Mass Effect: Andromeda

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  1. 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
  2. Turdsandwhich
    Apr 16, 2017
    2
    In comparison to the other Mass Effect Games, of which I loved. This game is trash, and I do not consider it Mass Effect.

    The problems: 1. The interactions have the emotional charge comparable to that of two near-death fish. 2. Everything is way too PC. You took one of the most un-PC games and made it the equivalent of jokes at a political convention. IT HAS NO BITE. Mass Effect was    In comparison to the other Mass Effect Games, of which I loved. This game is trash, and I do not consider it Mass Effect.

    The problems:
    1. The interactions have the emotional charge comparable to that of two near-death fish.

    2. Everything is way too PC. You took one of the most un-PC games and made it the equivalent of jokes at a political convention. IT HAS NO BITE. Mass Effect was known for its bite too gamers. NOT ONCE HAVE I BEEN ABLE TO SOLVE A PROBLEM IN TRIVIAL CONVERSATION WITH A PISTOL OR A RIGHT HOOK, ALL THE WHILE HAVING MORE SUITABLE BUT PACIFYING OPTIONS. WTF! This is not Mass Effect.

    3. This game does not make you feel BA like the other Mass Effects. Electronic Arts jacks up everything they touch. The other Mass Effects made you feel gritty and tough. This game makes you feel like you are a model of civility and wussification. It sucks.

    4. The characters have no depth. Whoever wrote their dialog is an imbecile and needs to find a bridge to jump off of (JK!). All the characters and Ryder are terrible. Is EA like Disney, slowly ruining Mass Effect like Disney is ruining Star Wars? EA is one of the worse game developers there is. Please listen to your suckiness, because you deserve it.

    5. The game lacks creativity in every place where it matters. Sure, it looks great but it has no meat and potatoes.

    6. The quests are not understandable half the time and so quickly blerted out that they are near to incomprehensible. Look I am not an automaton of action and doing, SLOW DOWN YOU IDIOTS and focus on storytelling. Tell your corporate boss to stick it in his backside if they complain about it not having enough action. We need time to develop bonds and understanding of character situations before jumping off into the next bullship busy crap.

    Advise for EA:
    Fire everyone, burn this game to the ground, forget it, and start over.
    You suck. Get better.
    I wanted so badly for this game to be good. Mass Effect is my new Star Wars and you are jacked it up too.

    (Review written after over 70 hours of gameplay)    … Expand
  3. Kotwurschd
    Apr 13, 2017
    3
    Wow. I don't know where to begin with. Mass Effect 1-3 were all great games, so I had high hopes for Mass Effect Andromeda. I didn't watch anything and bought it blind, which was a huge mistake. I trusted BioWare, but now I'm really disappointed with both BioWare and Mass Effect Andromeda. 5+ Years and you guys come up with this pile of **** I really tried to get warm with this title, butWow. I don't know where to begin with. Mass Effect 1-3 were all great games, so I had high hopes for Mass Effect Andromeda. I didn't watch anything and bought it blind, which was a huge mistake. I trusted BioWare, but now I'm really disappointed with both BioWare and Mass Effect Andromeda. 5+ Years and you guys come up with this pile of **** I really tried to get warm with this title, but the boring story, the extremely clunky controls, the graphics and the characters made me really stop playing the game. This games writer is probably one of the most boring and depressive person on this planet. Just change your job, buddy, you're clearly not made for this job. I couldn't even believe that this game is called Mass Effect. It doesn't even comes close to the quality of the Mass Effect games that have been released many years before. This game is not worthy to be called Mass Effect. It's the first time in 10+ years that I didn't want to finish a AAA game. The game is unspectacular and absolutely boring. I just stopped playing the game halfway through, which was a pain in the ass, because the game was that much boring in any aspect, and deleted it from my console. I didn't thought that I'd ever say this about a Mass Effect game, but Mass Effect Andromeda is so far the worst game of 2017. Good job EA and BioWare for ruining a great game series.… Expand
  4. Furiousmike
    Apr 2, 2017
    2
    Boredom, disbelieve, pain and agony. These were the feelings I went trough during my 47hrs playing ME Andromeda.

    During the opening I got very exited. I was like Hell yeah!! here we go!! Game of the year! Then the reality hit. Boring quests, facial animations that made me facepalm myself so hard my brains shot out from my ears. Boring characters, boring dialogue. See the theme here?    Boredom, disbelieve, pain and agony. These were the feelings I went trough during my 47hrs playing ME Andromeda.

    During the opening I got very exited. I was like Hell yeah!! here we go!! Game of the year! Then the reality hit. Boring quests, facial animations that made me facepalm myself so hard my brains shot out from my ears. Boring characters, boring dialogue. See the theme here? Boring, boring, boring. When I had played 10hrs I didn't want to play anymore. But I kept going, hoping that things would pick up but they didn't. I just couldn't believe what bioware had done to my all time favorite game series. Whoever decided that their "flagship" title should be handled by a support studio and some of it should be outsourced completely, is a f***ing idiot! When EA came along everything started to go downhill. Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire and ME1. Every game bioware made before EA meddling was a masterpiece, if not it came deam close.

    I don't mind few bugs here and there. There's going to be bugs in a huge game like this. It can't be avoided, but this stuttering mess is not a triple A game. We should get a refund, this game is obviously not finished. If I bought a car and it had this much problems I could get a new one from the dealership because of the warranty.

    So the gameplay.. sigh.. no tactical pausing, can't give orders to squadmates to use powers to set up combos, only 3 skills to use?!? Cover system sucks.

    I was actually going to write a lot longer and in depth review but I can't keep going. There is just too much wrong with this game, I give up. I do solemnly swear I will not buy another bioware game until they break free from the grip of the horrible abomination that is EA.

    As a reviewer I try to provide enough information to fellow gamers to stay away from horrible titles and to try out games that are actually good. This time I can't provide more than my own die hard ME1 fan opinion. I would not touch this with a 10 foot pole.

    Summary:

    Graphics: 9.5
    Everything else: Sucks ass    … Expand
  5. 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
  6. hpdr
    Mar 31, 2017
    0
    The main story is boring the writing in the dialog is bad the characters show almost no emotion and the choices you have are meaninglessness and boring the combat is fun but becomes repetitive you can no longer control your squad that was a main and unique point oft the mass effect series among other bad design choices make this game in to a mediocre version of mass effect please have aThe main story is boring the writing in the dialog is bad the characters show almost no emotion and the choices you have are meaninglessness and boring the combat is fun but becomes repetitive you can no longer control your squad that was a main and unique point oft the mass effect series among other bad design choices make this game in to a mediocre version of mass effect please have a hard look at mass effect 2 and make a more open world and dynamic version of that game exploiting the thing that made that game unique and great(combat,characters, story etc..) good luck for the next mass effect… Expand
  7. simulacra
    Apr 1, 2017
    7
    A good game as far as games go, but it doesn't measure up to the rest of the Mass Effect trilogy, or other contemporary RPGs. The game's mediocrity comes from its half-baked story, bad pacing, and uninteresting characters. There are some good moments but they're few and far between. Much of the game feels empty and unfulfilled. There's an abundance of boring fetch-quests and uninspiredA good game as far as games go, but it doesn't measure up to the rest of the Mass Effect trilogy, or other contemporary RPGs. The game's mediocrity comes from its half-baked story, bad pacing, and uninteresting characters. There are some good moments but they're few and far between. Much of the game feels empty and unfulfilled. There's an abundance of boring fetch-quests and uninspired locations. I feel like too much time was spent creating massive, sprawling planets rather than coming up with cool and interesting locales. As for the characters, Lexi, Drack, and Vetra were the only ones who caught my interest, and even they left me wanting for more. Liam and Cora are awful: Liam's always talking about how he's crying about this or that; Cora likes to drone on about her asari training. Jaal is alright but I feel like he and Liam were written because of this absurd cultural movement to feminize men. Liam's always crying and saying its okay to cry and Jaal's always talking about his feelings, because he's so liberated. Peebee is annoying. She's always saying weird and awkward things that just feel out of place. She lacks depth and never really comes together. The Mass Effect series is about story and characters. That's what makes it great. This game focuses far, far too much on exploration and discovery. It's stretched so thin that none of it feels compelling. I'm disappointed.… Expand
  8. Jesp1
    Apr 5, 2017
    6
    Going to be as honest as possible. Despite the controversy it is an ok game.... Unfortunately despite the controversy it is an "OK" game.
    -I have to at least drop it one point due to the animations people have seen, because yes.... They are that bad.
    -The writing is also comically bad, if people were hating on GITS movie (for a comparison) this is many steps below it. Poor plot    Going to be as honest as possible. Despite the controversy it is an ok game.... Unfortunately despite the controversy it is an "OK" game.
    -I have to at least drop it one point due to the animations people have seen, because yes.... They are that bad.
    -The writing is also comically bad, if people were hating on GITS movie (for a comparison) this is many steps below it. Poor plot points, cheesy interactions, many WTF moments.
    -Gameplay is solid, though I miss many aspects of other games.... Unfortunately this is made worse by boring settings and quests.
    -Overall the game is a 6-7. I would be tempted to drop it lower because of the racist PoS Manveer Heir (King curry Thunder) but really its not fair to anyone else who has worked on this project. That being said it is a high 6 (or low 7). Not bad enough to not buy, but probably wait for a significant discount.    … Expand
  9. falberto
    Sep 9, 2017
    8
    após 50 horas finalizei o jogo.
    Um jogo que mostra uma face da mídia manipuladora e suja, o jogo tem seus problemas mas pagou uma conta que não merecia, para mim acertou muito mais do que errou.

    É triste ver uma franquia de Scy-fy a , única nos jogos, ir para a geladeira dessa forma, espero que a EA volte atras e venha arrebentando com um reboot ou sequencia.
  10. Unbiased_Critic
    Jun 14, 2018
    10
    People are too critical of this game. It's a really fun Sci-Fi 3rd person shooter / RPG. I hated the combat at first because of the lack of a power wheel and time slowing down. After coming back to the game I really do like it and it deserves to be bought and played by anyone who loves sci-fi games. The team could have done a stellar job on a sequel given the chance, which will neverPeople are too critical of this game. It's a really fun Sci-Fi 3rd person shooter / RPG. I hated the combat at first because of the lack of a power wheel and time slowing down. After coming back to the game I really do like it and it deserves to be bought and played by anyone who loves sci-fi games. The team could have done a stellar job on a sequel given the chance, which will never happen because of how critically panned ME:A was. In any case, it's dirt cheap on PSN and is in EA vault so you can basically play it for free.… Expand
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. dyinginbeauty
    Apr 1, 2017
    6
    After 9 and a half hours in I can safely say that this is at its core a decent role playing game offering a considerable amount of content with an engaging story, but it simply falls short by being an unpolished mess. It is glitchy, and the controls, particularly in tight areas are pretty shoddy - to the point where it is in parts unplayable.

    As a fan of the ME trilogy i had to pick    After 9 and a half hours in I can safely say that this is at its core a decent role playing game offering a considerable amount of content with an engaging story, but it simply falls short by being an unpolished mess. It is glitchy, and the controls, particularly in tight areas are pretty shoddy - to the point where it is in parts unplayable.

    As a fan of the ME trilogy i had to pick this up on day one, and approached it with an open mind - it is not as bad as some say, but it should never have been released in this state. Future patches wont make up for this... EA should be ashamed.

