the rest of the games shortcomings. Environments are very nice. Human and Asari character models are horrendous, but most people know that already. There is enough bugs to make Bethesda cringe, most of which60 hours in so far....The story is unoriginal, there is no sense of urgency. The planets are essentially a list of chores to do. The combat is good, but not good enough to make up for the rest of the games shortcomings. Environments are very nice. Human and Asari character models are horrendous, but most people know that already. There is enough bugs to make Bethesda cringe, most of which are not game breaking, but on several occasions, made me lose progress and have to backtrack through a broken quest. I have encountered other game breaking bugs such as endless loading screens. The game has some redeeming qualities, but it falls way way short of what I expected from a 2017 game, after playing games like the Witcher 3, horizon zero dawn, this feels like a complete let down. The writing flat out sucks overall. There's a few moments where it shines, but there are way more moments that make you wonder what the heck the writers were thinking. In short, if you're a die hard mass effect fan, get it when it goes on sale for half off, and its been patched up. If you're a newcomer to the series, go play Horizon Zero Dawn. Way better sci-fi action RPG for the price tag.… Expand

Firewing2

Apr 3, 2017

6

I've almost completed this game after completing nearly every side quest (some were bugged and I couldn't finish them). About 90 hours played...

i'm a huge Bioware fanboy going back to Baldur's Gate, and this game is just disappointing. Not bad... but no where near what it could have been. I'm not one to knock a game because of bugs, especially if they're not game breaking, so I'llI've almost completed this game after completing nearly every side quest (some were bugged and I couldn't finish them). About 90 hours played...

i'm a huge Bioware fanboy going back to Baldur's Gate, and this game is just disappointing. Not bad... but no where near what it could have been.

I'm not one to knock a game because of bugs, especially if they're not game breaking, so I'll leave those issues up to the internet, but the animation is this game are not broken, they're just bad. Pee Bee is the only character whose face moves in anything like a normal persons. Half the conversations I'm in, I spend distracted by a face with a flat affect and seemingly random, jerky eye movements... which wouldn't be a deal breaker for me, except that the writing is equally bad. Dialog is flat and character development is non-existent. There are characters with really interesting backstories whose in-game personality is: "flat-toned shrug" (Cora, Vetra, Drack). 1400 year old Krogan who can remember the time before the Krogan rebellions and the genophage? Meh... sorta vaguely cranky old man, but not really... just mostly likes to hit stuff.

While not quite perfect, the original trilogy is probably my favorite video games of the last decade+. This game, I got bored 75% of the way through the story and forgot to play it for a week... How is that possible, BioWare? You can't even blame EA for this. The game isn't rushed, or incomplete, it's just not great.

That said, visually, the game is stunning. Space has never looked so good, which is great because it will force you to watch a 15 second flying animation every time you: Take off from a planet, land on a planet, fly to a new star system, fly to/between a planet in that star system, etc. My 90 hours of game play has to include 2-5 hours of watch my ship land, take off, or move between planets.

The combat is pretty solid. A step up from the original series, which is great, especially if you're a fan of ME:3s multiplayer, which is back in this game, more or less identically, which is not a complaint, I'm a fan.

But single player is the kind of underwhelming experience that makes me want to fire up ME:2 and 3 again, just for the pallet cleanser. I've never left an ME playing experience not slavering for the next game before...… Expand

TheFrog

Jun 30, 2017

4

This is the first ME that I don't complete. I had great expectations, and just before it was released, I replayed through ME3 to get in the right mood. Andromeda started off good, I was impressed by the improved graphics and awed by the number of unlockable skills. Then the very first mission crams really too much up together, and the story only gets worse from there. Where is thatThis is the first ME that I don't complete. I had great expectations, and just before it was released, I replayed through ME3 to get in the right mood. Andromeda started off good, I was impressed by the improved graphics and awed by the number of unlockable skills. Then the very first mission crams really too much up together, and the story only gets worse from there. Where is that "Explore the unknown" feeling, if anywhere you travel, someone already lives there? The characters are so bland and shallow that I can't even say I really disliked them. I just did not care.
Combat could have been a major improvement, fixing the flaws of the previous chapters, instead it was not realized to its full potential and ended up being worse. I loved the idea to have different power combinations to quickly adapt to different situations, but very quickly realized that everything is so uniform that you have exactly zero incentive to use the feature. Terrible, terrible ammo system. Meh weapons. Bad AI squadmates. And much more, but you get the vibe.
Last preorder from Bioware from me.… Expand

ThatGaymerGuyB

Jul 2, 2017

10

Stop comparing it to the trilogy and you'll be fine. Overall for a first game the characters are better the main character is more interesting and the exploration is awesome.

Wiktornax

Jul 28, 2017

10

This is very very good game with epic story and awesome graphics, but one thing... Face animations are weak, but rest is very good and in style of Mass Effect Trilogy.

EugeneRider

Oct 25, 2017

4

An utter disgrace to Mass Effect series. This, is an unfinished project that is hurried to the market.

Into it 5 or 6 hours, quit it indefinitely. After the patches, it's still impeccably bad. The facial expressions, animations, weird control. It doesn't feel ME. And do I need to clarify how bad a client Origin is? No screenshot function, awful transactions. And the game itself,An utter disgrace to Mass Effect series. This, is an unfinished project that is hurried to the market.

Into it 5 or 6 hours, quit it indefinitely.

After the patches, it's still impeccably bad. The facial expressions, animations, weird control. It doesn't feel ME. And do I need to clarify how bad a client Origin is? No screenshot function, awful transactions. And the game itself, sucks so bad gets into Origin Access just 3 or 4 months later. I appreciate the efforts from devs, this game, looks like Mass Effect but doesn't feel like it. The plot is inconsistent, and un-mesmerizing. Side missions are just as pointless as what Dragon Age Inquisition did. They are so pointless that you don't want to accept at all. Gladly they have that "no" option, unlike Fallout 4. The jokes are real, the roasts from Internet.

I would just like them to have a ME3 game. With the same engine, same structure, new plot new maps. Nothing big has to change, just details.

This game is so bad in so many levels. I quit the game after 5 or 6 hours. It's unfinished, so obvious. And they dropped the support for this unfinished game. Really? After the Araga encounter, I can feel the utter disrespect from devs, how they delivered this unfinished project. Boom. money grabbed and gone. Ranges from inconsistent plot, weird control, and animations. I'm done with this game.… Expand

post_no_bills

Mar 4, 2018

5

This game is not terrible. But it is certainly not particularly good.

One rule of thumb for video games, at least for me, is that they should be more interesting than re-watching shows on Netflix. This game does not pass that test. Here is how I see it: If you played Mass Effect 2 and loved it, then you will probably not like this game. It is very much like they took everythingThis game is not terrible. But it is certainly not particularly good.

