Mass Effect: Andromeda

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  1. Voltron89
    Mar 21, 2017
    6
    Big game, but sadly empty and without good quality content. Quantity over quality... The game is one huge waste potential. There are some extremely good features but also some extremely bad. Let's get to it.

    GOOD: - Vast, new Galaxy to explore with aswesome new planets and places to see. - Some interesting side-characters and team mates (sadly, not level of trilogy crew). -    Big game, but sadly empty and without good quality content. Quantity over quality... The game is one huge waste potential. There are some extremely good features but also some extremely bad. Let's get to it.

    GOOD:
    - Vast, new Galaxy to explore with aswesome new planets and places to see.
    - Some interesting side-characters and team mates (sadly, not level of trilogy crew).
    - Absolutely great combat system, dynamic, fluid, smooth. Good balance between risk and cover combat at higher difficulties.
    - 3 new interesting spieces.
    - Exploration is done much better than in DA:I
    - A lot of dialogues and side quest
    - Quite long game
    - Very good overall visuals of everything but character faces.

    BAD:
    - Generic, boring story. Same scheme for everything. There is nothing deep or ambitious here. Bioware played it 100% safe, no controversy, no emotions, nothing memorable.
    - Many sides quests, but quality is low. Many quests are simple "track, kill, pick up, deliver" or "scan the hell out of this area". More story side-quests are also mostly generic and boring, not even one memorable quest with some sort of plot twist. BioWare should learn from Witcher 3 story quests.
    - Your team mates are shallow, cliche and many times irritating (PeeBee...god...). I din't want to romance anyone in the end, since your right hand seems more interesting and sexy than any of NPCs.
    - Animations are tragedy. This could be forgiven 5 years ago. But we have 2017 and animations are immersion-breaking. Dialogues which suppose to sound tough, emotional, serious are being destroyed by stupid eye rolls, creepy facial espressions and smiles that arre totally oposite to the voice and scene tone. Absolutely garbage. This is RPG game and belive me- you will spend A HELL LOT OF TIME speaking with many different NPCs. Animations will make you skip and speed trough them just to not see this crap.
    - Character Creation is easy the worst in any AAA RPG I have ever played. Why did BioWare just not include DA:I CC? I have no idea. It's like they want to force you to play their "child faces" twins...
    - Faces are awufull. Textures are low res even on 2K on Ultra, lightning is tragedy, as characters many times look like plastic dolls, not living beings.
    - Exploration, while better than in DA:I is till just a time waste and it just try to force you into beliving that game is longer and has more content than it really has. Jumping puzzles, scanning everything is boring, boring, boring. And why our new car does not have Cannon like Mako had? I have no idea....
    - Combat- ther variety of skills is great but you can only equip 3...that is a joke, especially on PC, where you could easy have 5-6 of them. 3 makes combat not as complex as it could be with more active skills.
    - Crafting is useless feature, again it is just to force you to play longer (grind for materials).
    - Music is just average. Not as good as in ME1 or ME2 by a long shot.
    - Game just feels rushed, unpolished, unfinished. If you focus while you play you can see that many thing were not finished.
    - Last but not least- main protagonists are absolutely joke and in many situations they seem like sort of "space teens power rangers" that try hard to be serious and mature. You can't even compare them to Shepard.

    Overall, let me sum this up:
    Game is big, but this is illusion, like DA:I was. Empty maps with useless activities, improved exploration which sadly gets boring after first 10-15 hours. Everything feels unfinished, rushed, beta stage. Story is cliche, boring and without any good plot-twists. Honestly - I can hardly remember it after beating it. Nothing memorable really happened. Combat is great but why so limited with active skills? Animations are great in combat and absolutely garbage B-grade outside of it- expresions, walking, lipsync- just bleh.

    Very average game, but touching a little "good game" territory. As a great ME fan (over 1000h in trilogy and 450h in ME3 MP) I am very dissapointed what has become of my favourite RPG universe.

    6/10, for combat mostly and planets/areas.

    BioWare- you should be ashamed. But you won't since it's all about money. There is not good people left there and no passion for gaming.