    The combat system is deep, more than in the original trilogy, and the story is good too. Would have been a solid game if it were finished.    … Expand
  14. dr0nzer
    Apr 1, 2017
    6
    I gave this game a real chance, spending in excess of over 40 hours in this world and I have to say... it wasn't what I expected. Having played all previous mass effect titles I can safely say that this one does not live up to the name and I feel the developers are riding on the success of the mass effect franchise here.
    There is a lot of depth in the game but it's unpolished and it feels    I gave this game a real chance, spending in excess of over 40 hours in this world and I have to say... it wasn't what I expected. Having played all previous mass effect titles I can safely say that this one does not live up to the name and I feel the developers are riding on the success of the mass effect franchise here.
    There is a lot of depth in the game but it's unpolished and it feels like this game is more quantity than quality. There are a lot of bugs which can be overlooked but the problem for me is that you don't feel like you really accomplish much in the game, after spending an hour or so in there, you leave thinking "I didn't really do much" which is true as you'll spend almost 60% of that time waiting for load screens, watching pointlessly long transfer animations whether it's landing on a planet or travelling to another system, it feels padded out and a waste of time.
    The side quest system is junk, it's comparable with Final Fantasy 15 which is just horrendous, they don't add a lot of depth and the majority are just fetch quests and stupid things, a crap ton of back tracking just to pad out the game time, I don't feel a lot of thought went into it, if there was it doesn't really show.
    Combat system is probably the only thing worth praising, it's great but it's clouded by systems that are too over complicated and not stream lined, again going for quantity vs quality.
    There are good things with the game but it gets clouded by all the junk and crap.
    This title needed another year or two in development and almost 75% of the things in this game can be toned down or outright removed as it serves no real purpose to the world or story.    … Expand
  15. Kabooz
    Feb 21, 2018
    10
    Honestly the game I experienced is far from a lot of the negative hype this had received. 25+hrs in so far and the game has been fluid, animation in a general aspect is clearly above anything to be considered average in today's games. Most importantly it plays like or similar enough to what makes the Mass Effect series successful. Hopefully with given time another addition to this storyHonestly the game I experienced is far from a lot of the negative hype this had received. 25+hrs in so far and the game has been fluid, animation in a general aspect is clearly above anything to be considered average in today's games. Most importantly it plays like or similar enough to what makes the Mass Effect series successful. Hopefully with given time another addition to this story will be a step forward from a gameplay aspect. Undoubtedly recommend this game.… Expand
  16. Kimblock
    Mar 4, 2020
    0
    On my opinion in comparison with the original trilogy of Mass Effect, andromeda sucks.
  17. Majtres
    Apr 5, 2020
    0
    I’ve played for something like 12 h and stopped because this game is such a piece of s*** that causes me headache!! No dubbing in Italian (I’m italian) and that’s the first mess. The technical sector sucks, I don’t like the location, it has constantly framerate problems, too many same characters. It’s boring. I will definitely not buy a Game from EA and BioWare for a while from now. ReallyI’ve played for something like 12 h and stopped because this game is such a piece of s*** that causes me headache!! No dubbing in Italian (I’m italian) and that’s the first mess. The technical sector sucks, I don’t like the location, it has constantly framerate problems, too many same characters. It’s boring. I will definitely not buy a Game from EA and BioWare for a while from now. Really bad job guys!!!!… Expand
  18. jctejada
    Aug 10, 2022
    8
    Picked up this game 5 years after release and I was pleasantly surprised at how well the graphics have held up. Yes, some of the facial animation issues are well documented but for me it doesn't get in the way of the gameplay. Honestly, I think the game would have done much better if it didn't have the name Mass Effect in its title. Instead, it should had been advertised as a game "based"Picked up this game 5 years after release and I was pleasantly surprised at how well the graphics have held up. Yes, some of the facial animation issues are well documented but for me it doesn't get in the way of the gameplay. Honestly, I think the game would have done much better if it didn't have the name Mass Effect in its title. Instead, it should had been advertised as a game "based" in the Mass Effect universe. It is entirely possible for 2 different games to exist in the same universe. Just look at Apex Legends and Titanfall and I'm sure there are other examples out there. This is how I look at the Mass Effect original trilogy and Andromeda, 2 different games with different protagonist and different enemies coexisting in the same universe. If you play Andromeda before you play the original trilogy you will probably enjoy Andromeda more because you will go into it more open minded. As per the gameplay... Andromeda is what it would look like if Mass Effect and Dragon Age had a baby. If you played both those games, then Andromeda will be very familiar to you. There's so much to do that you probably won't beat the game in a week, it's possible if you just stick to the main storyline but there're a lot of side missions to keep you busy for a while. The online multiplayer community is still pretty active, up to a squad of 4 PvE. With all the characters and weapons, you can unlock you will be busy for a while as well. Multiplayer is connected to the single player campaign as there are some multiplayer missions if completed successfully will reward you with stuff that you can use in the single player campaign. Currently there are no DLCs for this game but I'm hoping one day BioWare with bless us with one or two.… Expand
  19. Malooga
    Jan 2, 2018
    8
    I got it for $15, absolutely worth it for that price. It doesn't greatly expand on anything from the ME series (aside from a decently entertaining co-op mode), but it does tackle a lot of the nagging problems. Being able to respec and change appearance early and often was cool, having "mark all as read" options on the codex...stuff like that.

    Graphics and animation made a lateral move    I got it for $15, absolutely worth it for that price. It doesn't greatly expand on anything from the ME series (aside from a decently entertaining co-op mode), but it does tackle a lot of the nagging problems. Being able to respec and change appearance early and often was cool, having "mark all as read" options on the codex...stuff like that.

    Graphics and animation made a lateral move here. Some small instances of brilliance, but overall hum-drum. Voice acting is all over the place, as is the writing. While the Turian and Krogan companions were voiced well, the Asari companion is atrocious, as are quite a few of the supporting cast and the male Ryder (play a female character and thank me later, she did worlds better).

    It's not worth $60, and you should probably kick yourself if you paid that much, but for $20 or less - even for the base experience - you can't go wrong. Especially if you're a Mass Effect nut (I'm not). 8/10    … Expand
  20. RealMuthaF
    Dec 26, 2017
    7
    Considering all the hate this game's got, I've decided to write a few words in its defense.

    Mass Effect Andromeda is not a bad game. Having spent 69.5 hours in its campaign and 5 more in multiplayer, I mostly enjoyed my time. Hell, if I didn't, I wouldn't have played this long. The game's got good graphics (especially the vistas), improved combat and this advertised sense of    Considering all the hate this game's got, I've decided to write a few words in its defense.

    Mass Effect Andromeda is not a bad game. Having spent 69.5 hours in its campaign and 5 more in multiplayer, I mostly enjoyed my time. Hell, if I didn't, I wouldn't have played this long. The game's got good graphics (especially the vistas), improved combat and this advertised sense of exploration, of being a pioneer. And it works. While the original trilogy was about a massively populated universe where humans are just another race, in Andromeda the whole Milky Way expedition is around 100.000 souls, the resources are scarce, and it's up to you to find a new home.

    Now I can't deny Andromeda also has plenty of issues, which I would structure into three main categories.

    Gameplay:
    While the combat has become much more fluid and agile with the welcome addition of jump jets, I found it irritating how close the camera was to the character with weapons drawn, severely limiting the field of view. Some other decisions like having to leave the planet every time you board the Tempest, some abilities dependent on power cells, and the lack of tactical pause are also questionable.

    Story:
    Let's be honest, the old ME games could not boast any original story. It was just a dude assembling forces to fight giant space prawns. For 3 games straight. Here the main plot mostly mirrors the first game, with the protagonist being the only one able to interface with some derelict tech from an ancient race (Protheans/Jaardan) while fighting enemies who represent a much larger ominous force (Reapers/Kett). While things are pretty straightforward, the game does manage to set up things nicely for the much larger populated galaxy with the huge Kett empire lurking within. I would say, however, that the antagonist is very boring, there was plenty of cringy dialogue, there could have been more original races, and that the squadmate roster is inferior compared to the old games.

    Engine:
    I bought the game in version 1.10, with improved animations and fixed bugs. There still were occasional crashes, freezes, glitched animations and quests, but it wasn't really bothersome. I do imagine though, that if these were much more abundant at game's launch, I would have been pissed.

    To sum up, the fact that ME Andromeda was basically broken at launch is inexcusable for any AAA blockbuster and a continuation of a popular franchise, and I understand where the hate was coming from. Still, in its current state and for the current price (got it for like 20$) it's well worth picking up. If you are a fan of the old MEs, or RPG's and Sci-Fi in general, I would honestly recommend it.    … Expand
  21. cossayos
    Apr 2, 2017
    5
    I'm about ten hours in, so this is not a final verdict.

    What this game lacks is immersion. I wanted to lose myself in it and instead it feels like a grind. With the first three titles I was immediately hooked on the story and the characters and spent hours exploring the Normandy and if my companions had anything new to say. Not here. You see, I can live with the often criticized    I'm about ten hours in, so this is not a final verdict.

    What this game lacks is immersion. I wanted to lose myself in it and instead it feels like a grind. With the first three titles I was immediately hooked on the story and the characters and spent hours exploring the Normandy and if my companions had anything new to say. Not here. You see, I can live with the often criticized dialogue. It's not as bad as some make it out to be. I also had no runins with outright cringeworthy animations. To be fair, previous games of the series weren't big on that either.

    The game just feels bland compared to the previous titles. 10 hours and I didn't have a single memorable moment or conversation with my crew. It's also the little details, such as only three outfits being available to choose from. Long sleeves, short sleeves and jacket. Admitted, and as I said, a small detail, but it points to the lack of customisation of your character that's rather obvious right from the start and the creation menu.

    Combat, well, I feel mostly reminded of ME1. The AI seems to be dead on arrival and you go through the usual dropped in hordes you have to shoot up. Jetpack is a nice addition but it doesn't save the day.

    Some here have compared the game to DA:I. I can only say, I'd wish. With DA:I exploring was fun and there was always something new to discover. With this one, the environment is huge but largely empty.

    It's not outright bad. And I can only advise the ones who hook their reviews on terms like SJW or anti white racism to get a life. But it's bland, mediocre. I will finish it in time. Not as fast as the previous titles, but I think I will. If that changes my impressions of the first ten hours, I will write a new review and add a new score.    … Expand
  22. p1menta
    Sep 9, 2019
    6
    this is not a 4.9-bad game.
    there's A LOT of bugs and things that dont work as it should and even things that just doesnt work at all. it's frustrating as hell.but there are too cool things. i dont know what went wrong, but it's creal there is a sequence planned, i hope as hell they will fix everything. the story is still very good, and i couldnt not care about the races and the planets    this is not a 4.9-bad game.
    there's A LOT of bugs and things that dont work as it should and even things that just doesnt work at all. it's frustrating as hell.but there are too cool things. i dont know what went wrong, but it's creal there is a sequence planned, i hope as hell they will fix everything. the story is still very good, and i couldnt not care about the races and the planets and the people. specially your teammates. the last fight is not as good as it could be, i wanted to stay in the war. fighting against the anchont shoud be in the midle of everyone else.
    to summarize, it's an ok game, not as terrible as i thought it would be (it took me a long time to play, even though i loved so much the first trilogy, cuz everyone said this one was terrible) but it's not a good game either    … Expand
  23. linkenski
    Apr 3, 2017
    5
    Mass Effect: Andromeda - the game that didn't need to be but was made anyway. After the disaster that was ME3's ending controversy which was just as poorly handled as the ending in question BioWare decided to listen to fans and make another entry in the series as a form of new beginnings since the canonical end-point of 3 made it impossible to continue the story of the original setting inMass Effect: Andromeda - the game that didn't need to be but was made anyway. After the disaster that was ME3's ending controversy which was just as poorly handled as the ending in question BioWare decided to listen to fans and make another entry in the series as a form of new beginnings since the canonical end-point of 3 made it impossible to continue the story of the original setting in any organic way. The idea became to go to the neighbour galaxy with a select few species from the original trilogy, a new protagonist and a new set of circumstances. A lot of it has actually been potentially promising but whenever the game shows shimmers of hope about its more original themes it discards them in favor of telling a tired and safe, watered down version of Mass Effect 1's plot. It's Mass Effect: The Force Awakens, all with a Mary Sue protagonist whose unsure and sometimes immature characterization (as a result of being 7 years younger than Shepard) is completely at odds with the incredible power-level the story grants him (or her). The coolest thing regarding the outset of the plot is that you have a sister and a dad who are both customizable to some extent and a few surprises down the road, but ultimately it doesn't mean much because it's still just a retelling of ME1; you have a the Neo-Geth, Neo-Reapers, Neo-Council, Neo-Saren all hidden under different names and art-directions such as the bony aliens called "The Kett" and the ominous, almost otherworldly force that threatens all existence called "The Scourge". The game actually has a cool central theme about colonization that diverges from its ME1-ness, but it never doubles down on this. Instead it feels like 3 different game visions in one package that don't go well together.

    One other huge part of this game, arguably the largest, is that this game is Mass Effect Inquisition. Good luck spending 40 hours exclusively on just doing one unrewarding quest after another. BioWare attempted to make these types of quests more satisfying by increasing the amount of times the result in properly executed cutscenes with character-focus and choices but ultimately even the best of those questlines come up short when they abruptly end as the Journal ticks the objective as completed after an inconclusive dialogue led by a vague "good job" comment from either Ryder or his friends.

