Mass Effect: Andromeda

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  1. Big_Bear
    Apr 7, 2017
    7
    Whilst there are always senseless, moronic reviews attached to any new release these days, some of the choice ones on here really do reach new levels of stupidity. Mass Effect Andromeda is a massively ambitious game that doesn’t hit every mark it tries to and there are some truly baffling and terrible design decisions but it is in no way even half as bad as some have claimed.Whilst there are always senseless, moronic reviews attached to any new release these days, some of the choice ones on here really do reach new levels of stupidity. Mass Effect Andromeda is a massively ambitious game that doesn’t hit every mark it tries to and there are some truly baffling and terrible design decisions but it is in no way even half as bad as some have claimed.

    Unfortunately the very first step of the game is also one of the most disappointing. There really is no excuse here. 5 or 6 years development time and we have been given a truly awful character creator. It is massively limited by not allowing the player to actually create a face like Fallout 4 does for example, but simply provides around 10 increasingly terrible looking presets for the player to choose which they can then only change some dimensions and positions on. For a game considered to have strong RPG elements this is of course very damaging. What is a welcome idea is that the player is able to edit their characters sibling as well to dictate their in game appearance which in turn, generates what their father, the original Ryder looks like. But of course, this good idea is also stifled by the hugely simplistic creator.

    Not long after this crushing disappointment and confusion as to how any dev could actually sign off on this creator and believe it is ok, the game opens very well in my opinion. In a throwback to the original ME, the player has a brief intro to their situation in deep space and are then quickly thrust onto a planet which turns out to be very hostile. This introduces the player to the much improved and enjoyable combat system, one of the squad mates and a taste of the, pretty stunning environments the player can expect from the rest of the game.

    After that the game properly opens up and really does get better and better as you go through it. As I have mentioned the planets and environments are beautiful but unfortunately are not matched by the character models with human characters in particular being very disappointing and lacking in detail. Out of the many negative claims about the game prior to release, the dead eyes of human characters is one that was very true, a real shame given that some of the alien characters look great.

    This, regrettably, brings me onto one of the worst, most bizarre design decisions/omissions I have ever seen. So whilst the crafting system is decent, essentially you are only ever crafting gear for yourself as Bioware has taken the very strange decision not to allow players to gear squad mates AT ALL. Quite unbelievable that a game in any series can regress this far considering it was something that you could do in the original ME. Yes they also strangely limited choices in the follow up OT games but now there is nothing at all. Not allowing the equipping of squad mates is just baffling, and it is hard to see any reasoning behind a decision to limit the player in this way. Personally I had hoped not only to be able to equip them, but to be actually able to edit them in game as well, so my disappointment was confounded by having no options whatsoever here.

    In a lot of ways it’s like the devs seem to have assumed that any sort of micromanagement, whether regarding squad mates or planets, is a bad thing. I would wholeheartedly disagree with that and would take some micromanagement over what we have been given. For a game such as MEA it adds control and diverse experiences for each player.

    However unlikely, I hope that some of the most glaring issues are somehow fixed or enhanced with future patches. For now all the issues in the game do unfortunately pull it down from being great but happily not quite to the point of completely ruining it.

    It’s much closer than I would have liked but I think the good points just about outweighing the bad. I understand why many have been left disappointed as expectations were very high. I am in the same boat and have been left disappointed and frustrated at many aspects of the game. However focusing on the strong points of MEA has allowed me to enjoy my time with it a lot, and with aforementioned future fixes/enhancements I hope for, along with some sizeable DLC, MEA could still be great. For now, it is a solid 7/10.    … Expand
  2. ke3bz
    May 30, 2017
    7
    As a die hard Mass Effect fan, there is a lot to nitpick about this game as far as their approach and presentation of the world and lore we've been given over the years with the original trilogy...however, that being said, the gameplay is incredibly fun and well done. Combat is fast and fluid (though I do miss being able to use ALL of my powers and specify what each AI should do),As a die hard Mass Effect fan, there is a lot to nitpick about this game as far as their approach and presentation of the world and lore we've been given over the years with the original trilogy...however, that being said, the gameplay is incredibly fun and well done. Combat is fast and fluid (though I do miss being able to use ALL of my powers and specify what each AI should do), exploration is streamlined and multiplayer is still a blast (but dang the loot system is incredibly sparse with upgrades). The Loyalty Missions were all the best stories in the games and some I would argue were essential to feeling an attachment to the main narrative at all. Progression with Profiles and the Nexus were welcome additions and kept me interested and involved. Relationships were dumbed down too far and easier to intentionally get right or wrong. Multiple trophies were bugged and some ridiculous checkpoints made for just a couple frustrations, but overall this game was fun to just play.… Expand
  3. linkiados_S
    Mar 23, 2017
    7
    para empezar su dirección creativa tiene puntos en contra, a pesar que la idea es muy interesante. primero que todo hoy en día se hacen juegos con la finalidad de (ademas de vender) de que una saga siga con el paso de generaciones, a veces resulta como otras no, en este caso mass efect es un juego que tuvo un tiempo considerablemente largo, mas de 4 años, y decir que no tuvieron tiempo depara empezar su dirección creativa tiene puntos en contra, a pesar que la idea es muy interesante. primero que todo hoy en día se hacen juegos con la finalidad de (ademas de vender) de que una saga siga con el paso de generaciones, a veces resulta como otras no, en este caso mass efect es un juego que tuvo un tiempo considerablemente largo, mas de 4 años, y decir que no tuvieron tiempo de algo como las animaciones es algo muy ridículo, bioware, una empresa de nivel, con cientos de trabajadores activos, ahi radica el problema, se que el trabajo es duro, hay jóvenes con ideas fascinantes y no lo aprovechan, hacer otro shooter con lo mismo,lo mismo,lo mismo aburre por decirlo así, la saga es sobre eso pero innovar es algo primordial, para eso se crean software mas avanzados,para poder incluir mas contenido de detalles o historia, no para decir una excusa, en fin malo no es pero recomiendo comprarlo en un par de meses.… Expand
  4. Orthopox
    Mar 28, 2017
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Here is a list of Pro's and cons based of personal experience after completing the game and playing the multiplayer.

    >---- Pros (Because I want to like the game) ----<

    > Gameplay
    * Good overall gameplay
    > Plot
    * New Alien races
    - Kett
    - Angaran
    - Jardaan
    * Much better than Mass Effect 3
    > Visual
    - Improved Graphics

    >---Cons (because I love complaining.) ---<

    > Gameplay
    * Automatic Cover system
    * Guns have too much spread (way too much!)
    * No control over crouching
    * No control over squadmate power usage
    * Dumbed down melee feature
    * No control mapping
    * Bad controls:
    - Triangle is bound to "Melee"
    - R3 is bound to "swap camera"
    - Nomad has no weapons system.
    - Running over enemies will not kill them.
    * Bugs
    - Memory leaks
    - Infinite loading screens

    > Multiplayer
    * No power mapping in multiplayer
    * Poorly Mapped powers
    * Not enough ammo crates per area

    > Plot
    * Idiotic helmet design used as a plot device
    * Majority of weapons still use the "Thermal clip" system
    * Lack of a "Third option" in choices
    * Not enough worlds to explore
    - Worlds are too large.
    - Too many small quests per world
    - Too many quests involving traveling to another world
    - Lack of rewards for completing quests
    - Poor quest tracking system
    * Missing Races:
    - No Quarians
    - No Volus - No Hanar - No Elcor - No Drell - No Geth - No Batarians - No Vorcha * Most/all listed missing races are revealed at the end of the game as likely hint to DLC. * Final boss does not include actually fighting the antagonist face to face. > Visual * Too many unneeded planet-to-planet/system-to-system cutscenes * Poor animation * Poor facial animation * Poor character creation system > Audio * Poor voice acting * Too many recuring/unneeded hints * Bugs - Out of sync voices - Overlapping voices in crucial moments - Extremely delayed or muted voices - Nomad engine audio goes mute > Advertising - Company and publisher known to have poor business practices and working conditions. - Falsely advertised - Poorly advertised - Did not do beta testing - 24hr Review window - EA Access    … Expand
  5. Chenbro
    Apr 21, 2017
    6
    Hype score 8.5/10, after 50+ hours with the game 6/10.

    To put it bluntly, Andromeda is not interesting and is extremely shallow. This is a shell of a game built around exploration with the occasional Mass Effect reference dropped in just so they can make the gamebox worthy of the Mass Effect name. Everything about this game screams that it was rushed, it is very poorly designed, lack    Hype score 8.5/10, after 50+ hours with the game 6/10.

    To put it bluntly, Andromeda is not interesting and is extremely shallow. This is a shell of a game built around exploration with the occasional Mass Effect reference dropped in just so they can make the gamebox worthy of the Mass Effect name. Everything about this game screams that it was rushed, it is very poorly designed, lack of engaging narrative, removal of key elements from previous titles, make this game a huge chore. I would rather do laundry for 8 hours a day every day of the year than play this game. This game is not an RPG, you'd expect 5 years of development would have expanded on the great things from the original series, but no, they really set themselves back.

    Exploring planets: Interesting with the first planet, extremely repetitive after that. Driving is great as long as it has a purpose, but there is no purpose. Unfortunately, there is little variation to each planet when you break it down. Each planet is filled with the same boring enemy, same boring geometry, same boring fetch quests, all of which have no real direction. Don't bother with outposts, skip it, like 90% of the content.

    Quests: Side quests are a joke, literally every quest is a go here, now go there, now drive back there, scan this and now go drive back to the original spot. Toss in the fact that some side quests have you do that across multiple planets, you will want to shoot yourself after the 20th side quest. Quest tracking is also terrible, lack of way-points for some, and the way the quest journal has been organized is a slap in the face to modern RPGs. Your reward for side-quests, some dialogue that is skippable and experience points. The side quests lack any real weight or even story, they were tossed into the game because the designers felt they needed to fill these planets with time consuming tasks, thinking that bigger meant better. It doesn't. Loyalty missions are a joke, making the player travel from planet to planet scanning objects is a terrible way to introduce interesting story elements. Skip them.

    Main Story: Is there a main story? The Kett are boring to say the least and the Remnant are a complete after thought. The narrative pacing is so slow you often forget what is happening and end up not caring because you are too focused on clearing one of the many side tasks you have. There are a few cool cutscenes, but that is it. The main story clocks in around 15 - 17 hours.

    Remnant: Architecture is cool, the vaults are great, but nothing is ever really fleshed out. Locations marked on your map are only marked because there is a container with some goods, literally no other value.

    Multiplayer is garbage.

    Research/Development would have been cool if it wasn't so messy, how many options do we need for the same gun. Seriously, customization is cool. but Jesus, do I really need to research the same weapon five times? I stopped caring about research after the first 20 hours.

    Dialogue is pointless and unrewarding, no paragon/renegade system make conversation dull. Your decisions hold no real consequences. Relationships are very generic, listening to conversation is like watching a sloth run a marathon. Skip most of it.

    Combat is ok, the jump pack is cool, but the big open environments hurt more than help. Mass Effect made it's name on close combat interior fights, with cover, all that is gone. Whatever you loved about combat was taken out, the power wheel. squad control, etc.

    Character design and animation is very bad. Alien design is abysmal and lacks any real depth.

    It's not good and doesn't deserve to share the Mass Effect name. Honestly, no game should make me want to go back and play something that is 5 years older. Go looks at videos of ME3 and tell me that it doesn't look like it blows Anrdomeda out of the water.

    I'd type more, but my soul died a little playing this game and I do not want to relive any of those moments.    … Expand
  6. sefrabu
    May 10, 2017
    5
    Mass Effect Andromeda is yet another game released in the recent months that made me question myself if my playing computer games is actually a form of the Stockholm Syndrome, a sentiment from the past I cling to, without any actual joy.

    I won't even start with the technical issues, everyone knows what went wrong here. But go past the uninteresting premise, the lackluster protagonist    Mass Effect Andromeda is yet another game released in the recent months that made me question myself if my playing computer games is actually a form of the Stockholm Syndrome, a sentiment from the past I cling to, without any actual joy.

    I won't even start with the technical issues, everyone knows what went wrong here. But go past the uninteresting premise, the lackluster protagonist and their equally bland companions, ignore the writing on the level of a medicore fanfiction and the wasted potential of the story which goes nowhere near to the original trilogy - basically take no heed in any Bioware staples, and you will have a game which seems like something experimental that was released before (yes, before) an already not-so-perfect Dragon Age Inquisition, which so desperately wants to be a very typical free-to-play MMO with no multiplayer option, full of dull fetch quests, vast and empty spaces and absolutely no reason to play beyond the 21-hour final mission mark.

    I have absolutely no idea what happened here (save for the multi-corporation mess which seem to gradually strangle every good franchise as soon as it gets a few dollars above a certain threshold), but what suprises me the most are the user reviews giving this mess of a product a score higher than 7. I just can't understand this, understanding as I usually am. By doing this we, players, give the gamedevs premission to continue producing worse and worse games. Please. Stop.

    (My score is a bit higher than it should be due to the multiplayer matches, which are the only aspect of this game which is not broken. If you don't care about the multiplayer, feel free to substract 2 points from the score.)    … Expand
  7. metadubrev2
    Mar 28, 2017
    5
    huge ME fan but this game is a let down. stupid dialogue and way too much farming and wandering around with horrible maps. few action parts are fun but in trying to make gameplay more fluid developers sacrificed choices. you have only 3 readily accessible powers and squad has little ability to be directed. loads are horrendously long. i'd wait til goes on deep sale and only play the mainhuge ME fan but this game is a let down. stupid dialogue and way too much farming and wandering around with horrible maps. few action parts are fun but in trying to make gameplay more fluid developers sacrificed choices. you have only 3 readily accessible powers and squad has little ability to be directed. loads are horrendously long. i'd wait til goes on deep sale and only play the main mission ignoring all the side stories as only rare ones are anything but tedious.… Expand
  8. Jobbo
    Apr 6, 2017
    6
    Lets get one thing straight, this is not a bad game. Don't let some of the idiots on here giving this a zero influence you. if you liked mass effect 1-3 then you will like this. This is just more Mass effect with wonky animation problems, a 5 outta 10 story and the Ubi-soft open world formula tacked on.

    I will be honest, i wasn't a fan of the side quests. I gave up on the game when i    Lets get one thing straight, this is not a bad game. Don't let some of the idiots on here giving this a zero influence you. if you liked mass effect 1-3 then you will like this. This is just more Mass effect with wonky animation problems, a 5 outta 10 story and the Ubi-soft open world formula tacked on.

    I will be honest, i wasn't a fan of the side quests. I gave up on the game when i reached the second planet and had to fetch lost cargo from a crashed ship. I expected to run over grab it and return it but upon opening the mini map a was presented with around 10 parts that i needed to find. This is the worst kind of padding in video games. Its just mind numbing filler content that feels odd when you are in a race against time to find a new home for the human race. But that's a problem that features in 90% of games now days.

    Gripes aside though, everything else is very mass effect. Talk to Party members in between missions to find out more of there past. Maybe romance one of them if it takes your fancy. hand quests in at the new version of the citadel. Its a fine game, its just a bit ...... Samey.

    I got a fair bit of enjoyment out of the multiplayer though. Weirdly, i think this is the strongest part of the game ( being the part i enjoyed most )

    If you are in the mood for a space opera, pick it up. its a perfectly serviceable game. However, if you want a game in which to develop meaningful relationships with your party and explore broad themes in the main plot then i suggest you pick up the infinitely superior Persona 5.    … Expand
  9. Dolosais
    Apr 2, 2017
    5
    The combat actually pretty good, and the storyline is pretty much decent,but when it comes to the animation the cutscene feels a bit off dead expression maybe doesn't really matters but actually it doess, it's unfinished
  10. Ag2019
    Apr 10, 2017
    7
    Is ME:A a bad game? No. Is it the best Mass Effect game out there? No. Is it still worth playing? I'd say yes. I've played both pre-patch and post-patch and from the fixes and other misc. updates the developers have put out, it seems like they're really trying to fix what fans have worries about. Patch 1.5 made the animations and some textures feel almost brand new compared to launch, soIs ME:A a bad game? No. Is it the best Mass Effect game out there? No. Is it still worth playing? I'd say yes. I've played both pre-patch and post-patch and from the fixes and other misc. updates the developers have put out, it seems like they're really trying to fix what fans have worries about. Patch 1.5 made the animations and some textures feel almost brand new compared to launch, so that in itself shows the game is improving. Other released future patch notes also show a lot of promise. If you want to base your purchase of this game off of the reviews, that's absolutely fine, but in my opinion you can't tell if you're going to like a game or not until you actually play it. This is one of those "give it a chance" games. Overall (although I'm a huge Bioware fan so I may have some bias) I recommend the game - even if you wait for more updates before buying. Final point, if you like the ideas behind DA:I, you will like the ideas presented in ME:A.… Expand
  11. Ealgerino
    Apr 21, 2017
    5
    By all objective views, this is not a good game. If you're a die hard Mass Effect fan than playing it is worth while, but otherwise you'll wonder what all the raving about the ME series comes from if you start with Andromeda first.

    Story wise, it's pretty weak, with every battle encounter being exactly the same no matter what you're fighting. It feels like Destiny in that regard, and    By all objective views, this is not a good game. If you're a die hard Mass Effect fan than playing it is worth while, but otherwise you'll wonder what all the raving about the ME series comes from if you start with Andromeda first.

    Story wise, it's pretty weak, with every battle encounter being exactly the same no matter what you're fighting. It feels like Destiny in that regard, and it's sad when ME1 felt more diverse than Andromeda's fights. The story also has an extremely lazy way of avoiding all the choices you make in ME3. I mean literally your choices in ME3 matter more than they do in this game.

    The singular alien race we meet in Andromeda acts and behaves almost exactly like humans. Almost every single character is actually hideous to look at from dumb braided shaved hair to fish lips (in a sad attempt at political correctness maybe? I'm not sure, even the Asari are ugly) to the point where the female Turian was the only creature I wanted to romance, and every Turian looks exactly the same. There are some interesting characters but none have nearly the attachment you immediately gain to any of the people in the original games, which hopefully means future Mass Effect games (if any) avoid the people who wrote this game at all costs.

