Mass Effect: Andromeda

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  1. MistyFalls
    Mar 27, 2017
    5
    Mass Effect Andromeda made me realize that a game can't just solely depend on a single element to be a good game. MEA has fantastic combat however it is hinder with its atrocious writing and ugly animations. For an RPG like Mass Effect, immersion is very important. Many times that immersion is ruined because of how laughable the animations are. For example the fighting sequences in theMass Effect Andromeda made me realize that a game can't just solely depend on a single element to be a good game. MEA has fantastic combat however it is hinder with its atrocious writing and ugly animations. For an RPG like Mass Effect, immersion is very important. Many times that immersion is ruined because of how laughable the animations are. For example the fighting sequences in the cutscenes look very ugly and unpolished. It's sad that Bioware didn't thoroughly checked the game's quality before release. Or maybe they thought the quality is already sufficient. After 5 years since ME3, this feels very underwhelming. If we ever see ME5, I hope Bioware would be humble and learn from this grim mistake.… Expand
  2. chenson87
    Mar 29, 2017
    5
    Fun at first with a lot of promise but ultimate a bug filled mess that should not be called a AAA game. Buggy save system and the autosaves make you repeat long portions of fights. I fight with the aiming system more than i fight with the enemies. Not much payoff for trying to do side quests. This game could have easily been an 8/10 however the bugs and terrible controls hold it way back.Fun at first with a lot of promise but ultimate a bug filled mess that should not be called a AAA game. Buggy save system and the autosaves make you repeat long portions of fights. I fight with the aiming system more than i fight with the enemies. Not much payoff for trying to do side quests. This game could have easily been an 8/10 however the bugs and terrible controls hold it way back. It never should have been released in this state.… Expand
  3. METROSLAYER
    Mar 21, 2017
    5
    Game developed without "heart" and a thousand production problems.

    The members of the old Bioware are gone,and it shows.

    (PS: not EVER buy on day one)
  4. MaXiMuS_54
    Mar 23, 2017
    5
    Not much is original in this whack-a-mole. A series once liked for its story is ruined by meh acting, and terrible animations. Also -9000pts for misusing Natalie Dormer.
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. MrAptronym
    Mar 31, 2017
    5
    There is a fun gameplay core somewhere in Andromeda, but it is buried by a by-the-numbers plot, an awful user interface, terrible writing (really spectacularly bad at times), numerous glitches, and a structure that is mostly time-wasting filler.

    As the game opens up over time you end up facing the same enemies and doing the same tasks, just with even more transport and downtime in    There is a fun gameplay core somewhere in Andromeda, but it is buried by a by-the-numbers plot, an awful user interface, terrible writing (really spectacularly bad at times), numerous glitches, and a structure that is mostly time-wasting filler.

    As the game opens up over time you end up facing the same enemies and doing the same tasks, just with even more transport and downtime in between them. The entire game feels like meaningless padding around small moments of actual fun combat. Eventually even combat loses its thrill though, as you quickly figure out an optimum strategy for your build and will never be challenged to change it.

    I think worst of all, the game completely fails to capture the spirit of exploration that I had hoped for. Universal translators, computer interfaces and even currencies carry over just fine between galaxies apparently, making very little actually seem new. Just as bad, most of the worlds you survey receive a single bland sentence as a descriptor. There is no joy in exploring the Helios cluster, only tedium.    … Expand
  9. 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
  10. Perxoda
    Mar 23, 2017
    5
    What a goddamn joke. I personally can overlook all of the poor dialogue and animation. I'm a player that goes in for gameplay, but the combat system and balancing are just a joke.

    When playing on any difficulty higher than normal the enemies become bullet spunges. The fun part is that they're still overly aggresive and just keep walking towards you while insta-blasting your shields. As    What a goddamn joke. I personally can overlook all of the poor dialogue and animation. I'm a player that goes in for gameplay, but the combat system and balancing are just a joke.

    When playing on any difficulty higher than normal the enemies become bullet spunges. The fun part is that they're still overly aggresive and just keep walking towards you while insta-blasting your shields. As the AI of your allies is about as good as having a twig to back you up, you're mostly fighting alone. This meens you'll be seeing a lot of checkpoints.

    Yes, checkpoints.... And they're at some unbelievable poor places. I can't count all the times I had to go over the same four or five minutes or walking/driving to get back to the point I was. When I got there I basically got shot down by an overwhelming amount of enemies yet again. This is just the most lazy kind of combat design I've seen in years. Add to that faults that should have not been close to a released game like enemies moving through objects (still being able to hit you, but not vice verse) and mistakes the average steam greenlight developer would even cringe at.

    If you're thinking of buying this game for the gameplay: leave it.
    If you're thinking of buying this game for the graphics: hahahahahahahaha, nope.
    If you're thinking of buying this game for the story: look elsewhere.

    It's a shame that the ME title got put onto this dirthole of a game.    … Expand
  11. Cervant
    Mar 31, 2017
    5
    So much bugs, animation is horrible, story so-so...

    I don't know if it's a bug, but there's about no Music going on, when walking in the Nexus or anywhere it's mostly silent. There's no background sounds or only a little. The game play is very cool, though. But there isn't much of fight, probably 80% of searching for a quest that is unclear. Oh and the cut-scene before entering a    So much bugs, animation is horrible, story so-so...

    I don't know if it's a bug, but there's about no Music going on, when walking in the Nexus or anywhere it's mostly silent. There's no background sounds or only a little.

    The game play is very cool, though. But there isn't much of fight, probably 80% of searching for a quest that is unclear.

    Oh and the cut-scene before entering a planet or anything that required a cut-scene to get there, are awful, probably add a good 20 hours of that for completing the game.

    It's a real let down, really disappointed.

    Played 70 hours/66% completion. There's a lot of side quests.

    EDIT : Change my note from 4 to 6/10. Because it gives a lot play time, i must give that and a bunch of good laugh (animations).

    Finished the game now and I lowered to 5/10. 80 hours / 96% completion.

    Romance are not worked, there's no scene like in the past, even if it's a Rated M. I have the feeling they didn't bother to give more depth in the relationship of the characters.

    It's a good 3rd person shooter. Not a story telling game. Well, I did not feel involved, no hard choice in the end.    … Expand
  12. AnimeKing
    Mar 31, 2017
    5
    It's an amazing experience of a turd sandwich.

    Graphics, of course we all have heard the faces look really bad, which they are, but it looks great the Andromeda galaxy looks so good. Until you start playing it. I've had a couple of times someone on my team went into 'T' pose, the rocks and flowers would remain flat on the ground. These are just a few that I can remember. Sound, It    It's an amazing experience of a turd sandwich.

    Graphics, of course we all have heard the faces look really bad, which they are, but it looks great the Andromeda galaxy looks so good. Until you start playing it. I've had a couple of times someone on my team went into 'T' pose, the rocks and flowers would remain flat on the ground.
    These are just a few that I can remember.

    Sound, It can be good but nothing that pops out at me just background noise, Until you play it for a while. The music cuts out so all I here is the sound effects for about 30sec. to 1min at a time, Voices don't match up a lot of the time with the text, and sometimes all sound is lost for a period at a time.

    Gameplay, This is what kept me coming back wanting to finish it instead of quiting. some people say it plays like Mass Effect 1 I think it plays like Mass Effect 3 but whatever, It's a cover based 3rd person shoot. The ability to choose what you want to be then level abilities of your own choice instead of like the old ones where you chose a class then get stuck with whatever you chose. I played as an engineer using the turret and keeping the overload ability. I was an Assault Rifle user, who switched to the P.A.W. which is an AR but shoots a beam, and used Sniper Rifles.
    But just like the others there are problems, and a lot of them. I've fell through the floor, got stuck in the floor, fell through the floor survived with no health and got stuck down there, for some reason my game would stutter as if I was lagging even when I wasn't online, my jumps didn't want to work all the time I either wouldn't jump or I would jump slightly and fall to my death, sometimes when they threw grenades and I hit the dodge button twice I'd still get hit even when not in range, towards the end all of these became way more frequent.
    I put out my comments on the game and some people have never seen most or any of these issues, I feel like I just got 1 of the **** copies.

    Story, Isn't bad but nor was it good it's milky way galaxy jumping to a new galaxy to inhabit, really that's it. make outposts here and there, mutiny happened , make new friends, and do just about the same stuff you did in the other Mass Effect games.

    Multiplayer, I played 2 matches, it's like Mas Effect 3 it's just hoard mode, need to get points from matches to get new better gear to go back into the matches and kill easier. In each match their are objectives like, kill everything, hack the objective, etc. it's ok but the microtransactions are way more expensive then ME3. The highest loot crate is worth 100,000 points if you buy it with money it's worth $100 just for 5 random rare items and a chance to get an ultra-rare.

    Overall, Gameplay is worth it I'd definitely say play it if you can but atleast with my experience on it, it's not worth $60 more of a $40 game.
    It's a 5/10 because you can play and these issues can be fixed it's just not worth the $60, if you really want to play it borrow it from a friend or rent it.    … Expand
  13. 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
  14. Djursner
    Mar 28, 2017
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Okay, so I have now completed the game and I am sad to say that this is the worst Mass Effect title so far. What happened this time is that I did not complete the game 100% before moving onto the epilogue, but left out a few planet systems and small tasks. This has never happened before to me. I would always take great pride in finishing every little bit of Bioware’s games.

    I knew about the character animations being joked about when I started, and I had my experiences with it as well. I do not know why, but the human animations and faces were much poorer than the aliens'. Further, the human human female faces were horrible compared to human males' faces.

    I do not know if this plays onto the Bioware SJW problem or if Bioware's animators are just terrible at designing humans but good at designing aliens. Also, romance is a big deal of Bioware’s games and I found it quite weird and dangerous to speak with my companions. I had to watch out so much not to end up in a gay relationship with some of my male companions. Maybe add gay/bisexual modifier in the options? None of the female companions were attractive, and the only human female which was heterosexual, Cora, looked like a lesbian.

    Okay back to the game. The game started off with amazement. Everything was new, and you had a whole galaxy to explore... Then... Slowly... It became the same, over and over. You began hating all of the travelling time between planets and systems in Andromeda. Goddamn unescapable cut scenes for every flight, which made exploring planets unnecessarily tedious. Make the cut scenes skippable when you are done loading!!!

    Andromeda was big, but it was just a big load of the same materials used over and over. Bioware had focused too much on quantity and too little on quality. Now, Andromeda is NO way as big as the Witcher 3. Andromeda feels big because there are so many planets to visit but you can only visit 4-5 planets in total. Every other Bioware game actually felt bigger than Andromeda, they felt bigger due to the quality they had.

    And then there are the options in your dialogues. You cannot be evil in Mass Effect Andromeda. The Angarans fear that you come as conquerors, but you can never act like one. It is all about appeasement and creating a social circle. You thought sacrificing the Council in ME1 was evil? Well… Here you can sacrifice… Nobody, and nobody important is at the risk of dying.

    Lastly, the epilogue. Without too many spoilers, I would say that it was the least fist-pumping moment. It was more built to lead up to the next Mass Effect game, but had nowhere the same vibe that Mass Effect 1 had.

    I am not sure if Bioware is the Bioware that was capable of creating Dragon Age Origins and ME1 and 2. They have lost of a lot of the old employees and seem more focused on diversity of characters and sexuality, and quantity over quality.

    One last topic. Bugs. They exist and some of them made me go crazy. It is the kind of bugs that force you to load over to a previous save because a quest is broken.

    They had 5 years since ME3 and 3 years since DAI to create this game. They went the wrong way. The game is not worth its price. I would advise you to save your money until it is patched and the price has dropped.

    I repeat. The game is not worth it with its current price and its current state. Try it in a year.    … Expand
  15. artimis
    Mar 22, 2017
    5
    Theirs a load of problems with this title but its still tolerable. Just needs some more polishing then I believe it will be worthy of a 7/10. Its not the best, but its also not the worst. Some parts are really injoyable then get ruined by the poor voice acting or animations. the beginning is really bad then it picks up a tad about 8 hours in. Best to probably pick it up on sale. SpendTheirs a load of problems with this title but its still tolerable. Just needs some more polishing then I believe it will be worthy of a 7/10. Its not the best, but its also not the worst. Some parts are really injoyable then get ruined by the poor voice acting or animations. the beginning is really bad then it picks up a tad about 8 hours in. Best to probably pick it up on sale. Spend you're 60$ on something else like Breath of the wild, Nier automata, or horizon zero dawn, (all 10/10 games)

    Cons:
    -Poor animations
    -poor voice acting
    -game freezes way to much. sometimes when im not even doing anything.
    -boring story
    -boring characters
    -extremely glitchy (floating raptors, weird morphing faces, fell through stairs, hair failed to load in.)
    -repititive
    -sidequests
    -typical villain. Not really enteresting either.