    Speaking of friends, as always you've got a new cast alongside the protagonist and a ship they fly on. This is arguably the point where the record breaks and where the game dips below the point of merely "good enough". Granted, some companions are more fleshed out than others, almost every single one of them are introduced in the most nonchalant and indifferent way possible. You're given no reason to care about any of them because they have no story-related relevance that draws you in to wanting to know them better. Rather, you're going to have to take the initiative yourself to learn more about them through very stilted conversations (moreso than ever before) that eventually reveal a Loyalty mission and some forced endgame scenes to make their stories feel complete. While the loyalty missions are fine but nothing special, their endgame conversations feel forced because, much like the intro, it shows how aimless the game's direction is that these character never quite seem to have a reason to even be around you in the first place, and it doesn't help that from the RPG-standpoint your only interaction with these characters is how you level them up. No customization, very barebones tactical commands and barely any recognition about how well you know certain characters.

    It all comes together (or rather, it doesn't) in a finale that feels completely seperate in flavor to the rest of the experience, like an almost Platinum-games styled final level where everything is super linear, action-y, your squadmates join you and they try to bring in every factor that has been prominent in the game... but this happens on a side of a main story that is laser focused on a "villain vs hero" story that just doesn't connect in a cohesive fashion with the themes of colonization, Ryder being inexperienced or him spending time with his friends.

    That's the game in a nutshell. Andromeda simply does not seem to have a mission-statement. Its problems can all be traced back to its premise: It asks us "can we find new meaning away from the original Mass Effect by going to another setting?" and the answer is "we can, but it's not going to prove anything beyond that." I enjoyed my time with Andromeda but was often forcing myself just because I liked the previous games, and a day or two later I think Mass Effect as a franchise may have run its course when BioWare blew it back in 2012 with the third game's brand-damaging ending.    … Expand
  24. Windolicker
    Sep 20, 2021
    0
    The SJW diversity crowd strikes again; it oozes from this game. These people suck at writing. They are obsessed with emotions, not offending their leftist friends, and will not take any risks. They aren't outside the box thinkers. It is just another IP in a long list that has been run into the ground. Because we have to hire based on what people look like and not based on merit. That's myThe SJW diversity crowd strikes again; it oozes from this game. These people suck at writing. They are obsessed with emotions, not offending their leftist friends, and will not take any risks. They aren't outside the box thinkers. It is just another IP in a long list that has been run into the ground. Because we have to hire based on what people look like and not based on merit. That's my observation anyway.… Expand
  25. elMorseman
    Jan 1, 2021
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A somewhat underrated and unfairly maligned game, it’s not quite up to par with the ME trilogy, no could it or should it be; those games setup and concluded a story with all the familiarity that comes with, so if you’re looking for more Shepard, Reapers and Galaxy in peril, this ain’t it. Its more Star Wars than Empire Strikes back for better and worse.

    This is a new story with a new protagonist and a new galaxy so you’ll need to get reacquainted.

    It has its issues: The story takes a while to get underway and can be a bit uneven/awkward for the first couple of hours, however it gets a lot better

    Character expressions are understated and tend towards the bland with a few exceptions, - but nowhere near as egregious as initially reported

    Dialogue leans towards painfully cringeworthy but evolves towards pretty amusing and often brilliant as the game goes on

    Not enough new races - the new denizens of the galaxy feel a tad familiar but there are some cool twists here n there.

    Like it’s predecessors (with the exception of ME2) side quests range from dull fetch quests and awful missions to the occasional ingenious moment, no real changes there.
    Cinematics are few and far between replaced with a sort of 3rd person convo framing, not really up to ME standards Choices/morality are ok, not spectacular but no awful - on a par with ME1/3 - the changes are interesting but could do with more development

    There are still some bugs in the game that can be distracting but won’t break immersion all that much.

    Some questionable design issues - the mission marker can’t differentiate between floors leading to a bit of milling about initially

    The storyline is serviceable and indeed enjoyable though with the same weaknesses/contrivances as ME3, it won’t revolutionise story telling but let’s be honest ME plots haven’t been all that since Drew Karpyshin left the game and BioWare.

    Where this game shines for me is combat, atmosphere and exploration, exceptionally, polished, well integrated and addictive;

    The music isn’t perhaps as memorable as ME1 or 2 but it’s cleverly understated and tends to get under the skin, on a number of occasions I found my heart pounding in fairly regular combat due to the way it’s handled, filters rising as you near the combat zone, and because of the lack of bombast you feel rather than hear it, brilliant stuff!

    The combat and profiles system is utterly brilliant! Real blast, slick and exciting throughout with a brilliant sense of verticality, the AI can be a bit dodgy but it’s an exception rather than a rule

    Exploration is a blast and very attractive, it goes a long way to make a lot of dull side quests worth doing. The Nomad and scanning (omnitool) are really welcome additions as is the welcome return of expanded skill trees, though a bit of balancing would make them more of a risk/reward rather than a no downfall feature, especially in the endgame.

    All in all, it’s not even the best ME game, but it steps towards the right direction for the franchise, enhancing and improving upon shoddy first iterations (Mako, ME2 skills) and certainly improves upon ME3 which I found to be a mix of huge set pieces that were great peppered with some godawful side quests, infuriating melodrama and mind bogglingly boring side quests. It’s not a war game but an exploration game with insanely good combat mechanics and fascinating exploration that’ll have you coming back for more.
    I can see flashes of brilliance throughout the game despite the blemishes and I get wistful about what might have been, they did well to get it this good all things considered and it is a very enjoyable game. This coming from a big fan of ME1 and ME2, NOT ME3 7.5-8/10    … Expand
  26. Thilus
    Sep 19, 2017
    8
    TL;DR After all the updates (update 1.10 to be exact), Mass Effect: Andromeda turned out to be a well-above average game, that doesn't quite live up to the Mass Effect standards, but holds its own as an "independent" title.

    First off, I didn't play ME:A just after the release, due to the negative reviews. Bugs, graphical glitches, stability problems - nobody wants that, obviously. But a    TL;DR After all the updates (update 1.10 to be exact), Mass Effect: Andromeda turned out to be a well-above average game, that doesn't quite live up to the Mass Effect standards, but holds its own as an "independent" title.

    First off, I didn't play ME:A just after the release, due to the negative reviews. Bugs, graphical glitches, stability problems - nobody wants that, obviously. But a couple of months back EA offered the players a 10 hour demo version. I downloaded it, played through a few sittings and, well, I became a Pathfinder. Even if the game was a dreadful PoS riddled with bugs right after it hit the shelves, in the long term it turned out to be a very decent action RPG, offering a lot of content.

    PROS:
    - Exploration! This part is outstanding. I love exploring games and here I really felt like I was exploring another galaxy. Devs really put their minds to it, creating strange, new worlds that seem almost life-like.
    - A lot of content. I clocked almost 70 hours with the game and that says a lot. There are some quest fillers, that just send you on pointless errands, but there are also several interesting side-quests that bring some quality to the quantity.
    - Vast world. Not only there is a lot to do, there's also a lot to see. There are five explorable planets, and four of them are really big. This makes exploring so much fun, because you never know what else you just might find.
    - Combat. Since you're gonna shoot aliens a lot, it would be nice if combat was smooth and fun. And it is. Lots of guns, lots of powers, lots of customization choices. I really enjoyed it.

    CONS:
    - Bugs. Even in ver. 1.10 there are still some irritating bugs. The game seems to have problems with loading assets on-the-fly, so sometimes you might get stuck, because something suddenly appeared next to you. Same goes with quests. Some of them are semi-broken and you have to search for a workaround. That's not cool.
    - Animation and models. Though devs worked on making animations a little more bearable, they are still pretty bad at times. Same goes for the game models and facial expressions. I saw all the SJW comments and I think it's BS. The reason behind ugly animations and models seems to be a little more straightforward - the game was simply rushed. When you look at companies like CD Projekt or Blizzard, you know they aim for quality. They always say, the game will be there, when it's there. But with EA - they're just money-grabbers, so no wonder ME:A feels unpolished. It was released probably 6-12 months early, which sucks, since ME:A 2 is now on ice, because of the bad publicity ME:A received after the release. A shame, really.

    All in all, ME:A is an enjoyable piece. If you're looking for another groundbreaking ME title... well, you might just going to wait a tat longer, but if you're searching for a good sci-fi AAA title with no strings attached, then ME:A should deliver.    … Expand
  27. rosnk30
    Jan 19, 2021
    7
    First of all I concluded it with 40% (without much effort), and other 60% of game is destined for secondary mission (boring missions). MEA has great graphics and gameplay content but storyline's sometimes is confused a lot.....

    Game's too short too....
  28. TonyKontana
    Aug 8, 2018
    0
    Максимально никчемная игра в которой плохо все. Плох сюжет, плохи персонажи, плохи квесты, плохи игровые механики, плоха графика (анимация). Эта попытка сделать игру одним своим существованием унижает фанатов серии Mass Effect.Максимально никчемная игра в которой плохо все. Плох сюжет, плохи персонажи, плохи квесты, плохи игровые механики, плоха графика (анимация). Эта попытка сделать игру одним своим существованием унижает фанатов серии Mass Effect.
  29. VmsCritic
    Jan 27, 2018
    8
    This is the first Mass Effect game I've played. I was addicted in the first hours of the game due to the history content and the beautiful graphics, planets environment. I struggled in the beginning to understand the level mechanics and I found it difficult to unlock new weapons. At the end of the game with improved weapons the game improved a lot. The best campaign is the last one..., itThis is the first Mass Effect game I've played. I was addicted in the first hours of the game due to the history content and the beautiful graphics, planets environment. I struggled in the beginning to understand the level mechanics and I found it difficult to unlock new weapons. At the end of the game with improved weapons the game improved a lot. The best campaign is the last one..., it really felt like a cinematic experience.… Expand
  30. SrPepe
    May 28, 2018
    8
    PROS:
    -Tiene un increíble mundo abierto, y los mapas son grandes con mucha exploración y varias misiones.
    -El combate es muy cómodo y divertido, al igual que los combos. -Las misiones son divertidas, en especial las misiones de lealtad. La misión final es bastante buena en comparación a las últimas dos de BioWare (ME3 y DAI). -Se fue el sistema de Rebeldía y Virtud horrible de ME3, por    PROS:
    -Tiene un increíble mundo abierto, y los mapas son grandes con mucha exploración y varias misiones.
    -El combate es muy cómodo y divertido, al igual que los combos.
    -Las misiones son divertidas, en especial las misiones de lealtad. La misión final es bastante buena en comparación a las últimas dos de BioWare (ME3 y DAI).
    -Se fue el sistema de Rebeldía y Virtud horrible de ME3, por lo que las decisiones tienen consecuencias que se sienten en el jugador.
    -La mayoría de compañeros y personajes secundarios son bastantes buenos, tienen una personalidad formada y producen sentimientos en el jugador.
    -Las pequeñas referencias a las antigua trilogía son la gloria.

    CONTRAS:
    -Los modelos faciales dan pena y muchas escenas no jugables son desastrosas. La única escena digna de un juego de PS4 son curiosamente las de sexo.
    -Las decisiones son muy pocas, si bien te hacen pensar un poco, se supone que al ser un juego de rol la historia se moldearía mucho más.
    -Todavía sigo esperando que el combate de ME sea como el de DA, y puedas usar a los compañeros. La movilidad y la dirección de estos en combate es mala.
    -Si bien el propósito de los Kett era bastante bueno, el Arconte nunca me pareció una real amenaza y es un villano super olvidable.
    -El acompañante humano (Liam en este caso) sigue siendo basura. Al igual que Kaidan, Jacob y James; Liam no logra destacar, nunca lo llevas a las misiones, no tiene personalidad y esta ahí como un extra más.    … Expand
  31. Lazyyawn
    Feb 3, 2019
    0
    I wanted to vomit the soon I saw the first dialog animation, I have 5 minutes into the game but the animations are terrible.. don't know if i wanna go back and continue the game because of this
  32. Ray67890
    Apr 4, 2017
    6
    i am not a bioware fan, when i first try this game i feel the view is fantastic,but the main problem is the open world setting don't make me feel something interesting or some mission is memeroble .All i always keep doing things is that talking to AI or pick up some boring things like relic.So i think the bioware need to consider how to make a good story telling and make the open worldi am not a bioware fan, when i first try this game i feel the view is fantastic,but the main problem is the open world setting don't make me feel something interesting or some mission is memeroble .All i always keep doing things is that talking to AI or pick up some boring things like relic.So i think the bioware need to consider how to make a good story telling and make the open world more appealing .… Expand
  33. apolyakov
    Oct 19, 2017
    9
    I'm giving it 9 out of 10 after 86 hours in the game. And I still have offline content left, I didn't even try online yet. While I understand that the game must have been bugged when released, it is completely fine now. Other than that, I don't understand all the hate, it just does not deserve this hate. Besides, it is much cheaper now.