    Try to be like CD Project Red Please. Try again to create game with love.    … Expand
  2. Esthete
    Dec 5, 2018
    0
    One of the main nominees for the title of the game with worst level design, the worst storyline, worst facial animation, worst character design, worst quests design, worst gameplay ever...Shorter, Mass Effect: Andromeda - a piece of sh*!
  3. MartinParodi
    Mar 29, 2017
    3
    I tried to love this game i really did but after 25 hours played i now know i would never pre-order a game form Bioware again. I'm a huge fan of the mass effect series 1-2-3. own 1 and 2 on steam and 1-2-3 on origin and 1-2-3 on the ps3. So trust me when i say i was all in to let some minor errors out of the way and enjoy my time in Andromeda. But enough is enough, horrible looking PCI tried to love this game i really did but after 25 hours played i now know i would never pre-order a game form Bioware again. I'm a huge fan of the mass effect series 1-2-3. own 1 and 2 on steam and 1-2-3 on origin and 1-2-3 on the ps3. So trust me when i say i was all in to let some minor errors out of the way and enjoy my time in Andromeda. But enough is enough, horrible looking PC especially on the female side, absolutely horrifying looking NPC and animations, sub-par dialogue and game breaking bugs made me decide to put and end to this torture and stop playing this spawn of corporate greedy hell. It makes me feel like bioware just went out and fired the talented people that made the Mass Effect trilogy and replaced them with people that never designed a character in their lives along with the worst animators they could get, and on top of that they decided to rush the game so the already horrible content looks even worse. The Planets do look amazing, to absolutely stunning and immersive and they are one of the few reasons this game gets some points on my list, though on the other side the very few enemy types you get to fight is depressing. It doesn't take long to realize from one planet to another the enemies are pretty much the same with some color variations. The gameplay is actually fun and dynamic which gives some satisfaction, but then come the bugs to make you remember this game is no fun with enemies getting stuck on roof, ice, or anywhere were you can't kill them unless you reload a previous save...and that is just one of the many bugs the game has(enemies won't attack when you are clearly shooting them, getting stuck, falling in a hole and teleporting to a completely different part of the map, doors inside your ship not opening after entering that room...and a big etc). Your crew relationship feels kinda shallow, Liam is probably the best done but making him only decent, I couldn't relate to them like i did with Garrus or Tali for example and some of the writing in the game makes you think they hired a teenager to do it, and not a very talented one at that. The music improves and actually makes you feel you're playing Mass Effect, but when in each cutscene you see the horrible characters with the hideous creepy animations and the sub par writing... making that Mass Effect should shine in those regards it just ruins the experience, i could never immerse and enjoy the ride this game should be, do to this awfully done things. I just regret preordering and not asking for a refund upon the 72 hours after release, since i was hoping at some point it will improve... it doesn't...… Expand
  4. dair
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Dragon Age Inquisition in space:

    -boring
    -repetitive
    -ugly characters
    -bad animations
    -fetch quests
    -MMO style world
    -awkward writing

    What the hell happened with BioWare...
  5. George0101
    Apr 6, 2017
    2
    Mass Effect Andromeda is a very disappointing addition to the Mass Effect series,

    I see a lot of folks dismissing the negative reviews as from "haters" or that its just people uptight about the freaky animations but this game's problems go way deeper. I for one am willing to overlook animation issues, I wish it was just that. I think if you like shooters and can stomach bad story,    Mass Effect Andromeda is a very disappointing addition to the Mass Effect series,

    I see a lot of folks dismissing the negative reviews as from "haters" or that its just people uptight about the freaky animations but this game's problems go way deeper. I for one am willing to overlook animation issues, I wish it was just that.

    I think if you like shooters and can stomach bad story, bad dialog and voice acting, and ugly characters, you will be ok with this game. If you get this game expecting to be taken back to the space fantasy world of Mass Effect for another thrilling adventure, you're in for a grave disappointment.

    I was and am ready to let go of the Milky Way, Shephard, and all that. I appreciate good combat and free exploration but to me those are smaller concerns in an RPG. I am not willing to let go of mature dialog, great voice acting, interesting characters to build relationships with, a compelling story I can't put down, fun side quests that contribute to the story, and, quite frankly, pretty people to look at in the game.

    Mass Effect Andromeda throws all that away. In it's place are childish and ugly characters, silly meaningless filler dialog, poor voice acting, tedious and repetitive quests, anti-climatic quest resolutions many of which end in idiotic alien Sudoku puzzles, and forced repeated animations (you'll get really tired of seeing your ship take-off and land from the Nexus, I was within the first day of playing!). Sorry but Sudoku puzzles are a symptom of laziness of the development effort, instead of creatively coming up with a suspenseful and interesting quest ending, maybe with a plot twist, you stick an el cheapo puzzle there.

    Nothing about this game is memorable. The quests just don't seem to matter, the squadmates are bland and lifeless - I wouldn't care if they all died, if fact I prefer it because maybe I could then get a squad of interesting people.

    Like many other aspects of this game, quests are tedious and unrewarding, boxes to check off. Most quests are everyone's busy work they can't be bothered to do, go here, scan this, fetch that. All very anti-climatic with little to no bearing on the central story.

    Like in DA I, BioWare makes it a top priority to shoe-horn political correctness issues into the game, PC lesson number one is some perverted Harrison Burgeron fantasy that everyone in the universe is exactly equally beautiful "in their own way" and to prove it they made all the characters except 1 or 2 ugly, especially the females. That intentional marring of the game visuals will apparently teach us all a valuable lesson in accepting others as desexualized androngenous beings.

    I very much applaud the fact they make these games appeal to both genders and LBGT, it's wonderful everyone can find something they like in these games. But what we don't need are 20th/21st century earth social issues shoe-horned into a futuristic space fantasy, that's called immersion breaking. We play these games because we're trying to temporarily escape this world, not be reminded of it.