    Pros:
    Exploration
    multiplayer is fun
    combat is fun.
    atmosphere (some areas, then usually gets ruined fast)    … Expand
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. Skyline_RJ
    Mar 21, 2017
    5
    I was a huge fan of ME3 multiplayer mode. I´ve created too much expectation waiting for a superb new outstanding multiplayer for this new generation. And suddenly everything is gone... forever...
  19. 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
  20. Protodeus
    Apr 1, 2017
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Wide as an ocean, but as deep as a puddle. That's how I would describe ME: Andromeda. There is a dizzying amount of content in this game, but very little of it is rewarding, fun or challenging. I absolutely adore the original trilogy, and it is probably one of my favorite game series of all time, and I really wanted to like Andromeda. But after 60+ hrs of gameplay, I just felt bored, uninterested and ultimately angry, because this didn't feel like a Mass Effect game at all. It felt like some bro-ey, fan fiction that tried and failed to replicate what made the original trilogy so amazing.

    And this is ultimately where Andromeda falls flat on its face. The writing. The writing is, for lack of a better word, lackluster. The story is bland and uninspired, with boring two dimensional villains, a backstory that receives little to no further explanation, and characters who are completely forgettable. Near the end of the game I was actually skipping over cut-scenes because I was so thoroughly uninterested in the characters and their motivations. Your "choices" have little to no impact on the direction of the story, and there is no emotional weight behind anything that happens in Andromeda simply because it's hard to find any of it all that interesting. The loyalty missions are forgettable as well. The game also tries way too hard to be funny, and was way too generous with levity. Yes, there was humor in the original trilogy, but this was complemented by some very serious and emotional moments. It feels like nothing is taken seriously in Andromeda, so why do we care when anything important happens? The script is riddled with sarcasm that doesn't work. For instance, there is a pretty important moment near the beginning where Ryder loses a family member, and 2 minutes later he's making jokes and pretending like nothing bad happened. That is bad writing.

    That is to say nothing of the horrendous character animations, the fact that all the alien races looking exactly the same (all of the asari and salarians have exactly the same faces, with different facial markings), and the subpar voice acting. I will give the game credit for its planet environments, which are stunningly gorgeous. Elaaden and Havarl in particular are incredibly beautiful. i also love the Tempest and how you can now look out the windows to see where you are in the galaxy. But exploration soon becomes tedious and repetitive, since you basically do exactly the same thing with every planet. The UI is also terrible. The gunplay is fun and fluid, and I definitely thought it was a step up from the original trilogy.

    Unfortunately everything about this game reeks of laziness and lack of polish. It's like Bioware had no idea what made the original games so beloved, and tried to make a cheap imitation that has neither the soul or the depth. There are no amazing moments like Virmire, Tuchanka, Rannoch or the Suicide Mission. There are no moments where you have to reflect on your decisions. And because of this, the player has no emotional investment in the story or its characters. I got so bored near the end that I began skipping cut-scenes just to finish, because I didn't care anymore.

    It's really unfortunate that Andromeda is so mediocre. EA was given an IP with so much potential, and they squandered it. Is Andromeda a bad game? Not necessarily. There is still some fun to be had, and I enjoyed exploring the galaxy in a way. But if you're a fan of the original games, you will probably be disappointed because this game fails to match up to them in almost every way. An RPG with a bad story and uninteresting characters is going to fall apart, and that's exactly what has happened here. Just going back and playing the original Mass Effect, listening to Vigil speak on Ilos... there just is nothing in Andromeda that matches it. It's hollow, cheaply made, uninspired, bland and revels in its own mediocrity.

    What an absolute shame.    … Expand
  21. Prrgangsta
    Mar 21, 2017
    5
    Wow I did not expect the user score to be so low but i guess this was just that disappointing to some users.

    Anyway after playing for several hours i feel that is time to give my own opinion. The new installment of the Mass Effect series is fun during combat and exploration but that is really all it has going for it. The combat flows well and the abilities you have are useful in each    Wow I did not expect the user score to be so low but i guess this was just that disappointing to some users.

    Anyway after playing for several hours i feel that is time to give my own opinion. The new installment of the Mass Effect series is fun during combat and exploration but that is really all it has going for it. The combat flows well and the abilities you have are useful in each situation even though some are more limited than others, like combat abilities such as grenades and the flak cannon. The planets you visit are vast and full of sidequests, yet feel empty and lifeless most of the time.

    Now to the cons of the game. The facial animations are so bad you can never tell how your human comrades feel unless they tell you. The frame rate drops in certain scenes making it look it is a stop motion film. The voice acting is horrendous as if the actors just wanted to say their parts then leave the studio with the check. Research and development is boring and unrewarding, it feels with its **** gear but hopefully I will find more ultra rare blueprints to create better gear for my character. Finally are the dialogue choices which dont feel like they make much of a difference in a conversation no matter how you reply.

    I have sent strike teams out for missions and they seem to have trouble completing missions but hopefully they will gain experience and be able to succeed future missions. I have yet to do multiplayer but i hope it treats me better than the main story has.    … Expand
  22. Greysteel
    Mar 23, 2017
    5
    An ugly mis-step in a franchise I once enjoyed so much. Hideous animation bugs all but ruin any sense of immersion or connection to the plot. For a game that talks so much it rarely has anything interesting to say. And in a galaxy so big it rarely has anything worth finding. The bones of a sci-fi epic melodrama are there, with a curt selection of star crew along for the journey, howeverAn ugly mis-step in a franchise I once enjoyed so much. Hideous animation bugs all but ruin any sense of immersion or connection to the plot. For a game that talks so much it rarely has anything interesting to say. And in a galaxy so big it rarely has anything worth finding. The bones of a sci-fi epic melodrama are there, with a curt selection of star crew along for the journey, however this will be remembered as a dour note in Bioware's new space symphony.… Expand
  23. 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
  24. ByYuxiSs
    Mar 21, 2017
    5
    The end of a big franchise regrettably.
    This game I did not like at all its history for the moment does not finish convincing me, some scenarios not so well designed and for my opinion the end of this saga that was already declining a little with his third game.

    It is not a bad game but I also did not finish giving its true potential to which we had been promised 5/10
  25. REUBENATRIX
    Mar 23, 2017
    5
    It's not fair to write a review without playing the game, but I don't think I can continue. I'd rather play Horizon or Wildlands again than keep going through this sesspool. There is nothing to hold my attention in this game. Plus I had a quite attractive looking custom character painstakingly created to perfection, and now in game her mouth is the only moving part... like a goldfish. IIt's not fair to write a review without playing the game, but I don't think I can continue. I'd rather play Horizon or Wildlands again than keep going through this sesspool. There is nothing to hold my attention in this game. Plus I had a quite attractive looking custom character painstakingly created to perfection, and now in game her mouth is the only moving part... like a goldfish. I feel bad for those lazy ass devs, they are going to get hauled over the coals for this flop. Our local store has zero launch marketing. I though I had the launch date wrong. I'm taking it back to swap for pretty much anything else. Probably put a pre-order on prey or pickup dishonoured 2.… Expand
  26. AsmodeusML
    Mar 21, 2017
    5
    Honestly, this game is such a huge letdown for me as a big fan of Mass Effect trilogy. After 20 hours in any of Bioware's trademark features (strong cast, voiceover, amazing design) are nowhere to be found. I wanted to give it a 1 but i realize that it's just the emotions speaking from huge disappointment i sense right now playing this, in fact i am so disappointed that this is the firstHonestly, this game is such a huge letdown for me as a big fan of Mass Effect trilogy. After 20 hours in any of Bioware's trademark features (strong cast, voiceover, amazing design) are nowhere to be found. I wanted to give it a 1 but i realize that it's just the emotions speaking from huge disappointment i sense right now playing this, in fact i am so disappointed that this is the first time i actually felt like rating something here. Rest in peace, BioWare. See you on the other side… Expand
  27. psomaster437
    Mar 21, 2017
    5
    The multiplayer is/was fun sure, but the single-player is FAR more like dragon age inq in the terms of open world and story, and that kind of story telling is fine, but having to gather 5k resources ON FOOT is not my thing and then having a finite amount of them so you can't craft all the things or experiment without TONS of farming. I did not get through the 2nd mission at nearly 7 hoursThe multiplayer is/was fun sure, but the single-player is FAR more like dragon age inq in the terms of open world and story, and that kind of story telling is fine, but having to gather 5k resources ON FOOT is not my thing and then having a finite amount of them so you can't craft all the things or experiment without TONS of farming. I did not get through the 2nd mission at nearly 7 hours into the story!

    That is what made me quit playing the dragon age INQ, it just kept GOING with VERY little story progression, and if you did a side mission/quest it would rope you into side dungeons/events you COULD NOT LEAVE without spending another hour or something in them. Sure ME1-2-3 did that kind of thing, but it was FAR more linear with FAR more choices and impacts while this style of open world only results in a FEW choices mattering and any of those choices only effect what a few chars say to you not their entire character. IE in ME1-2-3 and dragon age 1-2 you could make someone hate you or disrespect them and it would effect their combat skills or unlock/lock skills, in this, just, nothing, they change a few key words of dialog.

    They also severally limited gameplay in terms of combat this time. No letting you use health-kits like in ME1-2-3, having to find ammo from crates in preset spots with only 4 ammo reloads, each gun takes up a refill so if you restock 2 guns with ammo 2 of the 4 refills are used, instead of dropped ammo from enemies.

    Limited use of abilities by saying it uses a power cell, weapons start out SUPER weak unless you have difficulty set down, you can't rez a teammate from a distance because you have to run up to them out of cover and hold to rez, your limited to ONLY 3 ABILITIES unless you hot-swap to another PRESET set of abilities which then sets those new abilities on a COOL-DOWN when swapped to even if your abilities were fully ready. IE see dropship dropping tons of grunts, swap to AOE power set as you enter combat, OOOPS to bad, you now have to wait 30-40 seconds to use your abilities now....

    And don't get me started on the animations. I just replayed through the series and watched others stream it on twitch A LOT recently. The fact they could not import/adapt even just the facial motions etc from the first 3 games is VERY sad. I mean wasn't Dragon Age INQ using the same engine? Could they not use the same assets/code for facial animations? Those were at-least far better and it was in the same engine with likely only SOME code needing to be redone to get it to fit on the models right.

    Overall I am giving it a lower score of 5 until the issues are fixed. As which point I will redo my review.    … Expand
  28. XV-02
    Mar 21, 2017
    5
    The first chunk of the game, through the first major mission, is very enjoyable. It's different from previous installments, but not bad.
    However, the first main-line mission after that signals the beginning of what can thus far only be called a tremendously uncoordinated mess. There is enjoyable game-play in here, and unlike many, I like the return to ME1 facets, but there are serious    The first chunk of the game, through the first major mission, is very enjoyable. It's different from previous installments, but not bad.
    However, the first main-line mission after that signals the beginning of what can thus far only be called a tremendously uncoordinated mess. There is enjoyable game-play in here, and unlike many, I like the return to ME1 facets, but there are serious structural issues whose origin lie at Bioware's feet.
    Most problematic is a complete lack of cohesiveness. There are emails referencing a character you can't have met before the end of the first mission. You meet one group, and, despite the characterization of that group as initially untrusting, there is no evidence of it there after. Now, It may just be that this event occurs at a rough bridge in the narrative, a poor section needed to facilitate larger things to come, but I doubt it somehow. Over all, there seems a lack of direction. The game needed a focus, and it sorely lacks that, being torn between the enjoyable notions of establishing a foothold for the people's of the Milky Way in Andromeda, and a larger narrative that would be better served by being set on the back-burner and allowed to build for future installments

    There are also, already, a number of glaring story-telling holes:

    -At one point, you speak with a member of an adversarial force while your ship deals with a navigation issue. The Ship-board computer informs you that it will need time to re-establish navigation, but instead of using that opportunity to talk with the adversary, and to expand the story, it's squandered, making an opportunity for a moment like meeting Sovereign on Virmire wasted.
    -The Player Character has a lot of background knowledge that the player isn't privy to. This leads to big questions that are unanswered, save outside of lip-service in the codex or in ham-fisted conversations.
    -Additionally, for a series which, by all rights, should be focusing on continuity, the sudden creation of a galaxy wide colonization effort that was entirely unmentioned in the original trilogy, but which took place at the same time is ridiculous, and there is little reason that this story couldn't have its roots post-ME3, leaving the reason for the colonization effort up in the air, instead of shoe-horning it in to the existing timeline.
    -Overall, from 13 hours of play, I'm not at all confident in the ability of the story to resolve its key issues, nor to satisfactorily move from plot point to plot point, which is frankly unacceptable when there are clear avenues for the narrative to follow. I suspect that there was too little in the way of sharing the game for feedback. Or at least, not a rigorous enough approach to plotting in the writing room.