One rule of thumb for video games, at least for me, is that they should be more interesting than re-watching shows on Netflix. This game does not pass that test.

Here is how I see it:

If you played Mass Effect 2 and loved it, then you will probably not like this game. It is very much like they took everything I either disliked or was indifferent to in the ME series and multiplied it by 100, and everything that actually made the series great was reduced.

I never really liked wandering around planets in that stupid truck. That is about 70% of the game now.
I never really liked scanning things. That is a huge part of the game now.
Mining? Didn't care for it. Hugely expanded.

And the stuff I did like? The combat missions that were the core of ME2? They are still there, but you have to suffer through hours of tedium between them. Most of the game seems to be driving around looking for people I don't care about to give me meaningless missions I don't care about which results in more driving around. Oh, and mining. And lots of puzzles. Yay, puzzles.

I spent a day and a half of my weekend playing this, and frankly I wish I'd spent it watchin Dr. Who reruns, or maybe cleaning my garage. In that entire time there was maybe 2 missions that were even close to what the normal missions in ME2 were like.

So, to sum it up:

Driving the truck around planets is boring.
Talking with people you don't care about is boring.
Solving puzzles is annoying.
Mining is boring.
The characters are not compelling.
The story arc is not compelling.
The interesting combat missions are too few and far between.
Tiny little meaningless battles in the middle of nowhere are absolutely no replacement for actual ME2-style missions.

I'm done. Thank God it was only $13. If I had paid full price I would be really annoyed.… Expand

ravenned

Jul 11, 2017

5

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

AbeMC

Sep 16, 2017

4

Mass Effect Andromeda disappoints in almost every major aspect, from lore to story. And the combat, while generally excellent, suffers from repetitive enemies and an annoying “profile” system that restricts how you play instead of providing the freedom that was promised. There are a few good moments (most in the loyalty missions), but they can’t make up for the failures.
Total size on myMass Effect Andromeda disappoints in almost every major aspect, from lore to story. And the combat, while generally excellent, suffers from repetitive enemies and an annoying “profile” system that restricts how you play instead of providing the freedom that was promised. There are a few good moments (most in the loyalty missions), but they can’t make up for the failures.
Total size on my hard-drive (after Patch 1.10): 47.3 GB

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

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

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

There are more issues that I could bring up, but I’m limited by space. Worth a purchase at $10, because there are a lot of things to do, the planets are vast, and the combat is fun. But don’t expect a Mass Effect game. I was prepared to give it an 8 or a 9, I was pumped and ready to explore a new galaxy with new characters. 4/10 because instead BioWare gave us a plethora of poor design choices coupled with the boring leftovers of last night’s feast - served cold.… Expand

Master_Kosa

Jul 24, 2017

7

So few days ago I got my hands on Mass Effect Andromeda and after 24h in game I have to say WTF all those bad reviews are about? The game is very good, it has everything I expected from Mass Effect series except for Paragon/Renegade system which I miss a bit. Story and characters are on par with previous games in series, in fact there is one dialogue that made me laugh so hard, somethingSo few days ago I got my hands on Mass Effect Andromeda and after 24h in game I have to say WTF all those bad reviews are about? The game is very good, it has everything I expected from Mass Effect series except for Paragon/Renegade system which I miss a bit. Story and characters are on par with previous games in series, in fact there is one dialogue that made me laugh so hard, something that I fail to remember to happen while playing a game.

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

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

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

So the conclusion on my side so far (I haven’t finished the game yet) is that game deserves at least 7.5/10. It would have been 8 if the scripting and glitches did not happen.… Expand

LaszloR1

Apr 16, 2017

5

ME:A is the most mediocre game I've ever played. The story for industry standards is not that bad, but still doesn't live up the ME standards. They had enough time to polish the game, but they couldn't or just didn't want to. Bioware had a good reputation to this point, but they managed to ruin it. This is just another shooter with some RPG elements, and what is an RPG without a greatME:A is the most mediocre game I've ever played. The story for industry standards is not that bad, but still doesn't live up the ME standards. They had enough time to polish the game, but they couldn't or just didn't want to. Bioware had a good reputation to this point, but they managed to ruin it. This is just another shooter with some RPG elements, and what is an RPG without a great story? The game had some cool mechanics, but this game just doesn't live up to the expectations. The game became a meme with many glitches posted to youtube and other social media sites. The facial animations are just amateur, I can't believe they could push out a game like this. I don't know if they made female characters worse looking, than males for the sake of social justice or just for being incompetent, altough they tried to fix it with a later patch. They are trying to fix the game as much as possible and I respect them for trying, but the game still remains mediocre. If you want to spend your hard earned money on something that is worth it try to avoid ME:A.… Expand

amiga4ever

Sep 15, 2017

9

The game is not that bad as all say here, if you have a decent pc, it will run great! like the game, the story, and the characters will improve as you play. The latest Patch improves this game a lot. I recommend it! You will get more then 100 hours to play through

sketchschmidt

Feb 16, 2020

10

I have seen alot of development for the game , i love mass effect . i know the begining of it was rough but i believe this game is still amazing and i really want to see a sequel to it since i have sunk 2395 hours into this game

Phazid

Mar 26, 2017

1

Bad. So, very, very bad. Now I can go into the absolutely atrocious animation like just about everyone else has, but let me tell you that what makes this game so terrible in comparison to it's predecessors. The writing is absolutely terrible, I'm talking full-on Cringe Express with this **** You can't really take anything a lot of these characters are saying seriously and when coupled withBad. So, very, very bad. Now I can go into the absolutely atrocious animation like just about everyone else has, but let me tell you that what makes this game so terrible in comparison to it's predecessors. The writing is absolutely terrible, I'm talking full-on Cringe Express with this **** You can't really take anything a lot of these characters are saying seriously and when coupled with the aforementioned god-awful animation, it's made that much worse. The story by extension of this tripe and predictable. Then there's the host of glitches that would make even Todd Howard shake his head in disgust. Though I will give credit where credit is due, the out of place combat is showing of some potential.
Ever play a cover based shooter like Gears of War? That's not too different from what this is. It's not exactly terrible and could likely be made fun if the enemies weren't all bullet sponges who take an entire clip to the face. The entire game just reeks of laziness and with a five year development time and 40 million dollar budget, there's just no excuse.
As a quick warning - Be wary of the people who give this game tens, as I can promise you they are only doing so out of their love of the franchise and little else. I can't say I blame them, it must be hard to see a series you love tank this hard, but think with your wallet. This game just isn't worth it.… Expand

wtf_did_I_buy

Mar 26, 2017

2

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

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

Its like a disney version of ME. I get that EA wants a younger audience, which is fine, but I think after this many mature gamers will be ditching this.… Expand

Flarin

Mar 26, 2017

0

Really bad games happens when you put up a team not by their competence, but by ...other reasons.

