I've played the multiplayer and so far everyone sucks so it's not a whole lot of fun unless you party-up. Despite the bad, the game is mediocre and worth playing just so you can say you're a real planet conquering human who has a complete disregard for other alien species but maybe wait until the game is on sale. Snag the Mass Effect: Andromeda Deluxe Edition and be prepared for whatever comes your way with multiple additional armor and outfit sets, an elite. You’re 2.5 million light-years away from Earth, and you’re going to need all the help you can get. Were it not for the fact that the combat is great and the crafting brings back a nice feel of Mass Effect 1, my score would be even lower. Mass Effect: Andromeda pits you and your crew against the dangers of a strange new galaxy. Unfortunately (and I hate using that word so much with Mass Effect), combat, conversations and driving on/exploring planets is 99% of the game and they messed up 2 of them.
It's fun and the environments you fight in make it even better. Mass Effect does a decent job of making the open world combat interesting by giving you worlds that feel a lot like Borderlands/Destiny while you fight your way through half Halo, half Destiny-ripoff aliens who are using "Prothean" weapons for some reason. Granted, the Mako 2.0 (NOMAD) is fantastic compared to its predecessor but it will certainly cause some serious flashbacks.įinally, the only saving grace of this game, is the combat and boy is it great. Unfortunately, BioWare decided to solve the problem with the Mako 2.0. The opportunity for exploration is immense making the transportation all the more important. The size of the planets are about the same or bigger than the maps in Mass Effect 1. From the lips to a bone-spear beard, everything is wrong with the faces, everything. Sadly though, this isn't all that bad of a thing considering that the 3 out of 10 conversations that go right force you to look at the worst faces in video games. I say this because 7 out of 10 conversations are conducted at the most ridiculous angle or with the person's back turned to Ryder. Now that might sound like a pretty great game and it would've been but you quickly realize that BioWare got everything in between wrong and somehow turn what should've been a great game into t his embarrassment to the Mass Effect franchise.įirst and foremost, I understand the decision to take out paragon/renegade, what I don't understand is the decision to take out face to face conversations. If you know anything about the previous games, it's feels like the combat and planet exploration of Mass Effect 1, the space exploration and relationships of Mass Effect 2 and the biotic combat, UI and multiplayer of Mass Effect 3. By randybongson | Review Date: March 23, 2017