    With regards to the Characters, separate from the larger story:

    -Your crew mates are hit and miss, with uneven characterization. While accusations of one-dimensional-ness are false, it seems not to be for want of trying by the writing team. If you accept that Shepard had some of the galaxy's best around them during the Original Trilogy, the flawed nature of Ryder's crew, and their slightly scruffier aesthetic is acceptable, and its nice not to surrounded by wunderkind and characters who would be the hero if the Player Character wasn't there. Their flaws are in some regards, a welcome addition. That said, they are often too leaned on for characterization. Additionally, while its nice that some characters don't have backgrounds rooted in established Mass Effect organizations like C-Sec, they have an annoying tendency to be the "I do what I think it right, and don't play by the rules" types, or the one exception, a starched shirt with poorly written abandonment issues, who's motivating scars in life don't fit with established cannon.

    And, moving on due to dwindling character count:

    -The Galaxy map is poorly designed, taking too long to do anything, for too little reward.
    -The non-menu UI is at times fine, but is often too imprecise, or actively obstructive (Try selecting different locations on the main colonization hub),
    -The removal of the power wheel is a poor design decision, as they provide nothing to allow for situational awareness in its place, making combat more about looking around and covering your own backside than fighting.
    -The Menus are counter productive, and too deeply layered in places, and lack obvious features like the ability to compare items when looking to buy new gear from in-game merchants.
    -At the very least, outfit customization is a mess, with it seemingly not working on PC, and with the location you select armour pieces miles away from where you choose your colours, requiring you to drop out of the menu, run through your ship, and switch out parts before running back if you wish to make a change.

    Over all, I am disappointed, not in the game, because I love the world and series, but at the seeming incompetence of execution by Bioware and EA. They have no excuses.    … Expand
  29. Czaste
    Mar 23, 2017
    5
    We now have insight into the mass departure of staff from Bioware Montreal a few years back on this AAA.

    Technically they've pushed the Frostbite engine to glorious extremes (landscapes, objects, textures, animations other than facial, etc.). But it would seem that the 'treatment' for the story, which had so much potential, lost its way in the details. After 50+ hours of play, it pains    We now have insight into the mass departure of staff from Bioware Montreal a few years back on this AAA.

    Technically they've pushed the Frostbite engine to glorious extremes (landscapes, objects, textures, animations other than facial, etc.). But it would seem that the 'treatment' for the story, which had so much potential, lost its way in the details. After 50+ hours of play, it pains me to listen to dialogue that could have been written by and for a Jr. High drama production, to spend hours on fetch quests that have absolutely nothing to do with the overall plot, and. have no arc to what should have been an excellent story/adventure/experience.

    Bioware dropped the ball, and it evades me now how they can possibly make up for it. As the folks here stated, the game will make money (at the very least its development and marketing budget, which is no small feat), but my faith in the shop overall to build a game that is based on intelligent, insightful story-telling is hopelessly lost. This was Bioware's relm, their key selling point for anything they brought to market. Now rebuilding that 'brand' has come into question.

    Like many other things in these crazy, ridiculous times, we have lost something - another small piece of our lives that by itself is not critical, but when added up with the rest of the pieces that seem to be disappearing on a daily basis, makes our lives 'less'.    … Expand
  30. Eyeless_Pilot
    Apr 1, 2017
    5
    It has it's problems, people have probably covered them at length already, facial animations, some of the character models (I happen to really like the default female Ryder though, puts me in the minority I think)... I personally don't think these detract from the experience too much. I have found the combat to be great fun and the multiplayer to be pretty strong. The charactersIt has it's problems, people have probably covered them at length already, facial animations, some of the character models (I happen to really like the default female Ryder though, puts me in the minority I think)... I personally don't think these detract from the experience too much. I have found the combat to be great fun and the multiplayer to be pretty strong. The characters abilities have been much improved from the previous games, biotics actually seem powerful now! I'm 15 hours in so can't comment on the story too much, as I haven't seen much of it.

    My biggest problem with the game are awful design decisions. For example, if I want to change my loadout (including what armour I wear) I have to do it in a room just off the bridge of the Tempest (Ryder's ship), or as I deploy on a mission; if I want to change the colour of the armour , I have to go to her quarters on the Tempest... It's a minor annoyance that can become extremely aggravating, especially when you combine it with things like pressing one button to open a menu and another to close it.

    Not sure where all the zero scores are coming from, the game works and looks good for the most part which should earn at least a point or two! It's certainly not the disappointment that Dragon Age Inquisition was.

    Edit: I'm now about thirty hours in and I have reduced the score a bit more. The locations remind me a lot of dragon age inquisition, they don't feel like open worlds to explore (for example you are in space suits that can resist radiation and poisonous gases but not go in water?). You can die from falling from height (despite having a jet pack AND despite it happening in one of the opening cut scenes, during which Ryder uses said jet pack to prevent death), areas just feel like an arbitrary are that has been built for a few fetch quests. The pockets of kett or remnant held areas are fortifications that you can attack, however the areas around them are often completely open providing you with no cover and them all the cover they need. The land vehicle has no weapons, which makes it a load of arse and you can't run people over, so you are forced into full frontal assaults (unless you have the tactical cloak)... The more I play, the more these spurious design decisions show their faces and reduce my enjoyment. Almost every mission requires you to scan something, oh look a meteorite, let's scan it, now it makes aliens attack, lets hold Y to stop that happening. "Hello pathfinder..." How do you know I am a pathfinder? You are an alien race I have only just encountered for the first time an hour ago, on a different planet and you are a prisoner of the Kett?

    Combat is till generally fun though very easy, even on insanity, will it keep me playing long enough to finish? I doubt it but we shall see.

    second edit: Sudoku to unlock terminals!?! Radiation or cold to limit your exploration?!? An omni-tool on your wrist that can interface with alien technology, turn into a melee weapon and conjure automated turrets... But I have to go back to my cabin and desktop computer to get my emails or send out strike teams!!!! What the **** were the designers thinking, I can check my emails on my mobile phone!!! The design decisions in this game work against it in every way. Imagine that Friends episode, where Monica declares "the rules control the fun" except here they don't control, they limit. It's getting tiresome, I'm really struggling to give a flying **** about the story because of so many of the awful game mechanics. The more I play, the more I see of Dragon Age Inquisition and the more I dislike it

    Score reduced to 5, after 31 hours.    … Expand
  31. 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
  32. Hivetyrant7
    Mar 24, 2017
    5
    Game i gorgeous. No argument there, visually striking, atmospheric and the sound direction is great as I would expect from a Mass Effect game.

    What I don't expect from a Mass Effect game in 2017 however are these bloody awful facial animations and character models (Heads mainly). I couldn't get far on the first planet after running into the aliens as the game engine would completely    Game i gorgeous. No argument there, visually striking, atmospheric and the sound direction is great as I would expect from a Mass Effect game.

    What I don't expect from a Mass Effect game in 2017 however are these bloody awful facial animations and character models (Heads mainly). I couldn't get far on the first planet after running into the aliens as the game engine would completely wonk out on random slopes and initiate that hilarious foot shuffle thing that stops you from moving. This along with the absurd auto saving interval meant I was replaying large sections every time I died from game bugs.

    Mass Effect is my favorite series of all time (Hell, I even liked the ending of 3) but this one is really just not for me.    … Expand
  33. ArgonNova
    Mar 25, 2017
    5
    I would rather report positive, but unfortunately mass effect andromeda is clearly the worst part of the series. I've played the previous three parts and dragon age inquisition with pleasure. And this is where the great problem of andromeda begins. From the game mechanics it is a simple copy of dragon age inquisition. While the previous mass effect parts had a very exciting main story andI would rather report positive, but unfortunately mass effect andromeda is clearly the worst part of the series. I've played the previous three parts and dragon age inquisition with pleasure. And this is where the great problem of andromeda begins. From the game mechanics it is a simple copy of dragon age inquisition. While the previous mass effect parts had a very exciting main story and a constantly flowing gameplay in the missions, andromeda unfortunately misses these qualities completely. The current mass effect is, unfortunately, only a careless copy of dragon age inquisition with a science fiction skin. Most of the game time is spent walking an unnecessarily long distance, always looking for the same containers and constantly checking boring objects with the multifunction scanner. From time to time, the playful solitude is supplemented by a repetitive and tactically undemanding struggle. The Nomad is unfortunately of only very limited benefit, since its control is still buggy. Even the opponents in the game are boring, they seem more like a badly made copy of the collectors from part two. The main story is so thin, that it becomes quickly boring. The environment graphics of the game is very beautiful, this is one of the few highlights of the game. Unfortunately this is relativized by the badly made facial animations. The newly designed dialogue option system is basically a good improvement of the old system. Only this doesn’t really stand out in this boring main story and companions.
    I can recommend this part of the mass effect series only for people who loved the gameplay of dragon age inquisition and can’t get enough of it to scan for 100 hours with an annoying multi-function scanner at the forearm for boring research bonuses in the environment. For all the others I recommend for the moment: fingers away.    … Expand
  34. connor_shand
    Mar 25, 2017
    5
    i was really enjoying the game up until around the 30 hour mark. that is when i encountered a lot of bugs along with crashes, enemies floating in the air, some not properly loading into the game and simply standing there all on top of each other, drop ships coming out of the ground. The game was not finished upon release.

    One of my main issues in regards to the story was the execution    i was really enjoying the game up until around the 30 hour mark. that is when i encountered a lot of bugs along with crashes, enemies floating in the air, some not properly loading into the game and simply standing there all on top of each other, drop ships coming out of the ground. The game was not finished upon release.

    One of my main issues in regards to the story was the execution of the "find the Arcs" story lines i was really looking forward to them, the Asari ones writing seemed pretty weak, whilst the Turian one was finished in about 2 minutes once you find the ship, it seemed like it was going to be the more interesting of the two i have found thus far. most likely that is because these are classed as secondary missions, which was a big mistake in my mind. i am much more interested in what happened to the other ships as opposed to the Ket. the arc falling flat on it's face really knocked my impression of the game i felt they could have been executed so much better

    i feel that a lot of sequences are missing scenes, often you will open a door and you will be right into the conversation. you are missing reactions and build up in some scenes. the outposts just appear when you trigger it unlike the first one made. there is so much in this game in regards to side quests it seems they ran out of time thus it is missing elements that would round some of them off.

    this game came out too early that is the bottom line. issues that are usually left till last to fix were left in a broken state because they evidently ran out of time. it is most likely that the scenes required to finish or help these scenes seem more natural, were not finished, thus not added to the game, leaving us with some story missions jumping us around the area with no player interaction. a lot of the scenes just don't feel right. Outposts being a big issues in regards to unfinished cut scenes, as they seem to be non existent. they tried to put too much in and came up short this is the result.    … Expand
  35. 4estGimp
    Mar 26, 2017
    5
    I tried to like the game but just could not stomach it. This is from a guy who played ME1, 2, & 3 multiple times. Those games literally pulled a player into an emotional investment with the main characters. That was the most compelling part of the franchise. In addition to that, the modeling, voice acting and stories were just great. Andromeda has creepy looking faces, "even" lightingI tried to like the game but just could not stomach it. This is from a guy who played ME1, 2, & 3 multiple times. Those games literally pulled a player into an emotional investment with the main characters. That was the most compelling part of the franchise. In addition to that, the modeling, voice acting and stories were just great. Andromeda has creepy looking faces, "even" lighting when in-doors, odd animations, and the dialog is just ... meh. After 2 days of playing I didn't "care" about any of the characters. Luckily, an EA chat agent did give me a refund. This game is a lackluster mess.… Expand
  36. 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
  37. Radoslavus
    Mar 30, 2017
    5
    I understand that the new ME was hyped high (space high), and that too high expectations can cloud your judgement. That's why we have those bipolar reviews. They vary from a lot of 0's and 3's to 9's and 10's even. And I totally understand that, hype does that. But what I can't understand is why a AAA unfinished game is again defended with such commitement? Clearly all the ratings that areI understand that the new ME was hyped high (space high), and that too high expectations can cloud your judgement. That's why we have those bipolar reviews. They vary from a lot of 0's and 3's to 9's and 10's even. And I totally understand that, hype does that. But what I can't understand is why a AAA unfinished game is again defended with such commitement? Clearly all the ratings that are below 5 are unfair, but on the other hand all the scores above 7 are a joke. It applies to the critics as well as the players.