This is not Mass Effect. This is not even a decent game by itself. The developers should be really ashamed for making this.

Kravok

Apr 1, 2017

3

One of the worst games in recent memory.
The gameplay is mind numbingly booring and the story is full with contradictions and cliches.
The dialogue options do nothing and there is 1 ending.
The game ends without anything being explained a bad 30 second cinematic and a sequel bait,

tyroneReviews

Jul 15, 2017

4

Would give it a 6/10 but that would raise the average rating and I want to join the protest against BioWare who have been declining recently. In the Mass Effect series you always had great characters who were memorable like Garrus or Tali, even Mordin but in this one I can't even remember the names of the new characters let alone the races they added. Wish I had the time to rant butWould give it a 6/10 but that would raise the average rating and I want to join the protest against BioWare who have been declining recently. In the Mass Effect series you always had great characters who were memorable like Garrus or Tali, even Mordin but in this one I can't even remember the names of the new characters let alone the races they added. Wish I had the time to rant but basically just watch any review and they will tell you how bad BioWare messed up, also DA Inquisition was a bit disappointing to so it just shows how much BioWare has declined since Mass Effect 3.

I would recommend you buy it if you are a huge ME fan but if you are expecting nothing you will still be disappointed, try expecting a steaming hot pile of garbage that used to be something you loved and you might get through this one.… Expand

Gor1945

Apr 8, 2017

0

Биовар и ее хозяева из ЕА вслед за ДА загубили и Масс Эффект - вот наглядный пример того, что будет, когда сотрудников в компанию набираешь не за профессиональные качества, а по принадлежности к якобы угнетаемым группам - расисты, геи и феминисты ничего путного сделать ожидаемо не смогли. Бесполезно говорить о недостатках - проще о достоинствах сказать - данная игра окончательноБиовар и ее хозяева из ЕА вслед за ДА загубили и Масс Эффект - вот наглядный пример того, что будет, когда сотрудников в компанию набираешь не за профессиональные качества, а по принадлежности к якобы угнетаемым группам - расисты, геи и феминисты ничего путного сделать ожидаемо не смогли. Бесполезно говорить о недостатках - проще о достоинствах сказать - данная игра окончательно утверждает в мысли, что платить за поделки от Биовар деньги - больше не стоит.… Expand

Nemo888

Apr 29, 2017

4

It's boring. Don't bother if you liked earlier ME games. Story is on rails and your decisions are irrelevant. Open exploration is gone. So is character development. They don't refund your wasted time.

Electrogasm

Jun 2, 2017

0

Saw it in a bargain bin, thought I couldn't go wrong at 40% off...

I was wrong. Absolute console control garbage. If I wanted to fight with retarded camera controls via analog stick for 100+ hours I would have purchased the console version. Unfortunately the EA marketing dept. is spending a fortune on paid positive reviews otherwise this would be a unanimous 2-point user score.Saw it in a bargain bin, thought I couldn't go wrong at 40% off...

I was wrong. Absolute console control garbage. If I wanted to fight with retarded camera controls via analog stick for 100+ hours I would have purchased the console version.

Unfortunately the EA marketing dept. is spending a fortune on paid positive reviews otherwise this would be a unanimous 2-point user score.

Here's to hoping I can return this pile of crap to the retail store :/… Expand

AVProducer

Apr 3, 2017

4

As a Mass Effect lover, I had hundreds of hours spent throughout the initial trilogy. I would always go back to ME:1 and roll a new character with a new alignment over and over again. Then I’d go for as much completion as possible and follow as much diverse choice plans as I could.

The first Mass Effect had a soul. A strength of characters, dialog and the mystery of the unknown threat.As a Mass Effect lover, I had hundreds of hours spent throughout the initial trilogy. I would always go back to ME:1 and roll a new character with a new alignment over and over again. Then I’d go for as much completion as possible and follow as much diverse choice plans as I could.

The first Mass Effect had a soul. A strength of characters, dialog and the mystery of the unknown threat. The second Mass Effect was more tactical, but it tied in the characters a lot better. One would get to really care for them. The third, despite the criticism, which I do accept, build a great emotional atmosphere on how it all ends. Especially with the Citadel DLC.

I’ve only laid down less than 26 hours on Mass Effect Andromeda (as opposed to over 220 on ME:2 for example). My hardware was not up to par, so I upgraded it. I am happy I did, but not for ME:A.

As an action, third person shooter, it’s a great game. With very appealing visuals, audio and game-play. However, the ugliness of the female characters especially, the bad dialog, lack of emotion brought in by the really bad facial animations in several key scenes, deters the title from living up to its predecessors. The story is basically Collectors-meet-the-Borg. At least that’s how it is portrayed.

The female characters are straight out ugly. The dialogues are cheap, cheesy and at times, outright forced. With the first report of a tragic event, Ryder reported it (as it was directly connected with her/him), it was like nothing happened (almost smiled). Then, during another tragic event, Sara was almost laughing and her brother had an expression that revolved somewhere between “why the heck should I care” and “seriously? Can we get this over with?”. Tragic in its execution. Bioware, please study Witcher 3. Gerald, despite his condition, showed a lot more emotion when he saw Ciri after his long journey. Images without words that are heart wrenching. ME:A is not even remotely close. And that’s bad for a story-driven game.

Bioware, it’s OK to have main characters that look ugly. Just give us the creator option to make something to our liking. Right now, all we have is ugly, uglier and “call the police” types.

After I upgraded my PC above the recommended settings, I realized that my character looked uglier with the high settings and Bioware left no way for remodeling.

Conclusively, this is not a bad game. Its just far from what I expected from a Mass Effect title on the story/dialog/immersion part. With so many of the previous team gone, it’s to be expected. Given my work experience, I believe it was not rushed on the art/creation level, but at the executive one. When politics enter the gaming culture, they do serious damage. And for those who noticed, Sara Ryder looked very decent in the pre-release version. After day one patch, her face changed for the worse. That’s an outright deception by whoever enforced this. Without giving us an option.

If you want a sci-fi third person shooter, that’s a game for you. If you’re looking for a Mass Effect title that stands up to its predecessors, you will be disappointed.

I would recommend to gamers to not purchase ME:A just yet. Wait for the fixes. Updated and especially non-paid reviews (yes, there are those as well, it’s part of the P&A in the audiovisual industry). Otherwise, we -as consumers- are justifying this kind of behavior from the corporations and we can expect nothing different and no improvement in the future.