    Other stupid decisions like no true open world, Assassin's Creed style collectibles (can we stop doing this and naming it open world?), literal Windows Explorer style folder menus, obvious catering to consoles when playing on PC, difficulty being completely trivial after you get Version 3 of any weapon or armor, and just a load of other minor "did they even play this game" annoyances that add up to a frustrating experience. ME3 was unbelievably smooth for a third person game, but Andromeda decided to take 50 steps backwards in usability and not getting stuck on invisible rocks. They also somehow managed to make a vehicle worse than the Mako. I know BIoware is capable of great things, but Andromeda is basically another Dragon Age 2.

    Even after the patch, the game doesn't feel different. I didn't care about the bad animations, I didn't care about a lot of the graphical issues, ME1 has all of those but everything else still makes it a great game. Unfortunately the only thing that would make this game good is pretending it never happened.    … Expand
  12. marnes
    Mar 25, 2017
    7
    This is a good game with major flaws. Fortunately the combat and rover exploration portion of the game-play is quite good and represents the majority of the game. Everyone knows animations are hilariously bad, and I'll get to that later.

    Biggest negatives are: 1. huge lack of music in the game, and key signature moments (say becoming a Spectre in ME1, or getting the Normandy) -- the    This is a good game with major flaws. Fortunately the combat and rover exploration portion of the game-play is quite good and represents the majority of the game. Everyone knows animations are hilariously bad, and I'll get to that later.

    Biggest negatives are:
    1. huge lack of music in the game, and key signature moments (say becoming a Spectre in ME1, or getting the Normandy) -- the equivalents in ME4 are very brief casual affairs with no music. This is very disappointing for me, and even the memorable space exploration music is so subdued and ambient, you have to crank the sliders to even hear it.
    2. The space exploration, while pretty, transitions take too long, aren't skipable, and there is very little of interest. Very half-baked and incomplete. Sometimes you find minerals or a derelict ship/satellite. Scanning planets is briefer than the ME2 system, only because there is literally only 0 or 1 anomalies per planet (mostly 0). Feels empty.
    3. Character/Animation system. Looks like Bioware moved from the expensive motion captured method to procedural animations. The characters are a real step back, character generation is limited. We're talking worse than Skyrim here. Eyes looks largely flat and dead, and when the lead character smiles she looks like Jack Nicholson in the Shining.
    4. Crafting, research, scanning -- it seems to be a lot of work to do everything needed to research and craft items, and by the time you are able to do so, you end up looting superior items and not needing to craft at all. Still I'm still in the first quarter of the game. Feels like crafting is to fill gaps, but the pacing feels bad and difficult in the beginning, possibly due to the overwhelming amount of choice. So I'm saving it for when I need it.

    Overall the game is fun and engaging, but there are several parts of the game that feel undercooked. While animations are genuinely pretty bad, I can overlook some of that. But I'd say if Bioware is listening, music and space exploration needs more work and balancing. Maybe more planets that you can rover on.    … Expand
  13. MyddrinEmrys
    Mar 22, 2017
    7
    Reading through the user written reviews, the most common thing I have seen is "this doesn't feel like a Mass Effect game," followed closely by "this isn't the game Mass Effect fans have been waiting for."

    I've also seen a lot of 0 and 1 scores that seem to be based on nothing but pure spite. Now being a little over 8 hours into the game, I am more convinced that a lot of the reactions    Reading through the user written reviews, the most common thing I have seen is "this doesn't feel like a Mass Effect game," followed closely by "this isn't the game Mass Effect fans have been waiting for."

    I've also seen a lot of 0 and 1 scores that seem to be based on nothing but pure spite. Now being a little over 8 hours into the game, I am more convinced that a lot of the reactions are due to people building this up in their own minds.

    Now granted, some of the criticisms are very legitimate. While I disagree that "these characters obviously had to leave the Milky Way because they suffer from some horrible disease that make them ugly and walk funny," I have seen more of the movement issues people are complaining about.

    I've read others, though, that indicate to me that the person just didn't seem to be paying attention to the story and had their own story that they wanted to see play out. They didn't get that, so they have decided to chuck their toys out of the stroller and cry. That being said:

    My Score: 6.5/10, rounded to 7

    Areas where I agree with the criticism:

    1) Graphics issues: the facial expressions are a bit strange at times. They do, however, tend to elicit a chuckle at times. However, I find the complaints that they are "broken" hyperbolic.

    2) Movement: This is mainly an issue in the cut scenes, but the characters don't seem to move fluidly. It's a very mechanical way of moving about, like they are all androids playing at being human, and not doing it well.

    3) Sub-quests: After Witcher 3, it is difficult to sit through an endless loop of "fetch this widget," or "clear out this area" that has no real impact other than experience farming. A couple of them seem to have decisions that you are TOLD will have an impact, but the only impact I've seen is to the amount of experience my character has.

    4) Soundtrack: It's not bad, but it isn't good either. It is just sort of there.

    Now some areas of disagreement:

    1) Story: I think the most common criticism's boil down to "Ryder isn't Shepard." Umm... duh. In Mass Effect, Shepard was already an experienced warrior who knew who he was. Your only real influence over him was making him a paragon or rogue. Ryder is unsure of himself. He has been thrust into a position of authority even HE wonders if he actually deserves and had the fate of the entire Milky Way contingent placed upon him. As a huge fan of "coming of age" stories, I like seeing this.

    2) Dialogue wheel: I like that you are given some more nuanced options, though a bit miffed that in too many cases, it only you the "emotional" response or the "logical" response. The answers, though, fir very much in with how I perceive Ryder to be. He is a young man living under his father's shadow. So many times, you meet people that joined the expedition because of your father.

    3) Sidekicks: The obligatory "one of each type" is present. However, I like the fact that they are voiced well and aren't afraid to hint OR blatantly TELL Ryder that they disagree with him.

    4) Writing: I've seen a LOT of complaints about the writing, and I really have to disagree with this criticism. Are there some cringeworthy lines? Absolutely, especially when Ryder is trying too hard. Kind of like a kid who is TRYING to play grown up and making a mistake because he lacks experience. Which is exactly what he is. This is not ME2, with a team composed of the best of the best of the best.

    ***SMALL SPOILER: You learn this early in the game***

    General Observation: Many of the criticisms I've seen seem to indicate that the person wasn't paying a lot of attention to the narrative playing out. Everyone in a position of power on the Nexus WAS NOT INTENDED TO DO THE JOB THEY ARE DOING. The upper command was killed either by the encounter with the scourge or during the uprising. Alex Ryder dies on the first world he explores.

    EVERYONE has been thrust into a position of power for which they are not ready. They are stumbling along, trying to do they best they can. Some are obviously in over their heads, while others are rising to the challenge.

    ***END SPOILER***

    Many people seem to be expecting some sort of continuation of Shepard, or for him to feature a bit more in this title. However, they seem to be forgetting that when the arks left the Milky Way Galaxy, Shepard was in the middle of the events of Mass Effect 2.    … Expand
  14. Metrallero
    Mar 24, 2017
    7
    Yes, I'm quite disappointed about the animations, like anyone else should be, the quality that this game aims at shouldn't deliver those poorly polished animations that get you out of context in many occasions.
    But apart from that, what really saddens me is that this IS a good game, I'm actually enjoying it as much as I enjoyed the previous Mass Effects. The characters have a huge    Yes, I'm quite disappointed about the animations, like anyone else should be, the quality that this game aims at shouldn't deliver those poorly polished animations that get you out of context in many occasions.
    But apart from that, what really saddens me is that this IS a good game, I'm actually enjoying it as much as I enjoyed the previous Mass Effects. The characters have a huge potential, their personalities are similar to the ones on the original trilogy and every one of them has their humorous winks. Combat is delicious, flawless, runs very smooth, same as performance (I'm playing it high with a 970)
    From my humble point of view, the community is raging like a 5 year old that didn't get the exact same toy that he wanted for Christmas. Pretty sad. For me, this game doesn't deserve the bad reviews it's getting, those only show an immature community.    … Expand
  15. GameGuru
    Mar 21, 2017
    5
    The first 3 games weren't any good, and this game is easily the worst of the bunch. I have never been so bored playing a game that I stopped early and deleted it. Bioware has let down gamers.
  16. NoobTooberton
    Mar 25, 2017
    7
    I really question how people can justify anything under a 5 on this game. I understand that it may not be as good as the first installments but come on guys. This has enough of the ingredients to enjoy regardless of whether you're playing it for the first time or you're a seasoned vet. Keyboard warriors in full effect with this one.
  17. stavrosperi
    Mar 22, 2017
    5
    It hurts me that they use the mass effect name-my favorite video game trilogy ever-for this game.It is mediocre at best.The official reviews are quite forgiving and if it wasn't called mass effect the scores would be even lower.

    So what's wrong with the game?It has lots of problems, but the most important is that It lacks soul and it lacks love.The things that the trilogy had and dragon    It hurts me that they use the mass effect name-my favorite video game trilogy ever-for this game.It is mediocre at best.The official reviews are quite forgiving and if it wasn't called mass effect the scores would be even lower.

    So what's wrong with the game?It has lots of problems, but the most important is that It lacks soul and it lacks love.The things that the trilogy had and dragon origins had, while inquisition and Adromeda don't have.It feels like the games development was just a job that had to be done.

    Bioware is done.It's another company now, it's just the name that's the same.The same thing applies to this game compared to the trilogy.Sad but true.

    What is very good imo is that 2017 had the best start as far as gaming is conserned since many a year.Persona 5,Nioh, Nier Automata, Horizon dawn, Breath of the wild..These are rare gems. Very very strong opening for 2017, hope that this continuous, the industry was plugged by playing safe,take no risks ,no innovation,no love games like Andromeda.

    Whatever great games are released though, mass effect will always remain the series that a developed the strongest emotional attachment to.    … Expand
  18. Jk82482
    Mar 21, 2017
    7
    For all the trolls who are posting 1's and 0's go sob about that fact that you spent $60 on a game that you just whine about... This game is not that bad. Animations can suck. It doesn't live up to ME 1&2 but it's not that bad. If you can get over being a 12 year old girl whining that she didn't get what she wanted you will realize that there are far worse games out there. Bioware willFor all the trolls who are posting 1's and 0's go sob about that fact that you spent $60 on a game that you just whine about... This game is not that bad. Animations can suck. It doesn't live up to ME 1&2 but it's not that bad. If you can get over being a 12 year old girl whining that she didn't get what she wanted you will realize that there are far worse games out there. Bioware will make improvements so for now just be quiet and enjoy. I'm sick of fake scores. 1's and 0's are for games you play with your hands and lotions.… Expand
  19. extremext
    Mar 21, 2017
    6
    The game with all its good an bad and judging by multiple expert reviewers. I doubt if the haters actually played the whole game, they're just trolling. The game is worth 6 out of 10. The score for game is 5 in reality, i will add +1 point because of Great Graphics and benchmarking reasons. At least, its another title to measure GPU performance and benchmark it. No way i will buy this gameThe game with all its good an bad and judging by multiple expert reviewers. I doubt if the haters actually played the whole game, they're just trolling. The game is worth 6 out of 10. The score for game is 5 in reality, i will add +1 point because of Great Graphics and benchmarking reasons. At least, its another title to measure GPU performance and benchmark it. No way i will buy this game or waste time playing it from start to finish. I don't recommend anyone to do either. Fixing Animations should be easy work if they had quality control. Sound like they tried to cut down costs and didn't pay their employees enough $$$. Compared to Mass Effect 3 or even Mass Effect 2, it looks like a cheap knockoff. Expect for the graphics.… Expand
  20. scythe_pl
    Jun 13, 2017
    7
    It's perhaps the biggest and most expensive to produce 7/10 game there is. After patches, that is, because before 1.06 it was unplayable. Story is slow and mediocre, combat is repetitive and kind of tedious, there's definitely too much pointless running around (Kadara and the elevator, FFS). In general it's a decent game, but it's much, much, much below expectations.
  21. Olander
    Mar 24, 2017
    7
    Ignore all the haters rating this game in the red. They are just bandwagoning on the bad animations, which is overblown, the majority of the bad animations are in the beginning of the game where all those memes/gifs come from.

    I will get to the point, is Mass Effect Andromeda better than the original trilogy, no. That is 3 games that built up a great story. Mass Effect Andromeda pretty    Ignore all the haters rating this game in the red. They are just bandwagoning on the bad animations, which is overblown, the majority of the bad animations are in the beginning of the game where all those memes/gifs come from.

    I will get to the point, is Mass Effect Andromeda better than the original trilogy, no. That is 3 games that built up a great story. Mass Effect Andromeda pretty much redid the first Mass Effect game. I will go into the pros and cons of Mass Effect Andromeda.

    Pros

    Combat gameplay, by far the best in the series. The jetpack never gets old, it is a wonderful addition to the game. It is fast pace, you can now tech combo, which I think was not possible in previous games.

    Side quests, there are some who say the side quests are awful. They are not in comparison with previous Mass Effect games. I am loving it right now, Each planet has an enemy stronghold (at least the first 2 planets) that you have to take out and there are several steps before doing it. Taking out mini bases around the map, freeing Angara (new race) from their cells who then help you fight in that area. Then taking out the main bases has a couple objectives, for example taking out the hanger to destroy their aircraft, before fighting the leader of the base.

    Enemy AI, is good. This game gives you a challenge. No longer is this game just a cover shooter, the enemy will flank you, they will sometimes directly rush you and try to overwhelm you, or they will play defense and stay behind cover. Now this is all based on fighting the Kett. The other faction the Revenant fight somewhat differently, they are always out in the open, and rarely ever use cover. Being that they are robots and some of them fly, it makes sense.

    Multiplayer, If you like Mass Effect 3 multiplayer, this is better and harder than Mass Effect 3. They reduce the wave count to 7, which at first I was a little disappointed, but I remember the first 3 rounds in ME3 being super easy and a waste of time. So by having only 7 waves, they increased the difficulty.

    In between pro and con

    This could either be a pro or a con, but being able to change what spec you are on the fly, is pretty cool. Not being a class does in my opinion reduce replay value. But in return they allow you to do new game + as many times as you want to learn every skill.

    Story, The game does start off slow, but picks up when you meet the Angara. I enjoy the story, but in the end everyone has their own tastes.

    Cons

    A lot of technical issues. Yes, the human animations are bad. But if you can play Fallout 4 without complaining, then you can play this.

    PS4 framerate drops is annoying.

    Custom Creator is limited. I have to say it is very hard to make a person you really want. They don't allow free reign in who you want to make. You have to choose a preset face and then slightly adjust them. Hair styles are better than previous Mass Effect games, but the facial hair is abysmal.

    Overall, this game is good. All this game needs is more polish. It is disappointing that the animations feel outdated. But if you can get past that, this game is a lot of fun to play.    … Expand
  22. thisjustin02
    Feb 6, 2021
    7
    I'm about 70 hours in and I'm really liking it so far. The combat is fantastic, which I know is not the reason anyone buys a Bioware game, but it doesn't make it not true. Is it polished? Not at all. There was a lot of work left unfinished and it's buggy, but that doesn't make it a terrible game. The writing isn't on par with the first three, but it's not the dumpster fire that a lot ofI'm about 70 hours in and I'm really liking it so far. The combat is fantastic, which I know is not the reason anyone buys a Bioware game, but it doesn't make it not true. Is it polished? Not at all. There was a lot of work left unfinished and it's buggy, but that doesn't make it a terrible game. The writing isn't on par with the first three, but it's not the dumpster fire that a lot of the reviews say it is. I think this game has become one of those things the internet has collectively decided to hate just because everyone else says it's bad. It's not that bad. It's not amazing, but it's at least "good". The 1's and 0's seem reactionary and not what I'd consider to be a fair scores, but that's just my opinion. If you liked the first three, you owe it to yourself to give this a shot. Just know that this game starts from scratch.… Expand
  23. MRMSFT
    Mar 27, 2017
    6
    I have hundreds of hours in the original three games, and I consider myself a HUGE Mass Effect fan. That said, this game doesn't feel like a ME game to me. It's rehashing to say it, but the voice acting, animations, and cast all feel just, "Blah," and don't grab my attention or make me want to keep playing.
    Gone are the characters like Garrus, Wrex, Mordin, and Tali, which really made you    I have hundreds of hours in the original three games, and I consider myself a HUGE Mass Effect fan. That said, this game doesn't feel like a ME game to me. It's rehashing to say it, but the voice acting, animations, and cast all feel just, "Blah," and don't grab my attention or make me want to keep playing.
    Gone are the characters like Garrus, Wrex, Mordin, and Tali, which really made you want to explore and enrich your relationships with them. They've been replaced with what are arguably some of the worst party members ever put into a game. Sure, Drack is okay, but I've yet to feel anything like my experience in the first three games. This game may be huge and pretty open-world, but the vast empty areas with nothing but enemy spawn points, and the huge amount of fetch quests, and others which don't contribute to, or push you forward in the main quest line make it feel very much like the Hinterlands in Dragon Age Inquisition. Navigating the Galaxy Map is also a huge issue for me. It doesn't sound like much, but if you're a completionist like I am, the fifteen second animations between planets really add up and become wearisome. There are a few quests that I have truly enjoyed, but overall, I wish I hadn't purchased this game. Add to these issues all the bugs and performance issues- it really does not seem optimized at all-and you've got something I really haven't enjoyed so far. The combat is really the only greatly improved thing I've encountered so far, but that isn't nearly enough to make up for the rest of it. I'm only about twenty-twenty five hours in, so maybe something later on will help, like the ending of Dragon Age 2, but for now, I think a six is the highest I can give it.    … Expand
  24. Truth_of_Pisces
    Mar 25, 2017
    7
    First and foremost, THIS WAS NOT MADE BY THE SAME TEAM THAT MADE THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY. That team is gone, and about 90% of them left Bioware years ago. This game does not have Casey Hudson's direction steering it, nor the narrative talents of Mac Walters and Drew Karpyshyn to prop it up- although Walters serves as the games director which ultimately, keeps it from being worse than what itFirst and foremost, THIS WAS NOT MADE BY THE SAME TEAM THAT MADE THE ORIGINAL TRILOGY. That team is gone, and about 90% of them left Bioware years ago. This game does not have Casey Hudson's direction steering it, nor the narrative talents of Mac Walters and Drew Karpyshyn to prop it up- although Walters serves as the games director which ultimately, keeps it from being worse than what it could have been. This game was developed by the team that made ME3 multiplayer mode, which makes it their first AAA release, and for their first attempt, it is not a terrible one, but that fact that it IS their first is evident.