    I think we lost the understanding of a AAA game, and the developers are using it every year, at least most of them. They want to drain us from cash without much effort, and the worst thing is that players let them do it.

    What I require from a AAA game, and does ME Andromeda deliver:
    1. Good and involving story and characters - I have to say not really. Story is bland and the characters are terrible.
    2. Fun and satisfying gameplay - It's good, combat is a lot of fun, scaning , exploring ect. is also ok.
    3. Graphics and animations - Bacgrounds looks stunning on different planets. Animations, lip sync ect. below any criticism. Some games from Ps 3 and Xbox 360 had better.
    4. Good music sound and voice acting - Music is good, a little worse than in ME trilogy, but still pretty good. Backround sound, fighting sound is also quite good. Voice acting is terrible, shallow with lack of emotions.
    5. Bug, glitch, crash free - I know it's imposible with so big games, but the fewer the better. I didn't have many issues, but I know from the intenet that there is a major problem.
    6. Fun multiplayer, if there is one - Lazy horde mode with microtransactions, so basically there is none multiplayer. There is only an excuse for microtransactions.

    To sum up. Andromeda would ba a fun game for players new to ME franchise. Of course it would be also a pretty good game, if Bioware was a newcommer. But they are not. They spend the last 4 years, with a decent budget and a know how, to deliver a dissapoitement, not only to the fans of Mass Effect trilogy, but also to other players with a common sense. It's not the worst game in the world, it's not a AAA game either. It's a product below the level of a studio that Bioware once was. A shame, I was counting on them.    … Expand
  38. rachso
    Mar 27, 2017
    5
    Okay its not that bad. its just insulting. from bioware we expected more, DO YOU KNOW THAT ALL ASARI FACES ARE RECYCLED ASIDE FROM PEEBEE.. its this much laziness that annoys me. games come out with bugs so that is fine they can be patched, but this game had nothing memorable at all. i don't plan on replaying it which is sad because this game has very interesting characters and a fewOkay its not that bad. its just insulting. from bioware we expected more, DO YOU KNOW THAT ALL ASARI FACES ARE RECYCLED ASIDE FROM PEEBEE.. its this much laziness that annoys me. games come out with bugs so that is fine they can be patched, but this game had nothing memorable at all. i don't plan on replaying it which is sad because this game has very interesting characters and a few interesting things but they are covered in "go here fetch this." there is a lot to do but its all most all boring. There is nothing memorable about this game. You go to another galaxy and it still looks like ours? Er go no vision and creativity at all. The new aliens don't look that alien. putting wired legs on a thing doesn't make it alien we have that already. they look Like space Protheans. oh maybe its on purpose who knows lets see how it ends i have one mission left. AFTER WITCHER 3 AND PREVIOUS MASS EFFECT GAMES THEY SHOULD BE ASHAMED. No patch can fix this broken and scattered story. Also for those of you who are saying sjw propaganda er go no hot females presets, have you seen the male presets? they are twice as ugly..… Expand
  39. Mordanthal
    Mar 27, 2017
    5
    After I hit the 10 hour mark into this game I felt generally positive about it....but I am well past the 40 hour mark now and I am finding I care so little about the characters, the narrative, and generally what I am supposed to be doing that, after completing what seemed like the 100th pointless side quest, I sent my Ryder off a cliff and quit out. I'm done. The original and genuinelyAfter I hit the 10 hour mark into this game I felt generally positive about it....but I am well past the 40 hour mark now and I am finding I care so little about the characters, the narrative, and generally what I am supposed to be doing that, after completing what seemed like the 100th pointless side quest, I sent my Ryder off a cliff and quit out. I'm done. The original and genuinely inspiring promise of possibilities set up early in the game is constantly undermined by sub-par writing, the clueless VA, the baffling antiquated UI, awful space exploration, inexcusable glitches, and a lack of soul. Worst of all, it is boring. The tragedy here is that there was some real artistic talent and good work on display buried at the bottom of this pile. The Mass Effect echoes I liked about this game early on slowly and steadily got beaten down by the reality of what it was, and for a game that took that long and cost that much money, it boggles the mind.… Expand
  40. 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
  41. pawss67
    Mar 30, 2017
    5
    I bought the deluxe edition and then refunded it after beating the game. It was $100 CAD... ONE HUNDRED. I gave it a good chance, played through the main story and then did some multiplayer (which was a really fun horde mode, no sarcasm, the multiplayer is the best in the series) but... the characters were bland, the story was bland, the writing was cheesy. The animations were sub-par butI bought the deluxe edition and then refunded it after beating the game. It was $100 CAD... ONE HUNDRED. I gave it a good chance, played through the main story and then did some multiplayer (which was a really fun horde mode, no sarcasm, the multiplayer is the best in the series) but... the characters were bland, the story was bland, the writing was cheesy. The animations were sub-par but you get use to them after a while except when they make you laugh when it's supposed to be cute. Romancing the only interesting character, Vetra, you get a plastic-face Ryder when it's supposed to be touching. The voice acting was also... inconsistent.

    The only thing I liked about it was the combat, but even that got boring when you were just doing fetch-quests or annoying scan missions. It was simply.... Not a good game, at most it was a 5/10. The racist and sexist pigs behind it was a real turn off, and with literally 95% of the game being disappointingly bland, they didn't deserve my money. especially when I was able to finish it in 17 hours and have no desire to replay it, or do any of the 100% viability tedium.

    Is ME:A a horrible game? No. It's not a horrible game, it's not even a bad game, but it isn't a good one either. Wait until it goes on sale for a more reasonable price, $30.99 USD, $40.99 CAD.

    TL;DR: The shockingly bland writing, missions, characters, and downright sub-par animations ruined the game. The sexist/racist pigs behind it made it even more refundable. The best combat of the series brings it up to a 5.5/10 in my books. I will buy it again when the price drops.    … Expand
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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.
  46. 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
  47. 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
  48. aljirik1992
    Oct 29, 2017
    5
    " Первое и самое главное, что нужно сказать: "Разработчики допустили ошибку в названии игры". Слово ANDROMEDA надо было заменить на Light и всё было бы более чем понятно, ведь новый массивный эффект, именно что весьма облегчён. Недовольные системой диалогов, ну вы чего? Общение в этой игре ПРИЗЕМЛИЛИ, отсеив гиперболизацию на корню. При этом ветка развития диалогов - это расширенный" Первое и самое главное, что нужно сказать: "Разработчики допустили ошибку в названии игры". Слово ANDROMEDA надо было заменить на Light и всё было бы более чем понятно, ведь новый массивный эффект, именно что весьма облегчён. Недовольные системой диалогов, ну вы чего? Общение в этой игре ПРИЗЕМЛИЛИ, отсеив гиперболизацию на корню. При этом ветка развития диалогов - это расширенный инструментарий карикатурной The Sims! Все разговоры стараются потакать желаниям игроков, а не пытаются раздуть пафосную ситуацию внутри самой игры. Общение лишь изредка будет
    затрагивать "глобальные" моменты, характерно очерчивая желаемое от действительного.
    Система развития навыков самого героя передаёт привет покрытой пылью, кастрированной недоMMO-псеыдоRPG "Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning", да и стрельба НАКОНЕЦТО стала приемлемой частью игрового процесса, которая в связке с реактивным ранцем даёт простор для динамичных и увлекательных боёв в радующих глаз, просторных декорациях. В плане картинки претензии вообще могут выставлять только те, кто пишет картины маслом не хуже чем именитые художники бытия. Музыкальные композиции и звуковые эффекты выполняют поставленную перед ними задачу полностью, а именно не напрягают, чего разумеется не сказать про неисчислимое количество кривых анимаций на ряду с раздражающими багами (которые плохо-хорошо, но пофиксили с последним обновлением). Сюжет по своей сути топчется на месте и чтобы трезво его оценивать нужно будет как и в DAI дождаться всех дополнений, а пока назову это лёгким стартом, с возможной перспективой в дальнейшем.
    Как итог скажу, что Mass Effect "Light" - это красивые симсы в космосе, которые прошли инструктаж по ведению огня у гирзы, одолжили у KoAR её лучшую наработку и заправили это всё приемлемым побочным контентом, сверху посыпав кривыми анимациями и щепоткой багов. При этом (да простят меня фанаты) для меня серия ME всегда была, как и серия ГеТеА долгоиграющим фастфудом, а не изысканным деликатесом, потому и в таком вот виде я этот продукт осилю, чего и всем остальным хочу пожелать. "    … Expand
  49. vojta57
    Jul 14, 2022
    5
    How far will you go? Well, certainly not as far as Bioware went to completely fvck up the game.

    The outlines of the general plot and the setting are not bad at all, quite the contrary actually, however, whoever is responsible for writing the characters and their dialogues must've been taking huge dumps while doing so, because that's what the characters are — absolute shyt. Ryder is a    How far will you go? Well, certainly not as far as Bioware went to completely fvck up the game.

    The outlines of the general plot and the setting are not bad at all, quite the contrary actually, however, whoever is responsible for writing the characters and their dialogues must've been taking huge dumps while doing so, because that's what the characters are — absolute shyt. Ryder is a spineless overgrown teenager whom (to whom! and your goddamn father…) most of his/her crew disrespect all the time. Tempest feels more like a freakshow whose members could use some time in the brig than a ship. At least Suvi can always "peck up something" for "Raider".

    Another big issue is the facial animations or rather the lack thereof. I like to think the people got some Frostbite from the 600 years spent in cryo pods, and now their faces are tired from dealing with everything! Given that characters' lines won't make you laugh, the horrible animations is sadly the only thing that will.

    The dialogue options don't seem to affect your game. You can only choose between being a whimp and, well, being a whimp with some extra cringe.

    Also, why does every female krogan sound like a gay man?

    The environments look great and the gameplay is pretty decent (not clunky like in the trilogy), which is a shame, as this shows the game had some potential. But unfortunately, some writer decided that only the most obnoxious people boarded the Andromeda Initiative ships…    … Expand
  50. Sidious58
    Apr 14, 2018
    5
    gioco pessimo,pessima grafica,pessima trama,pessimi personaggi,pessimi pianeti,pessimo gameplay
  51. naser_sadigh
    Mar 3, 2018
    5
    your oppinion about this game was great, different planets, diffferet solar systems woooow was amazing but why made it very bad!!! please make it from the first with different gameplay and planets
  52. DrFriendless
    Jun 9, 2018
    5
    I played a few hours of the demo and wasn't really thrilled by the story. The controls for looking at the character and choosing weapons were nice, but the gameplay felt a bit like Uncharted and I was hoping for more than that.
  53. fishbone76
    Sep 21, 2018
    5
    Had they announced just a neat sci-fi adventure that doesn't belong to the Mass Effect universe it wouldn't had me so dissapointed.
    I played it from the first day and was offered an unpolished buggy game. Had they had the guts to delay the game for another year or two to fix and add the contant they actually had planned for this game it would have been better recieved.
    I did play the    Had they announced just a neat sci-fi adventure that doesn't belong to the Mass Effect universe it wouldn't had me so dissapointed.
    I played it from the first day and was offered an unpolished buggy game. Had they had the guts to delay the game for another year or two to fix and add the contant they actually had planned for this game it would have been better recieved.
    I did play the game through once. I played the ME trilogy through several times and still do so from time to time.
    I tried to play Andromeda again just a couple weeks ago but couldn't find any motivation so I quit after I arrived at the first big main planet.
    There are only a few characters I did like and care for.
    All Asari look the same except for one or two.
    The combat is good.
    The graphics are up to date.
    The story is okay but the main missions are mostly the same just with a different planet setting.
    The main villain looks anything but threatening.
    This game is a slap in the face for every Mass Effect trilogy fan.
    I want Shepard back.    … Expand
  54. Jvbcdtm3
    Nov 4, 2018
    5
    Story:5
    Graphics:7
    Details : 2
    Gameplay:5
    Mechanics:6
    Sounds:6
    Characters:5
  55. Turbo3000
    May 18, 2020
    5
    I avoided this game because of bad reviews. Picked up as a deal on PlayStation store thinking I would give it a go and so far having a blast. I am sure a lot of bugs have been fixed but really immersive game / pacing, you quickly get used to weapon upgrade / load out system. Should have played sooner!!