With that being said, Mass Effect Andromeda did not last long on my hard drive. When the initial trilogy has been on my systems (across several PCs) for years (with ME:1 being present for ~10 years) with all DLC, you can get the picture of the game’s shortcomings. Bioware created a beautiful 3rd person shooter. And I would have given it a higher score if it was simply called “Andromeda” and not “Mass Effect”.

Pros:
Great shooter
Beautiful worlds
Lots to do

Cons:
Ugly characters
Problematic & emotionless facial animations
Bad and lazy-writing dialog
An overload of unconnected quest lines
Lots of reported hiccups and bugs… Expand

nailheart

Mar 24, 2018

0

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. EA destroy every single game and every developers studio they buy.Now they destroyed mass effect.Boring story line, ugly characters,lots of bugs all this you can find in ME andromeda.I think developers need to give back the money to every player for that сrap.Its looks like alpha test game of indie developer(but some indies better than that game) . SW battlefront 2 (2006) by free radical design(crytec)was masterpiece - in 2015 by EA its a crap with 6 maps to play(without dlc).Dragon age first was masterpiece - when EA releases inquisiton ive even cant get to the end of the game its so boring.And now they destroy mass effect.Great!When you playing this you feel really sorry for every single сent you spent.Boring quests,the same bosses - 5 or six architects and final boss is the same as all architects.Stupid dialogue system,but now we got gays and lesbians!I came to see some interesting stories,look at pleasant graphics not to listen gay revelations.No offence to such type of people but this in favorite game its awful.I will never buy again EA game because it pumps out money from fans and gives us piece of crap under mark of good games in the past. For example CD project red - this is best studio for now.Compare crap effect andromeda with witcher 3 and feel the difference.… Expand

Froginaswoon

Apr 26, 2017

3

I am like Bioware games because of atmosphere and relations between characters. But forget about this in Andromeda.
It's sense like developers doesn't understand their audience. For new gamers are easy lost in the game from first minutes. TOO MUCH information just spill on you every time, mostly in codex and you need to read it unclearly understanding what is happens and why. And badI am like Bioware games because of atmosphere and relations between characters. But forget about this in Andromeda.
It's sense like developers doesn't understand their audience. For new gamers are easy lost in the game from first minutes. TOO MUCH information just spill on you every time, mostly in codex and you need to read it unclearly understanding what is happens and why. And bad entrance to the game. And, so, what is reason to play? Fans don't understand what is happens too because of all things below.
Hard turbulence beginning of the game. Strange speeches and behavior of everybody, from you father to last NPC. "WHY?" "STOP DOING THIS!" you will be shout it from start to end. Irrelevant emotions and speeches with gala music. It's like watching low budget trash horror film. And this is not what I'm expected from Mass Effect and Bioware.
Game have a really big problem with dialogs and plot. This problem can't be unfixing. I don’t understand how game can be develop without any good script.
And, you know, stupid speech with horrible "my first try" animation is really JOKE. Bad.
All things in game are parody on ME 1,2,3. My ship, my friends (hate most of them), my enemies, old inscrutable race, their ancients useful ruins etc. Nobody should spent money on this stupid comedy show.
Maybe this all should attract new gamers never known ME before. But I don't think that annoying team, dull enemies, unreadable dialogs, boring warm and cold planets (first places we can go. Why people wants to living here, in deserts? Because gamers should runs around boring landscapes? ) can be fun.
What's else:
Uncreative new aliens
Unfriendly journal and crafting system
Enemy can shooting in your back, but you hardly understand whence.

This all just big slap in the face from Bioware. This is sci-fi game. You shouldn't apologize only to LGBT for flat transgender, but for the space trash game with dull characters, bugs, stupid story and other sins. This game is uncover developers attitude to gamers, believed in company even after DA2 and DAI. But this is enough.… Expand

Renovatia

Apr 25, 2017

0

Well what can I say. Bioware, the producer, used had some street cred (or maybe they still do but to a lesser extent) for not pulling the same dirty tricks as many other major producers do. But things are changing lately and it begins with politics. Yes, Bioware actually has engaged in politics and as usual it's the Social Justice Warrior kind, because that's the latest thing. MovieWell what can I say. Bioware, the producer, used had some street cred (or maybe they still do but to a lesser extent) for not pulling the same dirty tricks as many other major producers do. But things are changing lately and it begins with politics. Yes, Bioware actually has engaged in politics and as usual it's the Social Justice Warrior kind, because that's the latest thing. Movie companies are pushing their societal engineering agendas and now computer game producers do the same. The techniques which are used are the same too: their political views are incorporated into their game (or movies) but they won't tell you that (sometimes they do, but almost never); you have to find out for yourself after you have paid for the product.

And this is what happened to Andromeda too. I haven't even started yet about the bugs and other unwelcome anomalies which are directly the cause of a long development cycle rushed into a sellable state. It's more catering to the will of the feminist lobby, beating you over your head with political messages, diversity and you name it. It happens in more and sometimes less subtle ways but that's how it always works.

As it comes to actual gameplay, I have nothing to add relative to what others have to say about it and that's not good news either. It really is that bad. Bad voice acting, ugly characters where some say it is on purpose for Social Justice reasons, repetitive anti-climatic missions and you name it.

I have to rate this game zero stars out of ten. Nothing is memorable other than the technical and artistic failures. On top of that this game, and producer too, have become another weapon of indoctrination for the young and the gullible.… Expand

Teresa28

Mar 27, 2017

1

i am speechless but not in a good way.i LOVED the first triology but Mass effect Andromeda is the worst performances from Bioware i ve EVER seen.
Bioware has no plan anymore.They just do this open world **** but they are totally clueless about designing an interesting open world.Even the elder scrolls online has by far better quests than Andromeda.And ESO is an online game.It seemsi am speechless but not in a good way.i LOVED the first triology but Mass effect Andromeda is the worst performances from Bioware i ve EVER seen.
Bioware has no plan anymore.They just do this open world **** but they are totally clueless about designing an interesting open world.Even the elder scrolls online has by far better quests than Andromeda.And ESO is an online game.It seems Bioware is outbattled by other studios these days.it is so sad.
the best thing in Andromeda are the better romances and better sex scenes.oh and the combat is better than ever but there are too many enemies so eveb the combat gets boring at the end of the game.Where are the darker quests like the Morinth quest in Mass effect 2??where is the dark mainstory we all loved so much?
But the companions are sooo boring.never met such boring companions..
it is so sad that no companion can die like in the previous triology because i wouldnt cry one tear about any of them.… Expand

Pepsi349

Mar 27, 2017

4

53 hours in.
It's a disgrace.
Good: - Combat feels better than ever. - Jumping is the best thing they added. - Background and map design is gorgeous. Bad: - Everything you know about mass effect is dumbed down. (Solarian Biologie, Genophage, dark energy) - ending contains DLC teaser - Animations are a good 2004 standard. - bugs everywhere - fetch quests - the most53 hours in.
It's a disgrace.