    Let's just call this game what it is: Dragon Age: Inquisition with a Mass Effect coat of paint. The moment you land on Eos, you'll notice how similar the exploration mechanic is to DA:I. There's markers for landmarks, quests, fast travel spots; it basically uses the exact same system. This is not a bad thing if you enjoyed Inquisition(like I did), but shows a lack of experience or a fear of trying anything bold on the new development team's part. Still, it works for the most part. One of the better parts of exploring is the Nomad, which is a vast improvement over the Mako from ME1 and makes traversal much easier, even if it cannot be used offensively. Going off the beaten path is encouraged, but be warned of wildlife, enemies, and even the environment trying to kill you- Eos spends much of it's time being unsafe to travel on foot due to radiation for the first 5-10 hours.

    The combat is this games highlight. ME3's multiplayer was a lot of fun to play, so it makes sense that the team knew how to translate fun, fast-paced combat to the main story. Your encouraged to keep moving, much like in games like Uncharted or Tomb Raider, as opposed to the more slower and cover-focused system from the previous Mass Effect games. The jet boost mechanic is a great addition and encourages new and fun ways to approach combat. You feel yourself getting pressured, boost into cover. Enemies hiding behind cover, boost up shoot them from the air as you hover. However, there is a downside to it: your squadmates. You cannot control them as much as you can in previous games. You can only direct them to a new position or order them to attack an enemy. They're serviceable enough to fight enemies but you can't coordinate attacks tactically, which means you're mostly on your own.

    The new crafting system has been described as complicated and have terrible interface, and...all these things are true. If you're a casual gamer, the crafting system may take some getting used to. It's similar in nature to Dragon Age: Inquisition(which this game seems to have no problem borrowing heavily from), but it's layered under a somewhat tricky to navigate interface. That being said, crafting is the best way to get the best gear and if you have the patience, is worth the effort. The downside: the crafting(and gear in general) extends only to you. You cannot customize your squadmate's weapons and armor as in previous titles, they have their default gear and they're stuck with it for the game's duration.

    Speaking of the squadmates: they're a mixed bag. A lot of them feel like stand-in for their much more popular and better written predecessors. Vetra is another visor-wearing Truian, Drack's the new Wrex/Grunt, Peebee's the new Liara(but behaves like Liara's more adventurous and somewhat annoying sister). Some of the new characters DO work. Cora and Liam are your new Kaidan and Ashely, only much more likeable. Jaal is sort of a mix between Thane and Javik from ME2 and ME3, but so far, I found him interesting enough to separate himself from them. Then you got the side characters who are almost entirely forgettable, like Kallo, the ship's pilot, who is a far cry from Joker.

    The dialogue wheel that the developers talked up as being more situational and less binary than the Pargon/Renegade system is a disappointment to say the least. We were promised four choices, but I have rarely encountered them. The default seems to be too and they're limited to "casual/professional" or "emotional/logical". Basically, you can be Star-Lord or you can be Picard.

    A lot of people have bashed the writing, and I feel it's undeserved. It is not as bad as they claim, but it never quite reaches the lofty standards set by ME2 or ME3. Still, you should have no trouble believing this is a Bioware game, even if it's story is pretty by-the-numbers.

    Overall, Andromeda is not a bad game by any stretch. Hype and expectation are what is currently bringing it down. The technical problem were few and far between for me(I'm talking like two noticeable bugs over six hours that weren't game-breaking), the combat is a lot of fun, the exploration is serviceable, and the new characters are sure to resonate with someone. It's not the game many may have hoped for, but regardless it IS good to have Mass Effect back again, and hopefully we'll see more of it in the future.    … Expand
  25. Sojum
    May 27, 2017
    7
    Early on and the game is fine. Not sure why this one is attracting so many troll reviews. Yes there are bugs and some occasional weird animations. They are exceptions though - they don't persist constantly throughout the game. Anyone focused solely on them has is merely parroting what's popular on the internet. Did I hope for better? Yes. But I'm also just coming off of Horizon Zero DawnEarly on and the game is fine. Not sure why this one is attracting so many troll reviews. Yes there are bugs and some occasional weird animations. They are exceptions though - they don't persist constantly throughout the game. Anyone focused solely on them has is merely parroting what's popular on the internet. Did I hope for better? Yes. But I'm also just coming off of Horizon Zero Dawn which set an incredibly high bar. Follow the critics score on this one, not the troll score.

    Having now finished the game, I'll leave my original rating of 7. There's plenty to do here, and gameplay is much more satisfying than the negative reviews will acknowledge. It's not a stellar entry or the space exploration game I keep waiting for. But, it's so far from the 4.8 user average currently showing in metacritic that it's comical. I think it's time to start verifying that the people writing reviews have actual played the game (watched the movie/read the book/used the product/etc). I tell my kids to try things, truly try them, before they make up their minds about whether or not they like them. My sense anymore is that reviews are regurgitating popular sentiment on the Internet or expressing a dislike of superficial, easily observed, features of something without actually sampling it (i.e. ewwww, it looks gross therefore it must be gross).    … Expand
  26. tonyfred898
    Mar 22, 2017
    7
    This game is really a 7.5 honestly, had to give it a 10 because of all the negative reviews. Is It on the same level as the Witcher 3, Horizon Zero Dawn and Breath of the Wild? Of course not. But it is fun, combat is exciting and it feels like a Mass Effect Game. I am a little disappointed in the story, but I ah having a good time, spent 13 hours already and I am satisfied with it.This game is really a 7.5 honestly, had to give it a 10 because of all the negative reviews. Is It on the same level as the Witcher 3, Horizon Zero Dawn and Breath of the Wild? Of course not. But it is fun, combat is exciting and it feels like a Mass Effect Game. I am a little disappointed in the story, but I ah having a good time, spent 13 hours already and I am satisfied with it. Probably will go back to the original trilogy but I am a Mass Effect guy for life. If you Judge as a spinoff and not a true successor you will be satisfied.… Expand
  27. Urtext
    Mar 21, 2017
    6
    It’s hard not to be emotional about Mass Effect: Andromeda. You can see this from the huge number of negative user reviews. This actually says something about the strength of the Mass Effect universe. Although Mass Effect 2 did not live up to the sci fi chops of Mass Effect 1, and Mass Effect 3 did not live up to the intensely personal and emotionally engaging Mass Effect 2, the originalIt’s hard not to be emotional about Mass Effect: Andromeda. You can see this from the huge number of negative user reviews. This actually says something about the strength of the Mass Effect universe. Although Mass Effect 2 did not live up to the sci fi chops of Mass Effect 1, and Mass Effect 3 did not live up to the intensely personal and emotionally engaging Mass Effect 2, the original trilogy remains a landmark Bioware effort. Expectations were high.

    The 0-10 scale is obviously flawed. But I cannot bring myself to review this game anything lower than a 6. It has its problems, but within the American grading system, 0-5 signifies a failing (non)effort. Despite some noticeable bugs, I did not encounter any game-breaking ones (your mileage may vary). ME: A was rushed, but it is not a literally broken game.

    This is not high praise. In fact, ME: A is a bad game, and if you value your time, you should not play it. When I play an RPG, first and foremost I expect some engagement with the story and the characters. An RPG is not only about its systems; its about role-playing within the given constraints of the game. And I cannot role-play with ME: A’s clichéd, uninteresting plot and terrible, forgettable cast. Even if you look over the problems with animation (it’s truly horrible, watch on Youtube for entertainment) and voice-work (the talent were phoning it in); the writing itself is untenable. There is no forward momentum. The gameplay systems function in a workmanship manner independent of context: combat is fine, the quest system sets up an addictive gameplay loop. But there is no soul to the game that makes you want to engage with these systems. And that is ME: A’s major sin.    … Expand
  28. mamalikesmambo
    Mar 22, 2017
    5
    I rarely ever pre-order games, only when I trust a developer after releasing multiple games where they were very good. I don't expect perfection, don't mind a few bugs as modern RPG's are huge. I do expect a certain level of polish however, and ME: Andromeda has broken my trust with the Bioware name. I figured that EA wouldn't allow a franchise as golden as Mass Effect to go downhill or beI rarely ever pre-order games, only when I trust a developer after releasing multiple games where they were very good. I don't expect perfection, don't mind a few bugs as modern RPG's are huge. I do expect a certain level of polish however, and ME: Andromeda has broken my trust with the Bioware name. I figured that EA wouldn't allow a franchise as golden as Mass Effect to go downhill or be rushed, especially after Dragon Age: Inquisition, but I was wrong. I had forgot that this wasn't the same team that did ME 1,2 3 and it shows. This barely feels like those games in overall feeling, which saddens me

    First thing I noticed is the character creation section is lame. You are given all these very light hair colors but unable to create a very light skinned person, so that your skintone doesnt match the hair color. The lightest skin tone is terrible for a strawberry blonde or platinum blonde or very light skinned brunette. The hair styles are lame, no long haired styles at all, very boring and almost gender neutral. I had to start a new character because my first try looked good at the character setup but in game looked terrible with the amazingly bad and terrible facial and eye animations. My character was so unappealing I had to start the first hour over after realizing I couldnt stand looking at her.

    The games atmospheres are beautiful as are the level design, and thats where the seemed to spend their performance points, because the animations for body and faces, and even voice acting is so bad at times. It's hard to really get immersed into a game when your character looks and behaves awkwardly even if the game makes amazing screenshots and wallpapers. The voice acting is so wooden at times, and the voices chosen for certain characters make you wonder what they were thinking. I felt there was some political SJW warrior stuff in this game where their shouldnt be as well.

    I'm giving this game a 5 because its not terrible overall but the quality of the game could have been so much more. You look at Ashley or Miranda in ME and then any of the females in this game and its amazing that a game series which last had an entry in 2012 (ME3) looks better and more human like in performance and animations than a 2017 game, 5 years later.    … Expand
  29. WildFire15
    Mar 26, 2017
    5
    It doesn't seem to matter what Mass Effect Andromeda gives you, whether it's a return to a more open world to explore like in ME1, characters to delve into or critical choices to make, it's impossible to get over how poorly made the game is. It feels like it was cobbled together to a point of functionality and then left with no polish, making the game ugly and clunky to control and that'sIt doesn't seem to matter what Mass Effect Andromeda gives you, whether it's a return to a more open world to explore like in ME1, characters to delve into or critical choices to make, it's impossible to get over how poorly made the game is. It feels like it was cobbled together to a point of functionality and then left with no polish, making the game ugly and clunky to control and that's before the terrible animations get in the way. The aesthetic is still nice, but it's constantly impeded by poor use of the Frostbite engine.
    Beyond that, the excitement of exploring simply isn't there as it feels like you're checking off a list rather then going out and finding things.
    At the end of the day, Mass Effect: Andromeda simply isn't good enough to bare the series' name and both EA and Bioware should be ashamed of it.    … Expand
  30. KalvinKain
    Mar 23, 2017
    6
    This is the first time Bioware screw up the Mass Effect series after Dragon age 2. I make this easy for those Mass effect fan or fist timer to decide you want to pick up this game or not. Keep in mind that this is just my opinion.

    Good *First time huge open world to explore *Lot of dialog option *Battle system is fun *Lot of Main quest & Side quest Bad *Repeating side quest    This is the first time Bioware screw up the Mass Effect series after Dragon age 2. I make this easy for those Mass effect fan or fist timer to decide you want to pick up this game or not. Keep in mind that this is just my opinion.

    Good
    *First time huge open world to explore
    *Lot of dialog option
    *Battle system is fun
    *Lot of Main quest & Side quest

    Bad
    *Repeating side quest
    *Lack of Team members command
    *Facial animations problem
    *Repeating New Aliens race design
    *Bug, Bug & Bugs    … Expand
  31. D-Squared
    Mar 22, 2017
    6
    The game isn't bad nor is it good. It just exists. The gameplay is fine. No issue there on my PS4. However the writing is lackluster and the story is uninspiring. The animations feel pretty lazy and the only thing they bothered to properly animate to an A+ were the "Love scenes" which is sad. This game is not worth its retail pricing. Its worth maybe $25-30. Its just disappointing when IThe game isn't bad nor is it good. It just exists. The gameplay is fine. No issue there on my PS4. However the writing is lackluster and the story is uninspiring. The animations feel pretty lazy and the only thing they bothered to properly animate to an A+ were the "Love scenes" which is sad. This game is not worth its retail pricing. Its worth maybe $25-30. Its just disappointing when I have to ACTIVELY search for positives in a game that I wanted to be good. Unfortunately the best I can say is that its, "Meh alright I suppose..."… Expand
  32. czaczi87
    May 1, 2017
    6
    This game isn't absolutely terrible but it isn't great neither. There is a lot of bland and forgetful content in Andromeda. Most of the side quest are like "go there, fetch that, kill a group of mobs" etc. It's repetitive and gets on your nerves quickly. Apart from that MEA has a sh*tload of technical issues and, God save me, it suffers from a loading screen disease. Throughout one stupidThis game isn't absolutely terrible but it isn't great neither. There is a lot of bland and forgetful content in Andromeda. Most of the side quest are like "go there, fetch that, kill a group of mobs" etc. It's repetitive and gets on your nerves quickly. Apart from that MEA has a sh*tload of technical issues and, God save me, it suffers from a loading screen disease. Throughout one stupid little side mission you are hurled around 3 planets and have to suffer 8-10 loading screens. It's just tiresome and not fun at all. I have to point out that I play it on a PS4 Pro with its standard slow-ass HDD. Maybe on a SSD the loading experience is more bearable.

    The only good aspects of the game are combat and some remnant designs (every other stuff is just a generic sci-fi ripoff). Mass Effect Andromeda is a mediocre game that isn't completely broken so it doesn't deserve notes like 3/10. When you compare MAE to Horizon Zero Dawn which was released just a month earlier it is a laughing stock.

    By the way, Bioware is a goddamn lazy company. A full month after the release and they only issued one lousy patch? The game is still riddled with glitches, bugs and all sorts of problems. I guess their faces are just goddamn tired...    … Expand
  33. SoakerCity
    Apr 24, 2017
    6
    Political correctness and bad facial animations ruin what would have been a solid title. The first instance, by the way, of a game's politics becoming an obstacle to my enjoyment.

    Right off the bad (typo that will stay!), I could not get a face that looked like mine, a pretty standard, rather squarish-headed person of European heritage. As the game progressed, there were a few other    Political correctness and bad facial animations ruin what would have been a solid title. The first instance, by the way, of a game's politics becoming an obstacle to my enjoyment.

    Right off the bad (typo that will stay!), I could not get a face that looked like mine, a pretty standard, rather squarish-headed person of European heritage. As the game progressed, there were a few other annoyances, such as the dialogue to follow a certain theme of virtue signalling, and the now obligatory slotting of characters into non traditional gender roles. Women almost always powerful, and waaaay too many "soft" men in military, trades or settler jobs.

    Also, there was a lack of bloodthirstiness and general bad behavior by the human men in your company. Contrast these little bit characters' dialogue snippets with those of the Witcher 3, and you'll see what I mean, The men in W3 had vulgar, violent, and sexist leanings that added veracity. The men of Andromeda seemed sterile and unrealistic.

    The dialogue wheel in Andromeda just isn't good. Not enough interesting choices, and that feeling of being a dangerous and sometimes evil space sheriff from previous Mass Effect titles was gone. I played an evil man in ME 1-3, and I just couldn't get that same feeling or anything close in Andromeda. That's a big problem in an RPG.

    I won't go into the other details, I havn't yet finished the game and I probably won't. The combat is better, but there has been a lack of gore and that real feeling of impact from your weapons. It feels too HALO-y so far.

    I would have preferred a grittier Andromeda overall, more Star Wars than Star Trek, but that is a design choice that I can accept, Mass Effect is more of a high sci-fi game, and that's okay.

    Overall a disappointment, but still worth a go.    … Expand
  34. Reciter5613
    May 2, 2017
    7
    It isn't bad. The action and style is still good. My problem is there was not enough interesting quests and stuff to motivate me to finish it. They all got boring and felt like unwanted filler. Also it was annoying how your actions in the last few games doesn't affect this one like they never happened.

    As a Mass effect fan, this was sad that it didn't grab my interest like the other games.
  35. Mallshalay
    Jun 6, 2017
    7
    I'll say just a few words how I feel about this so called Mass Effect game.

    Take Mass effect 2 and 3's AI - EDI.. Interesting, human-like and a great squadmate addition to the game. You can see throughout the both games its character development, how it's trying to understand humans (organics you might say) and at the end even how it's falling in love with Joker. And now ME:A's AI -    I'll say just a few words how I feel about this so called Mass Effect game.

    Take Mass effect 2 and 3's AI - EDI.. Interesting, human-like and a great squadmate addition to the game. You can see throughout the both games its character development, how it's trying to understand humans (organics you might say) and at the end even how it's falling in love with Joker.

    And now ME:A's AI - SAM.. Overall boring, flat and definitely one of the most annoying things about the game. How it constantly reminds you that you can mine here and there or that you have nonexistent emails in your mailbox or fake pending vidcalls. You can't see any character development whatsoever even though the game reminds you like 2 or 3 times that SAM is learning about human feelings and such.

    That would be my view of ME:A. Take it as you see fit. 7/10. (7/10 because of the amazing combat system, without it it would be just 5/10, which I'm really sad to say taking in consideration that it's Mass Effect and a Bioware game even)    … Expand
  36. jimmy_dancer
    May 3, 2017
    6
    I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy this game but it is hugely flawed. I started to play (and finished it) after the first patch so my visual experience was a little better.

    Things I Didn't Like Bugs. The game is still, post patch, really buggy. People clip through walls a lot. When exiting the Nomad (your car) your companions often spawn in the air and fall down. Also there are lots    I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy this game but it is hugely flawed. I started to play (and finished it) after the first patch so my visual experience was a little better.

    Things I Didn't Like
    Bugs. The game is still, post patch, really buggy. People clip through walls a lot. When exiting the Nomad (your car) your companions often spawn in the air and fall down. Also there are lots of dialogue that are not updated based on your actions (or are updated incorrectly). Saying you still need 1 more X but you have completed them. Someone saying you're not tough enough to do Y when you already completed it.
    The performance annoyed me. Having to wait for doors to open is infuriating.