    Update review - having just finished the game 50+ hours later I would avoid this    I avoided this game because of bad reviews. Picked up as a deal on PlayStation store thinking I would give it a go and so far having a blast. I am sure a lot of bugs have been fixed but really immersive game / pacing, you quickly get used to weapon upgrade / load out system. Should have played sooner!!

    Update review - having just finished the game 50+ hours later I would avoid this game. It is so unbelievably repetitive and boring. You spend hours and hours driving around empty planets on meaningless and disjointed side quests. This game is so boring it has actually put me off gaming. Technically it looks great but its empty and hollow. 30 % of it was enjoyable 70% dull and I mean dull. Do not be tempted to play this as you will finish very very disappointed. Recently I played the original metroid on the NES and I was hooked for 15 hours straight and that game is over 30 years old because it was fun to play. This game is honestly like watching paint dry, doing maths or accounts.    … Expand
  56. mertyboi
    Feb 25, 2019
    5
    One of the most uninspired, boring, disappointing games I've played. To go form the wonder of Mass Effect 2 to a much improved combat system in Mass Effect 3, to a game that seemed to go back in time in technology but not creativity. A villain that brought nothing to the story and going from the villains we've had in the mass effect universe, this was a disappointment. I did have fun inOne of the most uninspired, boring, disappointing games I've played. To go form the wonder of Mass Effect 2 to a much improved combat system in Mass Effect 3, to a game that seemed to go back in time in technology but not creativity. A villain that brought nothing to the story and going from the villains we've had in the mass effect universe, this was a disappointment. I did have fun in parts of the game. While exploring the desert planet with red trees, I found myself having some fun but that was short lived and the pretty visuals didn't hold up over time as you have to drive so far from A to B and there is little to do in between of any interest. I recommend a good skip and replay the old mass effects.… Expand
  57. ShowMeYourNoobs
    Apr 7, 2019
    5
    Many dull speeches, many ugly faces, some glitches, frame rate drops (on PS4)... Yet not too bad. The main story is overall good, the graphics are very good, but those little things above played their part.
  58. Pixel3a
    May 8, 2019
    5
    Mass Effect: Andromeda is an expansive action role-playing game with a few great moments that recapture the high points of the landmark trilogy that came before it, and energetic combat and fantastic sound effects contribute to a potent sci-fi atmosphere. Without consistently strong writing or a breakout star in its cast to carry it through the long hours and empty spaces, however,Mass Effect: Andromeda is an expansive action role-playing game with a few great moments that recapture the high points of the landmark trilogy that came before it, and energetic combat and fantastic sound effects contribute to a potent sci-fi atmosphere. Without consistently strong writing or a breakout star in its cast to carry it through the long hours and empty spaces, however, disappointments like a lack of new races, no companion customization, and major performance problems and bugs take their toll.… Expand
  59. Shazam1407
    Nov 1, 2019
    5
    Это просто средняя игра, на начальной ступени средности, бесполезный открытый мир; пустой, кривой, видно что разрабы копипастом игру делали, не советую в нее играть никому даже если вы фанат серии Mass Effect+бесконечный гринд.Это просто средняя игра, на начальной ступени средности, бесполезный открытый мир; пустой, кривой, видно что разрабы копипастом игру делали, не советую в нее играть никому даже если вы фанат серии Mass Effect+бесконечный гринд.
  60. BigKevfl
    Jan 15, 2020
    5
    Pros : Vast worlds to explore
    Nomad Vehicle. (Walking everywhere sucks) Great weapon selection
    Choosing your own mission order :) More "Adult" content as for cutscenes Better combat. Tech. Better playability. Big galaxies to explore. Architect and building settlement ability. Big worlds and lots of missions. Cons: After all the do Gooding and busting your butt to fix the entire galaxy ,    Pros : Vast worlds to explore
    Nomad Vehicle. (Walking everywhere sucks) Great weapon selection
    Choosing your own mission order :)
    More "Adult" content as for cutscenes
    Better combat. Tech. Better playability. Big galaxies to explore. Architect and building settlement ability. Big worlds and lots of missions. Cons:

    After all the do Gooding and busting your butt to fix the entire galaxy , romances are very short on content Very limited amount of romantic options for full on interactions

    Lots of go here then there and back over here during missions. You feel like a housemaid sometimes Overall a very decent game and a GOOD LONG title to enjoy. My only suggestion is give a guy much more romance and fun to break up the monotony between cleaning up everyone else's mess and give us some choices on what becomes of the galaxy :)

    Not a whole lot of Destiny affecting choices as in the first games Only one love interest allowed. Such a waste    … Expand
  61. 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
  62. ngeduardo
    Jun 27, 2020
    5
    Soy fan de la primera trilogía, pero este me pareció muy aburrido y lleno de errores, así que no lo pude acabar
  63. madghoul
    Jul 20, 2020
    5
    Playable but dissapointing. Boring characters without depth and the proganist just doesn't make you feel anything compared to the great Shepard.
  64. superbalbon
    Jul 31, 2020
    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
  65. reelsight
    Apr 6, 2017
    4
    Big disappointment . Characters are flat and lifeless. This is more like a collection of side missions than a big engaging world story. I played it through because I kept hoping it would get better. It doesn't. I loved ME, ME2, and ME3 so it really hurts that ME4 is such a lifeless dog. The graphics haven't improved, the voice acting is worse, there are glitches here and there, andBig disappointment . Characters are flat and lifeless. This is more like a collection of side missions than a big engaging world story. I played it through because I kept hoping it would get better. It doesn't. I loved ME, ME2, and ME3 so it really hurts that ME4 is such a lifeless dog. The graphics haven't improved, the voice acting is worse, there are glitches here and there, and the writing is just below standard. It's like the universe has been sedated to the point that adventure and exploration is boring.… Expand
  66. Nemo888
    Apr 9, 2017
    4
    Not a Bioware game. It's a cheap outsourced knock off. It looks like a Rolex in the store, but once you play you realize it says Rolodex and the gold peels off.
  67. GrumpyReviewer
    Jun 18, 2018
    4
    I love the ME franchise. Mass Effect 2 is actually one of the best games I've ever played... and even though I got ME Andromeda on Day 1, I decided to wait as much as possible until it was patched, since it was a very troubled launch.

    Decided it was time to check it out. Sadly, I could not stand it after a few hours. Call it something else, please. This ugly mess is not Mass Effect.    I love the ME franchise. Mass Effect 2 is actually one of the best games I've ever played... and even though I got ME Andromeda on Day 1, I decided to wait as much as possible until it was patched, since it was a very troubled launch.

    Decided it was time to check it out. Sadly, I could not stand it after a few hours. Call it something else, please. This ugly mess is not Mass Effect. Boring, uninspired, uninteresting, never engaging, never fun, I was getting almost nothing from it. Ok, the combat was kind of fun, but I did not have the patience or interest to go through all the rest to get to it. Gave up.

    It is a sad thing that Andromeda is ME's swan song. This game is a mess.    … Expand
  68. 12ealDeal
    Apr 18, 2017
    4
    The script is the biggest letdown of all; every line feels forced as if the characters are stranded in some kind of sci-fi sitcom. The jokes come across like Twitter conversations. It's hard to become invested in a sprawling sci-fi narrative when most everyone talking sounds like a College teenager sitting at a Starbucks. I'd rather the human race blow up on their way to the AndromedaThe script is the biggest letdown of all; every line feels forced as if the characters are stranded in some kind of sci-fi sitcom. The jokes come across like Twitter conversations. It's hard to become invested in a sprawling sci-fi narrative when most everyone talking sounds like a College teenager sitting at a Starbucks. I'd rather the human race blow up on their way to the Andromeda galaxy than survive if they all act this dense. Where is the impact, when does the gravity of the situation make everyone cut the quips and start acting normal? Even Ryder's dad's death causes him/ her to smirk. The game's myriad technical issues and prevalent lack of polish come into play, but as I said earlier, the script is really the worst thing about this one, and it is BAD. I've seen games on Newgrounds with better scripts than this AAA game.… Expand
  69. Ronyo30
    Mar 23, 2017
    4
    I really wanted to like this game, the series only got better after the original Mass Effect, and after a 5 year wait I had high hopes and expectations. I've played about 20 hours in now and unfortunately it seems the wind in the sails of the series died out long ago (I'll update the review if any of that changes, but at this point I don't think I can take more punishment from this gameI really wanted to like this game, the series only got better after the original Mass Effect, and after a 5 year wait I had high hopes and expectations. I've played about 20 hours in now and unfortunately it seems the wind in the sails of the series died out long ago (I'll update the review if any of that changes, but at this point I don't think I can take more punishment from this game without some major fixes). From funky animations, homely looking uninteresting character, to a questionable story and boring repetitive gameplay. To make matters worse, the different parts of the game don't even mesh real well with one another; it's like a whole bunch of different people worked on different parts of the game and failed to ever communicate with one another. It has left the game at launch to be one big dysfunctional mess.

    Starting out it goes wrong real quick. The default characters are certainly nothing to write home about. Male Ryder is salvageable, but Female Ryder looks plain bad. Attempting to fix it in the CC is no easy task either. You cannot modify the default faces and the pre-set CC faces are one step above abominations. One you decide upon a face, again another challenge presents itself in the form of a very (think 2002) simple CC, there aren't many options available and whatever you come up with will always resemble the pre-set face.

    The poorly implemented animations hit you almost immediately, and continue throughout. From odd facial expression to no expression at all, lifeless hands, strange walking behavior, and the biggest offender, poor lip-syncing to the dialogue, it plain out doesn't look good. It fails to suspend disbelief and for a game based on so much dialogue is difficult to get past.

    Aside from animations, graphically the game holds up no mind-blowing or spectacular, but by no means bad. The landscaping is nice and much of the game looks good enough to immerse yourself in, the problem here is the characters stick out rather badly. They are cartoonish, waxy, and in some cases downright inhumanly ugly. The aliens naturally look better, mostly because there isn't a frame of reference for exactly "how" they should look, the humans are simply ridiculous. Some of them look like they were taken strait out of The Old Republic and just had new textures slapped on them.

    Gameplay is okay at points and boring at others. The combat is familiar and largely unchanged from ME3, aside from the addition of the jet pack. The Nomad is okay to drive for about 10 minutes but quickly starts feeling more like a family van on a road trip than an APC. The lack of weapons was a terrible mistake and after awhile just getting in and out to fight things becomes a chore. The original devs dumped it for a reason, it should have stayed in the garage. The mini-games/puzzles are horrendously boring/frustrating and mining for things, we'll I'm just not going to mine (really what was wrong with the orbital probe?) Missions are at best mildly entertaining and at worst mindless tedium, too much fetch filler and pointless dead-ends.

    The story, at least to the 20ish hour mark is less than stellar. It takes a long time to get going and once it does, it feels more like the buildup to an aborted launch than an actual liftoff. It doesn't have the urgency or charm of the original series and it doesn't help that it is being played out by largely uninspired characters. The main antagonist seems more like a speed bump instead of that giant imposing stop sign that makes you take pause at what your are up against.