    It is the good old mass effect but with the open    I'm giving it 9 out of 10 after 86 hours in the game. And I still have offline content left, I didn't even try online yet. While I understand that the game must have been bugged when released, it is completely fine now. Other than that, I don't understand all the hate, it just does not deserve this hate. Besides, it is much cheaper now.

    It is the good old mass effect but with the open world and endless side-quests. The main plot may not be as epic as in the first trilogy, but it is the exploration and all the small details and many planets that you can settle and spend time on that make MEA as good as any game of the past. Some of the side quests are not very original and make you travel a lot, but many are interesting and rewarding and lead to some unexpected results. And what I loved the most is that you can continue exploring the universe after finishing the main plot - and there are still a lot of things to do and see there!

    Overall, I don't regret a single minute I played it and I rarely play games this long.
    Space-based RPGs rarely appear at all and it is too bad MEA received such low rankings - I'm afraid Bioware will drop the franchise.

    Definitely give MEA a try if you are a space opera fan, a game like this won't appear for many years.    … Expand
  34. jennbenn86
    Oct 29, 2017
    9
    I thoroughly enjoyed this game! I hate how much bad press this game received, considering it was still such a delight to play. Yes, I get there were some issues at the time of release, but the overall story and concept was a dream to play. It's such a pity that people feel so strongly about small issues within the game, rather than appreciating that the main components of the game itselfI thoroughly enjoyed this game! I hate how much bad press this game received, considering it was still such a delight to play. Yes, I get there were some issues at the time of release, but the overall story and concept was a dream to play. It's such a pity that people feel so strongly about small issues within the game, rather than appreciating that the main components of the game itself extremely outweigh the smaller flaws. I don't want this journey to end. I WANT to see what Meridian has to offer, I want to see what's next for the Ryder's and crew.… Expand
  35. snw
    Nov 12, 2017
    9
    Having just finished my first play-through on nightmare at 100+ hrs, I can only say that my personal experience does not agree with a 4.8 user score. Not at all. It would be interesting to see the average scores from May or so.

    Of course, getting into the game in October is quite late and there have been patches and improvements since the initial release. I cannot judge how the game was    Having just finished my first play-through on nightmare at 100+ hrs, I can only say that my personal experience does not agree with a 4.8 user score. Not at all. It would be interesting to see the average scores from May or so.

    Of course, getting into the game in October is quite late and there have been patches and improvements since the initial release. I cannot judge how the game was back then. Still, it is impossible to account for _such_ a big difference in scoring so my guess is that there was probably a lot of emotions involved.
    When MEA was released I was quite occupied with work. Having played the other ME games I knew what I would be getting myself into with a new Mass Effect game: buy game, start playing, become completely consumed and addicted to the story, must play any time I can, just one more mission, grumpy wife... All totally worth it. And so it went down. I have thoroughly enjoyed MEA. Completed all side quests that I could find and looking around for more.

    I liked the storyline, loved how the team characters developed (OK, not Liam ;)). The combat was absolutely on-the-spot to my liking with AI being pretty good. Loved these typical first encounters - first vault run, first destroyer, first architect - WTF I'm going to die!!!
    Laughed hard on many occassions with lines coming from Peebee, Jaal and Drack. And having any combination of them in the Nomad. Peebee and Cora was also good fun ;)

    So yes, the graphics are under-par. Some animation graphics simply sucked, pretty badly. And I had a couple of bugs where I needed to load a saved game in my 100+ hrs run.
    But if you're a gamer like me that buys into this combat/gameplay, story, lore and how a game feels then MEA is a great game. I gladly trade graphics - and a little stability - for any of these.

    MEA is another great game. Could it have been better? Yes, definately. Would I like and pay for more single-player DLC and sequels? Hell yes! Is MEA worth the price tag? Yes, no doubt. I would give the game a 8.5 out of 10. Seeing the current user score I have made it a 9.

    I have never taken the time to write a review. My only hope is that in some way it may help to get the game dev team and EA realize that they absolutely must make more ME content. It makes me very very very sad to read that this may be the end. Mass Effect is dear to me.    … Expand
  36. Pietriej
    Jun 6, 2022
    4
    A nice RPG that allows you to build a colony in a galaxy far, far away. The gameplay is nice, even though they were plenty of known bugs that were never fixed.

    Unfortunately, the storyline is a bit childish, predictable, and - in some places - incosistent. The idea of exploring a dangerous, new galaxy and meeting an unknown race that you can't communicate with was exciting, but ended up    A nice RPG that allows you to build a colony in a galaxy far, far away. The gameplay is nice, even though they were plenty of known bugs that were never fixed.

    Unfortunately, the storyline is a bit childish, predictable, and - in some places - incosistent. The idea of exploring a dangerous, new galaxy and meeting an unknown race that you can't communicate with was exciting, but ended up with your AI being able to quickly translate languages so there's no more mystery or "first contact" issues. Exploration is also flattened to a level of "Cold Planet, Warm Yourself". It could have been so much more than this.
    What is more, BioWare quickly abandoned this game due to backlash and caused more backlash among those who actually enjoyed the experience. It was especially painful for those who focused on multiplayer, invested their time and money, and got a product that was worse than what the previous game (ME3) offered.

    As a fan of the Mass Effect trilogy, I was heavily disappointed with what Andromeda offered. It seemed as if they had a nice idea that they turned into a generic "good guys, bad guys" game and then threw it away.    … Expand
  37. PensionerR
    Feb 11, 2021
    7
    Не слушайте обзорщиков, она может и слабее оригинальной трилогии, но точно стоит потраченного времени.
  38. Super_elou
    Dec 14, 2017
    8
    It’s s great game! Just play it. If you can get past the first 4 hours, you get hooked. My only issue is the pop in textures. In 2017 that’s unacceptable. Deepest M.E yet!
  39. Cieloazure
    Jan 29, 2018
    7
    8hrs into the game I lost motivation to keep playing for the mere fact the characters are boring(not by design, but personality), the story is completely uninspiring. Some of the characters feel rehashed from the previous Mass effect. Music and Graphics are standout for this game, I enjoyed that very much it's just not enough to keep me playing the story.
    Graphics: 9.3
    Gameplay: 9    8hrs into the game I lost motivation to keep playing for the mere fact the characters are boring(not by design, but personality), the story is completely uninspiring. Some of the characters feel rehashed from the previous Mass effect. Music and Graphics are standout for this game, I enjoyed that very much it's just not enough to keep me playing the story.
    Graphics: 9.3
    Gameplay: 9
    Story: 6.5
    Music: 8.5
    The game has makings of being great, it just falls short on story and character.    … Expand
  40. 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
  41. QuisaLeah
    Feb 14, 2018
    7
    It is a disappointment what has become of Bioware and the Mass Effect series. This game should not have been released when it was, it needed at least another 6 months and a team where someone was familiar with both the engine and the series. And you know who you have to thank for that mess? EA. EA announced this title too early, they gave it to a team that hadn't worked with the engine orIt is a disappointment what has become of Bioware and the Mass Effect series. This game should not have been released when it was, it needed at least another 6 months and a team where someone was familiar with both the engine and the series. And you know who you have to thank for that mess? EA. EA announced this title too early, they gave it to a team that hadn't worked with the engine or the series before, they forced it out the door too soon, and they blamed the people that worked hard on it when all of that backfired.

    Yes, the game did come out with technical issues. Yes, there were plot and dialogue based issues. But this game was not - IS NOT - the burning **** fire that some people unjustly called it.

    They at least didn't make an open world (worlds?) game where the spaces there were too large were filled with endless meaningless fetch quests that forever had you running from one side of the map to the other in order to complete them. The characters are interesting and worth pursuing conversations with outside of those that are required.