Good:
- Combat feels better than ever.
- Jumping is the best thing they added.
- Background and map design is gorgeous.

Bad:
- Everything you know about mass effect is dumbed down. (Solarian Biologie, Genophage, dark energy)
- ending contains DLC teaser
- Animations are a good 2004 standard.
- bugs everywhere
- fetch quests
- the most disappointing bad writing. (The romance feels sloppy, the story doesn't immerse you)
- voice acting is bad.
- loading times are way too long.
- shallow companions
-no multiple endings / choices that matter

It would be a good 6-7/10 for me if it wasn't an AAA title and a Bioware game.
I can understand problems with bug fixes when you are an indie studio that doesn't have thousands of employees to fix them. But Bioware does have the capability to do so.
I can overlook sloppy writing when it's your first experience making a game, but I can't understand it from the studio that made Baldurs Gate or Dragon Age origins.
After the false advertisement from Mass Effect 3's ending. Or the feedback from Dragon age Inquisition i thought that they would have learned.

I don't support the overall hate of the game, but i don't like the way its presented.

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I really tried to use proper English grammar I may have failed. I'm sorry for that. It's hard learning a new language.… Expand

rodericrinehart

Jun 24, 2017

3

Loved the first 3, would put the trilogy in my top 10 series ever. Mass Effect Andromeda is BORING and POORLY DESIGNED above all else. Poor animations, empty areas, pointless fetch quests, and just no respect for the time of the player. Finished it despite really not liking it. Probably done with the series now. Lost a loyal fan and customer Bioware/EA.

Fireantus

Jul 9, 2017

4

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

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

Avoid this RPG with quests taken from 2001 MMO's.… Expand

C4Grey

Jun 15, 2017

1

Fake Mass Effect, made just to squeeze more money from the franchise. Foolish and linear story, boring and stupid characters, tons of bugs, no QA. It is total regress in comparision to previous games in the Mass Effect series.

Yosa

May 22, 2017

0

There is some issue with getting a black screen on load; thats what I get. 2patches later, and the issue persists, My pc meets the minimum requirements and twice the ram. I read it uses level scailing as well, possibly the most asinine thing to hit games period, if I cant play it and there is no explaination or work around it gets a zero regardless. These companies need to spend more timeThere is some issue with getting a black screen on load; thats what I get. 2patches later, and the issue persists, My pc meets the minimum requirements and twice the ram. I read it uses level scailing as well, possibly the most asinine thing to hit games period, if I cant play it and there is no explaination or work around it gets a zero regardless. These companies need to spend more time on testing.… Expand

DaedricLord

Apr 25, 2017

1

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

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

The Bad:

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

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

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

-Childish dialogue and poor attempts at humor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The good:

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

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

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

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

If you are that desperate to play this game wait until there is a ultimate edition for 10-20 euros, I wasted 60 euros on this crap because I was too needy for new Mass Effect content, dont waste money like I did, wait until all DLCs come out and there is cheap ultimate edition available, then buy it if you want to play. Mass Effect is dead and Bioware with it, DA2 and ME3 were the first signs of a continuous decline and Inquisition and Andromeda are merely the last nails in their coffin.… Expand

Causese

Apr 4, 2017

6

Pros:
- Graphics are amazing.
- Mainquests / Sidequests related to "important characters" are fun. (except remnant vaults, quite repetitive) - Cutscenes are good - Combat is fun but it lacks the necessity to interact with squadmates. (even on insanity difficulty) Cons: - "wait is that it?" kind of ending. - Dialogues are lackluster. - 90% of the time you are fighting the samePros:
- Graphics are amazing.
- Mainquests / Sidequests related to "important characters" are fun. (except remnant vaults, quite repetitive)
- Cutscenes are good
- Combat is fun but it lacks the necessity to interact with squadmates. (even on insanity difficulty)

Cons:
- "wait is that it?" kind of ending.
- Dialogues are lackluster.
- 90% of the time you are fighting the same species. makes the game feel repetitive
- same/very similar creatures appear on various planets/clusters.
- sidequests from locals are incredibly boring.
- flying to planets is really slow and awkward. it's so bad that you want to alt tab inbetween. you notice that it's just a camera going from a to b, then awkwardly zooming out.
- Crew sucks. There's not a single interesting person on the crew
- open world objectives are't engaging
- inventory/research/crafting is a mess. not engaging
- new aliens you meet are too human. they lack something. making them look alien is not enough.… Expand

rheia

Mar 27, 2017

2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I cannot recommend this game to anyone. This is the first bioware game I will not finish.… Expand

Coderhgg

Apr 1, 2017

1

Bad game optimization, worst facial expressions ever. It's a fantasy / science fiction game and I want to play with a PRETTY GOOD ANIMATED CHARACTER. BIOWARE please stop embracing social ideologies and start acting like PROFESSIONALS and give your public what they want, 'cause we are the market.

decastros

May 4, 2017

4

Part 3 of the review:

If you don't deal with something like that, you are going to react against it! Bioware created a game that was a huge escape from their previous game! Exactly so they didn't have to deal with it! They could have made things right back then! They could have at least acknowledged their mistake and promised to make things right! But they chose the cardboard PR speech:Part 3 of the review:

If you don't deal with something like that, you are going to react against it! Bioware created a game that was a huge escape from their previous game! Exactly so they didn't have to deal with it! They could have made things right back then! They could have at least acknowledged their mistake and promised to make things right! But they chose the cardboard PR speech: "we are very proud of what we achieved blablabla". Clearly, they couldn't deal with the cupcakes and the fact that they screwed up, so they went to another galaxy, 600 years in the future, and MORE IMPORTANTLY, they changed the way they make games! They don't deal with dialogue, interactions, relationships like they did! It really feels like Bioware is avoiding that, so in making a less personal experience we (not them) will not ask for meaningful relationships, great dialogue etc. Hey, it's all about "exploration" (scan and gardening) now! Big boring maps (emphasis on the boring), banter, no story whatsoever etc. But... the great part is: they don't have to face what they faced after ME3's ending again! Phew! What a relief! We get boring games, but they can hide on their "safe space" of political correctness and big showy maps and realistic visuals and avoid all that "trauma" of colored cupcakes and criticism. On that front, I'm not sure it worked. They can certainly not care about these criticism, since no one will care that much about these characters to actually criticize. You must care before you criticize, and by disinfecting their games of what is meaningful, people don't care, and they don't get criticized. It's "safe space" in the form of a videogame!