    Meh Things
    The Story. Very generic.
    Dialogue was often quite cringe worthy
    Voice acting was very mixed. People need context when voice acting. Ideally being in the same room as each other but at least not recording each line separately (if that is not what was done than it is a mess). I would rather have no voicing than it done poorly. I did think Jaal and Liam were very well done but most of Scott was terrible.
    Quests - Too many fetch quests.
    Graphics - Looks quite dated. (Except some of the planet views)

    Things I Liked
    The Tempest (your ship) I thought was well done. The quests on there, the crew interactions, particularly with each other, were well done.
    The music was great.
    Some quests... most of the loyalty quests were well done and involved something a little more interesting than go and collect 7 rocks. The Drack and Liam ones were my favourite from the loyalty series.    … Expand
  37. matrixasiseefit
    Apr 5, 2017
    5
    [Disclosure: Yes, I am a Mass Effect Franchise fan and have played over a thousand hours in Mass Effect 1-3 combined. Yes, I do own the game. I bought and reviewed the game with Best Buy, which anyone reading this can confirm for themselves as I posted the same review as i posted here. No, I didn't create this account just to crap on your favorite game]

    The Good: Planet exploration and    [Disclosure: Yes, I am a Mass Effect Franchise fan and have played over a thousand hours in Mass Effect 1-3 combined. Yes, I do own the game. I bought and reviewed the game with Best Buy, which anyone reading this can confirm for themselves as I posted the same review as i posted here. No, I didn't create this account just to crap on your favorite game]

    The Good: Planet exploration and the single-player combat action has taken a considerable jump forward from the previous Mass Effects. I find myself wanting to go from planet to planet, seeing what treasures and dangers await me in these gorgeous new worlds.

    The Bad: The writing in my opinion is fairly poor, but I do understand how some will find it enjoyable. It's not that I don't like campy dialog here and there, but Mass Effect seems to be very tone-deaf at times where the character dialog and responses do not match the situation. The absence of Renegade or Paragon responses made the character dialog feel very limited most times. What made the previous games special to me is that I could add many aspects of my own personality to Shepard through the vast dialog options. In Andromeda I feel like I'm locked into being either nice or snarky and it's very predictable and sometimes straight-out boring.

    The Really Ugly: The character animations and in-game bugs are the worst of any AAA game I have purchased in last 5 years. I don't even have room to write the large list of bugs I have encountered in Andromeda that has cost me hours of gameplay. Some players are willing to give Bioware and EA a "pass" on these issues - I absolutely will not.

    ** If you are on the fence about purchasing this game and reading my review, I highly suggest you wait and see what Bioware does to address these issues. If you love Bioware and don't care about bugs or terrible character animations you probably already own this game. LOL.    … Expand
  38. KittyWhisky
    Apr 1, 2017
    7
    Shepard, save us.

    Mass Effect: Andromeda was the victim of haters before the release. And not without reason. Impressions at E3 was terrible and told us that the game is ready or not, or the writers are afraid to show their product. The gameplay videos were beautiful, but strange. Also all appreciated the terrible animation of a female character. But hope was. I spent 50 hours to beat    Shepard, save us.

    Mass Effect: Andromeda was the victim of haters before the release. And not without reason. Impressions at E3 was terrible and told us that the game is ready or not, or the writers are afraid to show their product. The gameplay videos were beautiful, but strange. Also all appreciated the terrible animation of a female character. But hope was. I spent 50 hours to beat the game and play in multiplayer. This is not Mass Effect.

    A feeling. many. who participated in the development of didn't care about the game. Advertising company again littered thanks to EA, the facial animation is bad (not terrible, but worse than in the same Wicher 3), the story is frankly weak. The only people who were good at your work it's artists. The scenery in the game are forced to admire him, all the planets are incredibly beautiful. Even painted and modeled space! This is the most beautiful space in games! The game looks gorgeous, but we love Mass Effect not for the graphics. Overall, the animation is normal. A nomad, nice to handle, he even slips on the ice. When you walk character, as in real life, to go around the different pits, crossing from ledge to ledge. Facial animation is bad, but don't destroy the game just because of her! It's a massive RPG, not cartoon. You need to enjoy the process of history. not the facial animation.

    The main plot is very weak, and does not tolerate any criticism. The plot is like a fanfic. I don't believe that it was written by a screenwriter completed. A few hours, the plot is intriguing, but that intrigue quickly subsides, and we see a weak, predictable and cliched plot. The main enemy Arkhon is absolutely not interesting. And it looks .as if escaped from the movie Gremlins (are you kidding me?!). Kett - another humanoid, and not much interesting. Just the enemies. We were shown a new race - Angara. again, they are humanoids (the writers without imagination), though looks beautiful, especially the eyes. History and lore of the race Angara is very interesting. A new race is fully opened, which is good news. We also have a new extinct race - Remnants. The writers absolutely not revealed the lore of this race. Remember what interesting was the Protheans in the first Mass Effect? Remnants appear to be a robot, although Remnants - it's not the robots, just the writers not come up with that is this race.

    But! It turns out that in Mass Effect: Andromeda main plot is just nothing. The most interesting tasks we give our team, and you can still find interesting job on the planets (although it is mainly sad scan). The developers have done everything that we fell in love with their team. And if you passed the game completely, and not stupidly ran the story, then you love them. Each member of our team is not just a puppet, and interesting character. Someone more interesting, someone less, but you are sure to find their favorites. Job they give are interesting, and sometimes with new gameplay mechanics. Make sure to do the job mates! It's the best thing in the game. The sex scenes also have - they are no better and no worse than in Dragon Age: Inquisition.

    Multiplayer since Mass Effect 3 has not changed, which is probably good. The only thing that has changed is the combat system. And this makes a pleasant change to the gameplay. We run across the map, applied skills, and great strafe. Many people do not like the new combat system, but I thought it was very successful. We have three games sitting behind cover and shoot is boring. Now we can jump high, hover in the air, strafe. The dynamics of the battle has grown significantly. Also in a single company will allow us to combine classes. this is another nice gameplay innovation. Now you can be not only biotic, but also an engineer. Another gameplay mechanic scan. It's boring and not interesting. Don't do it. Many criticized the game due to scanning, so don't do it, it did not occur? In this game, a weak soundtrack, and most importantly - in the game it's almost unheard of, this is a huge minus. If you listen to him separately, like it is good, especially the song that plays in menu, but in game you music almost never awake to hear.

    Mass Effect: Andromeda is not a continuation of the legendary series. we wanted to see. Weak dialogue (though certainly not all, there are very great), terrible plot (Mass Effect) ,and animation cause irreparable damage to Mass Effect. And if the animation can be corrected with patches, the story will remain a third-rate fanfic. despite this Mass Effect does not deserve such low ratings, it has many good features: quests of the characters, some third-party tasks, your team, the gameplay, the beauty of the planets. Give this game a chance, don't rush, explore the world, find interesting tasks (do not do a dull scan), and you will not notice how will these 50 hours. Mass Effect: Andromeda's not trash, just weak game - and this is the worst for this legendary series of games.    … Expand
  39. mattyess
    Mar 26, 2017
    7
    For everything that ME Andromeda gets wrong, they get something right. Unfortunately that's a lot of rights and wrongs. I find myself constantly saying, "wow, that's cool" and "oh, wow, that sucks". Had they just focused on making sure that the conversations were just a bit more realistic (they're often strangely timed and unrealistic) and animations a little less weird and robotic (atFor everything that ME Andromeda gets wrong, they get something right. Unfortunately that's a lot of rights and wrongs. I find myself constantly saying, "wow, that's cool" and "oh, wow, that sucks". Had they just focused on making sure that the conversations were just a bit more realistic (they're often strangely timed and unrealistic) and animations a little less weird and robotic (at times it feels like your talking to a funny-walking, nervous-shaking, often ugly, soulless doll). Had they got those things right, then they could have got a LOT more wrong and there would have been a LOT less complaints. For a game thats is so focused on drama and relationships, this is something that should have been looked at a lot closer, I'm frankly amazed it was released in its current state. Finally, and this is coming from someone only 1/3 through the game, the plot so far seems very thin and extremely similar to the previous ME's.
    All in all though, I think this could be the start of another great trilogy, as long as they don't pull a Phantom Menace, and listen to the feedback from the gamers and implement it in future updates, DLC's or the next instalment.    … Expand
  40. AtticusMarkane
    Apr 17, 2017
    6
    Mass Effect Andromeda is a solid entry in the series. It has some issues, but for the most part they are cosmetic. The unfortunate thing is that the elements of the game that truly shine require you to invest your time, explore the worlds, and complete the game.

    This is a game about discovery and once you start looking you begin to see that the developers have laid the foundations for    Mass Effect Andromeda is a solid entry in the series. It has some issues, but for the most part they are cosmetic. The unfortunate thing is that the elements of the game that truly shine require you to invest your time, explore the worlds, and complete the game.

    This is a game about discovery and once you start looking you begin to see that the developers have laid the foundations for another great series. Sprinkled throughout the quests and lore in the game it is obvious that there is a lot of intrigue going on; What happened to the Milky Way? Who is the Benefactor? Where did the Scourge come from? Who made the Remnant? What makes this all more delightful is that with the foundation left by the original series, there is room for countless theories and endless speculation on all these questions and I expect the answers we get will be great.

    Mass Effect Andromeda is a game laboring under the burden of a herculean legacy. Unfortunately because of this it means that it will be picked apart and compared to the nostalgic memory of its ancestor. When you boil it all down, I feel that Andromeda sets the stage for a series that truly has the potential to outshine its predecessor.    … Expand
  41. MAFIAxMaverick
    Apr 24, 2017
    7
    [Updated 4/24/17] - Probably 80 hours into single player now and 50 or so hours in MP. Many bugs have been fixed, including game-breaking things I was running into previously. Facial animations look better now, but they're still pretty bad for a 2017 game. Ended up not being as big a fan of the story as I was initially. Bumped up from a 5 to a 7.

    I have about 30 hours put into the    [Updated 4/24/17] - Probably 80 hours into single player now and 50 or so hours in MP. Many bugs have been fixed, including game-breaking things I was running into previously. Facial animations look better now, but they're still pretty bad for a 2017 game. Ended up not being as big a fan of the story as I was initially. Bumped up from a 5 to a 7.

    I have about 30 hours put into the single player so far, about 15 hours in MP. Definitely a letdown compared to the original ME trilogy - especially in regards to the technical aspects of the game. I'm actually enjoying the story and re-integrating myself back into the lore. Multiplayer continues to be a treat.

    The technical issues is where this game just fails for me They're glaring and really can't be ignored.. From the game locking up when cutscenes don't initiate properly, to horrible teammate AI, to the oft-memed facial animations and static eyes. I feel some of the same issues that plagued the original trilogy are still here and then some.

    Overall - I'm enjoying the game. But the glaring technical issues make me believed this is a rushed release - which is likely out of Bioware's hands as we know EA loves their money. It's a damn shame too. I also can't fathom how they added only two new species to the game. We're in a completely different galaxy.

    Multiplayer 9/10 for me though. Having a blast playing it with my buddies.    … Expand
  42. k2fntsy
    Mar 23, 2017
    6
    This is what EA wants. It's not Mass effect, it's SPACE BATTLEFIELD- Boring Single Play and Mega Funny Multiplay. I like battlefield a lot for good multiplay only, but it's not I want from Mass Effect.
  43. DrMaskWolf
    Mar 26, 2017
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have almost finished this game and I'm willingly going to play again. The issue with this game, besides the graphical glitches which can be horrifying if using the default or just using an unedited pre-set head, is the same issue I have with Dragon Age Inquisition when you start out. That issue is a boring and overly long first act. Things really do kick up after you escape the Archon for the first time and characters start to open up the exact same way they did in Dragon Age.

    I actually blame the writers for the dull characters since most of them seem to have written characters the exact same way in, you guessed it, Dragon Age Inquisition. This is on the other hand and change of form for the Mass Effect franchise that not a lot of fans don't like, and it also feels like a reboot of the first 2 games smashed together which I admit was something I had already thought before playing but those thoughts were only reinforced. I felt for each of the characters after the first act, I wanted to see them succeed and not get hurt even though I know they are fictional. And I have to give the writers credit since I didn't give a **** about a lot of characters from Dragon Age Inquisition.

    There are issues with the game running like crap sometimes for seemingly no reason at all. It could either be in a field of grass on a planet or in the Tempest, it will just start to chug near the end of the second act. Also, the facial animations, although some of them might have been fixed since I saw some online that I never saw in game, it's unacceptable that they would focus so hard on the combat to leave the most basics part of the game so ****ty.

    Speaking of combat it is great. Similar to MGSV where the gameplay was it's saving grace, for me at the very least, Mass Effect Andromeda's combat is good and I didn't even take advantage of all of the gimmicks they added. It's fun and I don't complain when I have to fight in a quest or just in the story. I feel like a badass without trying too hard and not having to fight every little thing.

    Most of my complaints can be fixed with a few patches so maybe after it's all done I can feel good about giving them a 8 or 9 but pretty worlds, convincing characters, and tight combat doesn't make up for the fact that there are tons of problems and BioWare should have maybe delayed the game again to iron them out instead of going with the build that they tested over the holidays.    … Expand
  44. JackKasket
    Mar 26, 2017
    7
    After +20 hours played. Andromeda is a fair successor to the ME trilogy. Don't get me wrong, it is not a great successor, just fair.

    The characters and writing are not nearly as bad as many first hour user reviews lead on. In fact, I personally quite enjoy the story so far, and the characters are easily distinguishable, albeit, after 20 hours of gameplay, I really like only two of them.    After +20 hours played. Andromeda is a fair successor to the ME trilogy. Don't get me wrong, it is not a great successor, just fair.

    The characters and writing are not nearly as bad as many first hour user reviews lead on. In fact, I personally quite enjoy the story so far, and the characters are easily distinguishable, albeit, after 20 hours of gameplay, I really like only two of them. That's one less than in the whole ME trilogy. I also enjoy the flippant version of Ryder quite a lot, and I think the writing of the main character is great.

    Combat is OK, but not great. The cover system seems unfinished and on some areas there is virtually no viable cover available, making the battles pretty one sided. There is something oddly clunky about going in and out of cover as well, mostly because it is not always obvious what is a cover and what is not. I haven't messed around with the skills that much yet, but they seem to work as expected.

    Graphics is a major gripe for lot of the red naysayers, and let's be honest, the animations look horrible. Coming from titles like Horizon, it's like looking at a PS3 game. The faces are just plain bad, and there is no excuse for that considering you spend 40% of your time looking at one.

    The exploration is a bit of a hit and miss. On one hand, you are constantly wondering what you're going to encounter, but on the other hand, the free space exploration is dumbed down to pointless. The mini game of resource farming from planets is really, really, pointless from space, and mining on the rover is a huge pain. But, I like diving into new areas, and see what I can find, and that part is done well in this game.

    Besides this, there are game crashing bugs riddled across the board, that are frustrating. Luckily I've only had a couple of minutes off roll-back so far, but I'm saving a great deal more often after crash number five.    … Expand
  45. Lowenklee
    Mar 24, 2017
    6
    I purchased Andromeda a week ago, and began downloading right away ...it's a week later and I'm still downloading.

    Average speed 80KBps, game is currently at 68%. To be clear, my internet *is* slow (advertised at 3mbps down. It's not) ...but it's also the fastest connection available for purchase in my area. It's not a money issue. It's a crappy American ISPs and digital download only    I purchased Andromeda a week ago, and began downloading right away ...it's a week later and I'm still downloading.

    Average speed 80KBps, game is currently at 68%.
    To be clear, my internet *is* slow (advertised at 3mbps down. It's not) ...but it's also the fastest connection available for purchase in my area. It's not a money issue. It's a crappy American ISPs and digital download only issue.

    It's just not worth the frustration.

    As for the game, what little I've been able to play seems lovely. I57500k, 16GB DDR, GTX1080 and everything runs beautifully, looks wonderful too. Judging from the first couple hours, don't play it as ME4 but instead as its own standalone thing and I think it'll be fine.

    Final score averages the pain in the butt to be able to play vs the actual game play once it’s running.    … Expand
  46. steve0178
    Mar 22, 2017
    6
    I was a Mass Effect 3 multiplayer veteran who primarily bought this game for the MP aspect. Since most reviews I'm seeing are referring to the SP portion of the game, i thought I'd throw my opinion out there for anyone interested in MP. MP is not terrible, but it's not nearly as good as ME3 MP was. Overall, if feel much clunkier. The button layout has changed, which makes it lessI was a Mass Effect 3 multiplayer veteran who primarily bought this game for the MP aspect. Since most reviews I'm seeing are referring to the SP portion of the game, i thought I'd throw my opinion out there for anyone interested in MP. MP is not terrible, but it's not nearly as good as ME3 MP was. Overall, if feel much clunkier. The button layout has changed, which makes it less intuitive in my opinion. Gone is the platinum setting, so only bronze, silver, and gold remain; however, the waves seem harder. The same basic character progression is in place (six skill levels, first 3 with one skill, and the next 3 with 2 skills of which you choose 1). Leveling points are the same as well. I'm not sure how points for purchasing items in the store compare, as I have yet to make it through a bronze level 10. The weapons are more limited, but they will likely release more with DLC packs or updates. The maps feel like a step back from ME3. In fact, everything kind of feels like a step back from ME3. Overall, not a bad game, but I might have to stick with ME3 MP, which is really sad seeing as we've been waiting for this for 5 years.… Expand
  47. DanielVE
    Apr 7, 2017
    6
    Graphics and combat are great, that´s why i´m giving it a 6. Game is buggy as hell. Animations are really bad, story and writing are childish. Most decisions don´t make an impact and Ryder is dumber/more immature than a high school boy. On mass effect 2´s ending, i would load save games so i could finish without any one dying. That´s how much i loved the companions. On Andromeda, i wish iGraphics and combat are great, that´s why i´m giving it a 6. Game is buggy as hell. Animations are really bad, story and writing are childish. Most decisions don´t make an impact and Ryder is dumber/more immature than a high school boy. On mass effect 2´s ending, i would load save games so i could finish without any one dying. That´s how much i loved the companions. On Andromeda, i wish i could kill Liam an peebee. The others are forgettable, except Drack. It´s a shame they killed such a nice franchise.… Expand
  48. SSH83
    Apr 30, 2018
    7
    Finally had the chance to play this game for the first time with all the patches. It's a good first game. if they had created a new IP instead of Mass Effect, it would've been compared favourably with the first Mass Effect.

    This game succeed in combat and driving simulation. I like all the new companions as much as the original, IF I remind myself that Andromeda is 1 game... not 3    Finally had the chance to play this game for the first time with all the patches. It's a good first game. if they had created a new IP instead of Mass Effect, it would've been compared favourably with the first Mass Effect.