    It is a shame that there probably won't be anymore content for this game, or for the series for some time now, as unusually I was looking forward to some that the plot itself had set up for.    … Expand
  42. jaredinho
    May 11, 2018
    3
    So mass effect, the series famed for it's storytelling and characters has thrown all of that out the window in place of a boring, meticulous open world system. The majority of the quests have no weight to them, go here, scan this, scan this, go here, done. It's boring, there's no satisfaction. The combat is pretty fun and shines through in the main story missions but the main story endedSo mass effect, the series famed for it's storytelling and characters has thrown all of that out the window in place of a boring, meticulous open world system. The majority of the quests have no weight to them, go here, scan this, scan this, go here, done. It's boring, there's no satisfaction. The combat is pretty fun and shines through in the main story missions but the main story ended completely abruptly without any real narrative progression. You get 6 squad mate, that's right 6! I honestly felt no attachment to any of them, so much I didn't even bother to romance anyone. The game has clearly been rushed, it doesn't feel finished at all. The only thing that feels finished is the franchise as a whole, sad times.… Expand
  43. 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.
  44. Ri-Go
    Jun 16, 2018
    8
    Not as good as the own predecessors, and this is not the quality what expect form the BioWare, but still... this game has a heart, and it's great in the own ways. Combat, skill system, exploration, driving, crafting and quantity of the content is save this game. It's a good game, but sometimes not on that way what expected from a BioWare/Mass Effect game. I loved this game, and it'sNot as good as the own predecessors, and this is not the quality what expect form the BioWare, but still... this game has a heart, and it's great in the own ways. Combat, skill system, exploration, driving, crafting and quantity of the content is save this game. It's a good game, but sometimes not on that way what expected from a BioWare/Mass Effect game. I loved this game, and it's unfortunately was criticized more than it deserved. Please, give it a try, you won't regret it. It deserves a(n indirect) sequel. It has many issues, but this doesn't mean automatically a bad game.… Expand
  45. ScottRyderTrink
    Sep 5, 2018
    10
    El juego es una historia completamente nueva, que no tiene relación con los anteriores, yo no he jugado a la trilogía original, y después de haber jugado a este pienso hacerlo.
    No entiendo para nada las críticas que se llevó este juego, he jugado con la última actualización que salió y va de maravilla, solo me he encontrado tres errores muy puntuales, pero apenas afectan a la experiencia    El juego es una historia completamente nueva, que no tiene relación con los anteriores, yo no he jugado a la trilogía original, y después de haber jugado a este pienso hacerlo.
    No entiendo para nada las críticas que se llevó este juego, he jugado con la última actualización que salió y va de maravilla, solo me he encontrado tres errores muy puntuales, pero apenas afectan a la experiencia de juego. Una vez estas jugando, ni te das cuenta. Ni caso a las críticas.
    Le he dedicado unas 82 horas y aún me faltan algunas misiones secundarias, y más tiempo que le voy a echar para conseguir todos los trofeos. La jugabilidad es realmente buena, el sistema de combate es de lo mejor, los poderes y las armas son geniales. Tengo entendido que una de las diferencias con los anteriores es el jetpack para saltar, y da muchísimas posibilidades en combate así que es todo un acierto.
    Lo mejor de todo par mí es la historia y los personajes, hay muchísimos diálogos, que incluyen tomas de decisiones que repercuten, en mayor o menor medida, en la historia.
    Los gráficos están muy bien, los planetas son absolutamente preciosos y da gusto explorarlos enteros, son bastante grandes y repletos de misiones.
    El juego va de menos a más, si lo has empezado y te ha aburrido un poco, dale una oportunidad y sigue avanzando en la historia, porque engancha muchísimo.
    Es de los mejores juegos que he jugado, lo recomiendo encarecidamente, merece la pena!!!    … Expand
  46. alexela
    Nov 17, 2018
    0
    gioco veramente pessimo fatto con le mani e con i piedi,,,,,,,,............................................
  47. antoinemichelin
    Nov 14, 2018
    0
    if you take 60 bucks... and wipe your ass with them... will give you more satisfaction than spending them on this game. Just saying...
  48. pytlar
    May 24, 2020
    4
    Uninstalled it after 10h. The game looks like poorly stitched together micor missions and activities known from asian MMOs. The plot starts almost like the first part., but rewritten by teenagers, I did;t care. Characters? Mostly bland and dull. Tons of items, crafting, resource gathering. All the boring stuff, which the devs put instead of good plot and interesting world
  49. 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
  50. D3nver30
    Jun 30, 2022
    6
    This game is like P*rn
    The story suck but the action is really great, I really enjoyed the combat mechanics and the exploration in this game
  51. fundakk
    Dec 17, 2020
    2
    Just finished it (without Liam loyalty mission because it hasn't triggered - bug). It is bad. Main problem for me is that it is game about loading. One of final missions of one planets (no spoilers) looks like this: you are on your ship - go to system -> LOAD -> go to planet -> LOAD -> land on the planet -> LOAD -> run few meters -> LOAD ENTERING DOOR (opening these doors take longer thanJust finished it (without Liam loyalty mission because it hasn't triggered - bug). It is bad. Main problem for me is that it is game about loading. One of final missions of one planets (no spoilers) looks like this: you are on your ship - go to system -> LOAD -> go to planet -> LOAD -> land on the planet -> LOAD -> run few meters -> LOAD ENTERING DOOR (opening these doors take longer than other to allow objects to load) -> run few meters -> LOAD ENTERING DOOR -> watch dialog (while choosing responses that are irrelevant to story and gameplay), run few meters -> LOAD ENTERING DOOR -> run few meters -> LOAD ENTERING DOOR -> run few meters to terminal -> LOAD -> run few meters -> you can ride for 2 minutes or fast travel so LOAD -> run and watch cutscene, make one decision (changing model appearing at the end of the game) -> go back to starting position so LOAD -> terminal transit -> LOAD -> first door -> LOAD -> second door -> LOAD -> watch dialog and it's end of the quest. Except main quest all quest are like that - lots of loading, a bit of running, some shooting/scanning, dialog and go to other planet, so again lots of loading. Gameplay is ok, but a massive amount of work were placed to create all dialogs and lore but most ware created just to fill blanks without any creativity. Cinematics are bad. Mechanics of dialogs are bad - it sound like a "FRIENDS" without lough track - speaking, pause, speaking and all lack any emotions, and if there are some emotions, bad animation makes it look bad. Same few animals across whole galaxy cluster. No music so gameplay is a bit flat (final mission has music and is way more entertaining). Whole game looks like some scrum or agile management where creatives ware used to fill gaps, not to shape whole experience.… Expand
  52. 3fallin
    Jan 5, 2021
    8
    Great game if not for the heavy bugs and game breaking glitches that EA won’t fix. Music is great along with characters. EA made a good game and I hope we get a sequel that joins milky way and andromeda’s galaxy. The Kett should also be a focus in the next one.
  53. Karolina001
    Aug 1, 2022
    10
    Absolutely awesome game. I can't understand negative reviews about this game.
    Maby it's because I only play open world games because I love them, but this game is so detailed and there is so much to do. Of course this game is not totally perfect,but btw I don't know any game that is perfect. The quests are interesting. The only thing is, the world's could be a little bit fuller they are a    Absolutely awesome game. I can't understand negative reviews about this game.
    Maby it's because I only play open world games because I love them, but this game is so detailed and there is so much to do. Of course this game is not totally perfect,but btw I don't know any game that is perfect. The quests are interesting. The only thing is, the world's could be a little bit fuller they are a bit empty.More enemies and more loot would be nice. Other than that I'm very happy with this game    … Expand
  54. 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
  55. 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
  56. fakkel
    Apr 18, 2017
    0
    I am sorry to say, but this is another franchise dead and buried. Terrible Writing, lots of technical issues together with poorly made animations. Already my biggest disappointment of 2017.
  57. Killga
    Mar 27, 2017
    6
    I have some trouble rating this. I actually bought an XBOX 360 back in the day just to be able to play Mass Effect (1) when it came out. So far the best I can say is that its presentation is quite uneven and unconsistant. Graphics are amazing at one point (say in-system travel and some places and dialogues) and at the next time they are quite awful. Take the Nexus and its crew - it justI have some trouble rating this. I actually bought an XBOX 360 back in the day just to be able to play Mass Effect (1) when it came out. So far the best I can say is that its presentation is quite uneven and unconsistant. Graphics are amazing at one point (say in-system travel and some places and dialogues) and at the next time they are quite awful. Take the Nexus and its crew - it just looks as it was left halfway unfinished (the design not the Nexus itself) and/or done by some interns. Also my female Ryder looks great at times and then its just awful. So far the story seems relatively interesting although its a bit too much "Kids with guns in space" and I feel the Kett offer nothing new so far. It has been said and critizised that all Asari and Salarian look the same - just another sign of the lackluster design Bioware has displayed all the way back to Dragon Age II (copy/paste Dungeon design).… Expand
  58. griffey546
    Apr 4, 2017
    1
    very no like it, make me think vodka good for u. сука блять! please valve, fix ur game, very bad getting put in global with bad silver!!! no much russian, only cyka americana and euro! yes
  59. Shaneuk
    Apr 3, 2017
    0
    I love this franchisr and have bought every mass effect game on release but this , well embarrassing and and insult to gamers.
    The game itself shows so much promise but it shouldnt have been released in its current state, its incomplete and bugged to hell. Missions past Kadaya ive spent more time stuck in rocks that the ui throws you into for no reason, (you actually get stuck past the    I love this franchisr and have bought every mass effect game on release but this , well embarrassing and and insult to gamers.
    The game itself shows so much promise but it shouldnt have been released in its current state, its incomplete and bugged to hell. Missions past Kadaya ive spent more time stuck in rocks that the ui throws you into for no reason, (you actually get stuck past the scenery ) makes it unplayable, not to mention mako exploding when hitting imaginary walls, the lists quite long.
    This should of been picked up by quality control its a shoddy effort and makes a game unplayable.
    Very very disapointed youve hurried release and it shows.    … Expand
  60. pizzafort
    Mar 29, 2017
    3
    I love how many people who rated this game 10/10 blame hate. As if all the majority negativity is due to hate alone and as if gamers care about hating something more than having a good game. Personally I love Dragon age 2 but when that game received numerous negativity, I actually know where they r coming from and it is not hate that dictate the score.

    Overall this game can be just    I love how many people who rated this game 10/10 blame hate. As if all the majority negativity is due to hate alone and as if gamers care about hating something more than having a good game. Personally I love Dragon age 2 but when that game received numerous negativity, I actually know where they r coming from and it is not hate that dictate the score.

    Overall this game can be just described in one word- Amateur. In Story, character, graphics etc. the only reason I give it a 3 is due to its redeeming combat mechanic. Maybe all this got to do with the amateur staff they hired, some of them have zero experience in gaming but a whole lot of achievements in their political movements.    … Expand
  61. CriticalMoose
    Apr 2, 2017
    0
    With all of the people acting morally superior and saying "oh my gosh the do not join the hate-bandwagon", I just had to create an account purely to say this. This game is by no means a bad game. However, it is a prime example of what happens when developers fail to polish their game, and fail to uphold the quality that modern triple-A titles should be known for. Though this game is highlyWith all of the people acting morally superior and saying "oh my gosh the do not join the hate-bandwagon", I just had to create an account purely to say this. This game is by no means a bad game. However, it is a prime example of what happens when developers fail to polish their game, and fail to uphold the quality that modern triple-A titles should be known for. Though this game is highly enjoyable to some, there are simply too many faults and defects that it clearly should not be treated with the same respect as other, more polished games out there, which show outstanding professionalism and where the developer's care for the game really shows. This game just lacks all the makings of a modern, block-buster gaming experience, unlike its predecessors, the original Mass Effect Trilogy. The original trilogy were all critically acclaimed titles and for good reason; it shows what developers can really accomplish, and provide a gaming experience that could be unforgettable. This game, lacks that. It does not deliver. Lackluster writing, mediocre animations, no quality control. There is no hate-bandwagon; games are not hated for no reason. This game is an insult to all good, polished, and masterful games out there. It is an insult to the original trilogy. This game is an insult to its own fans.… Expand
  62. InsaneSpectre
    Apr 3, 2017
    0
    I am only human after all. God I hate this one. I am a huge Mass Effect fan and playing Andromeda was hell of experience. Don't even bother waiting for pirated copy, get familiar with the original trilogy and let ME franchise leave positive emotions. Andromeda is a complete disgrace period. Spectre out.
  63. Viking171986
    Mar 29, 2017
    3
    The good, The bad and the wtf. A 100% completion with a i7 and gtx 1080.

    The good: 1) Sound effects in this game i.e gunfire sound legitimate and believable for the setting. 2) there are some good plot points, but you need to navigate around 20+ hours of pure garbage to get to, 3) Jumping is a nice change. The bad: 1) Facial animations. Every other reviewer is hitting this topic    The good, The bad and the wtf. A 100% completion with a i7 and gtx 1080.

    The good:
    1) Sound effects in this game i.e gunfire sound legitimate and believable for the setting.
    2) there are some good plot points, but you need to navigate around 20+ hours of pure garbage to
    get to,
    3) Jumping is a nice change.
    The bad:
    1) Facial animations. Every other reviewer is hitting this topic no need to go into more detail. I'm
    playing on max settings and the original trilogy had better animations.
    2) No mini map or radar. this is a space exploration game are you telling me your wrist watch
    scanner (Not an omnitool that's clear) can't give you a map?
    3) The new cover system is janky and all over the place.
    4) Companions are useless and combat ineffective at the best of the times.
    5) Wildlife diversity.
    6) 3 abilities can only be used at a time.
    7) Space Saduko.

    The WTF!

    1) Who in the name of the goddess screened or hired these voice actors? Seriously did EA/Bioware blow their whole budget on a hack actress from GOT? The guards from Skyrim have more emotional depth than 99% of the characters in the game. It's so bad that I skipped through almost all the cutscenes but left the subtitles on so I wouldn't miss the non-existent plot.

    2) Character creation..................Did you even try EA/Bioware?!?

    3) Plot. This was a totally shoehorned politically driven plot and it doesn't even try to hide it. two examples are on Eos and a Nexus follow up. 1st example and spoiler alert once you set up an outpost on EOS this after the first two were slaughtered by the kett if you set up a military base people on the nexus will actually have a protest.....really?!? 2nd example while doing a misc side quest you are given the option to share natural gas with exiles and you companions will try to make you feel bad for fracking..........Political Bias aside the plot drags and gives you no incentive to make any decision it is linear, there is no real choice in the game that will change the outcome. After 40+ hours I have no urge to playthough again to find out, for a Mass Effect game passing on a New game + option should be a red flag. it's just an all around bad plot in a majority of the game with no pacing or depth.
    4) Playing on a Brand new pc i7 with a 1080 I ran across very few game breaking bugs but more than a dozen times I was forced to hard stop the game in order to fix some i.e getting stuck on invisible walls, falling through the ground, cutscene bugs (getting killed by an enemy while talking to an npc in the cutscene. It's clear there was no quality control in this game at all because running into any bug on an average of every two minutes. Fallout 4 on launch felt better.

    In closing this is my first review and I don't have an editor to proof read but I had to write a review for this game because this trend of pushing personal politics and feelings into games at the expense of a quality product is no longer acceptable. EA doesn't care that much is obvious but I expected more out of bioware the company that brought us Dragon Age Origins, Kotor 1-2, 99.5% of the Mass Effect Trilogy. This abomination is not a Mass Effect game. I could take a poop and put the Mass Effect Logo on it and it would have more character depth than this game. RIP Mass Effect.    … Expand
  64. pnathan28
    Mar 29, 2017
    3
    This game is a massive disappointment. I am a huge Mass Effect fan, having played the first 3 games multiple times and in comparison Andromeda falls woefully short. First, the combat is smoother and faster but they have removed direct control and customization for squad members. The facial animations are HORRENDOUS and really take you out of the game, but the environments are done prettyThis game is a massive disappointment. I am a huge Mass Effect fan, having played the first 3 games multiple times and in comparison Andromeda falls woefully short. First, the combat is smoother and faster but they have removed direct control and customization for squad members. The facial animations are HORRENDOUS and really take you out of the game, but the environments are done pretty well. The writing is also mediocre at best, given that Mass Effect writing hasn't always been high literature but at least it was funny, charming and enough to get you invested in the story. I'm already 25 hours into Andromeda and i just cant get myself to care about the stories and the characters. My biggest disappointment were the mundane fetch quests that just littered the game. It seemed like a majority of the quests were a simple go here find 3 of these and sent you off to all corners of the map, and it got really old really fast. Which is really sad because there is a good game in here somewhere, the areas are massive and there is plenty to explore.… Expand
  65. Masseffect
    Mar 28, 2017
    6
    I am an absolute massive Mass Effect fan with that being said this game has most definitely captured my interest and I am going to put so many hours into this game. That being said it is by no means for everyone. The game is massive and can be repetitive at times and by no means has is it at the top of the graphics or animations game. In fact there is a ton of glitches and bugs that takeI am an absolute massive Mass Effect fan with that being said this game has most definitely captured my interest and I am going to put so many hours into this game. That being said it is by no means for everyone. The game is massive and can be repetitive at times and by no means has is it at the top of the graphics or animations game. In fact there is a ton of glitches and bugs that take away from the game experience. Some of them are small and so can be huge and make you shut off your console and come back into the game. Now even with all that this game is an experience you can jump in and just explore space and have a brand new experience in the Mass Effect universe. The combat has been updated and is extremely fun and smooth! I can use my biotic abilities to jump around the battlefield and destroy the enemy with my shotgun! Or I can just go into the pause menu and switch to my tech abilities and lay back and steal the enemies shields or go invisible and sneak around the battlefield and snipe them. You can play your way and its a ton of fun! The story line is not the strongest but I believe that it is like the original Mass Effect where it is not the best but it is building to something bigger and better to come.… Expand
  66. Hirdannen
    Mar 31, 2017
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Note: This review is based on the first 9-hours, since I couldn't manage to play anymore than that.