Now, it's not nice to write a critique and not offer some possible solutions. But "who said they need it?", you will ask! Well, I can only speak for myself, of course, but I think those reviews and scores speak for themselves. And much louder than I possibly can. In terms of a Bioware release, one that follows on the footsteps of the first ME series (at least in the title), the word 'fiasco' comes to mind. Necessarily! And it would be very arrogant to believe that the problem is with us, and not them. It would be, once again, not dealing with a problem. User score (on some 3000 reviews) is around 4 or 5. And critics, who never gave anything less than 9, is around 6 or 7. I would give it a generous 4 for the hundred hours lost running around scanning crap. Very hard not to talk about a fiasco!

So, what do I think it would be a good future for Bioware and their games. I speak as someone who don't play so many games, and all my life considered myself a Bioware gamer, and not a gamer. I speak as someone who relies on my dose of Bioware to relax. But not this version of Bioware!

Bioware should OWN THEIR LEGACY! First, own your mistakes, and then your legacy! Go back to the model that made you the Bioware that fans love!

Go back to 50 hours games that we can't wait to begin again! DAI and MEA? I couldn't wait to finish and delete them from my PC! The KoTOR, Neverwinter Nights, and the first ME trilogy? I played them hundreds of times!

Go back to dialogues, and not just banter.

Go back to great meaningful areas, and not stupid huge maps that I have to go 300 times during the same game to scan stuff back and forth.

Go back to MISSION DRIVEN, STORY DRIVEN games! Not "exploration" and crafting (especially not with that lousy craft system)!

I know that's a sore spot, but go back to ME3! Besides the ending, that was the perfect blend of gaming, the culmination of all that you did before; the evolution of that action RPG style that everybody loved (and still do)! Just freaking plan ahead a story to avoid that ending (ripping off other game's ending to finish a saga that millions waited for years)! Of course you all can do that! Yes, that was traumatic. But running away (to millions of light-years away) is not the answer!

Maybe do like the Marvel Universe and make two separate sagas: one back in the Milky Way, and other in Andromeda! But both Bioware games, and not these 'no personality' things you've been releasing since DAI.

I still love Bioware and your games. I just hope you can deal with what happened and go back to the style that we all love and care about.

My best wishes and thanks for the decades old run. But I'm done with this kind of game (DAI and MEA) if that's what you will insist on doing.

Cheers!… Expand

TwiTu

Feb 4, 2018

4

I loved the trilogy. Sure those games had their flaws too, but all in all I enjoyed them still.

But this game is not worth a full price. Not by a long shot. It has a MASSIVE SJW undertone, where humans are mostly black or brown, and even the white ones look like black with white skin. That they tried to put SJW propaganda in it becomes very evident when you go into a museum of someI loved the trilogy. Sure those games had their flaws too, but all in all I enjoyed them still.

But this game is not worth a full price. Not by a long shot.

It has a MASSIVE SJW undertone, where humans are mostly black or brown, and even the white ones look like black with white skin.
That they tried to put SJW propaganda in it becomes very evident when you go into a museum of some sorts where all the species from the Milky Way introduce themselves through VIs. We all know that all the other species have different colors, skin patterns, or even horns, etc. And they dont talk about it in their VIs. But humans do. They proudly say that there are many colors and religions and that they all worked together and overcame their differences. I have never seen a more pathetic and disgusting virtue signalling in a game before.

Add to that the childish dialogue, often completely irrelevant, which sometimes left me standing there with an open mouth and 3 question marks over my head, bland characters (which often are actually annoying) and the mandatory character with a Scottish accent, bad quality assurance (lots of ridiculous bugs, even with the newest version), bad graphics that stutter a lot and seem to come from the first 2 ME parts, planets that seem to come straight from some MMO RPG (one planet reminded me very much of a zone in Guild Wars 2 for example), bad console controls that are extremely frustrating, a boring character and weapon/armor/equipment advancement system, boring and super easy encounters with enemies (incl. very weak AI), a story that doesnt seem to know what it wants or where to go and MMO-like side quests and you have this disgrace of a game.

Dont get me wrong, I still played through it, but I often was extremely annoyed by it, so that I often asked myself why I even play this game, for example having to read and listen to all these stupid conversations and dialogue (which is a huge part of the game). Its worth it for $10 to $15. But not a dime more.

Please, BioWare, dont destroy this IP by continuing like this in the next part. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE replace the development team, especially those who did the story, the characters, the dialogue, the SJW propaganda with people who know what makes good games and the gameplay design. People like those can work at Buzzfeed or CNN and write their propaganda there, but that has no place in a game. Not even Star Trek (except the new series) ever was that audacious with their morality, and I loved Star Trek because of its morality. But it was normal. Nobody ever talked about skin color, because it was normal to have aliens and colored humans around. NOBODY CARED ABOUT THAT! Why do you care all of the sudden???… Expand

Signatus

Apr 9, 2017

5

Andromeda is mostly mediocre and only a pale comparison to its predecessors on many levels.

The combat is the strongest part of the game and largely very enjoyable. The addition of jump jets works and stays fun even though there are not that many enemy types in the gigantic worlds. Very customisable weapons and armour are also great. Unfortunately one can only equip three active powersAndromeda is mostly mediocre and only a pale comparison to its predecessors on many levels.

The combat is the strongest part of the game and largely very enjoyable. The addition of jump jets works and stays fun even though there are not that many enemy types in the gigantic worlds. Very customisable weapons and armour are also great. Unfortunately one can only equip three active powers at a time and switching mid combat is always a bit annoying. The squad mate system is a huge downgrade compared to the older games, it's not longer possible to control what powers/weapons squad members are using. In the old games I carefully built my squad around my own character, in Andromeda I mostly didn't care what toys the bad team AI had to play with.

Bioware went for another open world experience and many of them look quite impressive actually. Driving the Nomad around the place is fun enough but an abundance of stupid fetch quests and other completely forgettable side quests don't really help bringing those places to live. This game will have you occupied with an overflowing quest log at all times (it doesn't help that the menu UI is really terrible) but apart from some missions that got a lot of love (i.e. loyalty missions) most of it is just mindless busywork.

Compelling writing and building interesting characters, once considered a trademark of Bioware fall short by a long shot in Andromeda. Dialogue can vary from very good to cringe-worthy stuff that feels like ME fan-fiction made by a teenager. Sadly there is a lot of the latter. It doesn't help at all that facial animations for Humans and Asari look awful at times (after patch 1.05 still), which is at odds with how good the game looks in general.