    This game succeed in combat and driving simulation. I like all the new companions as much as the original, IF I remind myself that Andromeda is 1 game... not 3 game worth of character growth/attachment. A few narrative gems exists in the plot like Kadaran main quest. I wish those gems had been extended to take over the main plot.

    Writing wise, there is a ton of rehash. A lot of "this is just a crappier version of the original." Lots of good political critique that fail to deliver entertainment value. Compare this to the original's balance between gripping narrative and morality lessons, it's quite clear new Bioware writers don't understand that the patrons giving them money deserve more than a peach that they didn't sign up for.

    I still like my idea of Mass Effect 4 more. Reapers are in Andromeda, Shepard and crew goes there through a super relay, capable of transport. Story completely and directly inherits from the trilogy with all the fan favourites.    … Expand
  49. raulacho
    Dec 29, 2017
    6
    This game is a lot of wasted potentia, my favorite game ever is mass effect 2, so this one, while not bad it was a little dissapointing. Graphics and combat were amazing, but story and characters were not that good, for me that was the dissapointing part of the game. But it was fun, and i think Bioware can do a lot better.
  50. Rox22
    Apr 17, 2017
    6
    I have played all of the ME games. Even read the spinoff books and comics.

    Loved ME 1 Worshiped ME 2 Really liked ME 3 (If not for the ending, it would have been legendary) So my thoughts on Andromeda. I think it was hyped far too much, trying too hard to mimic Dragon age Inquisition in terms of marketing. This was clearly a mistake as it was no secret that Andromeda's production    I have played all of the ME games. Even read the spinoff books and comics.

    Loved ME 1
    Worshiped ME 2
    Really liked ME 3 (If not for the ending, it would have been legendary)

    So my thoughts on Andromeda. I think it was hyped far too much, trying too hard to mimic Dragon age Inquisition in terms of marketing. This was clearly a mistake as it was no secret that Andromeda's production suffered allot of issues, with most of the original creative team from the original trilogy either not coming on board or outright leaving during production. So essentially Andromeda was kind of starting from scratch. In all fairness, I think this was a good thing, after all, Andromeda was trying to establish itself as its own story, away from the original trilogy.

    Sadly, with a fresh team also means inexperience, not necessarily in ability but with familiarity with the series. It is evident that the writing is very diluted, making it the weakest in the series so far. Clearly they wanted to add allot of dialogue to the game, and they did, but quantity is not better than quality. It seems to me that either the writing team was too small, or was rushed (likely, given EA's history.)

    But, it does have some truely great moments and the writing does improve the deeper into the game you get. A shame that the game doesn't give a good first impression in that regard. It is clear that so much more is on the way as there are plenty clues and open plot points, but the game really could have used some more strong foreshadowing. It does foreshadow a bit, but too subtly.

    Visuals are ....? Character models and up close animations are really sub par for this generation. There is no excuse since the Witcher 3 clearly showed this can be done better. But it's not always bad, it seems the human models were the ones primarily affected. The Krogan, Angara, Salarians and Turians did all work pretty well in that regard. Now the environments on all worlds were gorgeous. Each world utterly beautiful and its own. However, I never did manage to get my brightness setting right. It was either too dark, or too bright.

    As for the main cast, I do feel they are underdeveloped. Drax and Jaal are pretty flushed out, Peebee is a bit annoying and bland at first, but does have some great banter and does get more interesting. Liam seems bland at first glance but is rather funny, just a shame he isn't developed more. Cora is boring and generic, essentially tje Jacob of this game. Vetra feels kind of out of place most of the time, perhaps feeling too much like she's trying to fill the shoes Garrus left but just feels like token character. Ultimately the team feels small and underdeveloped. Would be good to add a DLC character or two.

    As for gameplay. It feels allot like the best parts of ME 1 mixed in with the best parts of ME 2 + 3. The Nomad is great improvement on the Mako. Curious that there aren't weapon upgrades for it. General combat is great and the ability mix and match abilities is great. Combat in gener is fun. Just a shame there isn't more variety in enemy types.

    Overall:
    Mass Effect Andromeda has allot of flaws, and has allot of bumps to iron out. But that's just it, they're just bumps and Andromeda is still a great and fun game. It succeeds in separating itself from the original trilogy but needs work to garner the same level of praise. I am hopeful, as the groundwork is now laid out.

    Side Note:
    Great ending! Wish ME 3 had one something like that.    … Expand
  51. therainbowpigs
    May 16, 2017
    6
    Mass Effect: Andromeda is the Fallout 4 of the Mass Effect franchise. They spent so much time on the gameplay that they actually forgot to put some decent writing and characters in it as well. So instead of having a good story and sh*tty gameplay or good gameplay and a sh*tty story, it just has a mediocre story and mediocre gameplay, resulting in an over all forgettable experience.
  52. MerodeTalks
    Jun 27, 2017
    5
    Mass Effect: Andromeda is a massive disappointment. It stumbles in almost every department possible and is a chore to play. After going through 1/2 of the game I don't know why I continue playing it. Is it because I have gotten it as a birthday gift from my wife, or because I've invested so much time already and don't want to see it wasted?

    I'll start with saying I have loved every    Mass Effect: Andromeda is a massive disappointment. It stumbles in almost every department possible and is a chore to play. After going through 1/2 of the game I don't know why I continue playing it. Is it because I have gotten it as a birthday gift from my wife, or because I've invested so much time already and don't want to see it wasted?

    I'll start with saying I have loved every previous Mass Effect. Yes, third game's ending was disappointing but it was still a great game. I have especially loved how every piece of tech was explained in codex with serious respect to laws of physics. Yes, it was all made up but with intelligence and in a way that made it believable. I have appreciated it as a cosmology fan.

    And here comes ME: A (whenever I use "AI' I mean 'Andromeda Initiative'). The tech used in this game would put Protheans, Reapers and almost everybody else to the shame. No need for mass relays, they are now installed on board (what about it being point to point tech?). AI has somehow acquired Geth telescopes that are able to see Andromeda Galaxy's systems that are 2 millions LY away in REAL TIME? Normandy was supposed to be astronomically expansive but somehow some agency supported by some multi-billionaire has built IN SECRECY a Citadel clone (just as huge) and four huge arc ships and sent them to Andromeda. They also have advanced Artificial Intelligences, some integrated into human brains. Black holes in ME: A cause lensing effect on objects between you and them (some new laws of physics right there).

    Sweet mother of mercy, has nobody in New Bioware played any ME game before? I mean, I know it's sci fi but all of the things I have mentioned are not explained and beyond hardly believable. The explanations the writers have come up with are piss poor and are just mash ups of 'techy' and 'science' buzz words. Nothing is left of meaningful explanations from previous installments. This game would have been received much better if it had nothing to do with Mass Effect as it clearly doesn't want to play by Mass Effect's physics and science rules.

    The story is non-existent. Whatever writing there is, it's so bad and disconnected from reality I won't even talk about it. Foster Addison is especially bad and I can't stand her, nobody would - I'll even go as far as saying people with such personality don't exist.

    I also don't like how this game tries to push 'social agenda'. I'm only halfway through, but I have already seen transsexuals, gay technician, single sex families talking about adoption, a character with two mothers. That would really be alright if this game had more characters but this way, heterosexuals and heterosexual marriages are really in minority in this game or not AT ALL vocal. It's not the point however - in a game with such bad writing and story I'm pissed somebody spent so much time coming up with such meaningless arcs instead of working on better quests and story.

    Going back to what is meaningful - story is so far horrible and boring. The game doesn't feel like Mass Effect AT ALL. Side quests are terribly bland and almost always come down to going somewhere and pressing TRIANGLE. It would be alright if they had some cool story behind them but its usually something along the lines: "Help us find ship parts - scan 10 ship parts spread on the map, kk? thx bye". Most of the time they don't have follow ups and you don't see any result of doing them or consequences. Dialogues are delivered with single emotion - both in voice and in animations (which are horrible, but you already know that).

    Soundtrack is non-existent, literally. I have not yet heard a single track throughout my playtime (above 30 hours). Even main menu has some barely audible ambient.

    Graphics as in models and shaders are okish. Animations are unbearable or simply non-existent.

    The only redeeming qualities of this game are shooting mechanics and jet pack. Jet pack is almost the only thing carrying this game - it's super fun to use. If only inventory, research and crafting weren't such convoluted mess, I would love experimenting with more guns.

    Mako, ekhem, Nomad is quite irritating. Has anybody playtested it? It's slow, jetpack barely lifts it off the ground and it has issues going up almost any hill (you have to switch it into different mode then, but it slows down considerably). Mako from ME1 feels like mobility demon compared to Nomad.

    I would sum it all up this way: ME: A is a little below average game. I would enjoy more almost any other game. It's unforgivable that such monstrosity was dealt to ME franchise. I have thought that people might not like it, but me as ME fan would like it at least a bit. It's not true and don't try to convince yourself. Unless you get it for free, don't buy it - you will only damage your opinion about franchise. If you decide to play it, skip all side-quests, they are not worth it.    … Expand
  53. bfoore90
    May 17, 2017
    6
    I am a Bioware supporter and I am a longtime and huge fan of this series even after the way Mass Effect 3 ended. I've given Bioware and EA countless passes in the past but I can't do it this time, Andromeda is ambitious and the environments, combat and gaming mechanics are immersive but it stops there. Andromeda is not a bad game, its not a good game either. The sites, the explorationI am a Bioware supporter and I am a longtime and huge fan of this series even after the way Mass Effect 3 ended. I've given Bioware and EA countless passes in the past but I can't do it this time, Andromeda is ambitious and the environments, combat and gaming mechanics are immersive but it stops there. Andromeda is not a bad game, its not a good game either. The sites, the exploration and the graphics are where the goods are in this game. The characters however, are hit-and-miss as I found Jaal, PeeBee, Cora and Drack to be the most interesting per say. Liam, Vetra, and the countless members of the initiative that you run into bring little to nothing to the table outside of combat. I would almost compare Liam to a Jacob Taylor, boring to chat with but OK when it comes to Combat and it almost seems like they tried to make Vetra like Garrus but even at her best, she pales in comparison. The writing is also really bad, probably the worst in the series but to be fair this game was headed by Mac Walters, the guy who wrote the ending of Mass Effect 3 (where 150-200 hours of gameplay, choices, decisions come to fruition) in 10 minutes. The game takes almost no risk, carefully dodging anything related to Mass Effect 3's ending or Commander Shepard. Ryder does enough though his voice acting is in need of drastic improvements going forward. You get the vibe, especially with male Ryder that he isn't taking any of this seriously and its just hard to get behind him/her as a character when they don't bring much to the table. The main enemy, The Kett are the laziest attempt at a villian I've seen in a while. Its almost as if they took The Collectors from Mass Effect 2, threw in some of the Reaper traits in regards to the harvesting and made them look like weird Collector knockoffs. The game as a whole carries no weight, no feel, you don't get the sense that this could lead to something bigger when in comparison you knew that in the original Mass Effect you knew there was a bigger threat out there than the Geth and Saren. Its a hallow shell of everything that makes Mass Effect so good and so beloved. All in all, Andromeda is solid or an OK game but it serves as another example of EA's involvement with Bioware destroying the quality of these games in comparison to what Mass Effect 1-3 were. This game is an ambitious but lazy, hallow and almost soulless entry into the series.… Expand
  54. Vicjo
    Aug 10, 2017
    6
    The first thing I am going to say is that I am absolute fan the first trilogy, and this game had me a lot hype.
    The beginning of the game are interesting and tell you the objetive the iniciative Andromeda and the problems that appear nothing else to arrive, but the good ends here, them the story go back too slow, and in the end go back again interesting. If they story han been better    The first thing I am going to say is that I am absolute fan the first trilogy, and this game had me a lot hype.
    The beginning of the game are interesting and tell you the objetive the iniciative Andromeda and the problems that appear nothing else to arrive, but the good ends here, them the story go back too slow, and in the end go back again interesting. If they story han been better told, the game would win many points.
    The side quests are too boring, all of them are go de point A to point B a lot of times, they are desperate, besides the side quests of the remants are very very very slow, and you end up hating them. My advice, forget all side quest and only do the missions of the main history
    As an exception the only side quests are good, are the ones that tell you about the hidden story of the riddley family, and a lot of times are more interesting than the main story.
    The gameplay is the part where the game more advance respect the previous games, The new combat system, It feels more freedom, you must move aroud the enemies and it doesn´t work stay en same cover all the time, But the automatic cover system doesn´t work, and a lot of times you are out the cover without realizing. Other thing negative in the combat system is that you can´t give orders at yours partner for combine powers.
    In summary if the game had a better rhythm, the story was a better told, and the side quests were more funny, the game would be much better.    … Expand
  55. filipers
    Nov 13, 2017
    6
    Before starting this review i must inform that i have never played any mass effect game before andromeda, so i can't compare it with the original triology. This a review from an rpg fan who loves franchises like The Witcher, Elder Scrolls and Dragon age.

    Mass Effect Andromeda is not a bad game, not a 0 game definitely, but it is just a disappointing game which had so much potential.    Before starting this review i must inform that i have never played any mass effect game before andromeda, so i can't compare it with the original triology. This a review from an rpg fan who loves franchises like The Witcher, Elder Scrolls and Dragon age.

    Mass Effect Andromeda is not a bad game, not a 0 game definitely, but it is just a disappointing game which had so much potential. Let's evaluate the game in different topics:

    -Combat: Combat in this game was probably one of the best that i have ever played, it is fluid and the cover system is very good too. The skills are diverse and some of them amazing (at least in the biotic tree). Firing the weapons feels very good too. However you can only equip 3 skills, you can choose between 4 loadouts, giving you 12 skills in total, but by switching between loadouts you will have a cooldown.

    -Loyalty missions: For me those were the most interesting missions in this game, we learned a lot about the crew and they were a lot more complex than just go to pont A and kill the area or find some item.
    -Main quest: Overall i the main quest was not bad, the missions were good, but i found the alien race, the Kett, to be very bland, they didn't have personality, i would like to have known more things about these aliens.

    -Secondary quests: Unfortunately one of the most important aspects in an RPG was negleted here, the planets quests were boring, i didn't really find excitement in doing them, witcher 3 quests are way more interesting and have more depth. The people that lives in these planets and give you the quests are bland, and there are really no consequences to your actions ( an important factor in an RPG). I would like to have had more interesting quests with consequences that would affect the story of the game, however the impact of thoses quests here was very small (the ending just depends on 2 quests....)

    Exploration: You use the nomad to explore the world, and driving it actually feels good, but my main issue in this category was that the planets were very empy, i rarely had interest in exploring the few caves that the game had. Overall the exploration in this game was just...boring.

    Graphics: Overall the graphic in this game were great, the views in planets like Elandeen and Havarl were beautifull, however the facial animations in this game were bad, but for me that factor didn't really bothered me.

    The crew: Overall i liked the crew, the best were Vetra, Cora and Drack, but others like Liam and Jaal were so boring, hearing Jaal speaking almost put me asleep. Peebee was ok. However i do not know why but i never really connected with any of the characters, in dragon age inquisition i really loved the crew and cared about them but here that didn't happen.

    Character customization: very average , the character models are ugly, the hair styles are few, you cannot change your character eyes size and things like that....compared with the character creation in fallout 4 this one is leaves a lot to be desired.

    The angara: The only alien race that exists in the heleus cluster besides the kett, overall i found them boring and uninteresting.

    The soundtrack: One of the worst aspects in this game, basically theres almost just one soundtrack....the one in the main menu. There is a serious lack of song during exploration, compared with games like skyrim a and the witcher it is a joke, that is one of the reasons that i never really feeled immersed in this universe. The combat soundtrack is nothing special too. During emotional scenes there are times that there are not soundtrack at all, with the adequate song the difference would be huge.

    Overall i still could enjoy the game but it is still very far from the level of other games like the witcher 3. When i finished the witcher 3 i felt an emptyness inside me because i spent so many good hours in that game that would miss a lot, but in this game that didn't happen. Still i had some good moments in this game and i spent over 80 hours in it.    … Expand
  56. badgerryan19
    Jun 19, 2017
    6
    The most disappointing game of the year so far. The game has superb gameplay, but the game has really bad writing, facial animations, and an average story. Not much I can say that hasn't been said already.
  57. lizardking420
    Feb 7, 2018
    6
    Not like the original, it's like star trek voyager while mass effect one and two were the next generation. 3 being a sh*tty unneeded add-on sequel. Games got good graphics, poor character creator but i did manage to make my female character sexy looking. Music and voice acting is terrible and nothing like the 2 original actors and amazing soundtracks. All the aliens pretty much now talkNot like the original, it's like star trek voyager while mass effect one and two were the next generation. 3 being a sh*tty unneeded add-on sequel. Games got good graphics, poor character creator but i did manage to make my female character sexy looking. Music and voice acting is terrible and nothing like the 2 original actors and amazing soundtracks. All the aliens pretty much now talk with a clear unconvincing human voice. Dialog and choices are dull and boring. Gameplay and content wise it's the same as the previous titles. You still cannot fly the ship and you scan random planets with a probe. There's a vehicle to drive like the last. Not bad for $13 if you're bored though.… Expand
  58. KayVen17
    Sep 23, 2017
    7
    Deutsche Review - Kritik

    Der folgende Test ist in 5 Kategorien zusammengefasst. Diese 5 Kartegorien ergeben die Gesamtpunktzahl von 0 - 100 Punkten. Um einen passenden Userscore zu geben wird auf oder abgerundet. Bei 84 Punkten ergibt das einen User Score von 8. Bei 86 einen von Userscore von 9. Falls eine 85 kommt entscheide ich ob ich es eher positiv oder negativ nehme. Regeln    Deutsche Review - Kritik

    Der folgende Test ist in 5 Kategorien zusammengefasst. Diese 5 Kartegorien ergeben die Gesamtpunktzahl von 0 - 100 Punkten. Um einen passenden Userscore zu geben wird auf oder abgerundet. Bei 84 Punkten ergibt das einen User Score von 8. Bei 86 einen von Userscore von 9. Falls eine 85 kommt entscheide ich ob ich es eher positiv oder negativ nehme. Regeln verstanden?
    Dann sind hier meine Punkte.

    Mein persönlicher Score = 66/100
    Mein User Score = 7/10    … Expand
  59. H_SnypeR
    Apr 12, 2017
    7
    Some things are better and somethings are worsers compared with the original trilogy.