    As a huge fan of the Mass Effect trilogy and someone who still plays the 3 games occasionnely, I couldn't help but compare Andromeda to its forebears. And Andromeda feels cheap. I don't know where the time and the money went, because they barely had any new models (except for Angaran & Kerth weapons). Krogans, Asaris, Turians.. All the characters seem imported straight from Mass Effect 1 with just higher textures. Mass Effect 2 and 3 had more variety in terms of alien species.

    Animation is minimum, at the same level than Mass Effect 1. But Mass Effect 1 was 10 years ago. I won't spend time talking about that since any meme on the internet shows the problem of the animation in Mass Effect Andromeda.

    Writing is barely at a minimum. Actually, I was hooked in the beginning. Sleeping for 600 years and falling in an unknown galaxy which is actually less hospitable than expected ? That looked awesome. I even liked the first encounter with the Kerth, where you hesitate between shooting or waiting for any gesture of diplomacy. I liked alien gigantic-structures which could transform an entire world, it was an enticing mystery. The Kerth looked good enough, even if not really original.

    The Nexus and the Angaran meeting obliterated any interest I had in the story. The Nexus felt robotic, like if no one cared about the situation. I mean if you compare to ME3's depicition of the Reaper War, you know that ambiance is very important for immersion.In MEA, no one seemed to really care about the fact they were all stranded in an unknown galaxy, cut off from their arks, without much food, fighting against each other (I mean, there was a mutiny !) and floating in space. The very few people you meet just don't care.

    And the Angarans... I was really anticipating meeting a new race (after the Kerth of course). How would they react ? How would we communicate ? It could have been a major plot event. It was the most ridiculous depiction of inter-species discovery I have ever seen in a movie/game. It was filled with completely unexplained and illogical elements such as "How can the Angarans all talk our language just minutes after our landing ?". Even their chief. Even any Quest-giving PNJ you meet afterward !

    Also they say that the Kerth were the first alien race they ever encountered before the Initiative. And yet, they didn't put protection in place, they let me walk straight to their leader (I was a damn biotic ! I didn't need weapons to crush him if I that was what I wanted). I asked them to see the vault and they answered without any kind of reservation about it, just a mere 3 minutes after I began to speak. I felt like I was just meeting a human sergent on a human planet and it was just a normal secondary quest giver. There was absolutely no sense of immersion whatsoever and it was a damn shame. I can also talk about all the Angarans who seem eager to give you quests on the way back, even if they shouldn't be able to speak my language and they had all the reasons in the world to be suspicious of aliens. I'm not even talking about the fact that the Initiative is not 1 alien race, but more than 5 together and no Angaran seemed to care or take note of this. Maybe they're blind and see humans, asaris and krogans as similar ?

    The worlds you visit feel fake and I was like playing ME1 again, even if the vehicle is far easier to handle and graphics are upgraded. It felt more like a remaster of ME1 in that aspect.

    Combat is... weaker than ever. Jetpacks felt like a unexplained addition to the combat system, like adding jump abilities to CoD. In ME123, ennemies have more or less the same abilities you have (at least most ofthem). You know what to expect from them, and you are at a similar level. But in MEA, strangely only you have jetpacks. And your mates. Which means ennemies are stuck to the ground while you fly and dodge like a madman around the battlefield. I found that extremely hard to believe. I do love the acceleration provided by the jetpack of course, like any gamer playing Titanfall would praise the "walk-on-wall" mobility, but I felt my immersion broken when thinking about why I wasthe only one using that. Beside, the ennemies are not designed to fight a jetpack-equipped player, for sure. It feels like playing classical CoD during WWII with a jetpack ! It feels like it was not part of the combat design.

    AI is still stupid, haven't changed since ME1. Allies are worse than ever because now the orders you give them are so few that their inability cannot be compensated by your intervention. Allies standing on rocks instead of taking cover behind them is the pinnacle of the flaws of this system for me. Enemy AI was weak in ME1 but at least they were dangerous.
    I reached the limit for my review, but I had a lot more things to say.    … Expand
  67. Spudgie
    Apr 3, 2017
    1
    I gave bioware the benefit of the doubt and pre-ordered the delux edition. Man, was I disappointed. If I knew what it was going to be like, I never would have wasted my money. Huge let-down. I spend half the game skipping through the conversations because they are so bad, and the other half making sure I dont hit the wrong conversation choice while getting hit on by one of the many gayI gave bioware the benefit of the doubt and pre-ordered the delux edition. Man, was I disappointed. If I knew what it was going to be like, I never would have wasted my money. Huge let-down. I spend half the game skipping through the conversations because they are so bad, and the other half making sure I dont hit the wrong conversation choice while getting hit on by one of the many gay male characters. What a load of crap. After playing about a third of the way through the game, I completely gave up and quite playing it. I doubt I will ever finish it, even if they do fix the animations. Bioware will never see another dime of my money (and believe me, I have given them a lot of money over the years).… Expand
  68. arostislavna
    Mar 29, 2017
    1
    Uninteresting Plot, Characters, Design and a plethora of technical flaws.

    Infinite load screen (You must quit and restart repeatedly until it loads), enemies stuck in place, stop-motion movement, characters will do unusual things on the tempest, sky box will fail to load after you make Veold 100% viable, NPCs talking behind you and you cant hear them, & frame rate drops. Now let me    Uninteresting Plot, Characters, Design and a plethora of technical flaws.

    Infinite load screen (You must quit and restart repeatedly until it loads), enemies stuck in place, stop-motion movement, characters will do unusual things on the tempest, sky box will fail to load after you make Veold 100% viable, NPCs talking behind you and you cant hear them, & frame rate drops.

    Now let me tackle this multiplayer, shall we? It's Prison of Elders in a Mass Effect package on Peer-to-Peer networking! I have played one stable game since release.

    Do yourself a favor and don't buy this crap.    … Expand
  69. absoluterfreak
    Mar 27, 2017
    6
    I am 40 hours in and a big fan of the original ME trilogy.

    Pros: - Combat is pretty fun, and so is jumping around with the jetpack. You can mix up your skills at will, and I am having lots of fun as a soldier/sniper with biotic support powers. - The Tempest crew is likeable and interacts really well. There's lots of banter to be had and it feels very organic. Vetra and Drack are    I am 40 hours in and a big fan of the original ME trilogy.

    Pros:
    - Combat is pretty fun, and so is jumping around with the jetpack. You can mix up your skills at will, and I am having lots of fun as a soldier/sniper with biotic support powers.

    - The Tempest crew is likeable and interacts really well. There's lots of banter to be had and it feels very organic. Vetra and Drack are awesome.

    - Kadara is by far the coolest planet with lots of ME2/Omega vibes.

    - It's nice that we have a vehicle again and the Nomad is pretty cool.

    - The Tempest is pretty cool. Might even surpass the Normandy, design-wise.

    Cons:
    - well, everyone has heard this already, but yeah the animations. Or just, the technical side in general. Some characters look fine and other seem like they're fresh out of 2007. Suvi looks especially terrible, it's like her hair is an orange jellyfish. Apart from main characters, faces don't look much better than the first ME. Sara Ryder looks ok but has a little smile on her face all the time, even 5 mins after somebody's death or while stuck in a trap and facing the villain.

    - Story so far is whatever. Started off well, but loses itself among the tons of filler content. No sense of urgency or drama, no emotional impact so far, very weak villain. Could become better but I doubt it.

    - TOO MUCH CONTENT. As expected, it has the 'Dragon Age Inquisition' problem of having gigantic areas with just so many side quests. At least it makes more sense this time, being the pathfinder and all, but I still cannot be bothered to pick up every tiny fetch quest. I don't understand why Bioware/EA suddenly wants open world, and I'd prefer they cut half of the content and focus on a good story.

    - it is not possible to be 'evil'. The best you can do is play Ryder as a bit cold and logical, but you are really limited. Want to try being a dick to the Angara, or taking resources by force to be a ruthless invader of Andromeda? Well too bad because you can't. Ryder never becomes 'your' character like Shepard did.

    - SAM will not shut the **** up. After he has told you for the 1000th time that a region can be mined, or you should use your scanner, or 'radiation increases - radiation at normal levels - radiation increases' while you drive, it gets SLIGHTLY annoying.

    - When you drive across a planet, there's random enemy spawns everywhere. The nomad has no weapons (seriously, why) so you either just blast past them while Ryder says 'we should check that out', or you get out, fight them, get back in every 2 minutes.

    - New alien races are disappointing. Angara are pretty lame, look weird and don't fit into the ME universe imo. Kett seem straight out of Dragon Age. Remnant have pretty cool vaults at least.