As of this review the game is still filled with bugs, which range from minor graphical glitches (i.e. characters being stuck in default T pose) to breaking quests and dead end save files. I had to redo hours of content because I ended up with saves that were too broken (i.e. being stuck on an empty spot of the galmap, falling through my ship to an endless death spiral or quests that should have been completed but didn't trigger their stages properly). For a game of this size quest acting up are (unfortunately) not unusual, but in comparison to other bug fests (like your usual Bethesda game) the console function in ME:A is not capable of "repairing" quests to allow you to progress without having to redo the same stuff again. Oh also there are no manual saves during priority missions and no quicksave function, who thought that was a good idea?

Altogether this game offers a competent 3rd person open world shooter but delivers a rather disappointing RPG experience further diminished by what feels like a too early bugged release.… Expand

AleksanderJ

Jul 4, 2017

6

It plays like an MMO, as a hardcore Mass Effect fan it feels more alien than it should.
Its another Galaxy but still, the lip synching is not good.

I wish they learn something from this one, im really trying to keep an open mind but its hard when it feels time and time again like star trek online on foot. Another bug after latest patch keeps me from playing fullscreen on my laptop.

dc948

May 8, 2017

5

The metric of any sequel should be, "If this wasn't a ____ game, would I want to play/spend money on it?" This game fails this test. If this were not a Mass Effect game, I would not want to play this. The combat/action is genuinely good, with some really exciting fights when storming an enemy stronghold. The movement mechanics are good. In short, PLAYING the game can be fun. EverythingThe metric of any sequel should be, "If this wasn't a ____ game, would I want to play/spend money on it?" This game fails this test. If this were not a Mass Effect game, I would not want to play this. The combat/action is genuinely good, with some really exciting fights when storming an enemy stronghold. The movement mechanics are good. In short, PLAYING the game can be fun. Everything else is a big step back for the series. Writing, bad. Characters, forgettable. Protagonist, grating. Plot, laughable. So much fluff and the huge environments just end up feeling empty. Crafting and collecting space junk to sell is painfully boring. Everything that made previous games so compelling is missing.… Expand

Rilke21

Oct 2, 2018

6

This review comes after 48 hours of play, low expectations and a bunch of patches. The verdict? Andromeda is by no means an excellent game, but it's not terrible.

The Pros -Except for some wonky animations (female faces in general), the game is beautiful. -Voice acting is generally strong. -Multiplayer is fun...in short doses. -Combat is excellent. They really nailed it. The ConsThis review comes after 48 hours of play, low expectations and a bunch of patches. The verdict? Andromeda is by no means an excellent game, but it's not terrible.

The Pros
-Except for some wonky animations (female faces in general), the game is beautiful.
-Voice acting is generally strong.
-Multiplayer is fun...in short doses.
-Combat is excellent. They really nailed it.

The Cons
-Generally horrific level design. You blow hours scanning for glifs, trying to get over mountains or wondering "what the hell am I supposed to do next." Locations become repetitive fast. Whoever first equated "procedurally generated" with "fun" should be shot.
-The map. Oh god the map. Terrible optimization that leads to plenty of mindless wandering.
-The story. It's not all bad. Actually, I was quite drawn in by the first half of the game. But...the quests...are almost entirely miss-able. The end game content is dreadfully boring.
-The fun factor. Or more specifically, the lack of it. Because of all of the above, there is just too much about Andromeda that isn't fun. Driving in circles for hours? Ughhhh. Lackluster quests? Meh. Lack of any real narrative? ...Why?

I should say, for most of my experience, I was thinking..."this is a 7 game. I don't understand why it's getting so much hate." It wasn't until the entirely underwhelming endgame content that the "unfinished" quality of this game becomes unforgivable.

I bought Andromeda for $30 and I don't regret it. Will I be playing it more than once?

Meh. Doubt it.… Expand

gna149

Jan 30, 2019

4

Bought the game late as it was on sale. Loved the story and premise as it expands on the game's universe, but HATE the gameplay. Jetpack/dodge concept seemed like a good idea until you realize how poorly it incorporates due to buggy controls + glitchy edge-grabs (that can kill you).

I read up on the story behind its development and it kinda made sense. Some good ideas + bad dead-lineBought the game late as it was on sale. Loved the story and premise as it expands on the game's universe, but HATE the gameplay. Jetpack/dodge concept seemed like a good idea until you realize how poorly it incorporates due to buggy controls + glitchy edge-grabs (that can kill you).

I read up on the story behind its development and it kinda made sense. Some good ideas + bad dead-line schedules + team quitting on you + bringing in whoever and whatever can help you deliver = awkward product.

All in all, quit a disappointment for the brand, and one of the few games I'd not consider worth completing.… Expand

SilverOrlov

Oct 9, 2019

9

I will not argue that this game did not have and does not have any problems. Even stupid problems, like a terrible animation of faces at the beginning of the release. But some of these problems were subsequently resolved, and the rest, in essence, was a matter of taste. Basically, because people equated this game with the last trilogy. So, if you relate it to the original games - yes, theI will not argue that this game did not have and does not have any problems. Even stupid problems, like a terrible animation of faces at the beginning of the release. But some of these problems were subsequently resolved, and the rest, in essence, was a matter of taste. Basically, because people equated this game with the last trilogy. So, if you relate it to the original games - yes, the Mass Effect is not the same now. But if you play this game as some separate story, which it is, still they even left for another galaxy... That is a good game.
There is a good general idea and plot. Pleasant and interesting game-play. Beautiful graphics and surroundings. Not really boring craft, like in many other games with crafting. And I incredibly liked everything that was connected with ancient civilization and its influence on the terraforming of planets. And yes, I also liked to flirt with the Azari girl... I was only disappointed, perhaps, with the main enemy boss. He was boring and inexpressive. Even with architects it was more interesting to fight than with this "dummy".… Expand

RGiggslegend

Apr 18, 2019

3

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pros:
- huge new galaxy with generally improved graphics;
- enhanced combat (best of the four games thus far in action)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It succeeds to deliver in action, but fails pathetically in story, particularly by RPG standards, even more so by BioWare RPG standards.… Expand

laszlo1337

Apr 9, 2017

0

That game is sad story about overly sensitive snowflakes ruining the game industry even more than it was already ruined. The same with Dragon Age Inquisition and the transgender **** Why does it matter? No one know, besides those people. The people that don't even play games, they're just trying to use them as their medium of their propaganda.

bsevenk

Apr 19, 2017

2

imagine a game with pretty character, exciting space exploration, intense battle with alien monster and a story that makes you drown in emotions .... ya this game has none of those.