    Pros + Graphics and open world is great. + A sense of exploration + Love the Nomad vechical for exploration and mining + Beautiful Landscapes + Great combat + Great soundtrack + Good gameplay mechanics especially with the jumpjets and wide variety of builds and weapons + Ending went out with a    Some things are better and somethings are worsers compared with the original trilogy.

    Pros
    + Graphics and open world is great.
    + A sense of exploration
    + Love the Nomad vechical for exploration and mining
    + Beautiful Landscapes
    + Great combat
    + Great soundtrack
    + Good gameplay mechanics especially with the jumpjets and wide variety of builds and weapons
    + Ending went out with a bang. Really good way to set up for sequel, but could be better if there was more info on the Jaardan

    Cons
    - Main Story has pacing issues.
    - Scanning missions need more work to make it more diverse and deeper . Esp murder detective quests
    - Too many boring side quests
    - too many fetch quests in disguise!!!!
    - The activation of vaults was great and varied, but more potential to explore alien race culture
    - boring world to world scanning chores. Sometimes you get nothing from it. But I can see why it was added as a filler
    - Activating cryo statis pods could make the Nexus more populated.
    - Annoying travelling to and from the Nexus, Tempest for conversation for just simple tasks. They could vidcon instead of travelling to nexus to talk to Director addison or certain people sometimes and it made travelling feel like a chore.
    - The andromeda galaxy needed more alien cultures.
    - Ugly female and male presets in character creations.
    - Sara Ryder could have been prettier if not for those SJW's

    I'm not as affected by the animation issues as I grew up with 90s and early 2000's gaming which had little to no facial animations,

    But I also miss the cool drop landing in ME3 where you land from a dropship straight into battle. It was an epic feeling which you don't get in Andromeda. It's just the long and slow animations of flying off and landing constantly. It was cool at first, but gets tiring.

    - Story telling lacks a bit of length and main story is too short.    … Expand
  60. TatsMcGee
    Sep 8, 2018
    7
    I have a confession to make, this was my first Mass Effect game so my opinion on the game may not be as polarizing as some. So for me, I don’t have the massive disappointment that Mass Effect 2 (regarded as one of the greatest games of all time) turned into this. For me personally, I am coming into this game fresh and so I did my best to keep an open mind about this game.

    To start off    I have a confession to make, this was my first Mass Effect game so my opinion on the game may not be as polarizing as some. So for me, I don’t have the massive disappointment that Mass Effect 2 (regarded as one of the greatest games of all time) turned into this. For me personally, I am coming into this game fresh and so I did my best to keep an open mind about this game.

    To start off this game got lambasted with mockery on how the facial animations looked which I don’t think that’s fair and I think its kind of tacky. I try to look at it like games like Uncharted 4 have spoiled us. I always try to do my best to not compare games other games because I don’t think its fair.

    Normally I like to talk about the story a little bit in these “reviews” but for this game, I’m not going to bother because the story is forgettable. The characters themselves are also fairly forgettable as well. Although in traditional Bioware fashion, you do get to romance characters so that’s something you can do if you want to.

    Right at the start of the game, your first choice is to pick whether you want to be the male of female Ryder. They’re twins so your choice is Scott or Sara. I chose the male, Scott because I’m a guy and I almost always go with the character that best represents me in these scenarios. I know its boring but that’s just the way I play games.

    Bouncing back to the Romance options, the person I became most interested in was a character named Suvi. It’s not because the character was necessarily that great, I just liked her voice and more specifically the Scottish accent. Unfortunately, I discovered that Suvi can only be romanced by Sara so she was no longer an option. At that point, I switched focus and had to choose between a woman named Cora who was kind of manly and I don’t like her hair or Peebee who is an alien race and a very annoying character. I ended up going with Cora and as I got to know her a little bit better she kind of grew on me. I think it is important to note that the only reason I even did this was for the trophy. I don’t what it is but watching video game sex (or any animated sex) makes me uncomfortable. I think about the animators staying up late and working overtime just to animate the sex scene. It’s just weird.

    Ultimately what kept me playing this game was the shooting. Its a very well made third-person shooter. The shooting is tight the action is exciting and I have nothing but positive things to say about the combat. I genuinely had a good time playing this game because of the combat.

    I’m trying to think if this is a game that I would recommend. If you’re a fan of the mass effect series and you like Mass Effect because of the story and interesting characters. Stay away but if you’re in the market for a good third person shooter. Then yes, I would recommend picking this up.    … Expand
  61. Reed618
    Jul 18, 2017
    6
    I put about 34 hours in and got about 73 percent completion... much more than expected. I actually quite enjoyed it. The patches have clearly helped as I experienced only a few glitches.
    All of the issues have been discussed at length with a heavy focus on the terrible facial animations and poor writing.
    What really annoyed me though was during sidequests... someone would tell me to    I put about 34 hours in and got about 73 percent completion... much more than expected. I actually quite enjoyed it. The patches have clearly helped as I experienced only a few glitches.
    All of the issues have been discussed at length with a heavy focus on the terrible facial animations and poor writing.
    What really annoyed me though was during sidequests... someone would tell me to check my email.. then i'd need to go to a planet and talk to someone.. then i'd need to go to another planet and talk to someone else.. then i'd need to drive for ten minutes and then there'd be a battle.. then I'd drive back and talk to that person again. The quests are prolonged and dragged out unnecessarily. Towards the end of the game I was getting so tired of it. If I keep getting redirected from planet to planet so then i had to deal with loading screen after loading screen. It's bad game design and that's what pushed the score down to a 7 for me.
    The combat is great and planetary exploration and terraforming is a lot of fun too. It's disappointing (especially the characters and story) but it's certainly not a bad game.    … Expand
  62. Berrlett
    Oct 9, 2017
    6
    One of the positive things about this is I bought it at a 65% discount. It’s not a bad Mass Effect by any means and I don’t normally take graphical power or character face design into deep consideration if the game is good and this was good but not more. It lacked big boss fights and all you face are repetitive all throughout the game, was waiting for a final boss fight but disappointed toOne of the positive things about this is I bought it at a 65% discount. It’s not a bad Mass Effect by any means and I don’t normally take graphical power or character face design into deep consideration if the game is good and this was good but not more. It lacked big boss fights and all you face are repetitive all throughout the game, was waiting for a final boss fight but disappointed to stumble on the same bunch that harassed you through the entire campaign. The story is ok/weak, attempts at side missions were ok, fighting mechanics, conversation and narrative were ok. Buy it a more than 50% discount you’ll feel good playing.… Expand
  63. SFCspectacular
    Apr 20, 2017
    6
    Mass Effect Andromeda

    Release Date: 21 March 17 Price: $59.99 System: PC, PS4, Xbox ONE The prospect of having a memorable space adventure is exciting to some gamers. Furthermore, many gamers crave action RPGs. One would think if you combined the two this would be an awesome game. Couple this with the storied history of the original Mass Effect trilogy and you’d be puzzled as to why    Mass Effect Andromeda

    Release Date: 21 March 17 Price: $59.99 System: PC, PS4, Xbox ONE

    The prospect of having a memorable space adventure is exciting to some gamers. Furthermore, many gamers crave action RPGs. One would think if you combined the two this would be an awesome game. Couple this with the storied history of the original Mass Effect trilogy and you’d be puzzled as to why Bioware produced such a disappointing game.

    If you’re wondering what makes Mass Effect Andromeda tick then look no further. Stay tuned for this review of Mass Effect Andromeda.

    Mass Effect: Andromeda is an action role-playing video game developed by BioWare Montreal and published by Electronic Arts for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows.

    Story

    Mass Effect: Andromeda begins in 2185, between the events of the second and third games in the original trilogy. The four Citadel Council races and the Quarians launch a strategy called the Andromeda Initiative. Each race sends 20,000 citizens on a one-way, 600-year journey to Andromeda aboard their own transportation vessel, called an Ark, and selects a leader, known as a Pathfinder. Shortly after waking from hyper sleep you take control of one of two twins: Scott or Sara Ryder. So begins your arduous journey to populate the new solar system.

    Gameplay

    Mass Effect Andromeda plays well for the most part. As a third person action RPG you’re able to run, boots jump, and use powers called biotics. Unfortunately the clunky menus and confusing interface will have you confused. The player can adjust the look of their character, but any attempt will result in a weird mannequin looking monstrosity. The combat might be the best part of this game. The joy of linking your biotics together with your teammates is satisfying and beckons you to enjoy more. Unfortunately due to the lack of a crouch button, constant glitches, and horrible optimization destroys all joy you might feel.

    Graphics

    By now the unanimous opinion on this games graphics is quite clear. Horrible is too nice a word to address this section. Bioware must have been asleep during facial animation classes. As of the time of this video the game has been patched, but still plays and looks like crap. Bottom line is the graphics should be the last thing a triple a title lacks.

    Music/sound

    The music in this game is forgettable and the voice acting is ten times as deplorable. Once again Bioware and EA must have out sourced these areas to drunken bums because that is the amount of care it seems they gave to this area. You’ll be better of playing your own music and imagining the dialogue.

    Playback

    The good news is Mass Effect Andromeda is filled with things to do. From your main mission of populating the Heleus Cluster to the loyalty missions this game will have you busy for a long time. There are more than enough planets to help colonize and the loyalty missions help you flesh out and get to know your shipmates. This has been the hallmark of the Mass Effect series so there should be no surprise at its generous offerings.

    Summary Score

    Many gamers waited years in anticipation for this new iteration of their beloved franchise. Instead they were given what some would call a shell of the old games. Marred with controversy, bad graphics, and empty promises Bioware has failed to deliver the Triple A Space RPG adventure many were promised. Mass Effect isn’t a bad game, but on the other hand nor is it an outstanding game. Many other games have faced the same woes, but not in such a huge combination of follies. Mass Effect Andromeda gets a 6.5 out of 10.    … Expand
  64. RowanBlack
    Apr 9, 2017
    6
    The few shining moments in this game are not enough to save the experience. I was so excited to start this game I brought my wife in to experience the opening with me, I expected more, rarely have I experienced a AAA game with so little in the way of story development in the beginning.

    Once you get into the game you will occasionally find a questline that provides an enjoyable    The few shining moments in this game are not enough to save the experience. I was so excited to start this game I brought my wife in to experience the opening with me, I expected more, rarely have I experienced a AAA game with so little in the way of story development in the beginning.

    Once you get into the game you will occasionally find a questline that provides an enjoyable experience, but those are few and to often entirely missable. Few low quality quests would have greatly improved this game.

    The combat system is fine and combat can be an enjoyable activity.

    Sadly only a major content update will save this game. Hopefully lessons will be learned and the next installment will bring the magic back.    … Expand
  65. Wereturtle
    Apr 5, 2017
    5
    I am a huge fan of the previous Mass Effect installments, so much so that giving this game such a low rating hurts, but I can not love this game with so many obvious flaws. I have completed the game twice and reached level 80, and so I feel as though I can give a thorough review.

    Firstly, lets delve into the problems with the writing. The story feels rinsed and repeated, following along    I am a huge fan of the previous Mass Effect installments, so much so that giving this game such a low rating hurts, but I can not love this game with so many obvious flaws. I have completed the game twice and reached level 80, and so I feel as though I can give a thorough review.

    Firstly, lets delve into the problems with the writing. The story feels rinsed and repeated, following along with the generic layout of "big galactic bad guys want to destroy us, so lets get all the aliens under our banner and defeat them together." And it feels like I should care that the whole initiative is at stake but I just simply do not. Right from the get go the story is thrown onto your lap and you go from there, but there is no mystery or build up like there was in the original Mass Effect.
    Not only this, but there is also the problem of all the bad guys in Bioware games as of late being unfeeling, generic 'super villains', which is the same mistake they made with Corypheus in DA:I. A long with this they missed several opportunities, they could have perhaps made the story more interesting by having the player be able to choose the race of their Pathfinder similar to their Dragon Age series, it would certainly have been interesting to play as the Turian or Asari Pathfinder and I'm sure many fans would have loved the opportunity to do so. My main problem with the main story is there is no compelling force driving the story forward until the mission before the last, and only then is a 'mystery' given to us that seems worthy of investigation, but by then I am sure many players had already put their controllers down and called it a day.

    Story aside, there is also the problem with dialogue and interactions between Ryder and their crew feeling forced and unnatural. Talking to the crew feels like a chore, the characters given to us this time around just aren't as interesting as those in the previous games, and it's a real shame because with this being a whole new galaxy and a clean slate Bioware has missed several opportunities. It's the same "Turian, Krogan, Asari, Human male, Human female and Other" layout, and they all fall into more-or-less the same role as the crew of the Normandy. This, paired with the strange dialogue and writing choices makes for a boring crew. I often find myself pausing within a cut scene and thinking "wait, what did they just say?" more times than I would have liked. I have found a lot of the writing is juvenile and written so poorly it could have been easily mistaken for a fanfiction.

    Take for example Liam's line "I think that one is mad at me. Probably because I shot it in the face." this quite literally sounds like something I would have said in middle school. Or perhaps Ryder's words in Jaal's romance line "I'm glad you can be so open and vulnerable with me." and his reply "You make me feel safe." if this cringe inducing dialogue does not sound like high-school girl level fanfiction to you, I'm not sure what else to say. And let us not forget Addison's ironic, yet infamous line "I'm sorry, my face is tired." These are but a few snippets of poor writing, which mixed with a generic and boring cast create a cocktail of 'meh.' The only redeeming quality of the crew is their loyalty missions, which is where you feel like you see a glimmer of something resembling an interesting character before they dissolve back into 'meh' once the quest is over.

    But, aside from the disappointing cast and main story, the plus side is that the combat in ME:A is largely improved compared to the previous ME installments and is quite literally the most fun thing to do in the game besides space exploration. With SAM being so closely linked to the main character, the player is free to choose any skills and abilities they wish and is not limited to one class per play through, which creates a truly unique play style that you can customize to suit your preference.

    Another good thing about the game is planetary exploration, and while getting to those planets may be boring and tedious due to un-skippable cut scenes, the worlds are unique and quite often breathtaking to look at and explore. The quests on each planet may often be watered down to fetch quests, but the planets themselves, along with the nomad to explore them in are quite fun to play around with, and you may end up finding yourself lost in some random quest on some far flung corner of the map and completely forget there was a main story at all.

    Although I must also point out character customization is very limited, and I found myself wondering why I couldn't make my skin lighter than a tan, or why I couldn't adjust the shape of my eyes at all. It was very frustrating.

    And finally, a flaw that I am sure many, many people have already commented upon is the facial animations and all the bugs that were present upon release, but I don't really feel like beating a dead horse.

    I am now out of space, but overall I am disappointed. Very disappointed.    … Expand
  66. QuakeFX
    Apr 21, 2017
    5
    Couldn't finish it. I heard about all the bugs and the facial animations and as a long time fan of the franchise I thought I could see through it. But while the story is bad, the dialogue and delivery is even worse. All quests require you to run from terminal to terminal to terminal with very little interesting stuff in between.
  67. Balbontin
    May 9, 2017
    5
    Hacia tiempo que no me arrepentía tanto de comprarme un juego. El juego se está vendiendo porque delante de Andromeda pone Mass Effect, de lo contrario sería un juego que pasaría sin pena ni gloria.

    Es un juego sin terminar, con unas animaciones de principio de play 3, un caos, por desgracia yo me he encontrado con bugs graves con lo que mi enfado ha ido aumentando. No recomiendo la    Hacia tiempo que no me arrepentía tanto de comprarme un juego. El juego se está vendiendo porque delante de Andromeda pone Mass Effect, de lo contrario sería un juego que pasaría sin pena ni gloria.

    Es un juego sin terminar, con unas animaciones de principio de play 3, un caos, por desgracia yo me he encontrado con bugs graves con lo que mi enfado ha ido aumentando. No recomiendo la comprar para nada, ni siquiera para cuando esté por debajo de los 10 €.    … Expand
  68. System1988
    May 22, 2017
    6
    I bought a PS4 Pro in order to play MEA in all its glory. However the game failed to not only stand as tall as its predecessors, but also close to the minimum standards they set. Before going any further I would like to make crystal clear that I am extremely liberal with all genders and I actually favor equality among them. I just don't want gender politics in my games! I also want toI bought a PS4 Pro in order to play MEA in all its glory. However the game failed to not only stand as tall as its predecessors, but also close to the minimum standards they set. Before going any further I would like to make crystal clear that I am extremely liberal with all genders and I actually favor equality among them. I just don't want gender politics in my games! I also want to mention that I usually have 3 tiers of scoring a game which I will explain below:

    TIER 1 - How does it stand among all videogames - 4/10

    MEA is a decent 3rd person shooter with many bugs and glitches as well as a childishly writen and mostly boring storyline that picks up pace and interest in the final 2 hours. NOT what you want from a ME game. It is a half-finished product that plainly depicts the panic the studio had with how almost all aspects of the game would look, from character appearance (yes the facial animations) to the entire story. Most importantly the game killed the main gameplay mechanic that made sense, the dialog wheel, going from Paragon/Renegade to "emotional development choices that in the long run affect your character". Never noticed that. Finally, and I will explain this more in later Tiers, the game is destroyed by amateur attempts to infuse it with sociopolitical propaganda, mainly feminist, something that was both unecessary and insulting to the gamer community. Studies show that people who play videogames are generally "Smarter" so why don't just go with that instead of cramming into our throats politics we already know and respect and that should ALWAYS stay out of the entertainment industry? MEA is Bioware's greatest missed opportunity, a poor game compared to many other AAA titles you can play.

    TIER 2 - How does it compare to other games of the genre 5/10

    ME 1,2,3 set a high bar. The trilogy however taught Bioware nothing of how important the story is to any game. Even if I took this out, the game fails to reach even the standards itself created. It was a game about exploration instead of an inwards-looking, character development storyline, ok let's try that I am game, I am open to new things. However the exploration part was reppetetive, uninspired and generic. I expected to explore a Galaxy and find at least 4-5 new species indeginous to it, same as ME 1. I got 3, and all boringly executed and writen mostly. The Agara could have been more fleshed out and less naive, the Remnant are interesting at first only to get squashed by repetitiveness and the Kett are an ugly and hilarious enemy to be against. I simply never felt threatened by them. With this fact us players were left with the need to look for entertainment in the characters and not the repetitiveness- emptiness of Andromeda. But the characters, with the exception of Peebe, Jaal and Drack were UNINTERESTING and most importantly, intentionally posing as feminist political cues. Simply put, the entire crew of the Tempest exists as a character empowerement of Sara Ryder. There are simply no powerful males in there. Drack is no A male, just a grumpy old man to respect, not antagonize, Liam is the less interesting, wining excuse of a human being, Cora is steel cold and irritating. Vetra is quicky reduced from a powerful female to a caregiver mother figure that overprotects her little sister, Gil is a guy that struggles to find his pace with a platonic relationship with his lady friend and so on. One could say that comparing them to characters like Garrus and Liara is unfair since we had 3 games with them and they grew on us. But that is not true, they were all amazing, even from the very first game. In ME 1,2,3 I wanted to go back to the ship and talk to my complanions as much as possible. In MEA I wanted to be out of the ship as much as possible in order to take breaks from conversations I knew I had to listen to because I paid 70 euros for them. That is not how a ME game should feel like. Finally, the Arks' storyline is a missed chance to flesh the story more.