    - 'Interrupt' actions are a joke, I had 4 of them in 40 hours of game so far and 3 of them basically made no difference.    … Expand
  70. 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
  71. 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
  72. 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
  73. Interesting_inc
    Mar 27, 2017
    6
    Mass Effect was promised to be the best of the Mass Effect franchise, we were promised that we were gonna see, hear and feel Mass Effect Andromeda in a way that we've never done a Mass Effect game before. This was gonna be the one that made up for the ending of mass effect 3, but BioWare did not deliver on the promise they made, the game feels more like Dragon Age: Inquisition which is notMass Effect was promised to be the best of the Mass Effect franchise, we were promised that we were gonna see, hear and feel Mass Effect Andromeda in a way that we've never done a Mass Effect game before. This was gonna be the one that made up for the ending of mass effect 3, but BioWare did not deliver on the promise they made, the game feels more like Dragon Age: Inquisition which is not as bad as people might think, Dragon Age Inquisition was a great game and if they made it better I would've been satisfied but BioWare didn't deliver on anything except for the graphics and gameplay. The gameplay was better than previous game as well as how the game looked except for the facial animations. The story is weaker than previous games as well as the characters, the multiplayer stayed the same as before. If you are all about combat and multiplayer horde mode than this is the game for you, but if you want to enjoy the story and have fun with the characters you will not find this here in this game, In simpler words the story and characters were average at best and the music was not spot on It just didn't feel right, as for bugs I only had one bug in the game and It didn't take away from the experience and neither did the facial animations for me because I care more about the story. It is obvious that this game was not ready to be released yet and I am disappointed that BioWare didn't make this game they it should have been in the years they had to make it. This game is a 6 out of 10 despite it's story and characters being weak it looked beautiful most of the time(excluding facial animations) and the combat was fun if not for the combat this game would've been a 4 out of ten and I am hoping that BioWare fixes this with patches and free DLC because this game was not worth at the price they sold it. If you like to enjoy a story and have fun with characters this is not the game for you, on the other hand if you enjoy combat and multiplayer horde mode you will enjoy it.… Expand
  74. carnesaasa
    Mar 30, 2017
    7
    I cannot believe the number of negative "die everyone in Bioware" critics for this game, is it all good? no, is it all bad? no, could it have been better? of course. There are lots of games with almost the same repetitive quests or stories, and everyone enjoys them (ring any bells? Assassin's Creed, GTA, Destiny, MGS5, etc.). Many games are just plain repetitive and this one is justI cannot believe the number of negative "die everyone in Bioware" critics for this game, is it all good? no, is it all bad? no, could it have been better? of course. There are lots of games with almost the same repetitive quests or stories, and everyone enjoys them (ring any bells? Assassin's Creed, GTA, Destiny, MGS5, etc.). Many games are just plain repetitive and this one is just another one, go there kill someone or pick something or run from the bad guys or just lose time going around, every major "open world" game does the same. Personally I liked the game, it is massive, full of dialogue (as any RPG), full of choices and beautiful worlds. I am hoping for the updates and DLC's… Expand
  75. aaronreaction
    Apr 1, 2017
    4
    so I bought this game despite watching my fair share of video reviews since despite the concerns about character animation and repetitive missions, it actually looked like a really good space adventure, blockbuster type of game. I really wanted to like this, and kept telling myself it was too soon to judge, maybe the game has to get into full swing before you can really get into it.
    A few    so I bought this game despite watching my fair share of video reviews since despite the concerns about character animation and repetitive missions, it actually looked like a really good space adventure, blockbuster type of game. I really wanted to like this, and kept telling myself it was too soon to judge, maybe the game has to get into full swing before you can really get into it.
    A few hours in, after beginning the main mission of colonization, I was hoping for some kind of rewarding process where you build a base up but it was just more of the same - 'go here,press triangle.go there, press triangle again. now shoot these aliens. dialogue. repeat. ' After a day and a night of playing, I just found myself wanting to trade it in for a game that was getting consistent good reviews. I'm willing to look past shoddy animation and repetition, but I simpy wasn't having enough fun to continue. maybe if the story was grabbing me, maybe I would have carried on..    … Expand
  76. AndyRD
    Apr 10, 2017
    4
    After that big pile of junk called ME3, we have the huge pile of junk called ME Andromeda.I really would like to know why EA decided to leave the almost perfect way traced by ME2.
    The only emotional moment, in ME Andromeda, when you ear Liara T'soni voice in some datapad.
  77. 314TR
    May 4, 2017
    1
    It is rare that I buy a game on its release date, but as a huge fan of the Mass Effect series I did upon the release of Andromeda and I am very disappointed to say that I regret it enormously. It is without a doubt one of the worst games in recent years. It already starts at character creation. The faces are simply ugly. There is no other way to put it and no amount of editing can makeIt is rare that I buy a game on its release date, but as a huge fan of the Mass Effect series I did upon the release of Andromeda and I am very disappointed to say that I regret it enormously. It is without a doubt one of the worst games in recent years. It already starts at character creation. The faces are simply ugly. There is no other way to put it and no amount of editing can make them attractive. It is so bad that it renders the game almost unplayable. I literally had to start a new game with a different face 5 times before I finally had created a face that was somewhat bearable. That's ridiculous for a RPG. It's the first time that has ever happened to me. I've altered the settings so that the character's helmet is on most of the time, which helps somewhat. But there are still cutscenes where the helmet is removed. Of course if that was the only thing wrong with the game it would be something to overcome and perhaps fix in a future patch, but sadly there is much, much more wrong with it. The story is almost non-existent, the NPC's are uninteresting, the side quests are boring and is most cases simply an exercise in futility. The replay value is limited because there are no class restrictions. One of the great things about the previous Mass Effect games was that you could play them again as a different class and get a completely different game experience. But in this game it is all lumped together. As a Vanguard you can specialize in skills of an Infiltrator, or an Engineer, or a Biotic. It completely ruins the replayability. And you get so many skill points (I easily reached level 62 on my first playthrough) that you can try out pretty much every skill you want and still have points to spare. It's ridiculous. The game is also filled with bugs that sometimes even cause quests to break or hang. The first patch has actually made things worse. The AI in your head won't shut up. Telling you the temperature is below freezing, and then normal again, and then below freezing again, and then normal again, and so on. But that very same information is already on the screen, so there is no need for the AI to tell you about it. It's just purely annoying. As an experienced gamer you will know what to do as soon as you enter a location. And you'll do it. But in this game you will enter a location, see the terminal that you have to activate and then wait for a minute while your AI explains to you in an excruciatingly slow voice that you have to activate the terminal. This game is completely void of any thing that makes it interesting. The game keeps you busy, but at no point does it entertain. This game is the complete opposite of the previous Mass Effect games. Those were great, this is garbage. Even if a future patch fixes the bugs, gives you the option to shut your AI up, makes the faces of the player character less ugly, it still leaves you with a terribly designed game that is boring an annoying. If you absolutely must buy this game and see for yourself how bad it is, don't buy it now as you can get it a discount soon enough. But my advise is to keep your money in your pocket and keep the memory of the greatness of the previous Mass Effect games intact.… Expand
  78. mike299
    Mar 22, 2017
    5
    nice combat system, buggy and unpolished, kinda repetitive, dialog wheel not representative of what the character says, soundtrack is average, all and all a typical Bioware game. Nothing Memorable about the characters or story. Haven't try multiplayer yet
  79. 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
  80. Dust_Hustla
    Mar 29, 2017
    3
    In a nutshell, terrible controls and frame rate issues ruin the multiplayer. Single player is marred by fetch quests and, well, nothing that screams "play me" over any of the other games currently out there.
  81. sikfuk
    Apr 8, 2017
    0
    BW needs to hire competent people to make their games in the future. this is not good. i miss the good old games like Kotor, Jade Empire, Dragon Age: Origins. back then the company had a passion for making great games with a fantastic story. now the company has been infested with sick people who focus more on pushing their twisted political and social agenda rather than making good games.
  82. Mustakrakysh
    Apr 28, 2017
    0
    What a disappointment. This game is a DISGRACE. The Story and Characters are **** I'm typically too lazy to actually rate games but this one is such a terrible disappointment I feel compelled to actually say so. I LOVE the original three games and this game dishonors everything that Mass Effect was.
  83. Bonesilk
    Mar 30, 2017
    0
    The day when Mass Effect dead.
    First time on metacritic. i love what Mass Effect was.
    Thx for : 5% - Shoot time 15% - Ride desert on your unicorn car 45% - Scan all.... Must scan all! 15% - Jump - yay so fuuuun 10% - Bugs. 10% - Lore. What mass effect was : 55% - Lore 25% - Shoot 20% - Explore planets etc.. Dont invent bike if already some one made it. Bioware like    The day when Mass Effect dead.
    First time on metacritic. i love what Mass Effect was.
    Thx for :
    5% - Shoot time
    15% - Ride desert on your unicorn car
    45% - Scan all.... Must scan all!
    15% - Jump - yay so fuuuun
    10% - Bugs.
    10% - Lore.

    What mass effect was :
    55% - Lore
    25% - Shoot
    20% - Explore planets etc..

    Dont invent bike if already some one made it.
    Bioware like Ubisoft. THEY show wow graphics and then downgrade.    … Expand
  84. aacak99022
    Mar 26, 2017
    7
    i buy this game only to play multiplayer but there are many glitch and bugs in multiplayer. Sometimes this game can cause my ps4 to become no sound any more but when I close the game application, my ps4 bad normal again, this game is very broken to play online even more worse than ubisoft game like division.Beware for any person who want to buy this game for multiplayer
  85. albasile
    Mar 28, 2017
    7
    In many ways ME:A is much different than the ME trilogy especially in the combat mechanics and larger worlds. It comes closest to the original ME game in terms of exploration and discovery but ME:A surpasses the original game in terms of beautiful worlds, a slick new star ship, and ground vehicle. However the strengths that were present in the original trilogy in terms of a story, plotIn many ways ME:A is much different than the ME trilogy especially in the combat mechanics and larger worlds. It comes closest to the original ME game in terms of exploration and discovery but ME:A surpasses the original game in terms of beautiful worlds, a slick new star ship, and ground vehicle. However the strengths that were present in the original trilogy in terms of a story, plot and fully fleshed out characters are somewhat lacking in ME:A. The story, although engaging, lacks the thought provoking plot that was present in ME 1 in regards to the introduction of world, finding clues, and uncovering a conspiracy. The characters of ME:A for the protagonist, squad mates, and other NPCs are interesting, but they do not bring the same attachments that were felt in ME 2 and 3. When tragedy hits or there is a sense of urgency for example, our protagonist and others lack real emotions such as anguish or anxiety that would undoubtedly be present in fleshed out characters. Lastly, far from the pioneer animation that was present in ME in 2007, facial and body animations in ME:A are at times a bit off putting especially in conversations with other characters in the game. They can be distracting and unintentionally comical often breaking sobering moments of the story.
    In short, Mass Effect Andromeda falls short of being a great game. And although there are some disappointments to be had, it's still a good game and there is plenty there to keep one entertained. 7.5 out of 10 .    … Expand
  86. MustafaAmro
    Mar 31, 2017
    1
    I loved Mass Effect franchise, and I can't believe I waited for this game for four years, ME2 was one of the best games I had ever played in my entire life, I had spent 1K+ hours on ME3 Multiplayer.
    But I don't know what to call Andromeda, I spent the entire day trying to clear the **** load of missions that I was given in the first 20 minutes, googling how to get the Deluxe edition items    I loved Mass Effect franchise, and I can't believe I waited for this game for four years, ME2 was one of the best games I had ever played in my entire life, I had spent 1K+ hours on ME3 Multiplayer.
    But I don't know what to call Andromeda, I spent the entire day trying to clear the **** load of missions that I was given in the first 20 minutes, googling how to get the Deluxe edition items i bought. the menus are horrible especially the quests menu you will easily get you lost, the environment is buggy, controlling your squad is a joke if compared to ME3 companions control, a poor navigating system that makes driving through a radiated wasteland that keeps on eating your vehicle shields a nightmare, and that's mostly what you do driving, collecting minerals and looking for dead bodies.
    A huge disappointment, wont be surprised if the price dunked in less than 2 months.    … Expand
  87. Melora
    Mar 31, 2017
    0
    This game is an obscenity. As someone who's played 40+ playthoughs across the original games, it hurts to say that. The character creator is repulsive, the voice acting is dreadful. The plot is dull, the squadmates are boring, and the 2004 Korean MMO tier fetch quests are simply unacceptable in a post-Witcher3, post New Vegas world. It's filled with innumerable bugs. The femaleThis game is an obscenity. As someone who's played 40+ playthoughs across the original games, it hurts to say that. The character creator is repulsive, the voice acting is dreadful. The plot is dull, the squadmates are boring, and the 2004 Korean MMO tier fetch quests are simply unacceptable in a post-Witcher3, post New Vegas world. It's filled with innumerable bugs. The female character doesn't get a female human squadmate romance, again, and the gay romances are just insulting.

    People say the combat is good but that's all MEA is, pew-pew-pew. It's CallofDuty in space now, and anyone wanting story, plot or character must look elsewhere. The people responsible for this atrocity should never work in the industry again.    … Expand
  88. theocract
    Apr 1, 2017
    1
    A total steaming pile of rubbish - the entire studio who published this atrocity of a game should be fired. Between the crappy animations and faces that were better in ME1 (and that's TEN years ago) to the infantile writing, the even more dumbed down squad control, the vast quantity of mindless side quests. All in all a total mess.
  89. Swanny1775
    Apr 9, 2017
    1
    Disappointed doesn't even begin to describe my feelings about this game. Mass Effect 1-3 were among the best games ive ever played, so i had high hopes for Andromeda. Sadly, I was completely and utterly let down.

    First and foremost are the bugs. They are numerous, recurring and in some cases bring a screeching halt to gameplay. As with most games touched by EA, this installment is a    Disappointed doesn't even begin to describe my feelings about this game. Mass Effect 1-3 were among the best games ive ever played, so i had high hopes for Andromeda. Sadly, I was completely and utterly let down.

    First and foremost are the bugs. They are numerous, recurring and in some cases bring a screeching halt to gameplay. As with most games touched by EA, this installment is a stain on a a great franchise and an embaressment to a company like Bioware, who has up till now been held in high regard by gamers.

    I am so utterly dissapointed in every aspect of this game that i can safely say i wont even bother with the next title Bioware makes me wait 5 years for. Getting in bed with EA was the worst decision they ever made and this sad, unplayable failure of a game only serves to show just how far they have fallen.