    The developers it seems were out to make a game of a grand scope and scale and in doing so failed to see the little things that passed right by the wide angle lens they were using to see the game with. Mass Effect was never about having vast landscapes to explore or tons of mindless things to do. It was about the story and characters, and the interaction of those two that made Mass Effect special. By attempting to make such a grand scale game they lost sight of that and ended up with a grand mess. What would have been wrong with simply making a Mass Effect game? Why try to turn it into something it is not, something that other games do so much better? Hopefully with time they can iron out and fix much of this, it's just unfortunate that they chose to go down a path that attempts to make Mass Effect just another sandbox game instead of narrative masterpiece.    … Expand
  70. Tubey
    Mar 27, 2017
    4
    A quick caveat - I've only played approximately four hours of this title, so bare that in mind if you were using this review to get an idea if it is worth it.

    For me, Andromeda simply isn't worth it, however. Not because of the graphics, because they are actually pretty damn good. Note I said 'graphics', not 'animations' - two different things. The animations DO suck. They're actually    A quick caveat - I've only played approximately four hours of this title, so bare that in mind if you were using this review to get an idea if it is worth it.

    For me, Andromeda simply isn't worth it, however. Not because of the graphics, because they are actually pretty damn good. Note I said 'graphics', not 'animations' - two different things. The animations DO suck. They're actually hilariously bad, considering this is a AAA game, and evidence of yet another title rushed out the door by a studio evidently pressured by EA to do so.

    But the animation isn't the killer for me. No, it's a really, really poor narrative which plays out as 14-year-old girl Mass Effect fan fiction, combined with the overwhelming feeling of sheer boredom in the tired, stale and hugely dated game mechanics.

    Cover is automatic, but the placement of objects you can hide behind is the real crime - they are hap hazard and often don't contextually make sense. The third-person shooting is generic and dull - functional but tiresome. The obvious and totally unnecessary padding in the search for resources to craft items is terrible game design and should never have made it past QA.

    And the cherry on the cake; frequent frame drops. Because a AAA game with smooth performance is apparently too much to ask these days.

    It has its' moments and the scenery is jaw-dropping at times, but every time it hits a high note, it balances it out with either a sensationally low one or simply sustained sessions of tedium.

    There's a reason I only played four hours before writing this review, and that's because I simply didn't want to play any more of it. When a game makes you feel that way, it's game over at that point.

    Thank everything for the used games market - this is going to a new 'lucky' owner shortly!    … Expand
  71. Vitality4Gamers
    Mar 26, 2017
    4
    I have enjoyed aspects of the game and nowhere near the level I would of expected. Many areas are without proper polish and the formula doesn't seem to have improved. At one point I am looking at an image of the universe that is flat (obvious skybox), poor detail and ruins the atmosphere; this sums up the game..
  72. partyintheback
    Mar 21, 2017
    4
    If Gameloft made a Mass Effect title, it'd look a lot like Andromeda. While this game offers more exploration than Mass Effect 2 and 3 - and I welcome that, it also offers some of the lousiest characters ever to appear in a Mass Effect. Both lead characters, the male and female Ryder, are abysmal. From shoddy animation work, to poorly detailed character models, to unacceptably poorIf Gameloft made a Mass Effect title, it'd look a lot like Andromeda. While this game offers more exploration than Mass Effect 2 and 3 - and I welcome that, it also offers some of the lousiest characters ever to appear in a Mass Effect. Both lead characters, the male and female Ryder, are abysmal. From shoddy animation work, to poorly detailed character models, to unacceptably poor dialogue and voice acting, this is a disappointing outing all around. The Bioware of today is not the Bioware we knew and loved - it's merely a shell of its former self. Dragon Age II was the beginning of the end and Andromeda is the end.… Expand
  73. krazy85
    Apr 8, 2017
    4
    A Mass-ive disappointment. This is not just the worst game in the series, but the worst Bioware game I've every played. Forget the animations and high expectations, the only place this game delivers are the backgrounds and environments, which are breathtaking, so good job artists. Everywhere else is lackluster at best and unforgivable in some aspects. The writing and plot directionA Mass-ive disappointment. This is not just the worst game in the series, but the worst Bioware game I've every played. Forget the animations and high expectations, the only place this game delivers are the backgrounds and environments, which are breathtaking, so good job artists. Everywhere else is lackluster at best and unforgivable in some aspects. The writing and plot direction follows common tropes and feels like a scattershot attempt at bringing in new players, despite the "naughty" scenes. I realize there are tremendous risks in producing a game of this size and scope but once again I find myself playing a game which I imagine was designed for the stockholder. I wish triple A developers would stop and realize they can turn a profit without compromising a game's heart soul. Double down on creativity instead of pushing earlier releases and generating hype. EA, I know you're tired of being crapped on but when do you stop with the excuses and start letting your developers do what they do best? Quit giving us reason to loathe your company. F(*&!!!!!!!!!… Expand
  74. PersonalRiot
    Mar 26, 2017
    4
    I love Mass Effect. Played through 1,2,3 multiple times. I honestly can't recommend Mass Effect Andromeda to anyone but the most diehard fans. The multiplayer experience is full of bugs, terrible balance, and a slow progression system that basically requires cash on hand. The single player experience is decent but lacks any sense of polish and refinement of the last series. Pass on thisI love Mass Effect. Played through 1,2,3 multiple times. I honestly can't recommend Mass Effect Andromeda to anyone but the most diehard fans. The multiplayer experience is full of bugs, terrible balance, and a slow progression system that basically requires cash on hand. The single player experience is decent but lacks any sense of polish and refinement of the last series. Pass on this unless it gets some major patches done.… Expand
  75. moordrak
    Nov 7, 2017
    4
    After a few hours of Andromeda, I couldn't even bring myself to care enough to keep going. I didn’t care for the main characters whether I play as female or male, crew is completely unlikable and lame, story is uninspiring, to put it in simple terms: Chemistry didn't happen. There is nothing Mass Effect about Andromeda except in name and the "sci-fi" theme.
    Big disappointment.
  76. timeknight
    Mar 22, 2017
    4
    First of all, I have to say that the artists did a good job with this game. Music and art are synchronous with Mass Effect.

    Everything else related to gameplay, and cinematography though? Very poorly executed. There are a lot of bugs and technical issues. The dialogue wheels literally are "split second" choices, not even enough time to read what you are about to say. This feels like    First of all, I have to say that the artists did a good job with this game. Music and art are synchronous with Mass Effect.

    Everything else related to gameplay, and cinematography though? Very poorly executed. There are a lot of bugs and technical issues. The dialogue wheels literally are "split second" choices, not even enough time to read what you are about to say.

    This feels like a game that shipped far too early. EA in its corporate greed and "infinite wisdom
    thought it would be better for their reputation to ship an unfinished game.    … Expand
  77. shenlong
    Mar 28, 2017
    4
    EA just rushes games out to make as much money as possible. This game is proof of that. It's incredibly buggy and unpolished. They probably thought it would sell anyway because its called mass effect
  78. Surt
    Mar 23, 2017
    4
    This game in a nutshell is disappointing. Everyone knows about the terrible animation. But Its also the game play that at first 3hrs is fun, quickly dulls. For a $19 game that wouldn't be a problem, but for $60? AI is terrible. Controls are Ok. Don't go in expecting the witcher 3 kind of open world. Its mostly empty spaces, with little details.

    Someone pointed out that its like    This game in a nutshell is disappointing. Everyone knows about the terrible animation. But Its also the game play that at first 3hrs is fun, quickly dulls. For a $19 game that wouldn't be a problem, but for $60? AI is terrible. Controls are Ok. Don't go in expecting the witcher 3 kind of open world. Its mostly empty spaces, with little details.

    Someone pointed out that its like dragon age but with space. Some merit to that. And that's not a positive. Game had great potential. But when you realize that the original dav team did NOT make this, but the DLC team are the ones that made it, you kinda get why this game got a 74 critic review.    … Expand
  79. Umbrella-17
    May 20, 2017
    4
    Its not a horrible game but its not an Amazing game as well. The Original Trilogy is way better on many level the facial animation are 10 times better in the original than in this one. I finished my first playtrought in like 90 hours and in those 90 hours i might had like 20 hours i enjoyed. The rest was mostly moving from one point to another in the Nomad the 6 wheel exploration vehicleIts not a horrible game but its not an Amazing game as well. The Original Trilogy is way better on many level the facial animation are 10 times better in the original than in this one. I finished my first playtrought in like 90 hours and in those 90 hours i might had like 20 hours i enjoyed. The rest was mostly moving from one point to another in the Nomad the 6 wheel exploration vehicle they give you at the beginning and he is clearly overused. The only good redeeming things in the game is the Combat which got improved by the use of Jumping and Dashing. But still its not enough to carry the game by itself the voice actor are kinda bad the main character both gender has no charisma and the open world for me is the worst part its Extremely Empty and boring to explore i never saw such generic planets a Mars like planet, Asteroid,Desert,Ice planet, a mountain planet and finally a jungle that doesn't look half bad. I wished they would had more Story mission and Loyalty mission than empty planet i can explore. The soundtrack is forgettable the visual style on some part doesn't feel like mass effect especially the armors. The multiplayer while great is horde mode with loot-box kinda like Mass Effect 3 without any real upgrade. Also i almost forgot the game is optimized like ass and sometime i get 10 to 15 fps in the tempest a closed area with no fight and not a lot of characters and Facial animations were an abomination upon release the fixed a couple of them with patches but still. And finally most of the race from the original trilogy are absent Quarians batarian,Volus,Elcor,Hanar,Vorcha,yahg and Drells are completely absent of the entire game except a little mention at the end do you feel the DLC's or sequel bait i do.… Expand
  80. Vasco
    Mar 28, 2017
    4
    OMG Bioware, what did you do?? Why did you ruin one of the best Sci-Fi series I've ever played?
    - The story is just awful and badly written.
    - The characters are not likeable.
    - Too many bugs and technical issues.
    - The animations look broken.
    The game does not look like a great blockbuster any more, not it is like a mediocre Unisoft open world game. Shame on you!
    Made a refund.
  81. SIPPIO
    Mar 26, 2017
    4
    Honest opinion from Mass Effect veteran who read 3 ME books and obviously played trilogy...
    ~~~4 outta 10 all I'm giving..~~~
    ~~Update ~ VOICE ACTING~ SOMETHING BAD HAPPENED!! THE FEMALE KROGAN was soooo awful..Now the voice acting isn't crap but it's misplaced and off.... THIS GAME FEEL SABATOGED!! *This game screams everything wrong with the FEW crying and making noise @ the    Honest opinion from Mass Effect veteran who read 3 ME books and obviously played trilogy...
    ~~~4 outta 10 all I'm giving..~~~

    ~~Update ~ VOICE ACTING~ SOMETHING BAD HAPPENED!!
    THE FEMALE KROGAN was soooo awful..Now the voice acting isn't crap but it's misplaced and off....
    THIS GAME FEEL SABATOGED!!
    *This game screams everything wrong with the FEW crying and making noise @ the expense of the Many..
    ~We all get these weird, messed up animation faces, and Xbox360 looking effects when making character/Ryder.. This IS-NOT an accident..This company is the wealthiest in all of gaming..

    ***The company has too many weird people making decisions based on personal politics..
    And that is wrong.. by weird I mean 'against the grain'
    **It's WRONG to sell a popular product that pre-existed those with personal agenda's..

    ~Every Mass Effect fan or gamer should Google the people running EA Bioware and then all will be understood...

    ~I did NOT buy this game. I timed it perfect so Gamefly would send it to me @ the sacrifice of not getting it until Friday VS Tuesday...

    *The Game itself ~~ very cliché Outter space,,,new Galaxy science fiction exploration,,,Hostile shoot 1st ask questions later locals...
    **The plans all went Haywire and everything is in disarray when we arrive 1 year after the setup people..
    *You're predecessor fate is so unrealistic it's NOT funny.He was 100X's the quality of character that you are.

    *Combat~ The cover system is AWFUL! Reminds me of a cross between Gears War,Mass Effect and a generic Indie cover shooter....I keep getting lit up...Granted I'm playing on HARD.(2nd FROM hardest so I get my moneys worth via challenge) and YES I died 6 time son the final battle in intro/prologue....

    **BIOWARE- Notorious for mass amounts of Loot-Fodder! UGH!!! This goes back to KOTOR with looting 8 different helmets all +1 in every category thus pointless and annoying to try and micro manage...
    From Kotor toMass Effect to Dragons AGe. that's 8 games ALL WITH SAME LOOT SYSTEM THAT SUCKS!