    TIER 3- What does it "do for me" as a fan? 7/10

    Ok, let's take a breather. We waited for this game patiently for 4 long years. Let's take some of the good stuff out of it and remember it as a "slow" origins story isntead of a complete one. Peebe is AWESOME. I kept going back to the Tempest just to get as much out of her as possible. Incredibly satisfying choice for a romance as well, by far the most well writen and that says a lot for the rest of the crew. The Remnant story, although mired by repeating themes (the final 2 vaults were a chore, not a wonder) they open the game to sequels in an extremely interesting way. Drack was a laugh and Suvi and Kallo simply adorable. Ryder is descently writen and stands almost as tall as Shepard as a leader, fighting her way not only though a very bad storyline that does not do her justice but also an amazingly executed internal fight with herself, her family and the terrible truth of Mikly Way's ultimate fate.    … Expand
  69. Kire_92
    Jul 30, 2018
    6
    At the core this is a good game, but some design decisions and what feels like a lack of development time ruins what could have been a great game.

    There is a lot of quest and stuff to do in this game, but unfortunately it focuses more on quantity instead of quality. Most quests are boring and most things you do feels like chores instead of entertainment. It might be fun on the first    At the core this is a good game, but some design decisions and what feels like a lack of development time ruins what could have been a great game.

    There is a lot of quest and stuff to do in this game, but unfortunately it focuses more on quantity instead of quality. Most quests are boring and most things you do feels like chores instead of entertainment. It might be fun on the first planet but after that most quests feels boring and repetitive. And it’s not only the quests that are repetitive, it’s also the enemies and the creatures on different planets. And in a game that focus a lot on exploration this repetitiveness is a lot more noticeable.

    The combat is also not very fun in my opinion, even though it feels a lot better and is not as stiff as the other Mass Effect games. But the cover system feels very clunky and the fact that you are limited to only 3 active abilities when there are around 20 to choose from makes me frustrated and wishing for more options to have FUN in combat. In its current state the combat feels very bland and lacking things to make me feel entertained.

    With that said I actually I still enjoyed the game even though it have a lot of flaws. I never found any major bugs that annoyed me and I was fine with the facial animations that a lot of people have criticized the game for. What made be appreciate the game is the overall setting and tone of the game and I liked the story and the characters, and in my opinion that is the most important part of a Mass Effect game. I managed to quickly feel immersed in the world and loved the first hours. But the repetitive nature of the game made it worse and worse the longer I played. After playing it for some time I kind of wished that the game was over so that it wouldn’t taint my experience anymore. Luckily the main quest managed to stay varied and therefore I found the game enjoyable until the end and I do not regret purchasing it... but the developers could have made it a lot better than what we ended up with.    … Expand
  70. oporto2
    Mar 13, 2018
    7
    Certainly the "worst" of the MA games, but that isn't a bad spot to be. MA1 and especially 2 are nearly perfect games. The combat system was good, I didn't like my reliance on the powerful shotgun, but why switch to something weaker? Exploring the planets was fun, less planets to visit then in previous games, but the worlds are so much more alive and fully constructed. My biggestCertainly the "worst" of the MA games, but that isn't a bad spot to be. MA1 and especially 2 are nearly perfect games. The combat system was good, I didn't like my reliance on the powerful shotgun, but why switch to something weaker? Exploring the planets was fun, less planets to visit then in previous games, but the worlds are so much more alive and fully constructed. My biggest objection is with the galaxy exploration. I wanted to discover every planet in previous games, but this game gave you very little reason to explore. No true side missions on those planets, and even if you wanted to know more about the planets, the font size stopped me from reading anything. I had fun playing the game, and I feel 7 is the right score.… Expand
  71. Revoltado
    Aug 25, 2018
    7
    Comprei o jogo numa promoção, o preço realmente tava lá em baixo... Li muito sobre o jogo, e já até tinha uma postura negativa dele antes de jogá-lo, mas depois jogando me impressionei até com o jogo visto tanta coisa ruim que o ronda...
    Prós:
    - muita coisa para se fazer e muitos lugares para se explorar; - jogabilidade / gameplay muito superior ao ME 2 e ao ME 3; Contras: -    Comprei o jogo numa promoção, o preço realmente tava lá em baixo... Li muito sobre o jogo, e já até tinha uma postura negativa dele antes de jogá-lo, mas depois jogando me impressionei até com o jogo visto tanta coisa ruim que o ronda...
    Prós:
    - muita coisa para se fazer e muitos lugares para se explorar;
    - jogabilidade / gameplay muito superior ao ME 2 e ao ME 3;

    Contras:
    - animações no geral, a facial é realmente grotesca (olhos que giram estranhamente, falta de emoção...) mas a movimentação especialmente dos npcs em cutscene é terrível.
    - foi a tripulação mais sem graça de todas (em especial a humana), sem carisma, durante as minhas aventuras ficava em dúvida em quem colocar no time por falta de opção.
    - bugs... não é constante mas ocorrem com certa frequência, o que mais ocorreu comigo foi o de ao pular em algum objeto ao invés de ficar em cima dele minha personagem o atravessava (até em ponte aconteceu isso), outro com menor frequência foi o da personagem de ficar presa em alguns locais    … Expand
  72. YiannisTheMenac
    Jul 16, 2018
    7
    Not the best ME game ever, but not bad at the same time. It plays Okay and the story kept me hanging there until the end. The voice overs are excellent but the main character is a bit lame and boring. After a year of release, it feels good, with minimal bugs and so far i had no problem playing the game. I feel that lots of people gave a bad review in this game just because the new ME wasNot the best ME game ever, but not bad at the same time. It plays Okay and the story kept me hanging there until the end. The voice overs are excellent but the main character is a bit lame and boring. After a year of release, it feels good, with minimal bugs and so far i had no problem playing the game. I feel that lots of people gave a bad review in this game just because the new ME was not the game they were expecting to be. It is a nice game and i definitely it worth spending some money on it. I feel that even if you are a newcomer you will enjoy the game.… Expand
  73. MadnessisRising
    Mar 13, 2019
    6
    This is not a bad game it's just the worst Mass Effect-Game. I really had fun playing it. But compared to the Mass Effect Trilogy, some things went terrible wrong.
    - the face expressions
    - the overall look of the worlds (only 2 were interesting in my opinion) - the charakter-writing (again only 1-2 chars were pretty interesting) - redesign of the asari (what the hell went wrong with    This is not a bad game it's just the worst Mass Effect-Game. I really had fun playing it. But compared to the Mass Effect Trilogy, some things went terrible wrong.
    - the face expressions
    - the overall look of the worlds (only 2 were interesting in my opinion)
    - the charakter-writing (again only 1-2 chars were pretty interesting)
    - redesign of the asari (what the hell went wrong with them they look awful?!)
    - bad story or teammate-missions
    - only two (if you want literally one) new specie(s)
    - boring exploring (I mean why i should scan al those plants and stuff?!)

    Anyway the gameplay was really funny and also the tech-system was well programmed. I would buy it again (but only if it's on sale ;D)    … Expand
  74. FidelGastro
    Mar 17, 2022
    5
    This just didn't work. The Mass Effect franchise didn't deserve this crap. However, to rate the game as absolute garbage would be unfair, it's just not good.

    The gameplay could still be rated as above average, as could the story. Unfortunately, what brings the game down is the graphics. Specifically the character animation. Most of this problem can be seen in the faces of the    This just didn't work. The Mass Effect franchise didn't deserve this crap. However, to rate the game as absolute garbage would be unfair, it's just not good.

    The gameplay could still be rated as above average, as could the story. Unfortunately, what brings the game down is the graphics. Specifically the character animation. Most of this problem can be seen in the faces of the characters, it's an absolute disaster.

    However, the game managed to keep me entertained for a few hours despite the big minuses. With a few exceptions, however, I was rushing the main storyline. I didn't want to sacrifice more hours to this game than was absolutely necessary.

    I rate it 5/10    … Expand
  75. Bitek
    Feb 26, 2018
    5
    I do not know about original game on the release date but the game that i have after all the updates is good. the graphics are nice. I do agree with some reviewers that facial animations look last generation. I guess I got spoiled after playing games like Witcher 3. anyways, I own PS4 Pro and there are some noticeable slowdowns on my console. The game is ok but i find that missions that iI do not know about original game on the release date but the game that i have after all the updates is good. the graphics are nice. I do agree with some reviewers that facial animations look last generation. I guess I got spoiled after playing games like Witcher 3. anyways, I own PS4 Pro and there are some noticeable slowdowns on my console. The game is ok but i find that missions that i played so far are a bit repetitive. go from point a do something, then go to point b and do something and then go to point c to do something and repeat. I do not feel connected to the main character, there is just something off that i cannot pointed out. The big plus of the game is the music. It is awesome. it definitively does not deserve 0s or 1s or 2s but it is not perfect 10 either. i would say 7 is about right for this game. you will enjoy this game but this game does not feel anything like original Mass Effect trilogy.… Expand
  76. BoMBuR
    Oct 8, 2018
    6
    Bought this game on PS4. It's been a year after release and many glitches are fixed. Though, I was disappointed by generic plot, characters and design. Everything is average or worse. Looks like developers didn't get what original ME-series was about, what made Mass Effect entertaining. I really want to play another game from that franchise, but good one. It will be so sad if ME AndromedaBought this game on PS4. It's been a year after release and many glitches are fixed. Though, I was disappointed by generic plot, characters and design. Everything is average or worse. Looks like developers didn't get what original ME-series was about, what made Mass Effect entertaining. I really want to play another game from that franchise, but good one. It will be so sad if ME Andromeda would be the last ME ever.… Expand
  77. JBurnes3
    Nov 12, 2019
    7
    Even though I'm writing this review in 2019, I played this game at launch and I played through it at least 3 or 4 times. There were numerous technical issues, nothing truly major that I experienced though other than of course the facial animations of some characters.

    Graphically I thought it looked beautiful, however was disappointed many aliens such as the Asari used the same 2 or 3    Even though I'm writing this review in 2019, I played this game at launch and I played through it at least 3 or 4 times. There were numerous technical issues, nothing truly major that I experienced though other than of course the facial animations of some characters.

    Graphically I thought it looked beautiful, however was disappointed many aliens such as the Asari used the same 2 or 3 models just with different textures applied. Whereas previous Mass Effect games may have used the same models at times, but they had enough varieties of models spread though out that it was unnoticeable.

    Personally I enjoyed the story, especially the final battle which I think is more how the final battle of Mass Effect 3 should've turned out. That being said there were story threads that were left open for DLCs instead of wrapping the story up properly. Especially the whole thing with the Quarian arc, which unfortunately is a DLC we'll never get to see.

    Ultimately a flawed game, but still a fun time for fans of Mass Effect or Sci-Fi in general that don't need things to be perfect.    … Expand
  78. alanbessa
    Feb 24, 2018
    7
    Recommended.

    Lackluster story with a buggy gameplay, but it's very fun and the action is addicting.
  79. shepard75
    Sep 2, 2017
    7
    I really loved the first 3 Games, esp. ME3. Everything was perfect in this Game: Soundtrack, cool graphics, exciting Action, not too complex RPG Elements, fascinating story, great Characters with also great voice actors and animations. With ME:A you should tear down your expectations regarding these points. It's still a good game, and i love being in that universe but IMO it's onlyI really loved the first 3 Games, esp. ME3. Everything was perfect in this Game: Soundtrack, cool graphics, exciting Action, not too complex RPG Elements, fascinating story, great Characters with also great voice actors and animations. With ME:A you should tear down your expectations regarding these points. It's still a good game, and i love being in that universe but IMO it's only average, when you compare it with ME3. Sad to say this, but EA should have kept the original ME Team for developing such an important franchise, instead of experimenting with a new staff.… Expand
  80. GreenZombie
    Dec 19, 2017
    5
    As a stand alone game, I enjoyed it very much. As a Mass Effect fan, this game failed to connect. The depth that we look forward to just wasn't there. The game was glitchy and had too many issues. For being pushed back 5 months from the original release date, I had hoped that they would put more effort into this. It basically killed the Mass Effect series, and that's what makes me sad.As a stand alone game, I enjoyed it very much. As a Mass Effect fan, this game failed to connect. The depth that we look forward to just wasn't there. The game was glitchy and had too many issues. For being pushed back 5 months from the original release date, I had hoped that they would put more effort into this. It basically killed the Mass Effect series, and that's what makes me sad. Mass Effect is one of my favorite universes in the Science Fiction realm alongside Star Wars, Star Trek, and Battlestar Gallactica. This particular game failed to meet those standards with character development. It felt like one big giant side quest, but not a full game on its own. The sad thing is, there was so much opportunity to make this into something great. They were exploring a whole new galaxy. They could have had so many new alien species. They traded that for a half baked alien species and full frontal nudity. Oh well.… Expand
  81. Xelion
    Feb 8, 2019
    6
    It's much inferior if you compare it to the ME Trilogy but it's not a bad game.
    Played it on a base PS4 and performance is not that good. I played it fully patched so I expected most of the release problems to be solved but I still suffered lots of weird bugs through the game. Characters grew on me even if at first didn't look interesting at all but my problem is how planet exploration    It's much inferior if you compare it to the ME Trilogy but it's not a bad game.
    Played it on a base PS4 and performance is not that good. I played it fully patched so I expected most of the release problems to be solved but I still suffered lots of weird bugs through the game. Characters grew on me even if at first didn't look interesting at all but my problem is how planet exploration became boring, with hours just travelling from place to place so I had new waypoints to use.
    Also some freezes here and there to compensate loading times I guess.
    I think the game needed more time to be polished and it could have ended up being a much better game. I imagine that playing on a Pro, X or high-end PC should improve the enjoyment as many of the game's problems come from how bad it ran for me.    … Expand
  82. Voodoo123
    May 27, 2019
    5
    +fun shooting sequences
    +Superb performances from the cast
    -Awful gltches/frame rate issues )on my ps4 pro
    -Predictable fetch quest missions bring nothing new
  83. akoahi
    Nov 8, 2019
    5
    As a fan of the series, this is a big disappointment. But I am not radical in my assessment and i am maximally objective. The combat system stepped forward, it’s interesting to shoot in the game. The study of the world, location for the most part is tiresome, but some landscapes are impressive in design. The story is boring and primitive, the characters are not interesting. The technicalAs a fan of the series, this is a big disappointment. But I am not radical in my assessment and i am maximally objective. The combat system stepped forward, it’s interesting to shoot in the game. The study of the world, location for the most part is tiresome, but some landscapes are impressive in design. The story is boring and primitive, the characters are not interesting. The technical part is lame. I don’t want to end the game, but to someone less biased, the game may be pleasant.… Expand
  84. Zalabar22
    Oct 20, 2017
    6
    Under any other name this would be a great game. Given the fact that its Mass Effect makes the game trash? This game is incredibly fun, but I can see how longtime veterans could dislike it. Honestly I can see myself really enjoying this game for months to come. Its not perfect, but its still very enjoyable.

    Edit: Abandoned game, developer said screw it and moved on. Pvp is paywall rng    Under any other name this would be a great game. Given the fact that its Mass Effect makes the game trash? This game is incredibly fun, but I can see how longtime veterans could dislike it. Honestly I can see myself really enjoying this game for months to come. Its not perfect, but its still very enjoyable.

    Edit: Abandoned game, developer said screw it and moved on. Pvp is paywall rng nonsense... Such a shame, some patches and dlc could've fixed most of the issues people had...    … Expand
  85. Walker5482
    Nov 6, 2022
    7
    The game seriously lacks polish. It's been a long time since I've seen a game where the issues and flaws are so obvious. Animations, clipping, graphics glitches, all of these things are substantially sub par for a AAA game. This being said, the environments seem to be large and beautiful. Unfortunately the story seems to only be serviceable, not extraordinary like the previous Mass EffectThe game seriously lacks polish. It's been a long time since I've seen a game where the issues and flaws are so obvious. Animations, clipping, graphics glitches, all of these things are substantially sub par for a AAA game. This being said, the environments seem to be large and beautiful. Unfortunately the story seems to only be serviceable, not extraordinary like the previous Mass Effect games. I would have preferred this game be a PC exclusive so that we would have one great game rather than three okay to good games. Now I have to treat Bioware like Ubisoft.… Expand
  86. ucin97
    Apr 19, 2017
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El juego en lineas generales (y me refiero a MUY generales) esta bien pero como esto a los haters no les gusta vamos a darle un poco de cera al juego empezando por lo malo:
    1-LOS OJOS DEL PUTO SATÁN (quien haya jugado o visto alguna escena de dialogo sabrá lo que estoy diciendo).
    2-LAS CARAS DE LOS HUMANOS Y LOS TURIANOS ESTÁN PARA DARLE CON UN BATE CON CLAVOS.
    3-VARIOS(POR NO DECIR MUCHOS) BUGS DE MOVIMIENTO Y EN ESCENAS DE DIÁLOGOS.
    4-MUCHAS DE LAS MISIONES SECUNDARIAS SON LAS DE RECADERO (ir de A a B y viceversa).
    5-¿ERA NECESARIO PONERME A LAS DEMÁS ESPECIES EN dlc's?
    Estas son las cosas más lamentables del juego , pero ahora vamos a ver las cosas buenas ( haters a mi):
    1-El crafteo y los materiales están bien implementados , así como los puntos de investigación y ni escasean ni sobran (busca y encontraras).
    2-Los compañeros de la ``TEMPEST´´ están bastante bien y tienen un sentimiento de evolución a lo largo del juego , aunque no son igual de molones que los de la primera trilogía con personajes tan memorables como Tali (nuestra entrañable ingeniera queriana), Miranda(that brunette ass), Mordin(nuestro querido medico,agente del GOE, cientifico y cantante de ópera salariano) , Liara (nuestra waifu por excelencia), WREX (quien quiere un ejercito cuando tienes un krogan y mas cuando tienes a ESTE krogan), Garrus facking vakarian ( que decir de nuestro turiano favorito que no puedas encontrar en el diccionario buscando ``PUTO AMO'') y demás personajes que se quedan en el tintero pero que TODOS son muy buenos e importantes.
    3-La misiones de la trama principal están muy bien en especial la misión final y las de lealtad del equipo pionero.
    4-El sentimiento de progresión del personaje en el juego (de ser un matao [ALERTA SPOILER] que le dan el titulo de pionero por ser de la familia y que todos duden de ti a que sean el pathfinder al que cualquier fémina [o no tan fémina ] le gustaría empotrarse y salvador de la iniciativa).
    5-Jugabilidad muy mejorada respecto a la trilogía original y mucho mas exploración ( aunque la premisa sea explorar la galaxia Andrómeda).