    Dont waste your money, the awful graphics and flat story aside, the outragous amount of bugs will most likely leave the game unplayable enough that you wont have to suffer through all the other shortcomings that make this game one of the hugest disappointments ever.    … Expand
  90. Captiosus
    Apr 1, 2017
    6
    Mass Effect Andromeda was simply "OK". Doesn't live up to the high bar set by the original trilogy but is decent on its own. The story is groan-worthy and cliche and the characters and settings are pale imitations of the originals (Liam/Jacob; Vetra/Garrus; Cora/Ashley; Drack/Wrex; Peebee/Liara; Jaal/Javik; Remnant/Promethians; Kett/Reapers; Kadara/Omega; etc.). Though, honestly - and thisMass Effect Andromeda was simply "OK". Doesn't live up to the high bar set by the original trilogy but is decent on its own. The story is groan-worthy and cliche and the characters and settings are pale imitations of the originals (Liam/Jacob; Vetra/Garrus; Cora/Ashley; Drack/Wrex; Peebee/Liara; Jaal/Javik; Remnant/Promethians; Kett/Reapers; Kadara/Omega; etc.). Though, honestly - and this will be sacrilegious to some Mass Effect fans - I found I liked Peebee more than I liked Liara from the original trilogy, but that's just me.

    The BIGGEST issue with this game is that the Frostbite engine repeatedly chokes. It's as if they handed the engine to a team that had little to no experience developing for it. Constant frame rate drops, horrendous texture pop in, AI and model spawn-in broken repeatedly, textures not appearing, laughably bad character animations, constant sound effect and voice file bugs (constantly clipping or cutting out entirely), and so on. Some of these issues can be game-breaking, forcing a console restart or the need to reload a prior save. The issues are really glaring when you go over to a different game that manages a solid 30 or 60 FPS then come back to Andromeda. Oh and there is a level of laziness I feel should be noted: Almost every non-ringed gas giant throughout Andromeda is a copy/paste of a stock photograph of our very own Jupiter, only with various gray, sepia, and brown filters over them. They didn't even try to change the gas bands or even the location of the red spot storm.

    After having played newer space shooters like Destiny (which, despite its problems, is a fluid and very graphically pretty game) and recent open world games like Horizon Zero Dawn, I can't help but feel that Mass Effect Andromeda is a relic from a different time. To be brutally honest the planets in ME:A were as graphically janky as the planets in No Man's Sky and often only slightly less barren. Which is sad because we've seen what the Frostbite engine is capable of. If you're a Mass Effect fan like I am, it's probably worth a rental. But I'm struggling to justify my purchase because, unlike the original Trilogy which I played more times than I care to count across three different platforms, I doubt I'll be playing this through a second time. [For anyone wondering, 73:56:02 played, 96% completion; Adept/Vanguard Male Ryder]

    Edited extra: One of the complaints many had of the originals was that the romance scenes lacked punch because they didn't have nudity. ME:A embraces its Mature rating and goes with nudity this time around and it feels, well... meh. It's like watching a late night Cinemax softcore 30 minute show with just as much emotion (which is to say none). The romance scenes STILL lack punch as they now feel more like fan service rather than a meaningful plot device.    … Expand
  91. Djesha
    May 15, 2017
    3
    was a fan of the first trilogy. Here we lost the grandiose of the previous game with weak characters, average writing, weak design and average visuals.
    it looks like this has been done by non-passionate people who just did not care. this is very disappointing game... If this game was not named Mass effect it would get an even lower rating
  92. fffffff
    Apr 5, 2017
    3
    Game is frankly boring, it's just not interesting like previous Mass Effect games. I can only bring myself to play the game every few days or so, the game has been out for almost a month, and I haven't been interested enough to play past the second planet.

    I've also ragequit a number of times because of enemies spawning on top of me or directly behind me and instantly vaporizing me on    Game is frankly boring, it's just not interesting like previous Mass Effect games. I can only bring myself to play the game every few days or so, the game has been out for almost a month, and I haven't been interested enough to play past the second planet.

    I've also ragequit a number of times because of enemies spawning on top of me or directly behind me and instantly vaporizing me on the base assault missions. No enemies on radar, then move forward towards a new room and suddenly there's guys in front of you, to both sides, and behind you, and out of cover in this game = dead in 2 seconds.    … Expand
  93. Lughheim
    Apr 11, 2017
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Mass effect has been probably the greatest rpg series I have ever played in my life. It's staples are known to be a great narrative driven story, with player choices shaping the game world around them, as well as having multiple companions you can meet and know very well each with their own interesting background. Gameplay was always considered as an afterthought, with most of the work going in the story to make each mission and choice impactful and meaningful in its own way. Because of this, I consider Mass Effect: Andromeda to be a complete and utter failure of a game.
    The game has an extremely short main story that can be completed in one sitting if you focus only on the main story and do not focus on side quests. The main story is extremely dissapointing, as it shows itself to be extremely bland for the vast majority of the time. Nearing the end it finally becomes more interesting and complex, and then it suddenly ends. The game never answers many of the most central and basic questions that it brings up, like (SPOILERS): Who are the Kett? Why do they want to turn the races around them into more kett? Why does the archon want to destroy the other worlds? Where did the scourge come from? What happened to the race that built the remnant? Why did the creators of rem-tech suddenly vanish, or even create this technology in the first place? (END SPOILERS) Add onto this extremely short and generally boring main storyline that absolutely none of the characters you meet along the way are interesting or memorable in any way whatsoever, and you have an utter failure of a main storyline.
    None of your companions are memorable at all, and their companion quests are generally quite dull. Almost all side quests in this game are fetch quests that are extremely boring and pointless and add nothing to the story. The narrative system in this game is pointless, as usually you will have only 2 options to speak which are often the exact same thing and mean absolutely nothing. You could choose basically any dialogue route in this game and you would end up with exactly the same response every time, which makes conversations that should have been the best part of the game an annoying chore.
    Really the only good things this game has going for it are the gameplay and graphics. And by graphics I mean the graphics outside of animating the characters in cutscenes, because those are horrible. If curious, anyone can go on youtube and see massive compilations of the disgustingly bad facial animations that make even ps2 facial animations look like the work of a genius. The world itself and battle animations are gorgeous and pleasing to look at. The game has a really good combat system as well, that combine factors from previous games in a new innovative way that make firefights genuinely enjoyable.
    if this game was some kind of new IP from Bioware focused on third person shooting action, I honestly think it would have been pretty decent. But Bioware made the horrible mistake of labeling this game as part of the Mass Effect series. In all of the core areas of a good RPG and as a part of the Mass Effect series this game fails completely in every key area that Mass Effect was known for. Because of that, I give this game an abysmal rating of 3. You would find a lot more fun out of this game if you didn't think it was a Mass Effect game, and you expected to buy a shooter not an RPG.    … Expand
  94. Si3g
    Mar 29, 2017
    7
    O jogo é bom no que se refere a gameplay e aos gráficos em geral,no entanto o game falha em entregar aquilo que fez a série ME uma franquia de sucesso. Problemas como a animação dos personagens, história fraca e uma interação entre os protagonistas que não convence, tornam esse o pior Mass Effect da série, Ainda assim MEA é um bom jogo que vale a pena ser conferido
  95. Agnivix
    Mar 30, 2017
    7
    (7.5/10) - Coming from a Bioware fan, Mass Effect Andromeda is an unpolished good game. It has issues, lots of them. Mainly I would point out:

    Facial animations that take away from what should have been emotional scenes; Walking animations of some characters; Loading (like how long do you have to stare at a door for it to open, sometimes so long that if there is a way around that    (7.5/10) - Coming from a Bioware fan, Mass Effect Andromeda is an unpolished good game. It has issues, lots of them. Mainly I would point out:

    Facial animations that take away from what should have been emotional scenes;

    Walking animations of some characters;

    Loading (like how long do you have to stare at a door for it to open, sometimes so long that if there is a way around that door you should probably take it. The loading moving around the galaxy map is ridiculous to the point you might not want to explore anymore.

    SAM talking about the temperature changes and mining console over and over again, sometimes seconds apart.

    Bugs, SO MANY BUGS. You can be talking with a guy and killed by an enemy mid conversation and get a corrupted save; you can be talking with a guy and he just walks over 30 feet away from you while in conversation. Doors just refuse to open unless you reload, landing animation loops. And severe hiccups in frame rate, sometimes freezing the game 0 fps for a few seconds.

    Controls seem very counterintuitive.

    Crafting seems overly complicated and severely limited by research points.

    I love companion stories, but I hate having to constantly finish a main quest, a planet and always have to go around the ship talking with everyone (sometimes multiple times) until they have nothing left to say except their usual greeting.

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    On the positive side, the game is massive. Clocked in 72h to finish. Was impressed at the amount of interesting dialogue in the world (you get the awful line here and there). While many disagree with me here, I feel the game needs to showcase that better. Quest givers sometimes have no markers, you get relevant chats with random npcs that the game never really gives you a reason to interact with. Some quests end and you assume there is a dialogue change with the quest giver or an npc mentioned in the quest and I have found that is true, but you have to actively pursue them, the game never even hints that you might get more story points if you go there. (while this rewards exploration it also means the average player will never really get the full picture or the sense that there is more)
    The story is fine, nothing groundbreaking, but a satisfying tale.    … Expand
  96. BabyRants
    Mar 29, 2017
    7
    7/10, And here's why. The controls are bumpy and don't feel right on PS4. The Graphics are stunning for ME, but yes, I do believe they've killed ME with this. EA, I love you. You've made the sims, ME, Battlefield, Dragon Age, but on March 21st, You killed another game series.
  97. Slion
    Apr 6, 2017
    2
    I wanted to like this game, Mass Effect was my favorite game series of all time even the ending of ME:3 wasn’t able discourage me from the franchise. But this game frustrates me more than the ending of ME:3 ever did, I am disappointed that this is the future of the series.
    After beating ME:A I can’t think of anything that sticks out as unique, interesting or unpredictable in this game.    I wanted to like this game, Mass Effect was my favorite game series of all time even the ending of ME:3 wasn’t able discourage me from the franchise. But this game frustrates me more than the ending of ME:3 ever did, I am disappointed that this is the future of the series.
    After beating ME:A I can’t think of anything that sticks out as unique, interesting or unpredictable in this game. The story is unremarkable, the new race is just an uninteresting over-designed mess, ham-fisted dialogue and lazy animations distract from what little story is interesting, and then there’s the faces, my god the faces...what have you done Bioware, what happened to everyone’s chins and why do so many women have 5’oclok shadows is that a side effect of whatever chemical they put in their hair to make it glow in the dark?
    Overall the game feels like several steps back from ME:3, and comes across as unfinished or lazily done in many places. The story is just rehashing of previous Mass Effect plots haphazardly thrown together to make a story that has no other point other than to lead into a sequel or future DLC. If you’re thinking you might want this game wait, play ME:3 if you haven’t and get ME:A when it’s on sale for 9.99 and hopefully this mess will be a bit more sorted out by then.    … Expand
  98. DarthSidious
    May 3, 2017
    2
    This could have been such a great game, but waiting 5 years for this, seriously makes me question if they had a bunch of control monkeys making this game. There are soooo many bugs in this game it boggles the mind. I can't tell you how many times the game locked up and I had to restart (I stopped counting at 28) or we had the melding of two characters (where 2 characters became one), orThis could have been such a great game, but waiting 5 years for this, seriously makes me question if they had a bunch of control monkeys making this game. There are soooo many bugs in this game it boggles the mind. I can't tell you how many times the game locked up and I had to restart (I stopped counting at 28) or we had the melding of two characters (where 2 characters became one), or where sound mysteriously disappeared altogether for about 5 minutes. To say this game is unfinished is the understatement of the century, and it took them 5, yes five, years to come out with this bug infested trash. Are you kidding me? The game that killed the ME franchise, way to go Bioware.… Expand
  99. 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
  100. Fuxcap
    Mar 28, 2017
    0
    Worst animations ever seen in a vid game.Not only that all female characters were 'uglyfied' just to please freaking feminism, also all human characters have dead eyes, dead emotions, bad textures, bad animation in walking running or whatever.Even without the endless bugs and glitches everywhere it would be horrible because of the characters behavior that kill every joyable aspect of the game.
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  1. Power Unlimited
    Oct 19, 2017
    78
    It might be the biggest, most complex and action packed game in the franchise, but Mass Effect: Andromeda is also the least convincing one. The dated facial animations, the inconsistent writing quality and the regularly occurring bugs take you out of the experience too often. On top of that, BioWare has not used the concept of a whole new universe to its full potential, which often makes it feel like Mass Effect: Andromeda has not left our Milky Way at all.
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  2. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    Jul 7, 2017
    70
    While it’s underwhelming in places, there’s a lot to like as you venture into the weirder parts of Andromeda. Frequent technical issues hamper the experience a bit, as does an uninspiring main story. [June 2017, p66]
  3. Games Master UK
    Jun 6, 2017
    81
    A welcome, if slightly patch return for Mass Effect. The script has problems, but combat is bloody brilliant. [May 2017, p.62]
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