Prommy

Apr 30, 2017

1

An open racist, cosplayer and a bunch of other incompetent people walks into a room. Thats not a start of a bad joke, thats developing team of ME: Andromeda. Result is not suprising. Its stinky when you cant see many gameplay videos (same what happended to fallout 4)

Kambo

Mar 28, 2017

5

The good:
Game feels huge, in a good way, I've sunk over 50 hours and I still have loads of stuff to do. I'm even planing a second play through some time soon.
The combat is smooth and fast paced...ish.. when compared to the previous mass effect games. I quite like the freedom of choice and the selection of (newish)weapons, although I found myself gravitating towards my favorites fromThe good:
Game feels huge, in a good way, I've sunk over 50 hours and I still have loads of stuff to do. I'm even planing a second play through some time soon.
The combat is smooth and fast paced...ish.. when compared to the previous mass effect games. I quite like the freedom of choice and the selection of (newish)weapons, although I found myself gravitating towards my favorites from the past titles.
The nomad is fun to drive around. The environments are so stunningly beautiful that I found myself just going for the drive rather then teleporting to the nearest forward station.

The bad
The plot and the characters. The plot being quite vague and the characters... Well the most memorable moments came while I was driving around. Your team mates will occasionally have some bants or bash your driving style.

The disappointment
I really don't want to bash a dead horse, but the animation is so bad.. It seems to me that bioware just grabbed some homeless alcoholics from the street, gave 'em some drinks and asked them to do the animations. The lack of professionalism and quality control is simply unforgivable.… Expand

SilverShield

May 19, 2017

0

-Boring repetitive missions
-Boring bland planets
-Sh-tty dialogue and p-ssy main character. -Terrible NPC development and UGLY AS F-CK faces. Complete SJW trash and propaganda, created by white hating cucks. They don't allow you to have evil playthroughs like the bad-ass sheperd of Me3. No...in this game you're a p-ssywhipped manlet who is nice all the time and tells aliens not to-Boring repetitive missions
-Boring bland planets
-Sh-tty dialogue and p-ssy main character.
-Terrible NPC development and UGLY AS F-CK faces.

Complete SJW trash and propaganda, created by white hating cucks. They don't allow you to have evil playthroughs like the bad-ass sheperd of Me3. No...in this game you're a p-ssywhipped manlet who is nice all the time and tells aliens not to be bigots. YAY! No space Racism!

80% of the people you meet are gay too, so be prepared to always have a flirt option with dudes. This game is literally garbage/10. Don't waste your money like i did, take it from my 100$ worth of pain that I paid, taking faith in the name...… Expand

Mystic_Quest

Apr 1, 2017

0

This is an example of how stupid gamer reviews are. The game isn't perfect guyz, get over it, ok? Nothing is perfect in this world.

The animations are just a little off, but don't worry, maybe they will be fixed someday. Besides, if they didn't release it now, how could EA executives cash-in to buy a yacht for their kids in time for Easter? You guys are heartless sometimes, I swear. AsThis is an example of how stupid gamer reviews are. The game isn't perfect guyz, get over it, ok? Nothing is perfect in this world.

The animations are just a little off, but don't worry, maybe they will be fixed someday. Besides, if they didn't release it now, how could EA executives cash-in to buy a yacht for their kids in time for Easter? You guys are heartless sometimes, I swear.
As for the bioware devs I excuse them - they just watched too much "gamer's poop" and got carried away with the animations. We have to thank them instead, because they integrated gamer's poop into the main game, so that manslayer doesn't have to.

Besides, the game was nothing less than I expected. I am get used to being milked by companies and there's nothing wrong with that. The game is clearly AAA quality, like other AAA games I have played in the past, e.g. Angry Birds. Nothing to complain about. So haters gonna hate, I am going to buy their next game as well and be proud about it and I think I have proven why user score is so, so stupid. We'll bang ok?… Expand

Almostdead

Apr 2, 2017

0

i have to admit this game is worth at least 7. However the shortcomings of this game are so obvious. i have no idea how did this game pass quality test. so i gave 0 as a warning to Bioware.

Jose_Gomes

Mar 28, 2017

0

this is whant happens when they try to appeal to political correct/feminazis crowd like feminist frequency, game goes total ****, trying to make a game so its does not offend the easy offended, you get MEA, a stupid boring game that does nothing other them waste your time.

tectonicx

Mar 23, 2017

2

I was going to give it a high rating but the biodrones giving it 10/10 are just deluded. We need to level out the playing field or these people will never learn their lesson. This is not a good game, probably the worst in the series. Repetitive fetch quests, very bad cringe worthy writing (don't expect a tali/garrus type of crewmate), laughable animations, empty worlds and recycledI was going to give it a high rating but the biodrones giving it 10/10 are just deluded. We need to level out the playing field or these people will never learn their lesson. This is not a good game, probably the worst in the series. Repetitive fetch quests, very bad cringe worthy writing (don't expect a tali/garrus type of crewmate), laughable animations, empty worlds and recycled building/structure galore, no sense of urgency at all, cliche 'bad alien' villain plot, forgettable story, forgettable characters and a forgettable game.… Expand

Shad0w

Mar 24, 2017

4

I loved Mass Effect 1 through 3, and my hopes for this one were high. I avoided all spoilers/news/advertising for Andromeda and immediately downloaded the trial. From the beginning things felt off, sort of cheap, lacking the quality and the immersion of the previous games. I was surprised that I couldn't create a character to resemble my Commander Shepard from games past, much lessI loved Mass Effect 1 through 3, and my hopes for this one were high. I avoided all spoilers/news/advertising for Andromeda and immediately downloaded the trial. From the beginning things felt off, sort of cheap, lacking the quality and the immersion of the previous games. I was surprised that I couldn't create a character to resemble my Commander Shepard from games past, much less anything that resembled me. Ryder lacks any sense of presence. He isn't a soldier, he isn't much of anything. Pathfinder? Ryder has no business being a protagonist. At best he is a tutorial npc that hands you a fetch quest. The dialogue is terrible. The decision wheel actually has better responses than what the voice actor elaborates with. Bad writing, bad casting, bad choice of characters for the npcs... apparently there was a cascade failure during development. The entire game and its menus stink of a lazy console port. EA is remaining faithful to its legacy of eventually ruining everything it gets its hands on. I really appreciate that they chose to give us a 10 hour trial instead of having to deal with all the refund requests/extra flak. If this is going to be your first mass effect game, stop. Don't even think about it. Go play through the first through third plus DLC's. You can get them all for cheaper than this steaming pile of mediocre pandering. I truly feel bad for what I'm sure were many people who worked hard on this only to see it turn out so poorly. There were definitely some terrible decisions made, and the people who made them have no business working in the gaming industry. People are comparing the writing to fan-fiction, and it truly is. Possibly not even Mass Effect fan-fiction though, more like EA executives and a bunch of annoying lobbyists had an idea and hired a 15 year old SJW to write it down for them.… Expand

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