    **I started my gaming life the biggest Bioware fan ever. Baldur's Gate Era around 1999 and this is the biggest disappointment to date from this company...I am no longer trusting Bioware and will NOT buy games(only rent) until they imrprove........

    **Bottom line~ The Business practices are too much for me to overlook.
    the end product seems like this game is in ALpha....
    The Animation is awful on purpose because of ANita Sarcesian types.
    and I won't forget this Bioware!    … Expand
  82. fizzyweasel
    Mar 27, 2017
    4
    Poor graphical quality, full of glitches and bugs, the biggest gaming disappointment of my life. The dialogue reads like it was written by an average teenager and the characters are painful to look at they are so oddly proportioned, animated and ugly. The tedious cut scenes between areas are so frustrating. It goes to show how difficult it is to put together a team that can tackle aPoor graphical quality, full of glitches and bugs, the biggest gaming disappointment of my life. The dialogue reads like it was written by an average teenager and the characters are painful to look at they are so oddly proportioned, animated and ugly. The tedious cut scenes between areas are so frustrating. It goes to show how difficult it is to put together a team that can tackle a game of this magnitude and that throws the achievement that was the previous three games into sharp relief. I'd prefer to play an HD remaster of the previous three.… Expand
  83. GamergodsFail
    Sep 28, 2017
    4
    Andromeda doesn't just fail miserably as a Mass Effect game; it's a bad video game in general. Nevermind its underwhelming plot, messy user interface, bullet sponge enemies, no squad customization and untextured graphics that replicates an early Xbox 360 game...It's hardly even a functional game period. I love the open world exploration and weapon modding, but I'm truly baffled by howAndromeda doesn't just fail miserably as a Mass Effect game; it's a bad video game in general. Nevermind its underwhelming plot, messy user interface, bullet sponge enemies, no squad customization and untextured graphics that replicates an early Xbox 360 game...It's hardly even a functional game period. I love the open world exploration and weapon modding, but I'm truly baffled by how unpolished and technically plagued the whole product still is on top of all its disappointing aspects and changes from its predecessors.… Expand
  84. ShinGlacier
    May 15, 2017
    4
    I've played and loved the first trilogy. Therefore I was pretty hyped for Andromeda, planning on getting platinum even. Playing through it once was more than enough to see how much it feels less deserving of the Mass Effect title. Shallow and forgettable characters, useless mechanics (i'm looking at the "profiles" thing that i've never used) and pitiful story.

    The cherry on top imo is    I've played and loved the first trilogy. Therefore I was pretty hyped for Andromeda, planning on getting platinum even. Playing through it once was more than enough to see how much it feels less deserving of the Mass Effect title. Shallow and forgettable characters, useless mechanics (i'm looking at the "profiles" thing that i've never used) and pitiful story.

    The cherry on top imo is that all the new alien species are humanoids, while Mass Effect came up with nice and unique non-humanoids who felt whole. I won't even compare the romances here, but that's a point where it becomes clear the difference in quality when compared to the other ME games. Don't waste your money buying this, just rent it.    … Expand
  85. Zennodea
    Mar 25, 2017
    4
    IM SORRY BUT THIS IS NOT THE GAME WE WANTED. I don't know any long time fan will be disgusted by the jet pack system and the class system. Obviously, the animations were **** but it's not about graphics, its about gameplay and this gameplay is extremely disappointing.
  86. Scharamantis
    Jul 16, 2017
    4
    Prologue: I did not played any Multiplayer game yet, and I did not finished the game during the initial score. I played about 40h including side quests and trial-replay from scratch. After I ended the game, there is nothing better or worse from the score I decided to give.

    + Jetpack + Environment and location visuals + Sound effects + New race (Angara) + Father and siblings system    Prologue: I did not played any Multiplayer game yet, and I did not finished the game during the initial score. I played about 40h including side quests and trial-replay from scratch. After I ended the game, there is nothing better or worse from the score I decided to give.

    + Jetpack
    + Environment and location visuals
    + Sound effects
    + New race (Angara)
    + Father and siblings system
    + Level design
    + Class customization
    + Tempest design

    +/- Combat
    +/- Music
    +/- Villain (Kett)
    +/- UI
    +/- Lighting
    +/- Not linear, high freedom
    +/- Auto Cover system
    +/- Graphic
    +/- Overwhelming Items/Research/Skills
    +/- Space cutscenes
    +/- Weak link with previous ME's games

    - Very bad Character creator
    - Writing boring and uninspiring
    - Facial Animations
    - Weak main Character incarnation with the player
    - Weak story about almost everything
    - Narrative choices uninteresting and separated from progression (it is just annoying to click over again and again to see if there is something else to talk about)
    - Unnatural dialogs
    - Not many interesting Characters
    - Voice acting not compact
    - Side Quests
    - Bugs
    - Repetitive face designs (mainly Asari)
    - Illusion of choices
    - Low replay value
    - Companion customization
    - Companion command

    Summary :

    I can't believe what I am experiencing, it seems there is no heart, no spirit, no atmosphere. I do not believe that it was even played by the creators or some real gamer, if yes, then, leave please, find a job in some casual mobile phone gaming industry. It is just a terrible result of employees and management effort which couldn't be unpunished. The game is done without any love. Its just here is Your salary, do Your best, thanks, here it is -kind of game. A wannabe Mass Effect game. Even for my masochistic character ( almost 40h in game) its still too much to breathe this out.

    I can accept an effort to make a fresh start and new game, not connected much with the old series. That's fine, do it. But this? Leaving all crucial principles of RPG and strongholds which made Bioware famous? Do it really takes only those people (behind original series) which left the company make a good game?

    This damage to the brand can be hardly restored and repaired. Only trough self reflection of the creators and management You can do something about it.

    For fan of ME its heartbreaking experience.
    For newcomer to ME its OK, average game, not worth the money.    … Expand
  87. Quink666
    Mar 25, 2017
    4
    **** you EA, **** you BW. What a tragic game this is. Side quest is only extremely booring fetch quests. Main quests are alright but far from memorable.
    In the older games you could have up to 12 abilities to use counting your team mates abilities, in this game you have 3. We went from 12 to 3 which makes combat really **** booring.
    I recommend you dont buy this game and if you must    **** you EA, **** you BW. What a tragic game this is. Side quest is only extremely booring fetch quests. Main quests are alright but far from memorable.
    In the older games you could have up to 12 abilities to use counting your team mates abilities, in this game you have 3. We went from 12 to 3 which makes combat really **** booring.
    I recommend you dont buy this game and if you must wait until a deep deep sale when the game is under 20 bucks. So disappointing...    … Expand
  88. Toophat82
    Apr 5, 2017
    4
    Bottomline it's not mass effect we love or wanted instead it's DAI but in space. So think about it they simply recycled and reused the same formula from last RPG they worked on and developed before Andromeda which was Dragon Age inquisition. The Story, characters, dialogue, ui, and etc all sub par to bad. Only improvements was the huge worlds and combat itself which unfortunately isBottomline it's not mass effect we love or wanted instead it's DAI but in space. So think about it they simply recycled and reused the same formula from last RPG they worked on and developed before Andromeda which was Dragon Age inquisition. The Story, characters, dialogue, ui, and etc all sub par to bad. Only improvements was the huge worlds and combat itself which unfortunately is hindered by the bad UI that is limited and tailored for multiplayer period as only allows three abilities are allowed during combat no matter campaign or multiplayer mode. Alot is missing from originals too like races, weapons, having meaningful choices and consequences, squadmate loadouts, and renegade/paragon system and there isn't enough new to make up for it either. They even ruined special anmo along with biotic and armor piercing not even in game too. Game is also very buggy and lacks polish along with alot of what made mass effect and bioware rpgs special in first place.

    In Mass effect Andromeda Good luck finding white males and males period in any powerful or meaningful role in game you quickly find that all mission givers and characters that are in power and meaningful in game are overwhelming female with the lesser being minorities or aliens if male at all. While White males are nowhere to be found in game except as cannon fodder or for mockery. This game not only is too extremely politically correct but ractist against white males and white people in general to the point that its too obvious and sickening to loyal fans who love the franchise and have been loyal since it started.

    There is diversity done right like mass effect 1 through 3 and then there is ME andromeda not the way you want to do diversity in games as people play games to get away from their personal lives and have fun. The designer of game clearly wanted to get political and personal on a level that is bad for business given fact that majority of gamers will be of male gender to begin with and most likely a good amount white too when it comes to the RPG genre too not smart at all for a business.    … Expand
  89. GblPower
    Mar 23, 2017
    4
    Это полный провал.
    ● Сюжет для 13-летних школьников.
    ● Вариативности диалогов почти нет, вариативности сюжета абсолютно нет. ● Все персонажи в подметки не годятся персонажам из трилогии. Главного злодея так вообще скорее хочется пожалеть, чем бояться и ненавидеть. ● Боевка стала получше, чем в трилогии, но если абстрагироваться и оценивать ее, как самостоятельную боевую систему, то она    Это полный провал.
    ● Сюжет для 13-летних школьников.
    ● Вариативности диалогов почти нет, вариативности сюжета абсолютно нет.
    ● Все персонажи в подметки не годятся персонажам из трилогии. Главного злодея так вообще скорее хочется пожалеть, чем бояться и ненавидеть.
    ● Боевка стала получше, чем в трилогии, но если абстрагироваться и оценивать ее, как самостоятельную боевую систему, то она по-прежнему уныла (хоть и, повторюсь, динамичней, чем в трилогии)
    ● картинка приятная, но мир не реагирует на игрока: кусты не гнутся под колесами вездехода, etc

    Резюмируя: это провал. Захотели по-легкому срубить бабла прикрывшись названием. Не выйдет!
    p.s. зато геев запихнули, лесбиянок и всякий прочий мусор. Больше меньшинств, ура!    … Expand
  90. DragonDai
    Mar 26, 2017
    4
    There are a lot of problems with this game. It's got some of the most amateur animations ever in an AAA game, sophomoric and cliched writing, phoned-in and dead voice acting, tired and boring quest structure, giant empty areas with little to nothing to do, repetitive tasks, boring squad mates, dumbing down of gameplay mechanics, lack of quick save, bugs, one of the worst character creatorsThere are a lot of problems with this game. It's got some of the most amateur animations ever in an AAA game, sophomoric and cliched writing, phoned-in and dead voice acting, tired and boring quest structure, giant empty areas with little to nothing to do, repetitive tasks, boring squad mates, dumbing down of gameplay mechanics, lack of quick save, bugs, one of the worst character creators in the last 10 years, performance issues, overly long transitions sequences, awful balancing, extremely awful pacing, awful scanning that's worse than the crap in ME2, some of the worst companion AI in any game ever, etc etc etc.

    I could go on and on about the flaws with this game and why these flaws matter and how Bioware/EA royally screwed the pooch here and how there is no system in this entire game that isn't without some sort of major flaw. But here's the thing. When you're actually playing the game...when you're not busy staring at a loading screen or a transition screen or rolling your eyes at the god awful animation/voice acting/writing/etc, you're liking having fun.

    And that's what's important, right? Fun? That's why we play video games? To have fun? You WILL have fun with this game. Whether it's you + 3 friends getting some coop multiplayer going or you out alone (cause your AI companions have died in the first 3 seconds of combat...again) against the hordes in single player, you will almost certainly be having a really really good time.

    In fact, you'll like be having a 7.5/10 sort of good time. If I had to compare MEA to another game, I'd compare it to Fallout 4. It was horribly disappointing for a lot of the diehard fans, there were a LOT of serious problems, but, at the end of the day, it was still a fun game worth the purchase.

    So if it's a 7.5/10 sort of game, why am I giving it a 4/10? Why am I writing a negative review? Well, two reasons. The first is that, despite their response since launch (which has been quite good), Bioware and EA behaved AWFULLY before launch. Some of the devs behind this game have acted in a way that would have gotten others in their field fired in a heartbeat. Truly awful behavior and truly reprehensible actions towards their paying customers and long time fan base.

    But more importantly, the second reason is that there is a sizable group of Bioware fans that absolutely will not hear ANY criticism of this game or Bioware as a company no matter how legit or reasonable said criticism is. Even the slightest break from the hive mind of "Perfect game 11/10!" is met with hate and scorn. It's **** disgusting. These people give gamers in general a bad name and they are 100% responsible for the state of the industry and **** like MEA. They are the reason this game is so subpar, because EA/Bioware knew they could farm out the fourth game in their biggest franchise to some B team that's never produced a full game before and no matter what quality the game ended up being, there would be enough of this type of fan to lap it up and defend the game regardless of criticism that it'd be a success.