    CONCLUSIÓN: Juego con luces y sombras que un juego de la categoría de BIOWARE y por respeto a la trilogía original no tendría que tener.
    PD: Vamos BIOWARE tu puedes hacerlo mejor, que DLC'EA no te cambie.    … Expand
  87. Borgoros
    Apr 26, 2018
    7
    A pretty good game, that many loves to hate before even playing the majority of it... The more I play it, the more I love it! Fantastic atmosphere, strong and varied gameplay, graphics are for the most part great, a good variety of different sidequests and a main story with lots of meaning. Not as good as Mass Effect 1 and 2, but still solid. The downside is humas character animations andA pretty good game, that many loves to hate before even playing the majority of it... The more I play it, the more I love it! Fantastic atmosphere, strong and varied gameplay, graphics are for the most part great, a good variety of different sidequests and a main story with lots of meaning. Not as good as Mass Effect 1 and 2, but still solid. The downside is humas character animations and some lame dialogue, but that is not enough to ruin this beautiful game.

    My evenings/nights with this and Breath of the Wild are are good times too look forward to after work, workout and the usual real life things.    … Expand
  88. TheMegaGodz
    Jan 13, 2020
    7
    Mass Effect: Andromeda is a game that is decent enough on its own, but when compared against its predecessors in the franchise, it falls short and fails to meet expectations.
  89. Catalyst13
    Jun 29, 2020
    7
    It could be my extremely high expectations or just other games raising the bar for open-world games (the Witcher III for sure); the fact is that this game lacks the depth and lore of the trilogy. the writing and directing fall short of what could be a great set up for the franchise (another galaxy!).
    The good:
    1- Well made combat system and enjoyable fights. 2- Plenty of things to do.    It could be my extremely high expectations or just other games raising the bar for open-world games (the Witcher III for sure); the fact is that this game lacks the depth and lore of the trilogy. the writing and directing fall short of what could be a great set up for the franchise (another galaxy!).
    The good:
    1- Well made combat system and enjoyable fights.
    2- Plenty of things to do.
    3- Good premise for the franchise reboot.
    4- It's a Mass Effect game!
    5- Enjoyable multiplayer.

    The bad:
    1- It badly failed to capture the magnificent feeling of exploring what is (to us at least) uncharted area and focused on the size of the game and a huge number of silly tasks you can do.
    2- the writing: While I listened carefully to most of the conversations in the trilogy, I find myself skipping them here. They are just uninteresting and plain dull.
    3- Characters (writing as well): I had a genuine emotional attachment to Miranda, Jack, Mordin and many others in the trilogy... but I have zero interest in anyone (Peebee might be a tad better). Even the AI Sam is lacklustre at best in comparison to Edi.
    4- The open-world set-up is starting to burden new games unless it's very well made (the Witcher as a brilliant example again) and I'd take a well written linear old fashioned game over a repetitive massive open-world one with a modular feeling.
    5- As a summary, I'd say the game failed in terms of story, writing, and directing especially in comparison to the trilogy and recent games.    … Expand
  90. SpikePsyche
    Nov 28, 2017
    7
    I have been a fan of the Mass Effect series since the beginning. That being said, while this is not my fave of the series, I am still enjoying it and find it a welcome addition. Yes, it has its flaws, but it also has a lot going for it. The naysayers be damned. Check it out, it is worth it.
  91. spaghetti-cop
    Apr 8, 2017
    6
    A slightly above average space opera wearing the skin of a mass effect title. Perhaps the games largest flaw is it's inability to show the player its best parts. Compelling quests are hidden behind wall or poor UI, fetch quests, bugs, and stilted dialogue. Unfortunately, Andromeda cowers in the shadow of its contemporaries, and is hard to recommend to anyone who isn't heavily invested inA slightly above average space opera wearing the skin of a mass effect title. Perhaps the games largest flaw is it's inability to show the player its best parts. Compelling quests are hidden behind wall or poor UI, fetch quests, bugs, and stilted dialogue. Unfortunately, Andromeda cowers in the shadow of its contemporaries, and is hard to recommend to anyone who isn't heavily invested in the series.… Expand
  92. raccoondaddy
    Sep 9, 2017
    7
    THIS HATE IS RIDICULOUS AND JUVENILE!!! There, I said it. This game is no where near its aggregate score. Sure there are some flaws here and there with the game, but NOTHING that makes it a steaming pile of poop, everyone has made it out to be.

    This isn't the original Mass Effect Trilogy and NEVER will be that. Granted, that the bar is set very high, but lets face each title had its    THIS HATE IS RIDICULOUS AND JUVENILE!!! There, I said it. This game is no where near its aggregate score. Sure there are some flaws here and there with the game, but NOTHING that makes it a steaming pile of poop, everyone has made it out to be.

    This isn't the original Mass Effect Trilogy and NEVER will be that. Granted, that the bar is set very high, but lets face each title had its flaws. The first played to rigid, ME2 had too short of a campaign and 3 was letdown ending-wise.

    I've been playing this for well over 14 hours, so far, so good. Planetary exploration is much cooler
    with the view of the spaceship moving planet to planet. Ground exploration is FINALLY back. Missions are laid out very similar to how Dragon Age Inquisition is, with a select amount of large areas to explore and seems to work the same.

    Honestly, if you look at how Inquisition plays, just apply that to this.

    My only gripe was how the limited the loadout, powers system is now. Also, being unable to equip weapons from the menu is garbage. But I've seen worse mechanics in my almost 30 years of gaming so, I'll suck it up.

    Everyone is expecting way too much from games these days, ya'll haters need to calm down.

    VERY LIGHT SPOILERS, nothing major.

    After playing this for MANY hours, I've realized two things.

    1. AVOID THE FETCH QUESTS, most of them aren't really that rewarding, give you crap loot/credits/experience. Focus on doing the side missions related to your crew and improving the viability of planets. Space exploration is almost pointless, save for actually discovering the FIVE viable planets, after that mapping the stars get real boring.

    2. The story is a repeat of the 1st Mass Effect, sans the intriguing twist of the original. Yet the narrative isn't horrible, just that it lacks the charm of the ANY of the original trilogy. I felt like everything I did in Andromeda gave me that "been there, done that" kind of feeling.

    DROPPED MY SCORE FROM AN 8 to a low 7. The combat is good and the game has its moments, mostly during main and character missions.    … Expand
  93. AvemusN7
    Nov 7, 2019
    7
    The game is not as bad as people say. Sure it had its technical problems and the game seem to be 'boring' to some people however after patches it is really worth trying to get into the game. I had a year break from the game and since the return I have had a lot of fun. The game is very cheap now anyway so why not give it a shot?
  94. Maximumbob54
    Apr 3, 2017
    5
    There's a reason they didn't call it Mass Effect 4. And it's got nothing to do with you don't play as Shepard. There is no way the same crew that made the first three games worked on this dumpster fire. I don't need to list what made the first three games amazing, but I will say none of that is present here. If you can get passed the bad facial animations, the poor character models,There's a reason they didn't call it Mass Effect 4. And it's got nothing to do with you don't play as Shepard. There is no way the same crew that made the first three games worked on this dumpster fire. I don't need to list what made the first three games amazing, but I will say none of that is present here. If you can get passed the bad facial animations, the poor character models, the no clue what your response is going to be from your dialogue choice, the half the time poor voice acting and everything else that makes this game the hot garbage that it is then you might somehow be able to have some fun. I feel like I'm being too kind giving this game a five out of ten. It's playable but it's NOTHING like the first three but it really is playable. I am still struggling with looking over its flaws to be able to enjoy the game but the gameplay needs to pick up or I don't know if I will even bother to finish this one.
    EDIT TO ADD: I've now beat this game. Honestly I didn't even know I was heading to the final boss. I went out of my way to complete every side quest I saw and while I'm sure there were some I missed I feel like I completed the bulk of them. I was only level 55, only had mid level gear, and even getting to the end boss didn't feel like an end of game boss. And there was sssosoooo much time waster content. Go here. Scan these rocks. Deliver this stuff. Build this thing. And I tried to do all of it with very few exceptions. I assume the goal is to make you replay through with the same character a few times to really unlock the best gear but who wants to do all the time waster go scan rocks stuff all over again??? I admit I was a sucker for all the previous ME games with every bit of downloadable content to the point I was upset a little with the WiiU release not being complete. But ME:A will not get another dollar from me. It's already on the shelf as a memorial to remind me not to buy games day one and wait for some good reviews first.    … Expand
  95. GamerBrady
    Nov 20, 2022
    5
    The game has it's problems and is definitely not perfect, but I keep coming back to play it. I think as a Mass Effect Game people expected something a little different and more, I was one of those people. But I have to say I enjoy playing the game just as much as any of the other games in the series.

    Update: After dropping support for this game within 6 months of release for an even    The game has it's problems and is definitely not perfect, but I keep coming back to play it. I think as a Mass Effect Game people expected something a little different and more, I was one of those people. But I have to say I enjoy playing the game just as much as any of the other games in the series.

    Update: After dropping support for this game within 6 months of release for an even worse game, Anthem cough cough, that they also gave up on review went down. The game really suffers by being developed by a c team with no fault of the people who worked on the actual game, but the bugs and incomplete tweaking of things that never happened really makes the game suffer. And it's unfortunate.    … Expand
  96. Explofion
    Apr 4, 2017
    6
    I loved the first trilogy and this Mass Effect is a complete different kind of game and this is good. The only problem for me is every things they made differently is bad or boring.

    -Animation: First when you start the game you are welcomed with broken animation everywhere, but this is just a minor problem, it can be fixed and this is Mass Effect it should be good even with that.    I loved the first trilogy and this Mass Effect is a complete different kind of game and this is good. The only problem for me is every things they made differently is bad or boring.

    -Animation:
    First when you start the game you are welcomed with broken animation everywhere, but this is just a minor problem, it can be fixed and this is Mass Effect it should be good even with that.

    -Game play
    Next step, Gunfight. I really don't understand why we cannot stop the fight to control our partners actions. All is very very action, I don't like the new system where you can't equip more than 2 powers but have to switch to different profile. The fight are always dashing everywhere trying to cover.
    Some gunfight are difficult, boss fights where nicely organized.
    So for the gameplay I don't liked it but it's not bad it is just my personal feeling about it.

    Exploration:
    The exploration is good, a mixed between Mass Effect 1 for the Mako and Dragon Age inquisiton (I loved it) for the out post system and the tower to activate to find a final cave or whatever secret thing. The system with the five (I think) planet to colonized is rewarding because you can feel the evolution of it talking to people in the main Hub and by destroying the threat it will became (almost) peaceful place to live on.

    Story and characters:
    This point was the most important and I'm very very very very disappointed about it. No spoiler ahead but the story is boring af, the end was terribly... Average. I almost feel like every characters on the Tempest were cliché (Good point for the Sera from Dragon Age disguised in Asari).
    I tried to do a maximum side quest possible before the main quest but I was blocked waiting to receive mail from my team mates to continue their side quests. Like seriously? And then I did one mission and everybody sent me mail so I was submerged with side quest all of a sudden..
    I'm going to start a New Game + but I'm not as excited has I'm still am when I start again the first trilogy or even a Dragon Age game.

    Conclusion: Returning into the Mass Effect universe feels good. The Andromeda initiative is a good concept for a game, the main story of exploring planet and the exploration itself is nicely done. The gunfights are what they are you like it or not but you can't say it's bad. But thanks to a lot of bug and a poor story telling I cannot say I'm happy with this game and I'm very sad of it.
    But your opinion will be the best so try the game if you never played any Mass Effect you can start here and you will discover one of the biggest and best universe of the video game history.

    Final Point: I personally don't think that the open world fit well here and really don't know why because I liked it with Dragon age inquisition. But a good linear game is better than an average open world one.

    Sorry for bad English.    … Expand
  97. grete
    Apr 4, 2017
    5
    If this game was the first Mass Effect game and it came out in 2003 people might have been more understanding. However this isn't the first, it's the fourth game in the series and it came out in 2017.

    Andromeda had a lot to live up to so I'll go ahead and list some the things that made Mass Effect so good in the first place. 1. Character customization This is what starts off the    If this game was the first Mass Effect game and it came out in 2003 people might have been more understanding. However this isn't the first, it's the fourth game in the series and it came out in 2017.

    Andromeda had a lot to live up to so I'll go ahead and list some the things that made Mass Effect so good in the first place.

    1. Character customization
    This is what starts off the game, this is where you create the most important thing in the entire game; you. Not to sound overly narcissistic, but in every Bioware game the only thing that keeps the world from ending or turning to **** is you. The game mainly focuses on you, what you say and the choices you make. It's no surprise that, for many people, how you look and who you choose to be is important. In the previous games there was hardly any shortage of options when it came to choosing what you looked like, what kind of person you were and where you came from. In Andromeda everything is extremely limited. I felt like I was playing the beta version of a game. My backstory is chosen for me, my face is chosen for me and my personality and choices hardly matter. It sort of breaks the immersion when the camera focuses on your character and you look like a crazy person. The male characters are barely passable, the female ones are just downright horrendous. The eyes look dead. It looks like you're staring very intensely all the time. No matter how pale I created my character i couldn't make a white female character, they were always tan. I couldn't choose eye shape, nose shape, mouth shape or brows. You can tweak the awful presets a little, but that's it. Hair options were okay, but you can't be blonde without either looking like a clown or have brown roots. The makeup was average and kinda reminded me of Saw. The tattoos were boring and the scars were weird. I don't think i've enjoyed a character customization less than Andromeda's.. and I've played Oblivion.

    2. Dialogue and acting
    The dialogue, acting and just the characters themselves were absolutely superb in the Mass Effect trilogy. Even though the person you were talking to was a metal bird man he felt like a real person. The dialogue you chose felt like they mattered and the options were diverse. The lines were also brilliantly delivered. From combat to romance, pretty much everything felt organic and lifelike, it was so easy to get immersed in the game. In Andromeda it felt like the dialogue was sometimes written by a 14 year old in creative writing class. Sure, there were some good lines and I've had a chuckle over some of the Nomad banter, but it felt lifeless. The acting isn't always bad, but I find myself cringing at serious moments because it's just so poorly done. Screaming of pain should actually sound like pain not like you're stuck in traffic. Seeing someone you love die should be a tragic event not a minor inconvenience. Call me old fashioned but getting involved in a romantic relationship should be more than just '"we'll bang, ok?" People in Andromeda feel more like cartoons than people and most of the time i just didn't care about what happened to them. Nobody seems to care who you are or how you act. You get a nice little personality report from the Tempest doctor, but that's pretty much it. Don't expect any deep and complex, Oscar worthy perfomances or characters.

    3. The story
    This is the big one. The story of Mass Effect, not only the main story, but the side quests, the characters the random encounters - it's just good. It makes you feel involved and interested, it makes you care. And for a sci-fi tale it feels very real. I cared about Shepard, I cared about my squadmates, I cared about my crew, I cared about the people, I cared about the universe. The story makes you laugh and cry and the choices you make matter, sometimes more than any Telltale game ever did, and it was just an amazing journey. Andromeda starts off with a pretty good concept. However it turns into something generic, something I feel like I've seen before. I didn't really care all that much about anything that happened, because the game didn't give me any reason to. There were so many opportunities they missed, so many directions they could have gone, and it feels like they went with the most generic one. It feels like it isn't quite finished. It feels empty. The side quests were disappointing and the story was average. As the credits rolled I thought to myself "that's it?"

    Other things:
    -The romances are nowhere near as deep or meaningful as they've been in the previous games or in Dragon Age.
    -All the memes you've seen about the animations - they're all true. It really is that bad.
    -Glitches. Glitches everywhere.

    Summed up: it's not the worst game in the world, I had some fun, but it doesn't even compare to the Mass Effect trilogy.    … Expand
  98. Diegochocho
    Jul 3, 2018
    7
    La jugabilidad me pareció mucho mejor que la trilogía de Mass Effect, los planetas me parecieron muy lindo, y la historia diría que pasable aunque falto mas decisiones importantes, el villano principal no me pareció la gran cosa, aunque el final me pareció bueno.
    Igual extraño a Shepard :(
  99. smokingborito
    Jan 14, 2019
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game somehow is more functional than overwatch, though that isn't saying much seeing as overwatch is the least functional console game i've ever had the displeasure of playing (though i have yet to get my hands on the **** that is fallout 76) basically i hate overwatch and this is almost as bad… Expand
  100. RaFfr0
    Aug 28, 2017
    6
    I preordered this game a long time before release because obviously i thought it would be like the ME Trilogy, but i was wrong. Despite all of the bugs, glitches and animations, the story was so bland, the characters were forgettable and only the combat was good, maybe the best in a ME game, but that doesn't do much when you have so many negative points.
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  1. Power Unlimited
    Oct 19, 2017
    78
    It might be the biggest, most complex and action packed game in the franchise, but Mass Effect: Andromeda is also the least convincing one. The dated facial animations, the inconsistent writing quality and the regularly occurring bugs take you out of the experience too often. On top of that, BioWare has not used the concept of a whole new universe to its full potential, which often makes it feel like Mass Effect: Andromeda has not left our Milky Way at all.
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  2. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    Jul 7, 2017
    70
    While it’s underwhelming in places, there’s a lot to like as you venture into the weirder parts of Andromeda. Frequent technical issues hamper the experience a bit, as does an uninspiring main story. [June 2017, p66]
  3. Games Master UK
    Jun 6, 2017
    81
    A welcome, if slightly patch return for Mass Effect. The script has problems, but combat is bloody brilliant. [May 2017, p.62]
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