    So yeah, 7.5/10 if you're JUST looking at the gameplay. 4/10 when you look at the bigger picture, everything included.    … Expand
  91. dmzhakov
    Mar 21, 2017
    4
    Посмотрел трейлер, почитал отзывы и изучил стримы + почитал слив анон разраба. ВЫВОД: ни-о-чём
  92. PhoneyFree
    Mar 23, 2017
    4
    Long time Bioware rpg fan KTOR 1/2, DA series, Mass Effect 1-3. Sorely disappointed and disillusioned. If you like action heavy multiplayer games then you'll probably enjoy this. If you like story rich "Role Playing Games" with freedom to create your own take on the protagonist and that has depth, engaging, compelling characters etc. then look elsewhere.

    Pro's: decent action/combat.    Long time Bioware rpg fan KTOR 1/2, DA series, Mass Effect 1-3. Sorely disappointed and disillusioned. If you like action heavy multiplayer games then you'll probably enjoy this. If you like story rich "Role Playing Games" with freedom to create your own take on the protagonist and that has depth, engaging, compelling characters etc. then look elsewhere.

    Pro's: decent action/combat. Cons: Underwhelming Story, Dull characters, cringe-worthy infantile dialogue. Really for pew, pew multiplayer action fans. Had to laugh when somebody here said it was like Blasto from the original series. Forgot about Blasto, but your not wrong my friend. I should go.    … Expand
  93. Deviance
    Mar 21, 2017
    4
    This is not Mass Effect.The game with familiar names,merely to make the brand.Pros - good graphics,performance,mechanics and all.Technical problems,lots of bugs,ugly facial animations,boring story,very boring dialogue,baby dialogue,I don't know who wrote it it's very funny,no memory of the characters at all.Pretty monotonous gameplay,it comes down to scanning,go about scan,it.What theThis is not Mass Effect.The game with familiar names,merely to make the brand.Pros - good graphics,performance,mechanics and all.Technical problems,lots of bugs,ugly facial animations,boring story,very boring dialogue,baby dialogue,I don't know who wrote it it's very funny,no memory of the characters at all.Pretty monotonous gameplay,it comes down to scanning,go about scan,it.What the hell?You think it is interesting gameplay??The scan simulator!Empty locations,the spirit of inquiry do not have,for you have all opened.This game is even worse than No man's Sky in terms of exploration,No man's sky worse. 4/10 Worst game of the year,do not buy!… Expand
  94. Dummyurd
    Mar 24, 2017
    4
    I am torn about this game. Some Parts of the story and setting are really fun others just completely miss the mark.
    Same thing goes with graphics, a lot of the panoramas are look breathtaking but then there are the issues with facial animation and the clunky body animation.
    I personally would have preferred if the game focused more on the political problems that must be in an migration    I am torn about this game. Some Parts of the story and setting are really fun others just completely miss the mark.
    Same thing goes with graphics, a lot of the panoramas are look breathtaking but then there are the issues with facial animation and the clunky body animation.
    I personally would have preferred if the game focused more on the political problems that must be in an migration into already settled territory. (Different factions in the expedition forces as well as the natives give so much potential) It is touched upon in a lot of side content but the main content clearly is the fight that is already in the Helios-Cluster.
    The fighting in the game also has two sides. On one side I like the more pro active approach you can take with the versatile (if stale) character development and new found movement. But Teammate and Enemy AI as well as a flat progression for "the pathfinder" makes it pale against other recent action-rpgs.

    Without the technical problems of quests that get stuck and CTDs I would have given it a 6/10 but with the current bugs I had to subtract some points.    … Expand
  95. ShaneHido
    Mar 27, 2017
    4
    Would have given it a 7 but had to go 4 to balance out all the 10 reviews. I checked a few of the users who gave it 10 and they are accounts created just to rate ME:A

    No big review needed here, all the points in the negative reviews are very valid to any masseffect/bioware fans. Writing left alot to be desired, your choices and relationships are very bland for a Bioware title.    Would have given it a 7 but had to go 4 to balance out all the 10 reviews. I checked a few of the users who gave it 10 and they are accounts created just to rate ME:A

    No big review needed here, all the points in the negative reviews are very valid to any masseffect/bioware fans.
    Writing left alot to be desired, your choices and relationships are very bland for a Bioware title.
    Definite PC culture presence here.
    Gameplay was very boring. Found myself rushing through the game towards the end just to beat it and get it over with.
    Hopefully they make a comeback with the next one.... hopefully.    … Expand
  96. mikehettfield
    Mar 21, 2017
    4
    After 8 hours I can certanlly say that this games was Rushed, the gampleplay is the best in the series, but the story doesnt't make sense, the planets are deserts, I got bored at the 3rd hour, when are we going to learn space stuff is not ready yet? don't waste your money on nerd's games.
  97. JTJSGamer
    Mar 21, 2017
    4
    Overhyped video game, that fails to deliver most of the expectations. You think a game that was delayed multiple times would have no technical issues, but Bioware manages to screw it up. Very disappointing game.
  98. PlayorNaygames
    Mar 27, 2017
    4
    I love the Mass Effect series and had high hopes for this game, but ME: Andromeda is so buggy you would think it was developed by ants. I've experienced just about every type of bug I could think of, thankfully I was at least able to finish the game and my save file was okay. I can't believe a AAA game was released in this state. DA: inquisition wasn't shipped this way, not even close.I love the Mass Effect series and had high hopes for this game, but ME: Andromeda is so buggy you would think it was developed by ants. I've experienced just about every type of bug I could think of, thankfully I was at least able to finish the game and my save file was okay. I can't believe a AAA game was released in this state. DA: inquisition wasn't shipped this way, not even close.

    The strong point of the game is the combat, it's a lot more free flowing and fast paced the DA: Inquisition.. However, you do so much of it against the same handful of enemies it grows tedious over time and very easy. They needed a lot more enemy variety for a game this size.

    The graphics are fair, many worlds are barren (that's conveniently part of the story), but other areas have nice lighting effects. Animations are very dated and bad, with very few in-engine cut scenes compared to prior games. The game runs like ass, even on my set up (gtx 970, 16 gb ram, core I5, Samsung solid state drive), using the "auto detect" settings and has TONS of hidden load screens. They took all the pleasure out of exploring the galaxy by having 5 loading screens between going from 1 colony planet to another. It's atrocious design and will bore you. But that's not the only thing that drags down the game...

    The writing a big step down from the original trilogy. Ryder rarely has anything interesting to say in dialog wheels, but there are some moments here and there. I was disappointed I couldn't be as aggressive or persuasive in conversation as Shepard or other RPGs. Since dialog is mostly boring you will find yourself skipping it often (which is sad because this is my favorite thing in Bioware games). Also, there is A LOT more important information in the form of data pads/e-mails, ect. E.A./Bioware apparently wanted to save costs on voice acting, so much of the less generic info is in text, which is a shame.

    Oh, and btw the way, the ending is every bit as bad as ME 3, if you didn't like it's ending (I did). There are many unresolved plot points and this is a stand-alone game according to Bioware (wtf are we getting DLC? none is announced), which is disappointing. There is some cool info revealed in the end though, so it's worth getting to the end for that if you feel like you want to quit midway into the game like I did.

    There are some many pointless, repetitive side quests that I would recommend skipping. If you stick to the main quests you're going to have a much better time. Even then you can see they putt a lot of pointless backtracking and tons and tons of fighting the same easy enemies over and over to pad the game. You fight the 1 boss type there is in this games literally 5 different times. It's so lazy.

    Character progression is okay. It's largely copy/pasted from Mass Effect 3, which is disappointing, but you can mix and match powers from combat, tech, and biotics which is cool (although it hurts the story somewhat imho, as powers aren't used in dialog options like other ME/Bioware games). It's mostly boring passive stat boosts to you powers. I like that picking a class gives unique perks now and that you can reset your powers anytime. Melee combat is actually viable this time so being a Vanguard works really well, expect against big enemies which will still 1 shot you if you get too close.

    There's a weird garrison mission screen like in World of Warcraft called "strike teams". It's very lame, but thankfully you can skip it and not miss anything. The also have a system similar to the power system similar to DA: Inquisition, except it's not required to unlock new areas and is much less interesting as far as your choices are concerned.

    I didn't try multiplayer as it does not interest me, so please keep that in mind. I heard it's decent.

    All in all, I can only recommend this game to hardcore ME fans or people that love combat regardless of how repetitive it is and want to do multiplayer as well. The game is full of issues that won't be corrected by a patch or two. The game needed 6 months to a year more of development to iron out issues with numerous bugs as well as game design flaws, as the game doesn't seem to have made it out of late alpha before it was released.

    Here's to hoping we get updates to fix this game in the future. With no mod support like Fallout 4 had, well, only Bioware can bail themselves out.    … Expand
  99. mackz0r
    May 16, 2017
    4
    This is my first review, because I am so frustrated with this peace of **** right now... I heard somewhere that Bioware said they got influenced by Witcher 3. Well, I can't notice that anywhere in the game... I really liked ME 1-3, well written and interesting story, fun to play, played through the whole series and loved it, except ME3:s ending :)

    Bought ME:A on PS4. Don't know how it    This is my first review, because I am so frustrated with this peace of **** right now... I heard somewhere that Bioware said they got influenced by Witcher 3. Well, I can't notice that anywhere in the game... I really liked ME 1-3, well written and interesting story, fun to play, played through the whole series and loved it, except ME3:s ending :)

    Bought ME:A on PS4. Don't know how it runs on PC but on the PS4 it's crap. As soon as combat starts it lags alot, the FPS seems to drop remarkably, this almost alone makes the game unplayable for me. It's now patch 1.06 and the animations are still terrible. Im no "gameexpert" and usually don't care so much for the graphics, but in this game it's so bad so even I notice. The lighting sucks, like one part of the characters face is bright as hell and the other is dark. I haven't finished the game but so far the story is really uninteresting and the dialogue seems to sometimes been written by a 12-year old. I don't even know if I'm able to finish this ****.

    They said they were inspired by Witcher 3, what a **** lie... Well, why do they still have quests like find beacon on 5 different locations and so on like an MMO? Why have this piece of **** quests in a SP game? Who wants to run around in a SP-world and do this? Farming minerals in absurdum.

    And the countless bugs! Characters that are invisible when you talk to them, you are in combat all the time on the map so you cant fast travel and talk to NPC:s.

    So to sum it up:
    the story and the sidequests almost all sucks, no where near the quality in W3 they aimed for.
    bad FPS (PS4) which destroys the only thing that have been improved in the game; the combat.
    graphics, like the lighting and the lack of details and love in the world.
    in an rpg like this you need to have good animations, as it is now it sucks so hard you get distracted.
    dialogue is sometimes so bad and childish it's like a comedy, cant laugh though because I've spent 70$.
    MMO-quests (as in WoW) like collect 4 spacecrapthings on a map and get some XP is totally unfun.

    Maybe the combat and the graphics runs better on PC but the core of the game is still bad. You can put makeup on a pig, but it's still a pig. Though, the game is not a 1/10, some parts of the story is fine, the combatsystem and effects are ok.

    Thanks alot Bioware and EA for destroying the series!    … Expand
  100. Zurce
    Mar 23, 2017
    4
    Una inesperada decepcion que falla en bastantes puntos de los que hicieron a sus predecesores grandes juegos, tecnicamente descuidado con elementos que lo llevan a ser comico por accidente, problemas de rendimiento y un online injugable convierten a este Mass Effect Andromeda en un producto muy mediocre

    Como puntos positivos se pueden destacar la carisma del universo con la que cuenta    Una inesperada decepcion que falla en bastantes puntos de los que hicieron a sus predecesores grandes juegos, tecnicamente descuidado con elementos que lo llevan a ser comico por accidente, problemas de rendimiento y un online injugable convierten a este Mass Effect Andromeda en un producto muy mediocre

    Como puntos positivos se pueden destacar la carisma del universo con la que cuenta la cual se gano el titulo de BioWare la pasada generacion y una jugabilidad entretenida (Pero no se trata de nada revolucionario)    … Expand
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  3. Negative: 1 out of 61
  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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