    Character creation is easily the worst of any RPG ever. It's "choose one of these 8 hideously ugly heads" and then you can make only slight changes unless you want to add bizarre facial tatooing, geisha-white full face paint, and purple/pink/cyan/cherry red cotton candy clown hair (yes those are all choices!). You can choose you to be ugly or a clown or both. It boggles the mind what they were thinking with the CC.

    Some of the combat has been nicely streamlined and you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't love the new jump jets. There's more skills and more flexibility. however one key very unique thing, the ability to control squadmates and powers was removed from the game, a critical mistake and I can't imagine why they did this! I have literally played SP ME3 and ME3 a hundred times plus out of enjoyment of this combat system. You can't even equip your squadmates who are reduced to bots who follow you around and then do stupid things in combat you can't control.

    They needed to put more immediacy into this game, perhaps made the quest line a race against the clock to save the Nexus from being shutdown/destroyed before everyone woke up, etc... and then focused the planet explorations in a series of DLC or next project. I don't know, it just never seemed that important to get anything done.

    The game plays very similar to DA I where you encounter fiends all over the world who constantly respawn like in a shooter. This was fun at first but since all the enemies are largely the same, it grows to tedium quick. It also creates the feeling that it just doesn't matter.

    This game is a terrible disappointment, many of my 80+ hours into it were forced and like DA I, I don't see going back to this game unless some modders change it substantially.    … Expand
  6. Merostin
    Mar 21, 2017
    4
    This deserves no Mass Affection.

    I keep it short:

    ME1, ME2, ME3 are about story, characters, species and relations between the latter two.

    ME Andromeda tries to be the same, but it also includes new gameplay layers due to its focus on an outdated openworld concept. The result: It fails at both ME's core elements (see above) and at being a great openworld game.

    Sad, but true.
  7. xmissanthrope
    Mar 29, 2017
    1
    This game is so painful to play. Terrible story. Terrible characters. Lots of farming/grinding missions, back and forth, padding to make the game longer. I laughed, I cried and I yelled at some of the amazing parts of the ME trilogy, that game made me sit in awe with surprise at times when something I didn't expect to happen--happened, but this game, you wish that the entire crew wouldThis game is so painful to play. Terrible story. Terrible characters. Lots of farming/grinding missions, back and forth, padding to make the game longer. I laughed, I cried and I yelled at some of the amazing parts of the ME trilogy, that game made me sit in awe with surprise at times when something I didn't expect to happen--happened, but this game, you wish that the entire crew would just be swallowed by that black hole so you feel something...other than utter contempt at how awful this game is and that BioWare pretty much can never go back to it's ME 2 & 3 and Dragon Age Origins days. I actually enjoyed Dragon Age 2 because it could be funny and I had a lot of fun playing it, sure the game wasn't aesthetic or pleasing but I liked the story...I even liked DAI after I really sunk time into it (but making the enemy in the game come from a DLC from their most hated DA game was a joke, they pulled it together somehow...), but ME:A is just so painful to play, the story, the voice acting, the humor, the dialog choices mean nothing. I find myself skipping through the dialog. I have never done that in any of the previous games! I find that horrible! It's an RPG, I purchased based upon a story-a story I want to be in control of...only I'm really not. That's more frustrating than Garrus always calibrating. Combat is fun but wonky...I keep dying in the strangest places due to glitches. I get lost constantly, can't figure out where I'm going.. Planet scanning is pretty but so time consuming. I don't like any character or NPC I have come across. None. I can't even stand my own character. The menus are confusing, character creation is horrible. I think the best way to make a character is make it look absolutely ridiculous so you might laugh at something in the game! It's just horrible. I could overlook the dead faces and eyes, but the story and voice acting is an atrocity.… Expand
  8. EventualHorizon
    Apr 1, 2017
    0
    Total trash. Nevermind any of the other complaints. The god-awful characters/dialogue/storyline make this a worthless game. There is zero plot tension to pull you through the game because every plot device is simply present to give you a bunch of uninteresting objectives (picking 'military or scientific' outposts to drop on planets) etc... Completely lacking any time of literary devicesTotal trash. Nevermind any of the other complaints. The god-awful characters/dialogue/storyline make this a worthless game. There is zero plot tension to pull you through the game because every plot device is simply present to give you a bunch of uninteresting objectives (picking 'military or scientific' outposts to drop on planets) etc... Completely lacking any time of literary devices that could be used to actually make the characters feel like they are individuals. Off-key voice acting delivering already cringeworthy lines makes things even worse. I mean, after you get confronted by a hostile alien commander of some sort who tries to capture your ship, all your character can muster is "I wonder who THAT guy was?". Awful awful awful, DO NOT BUY THIS. Just another **** contrived open-world game.… Expand
  9. les01
    Apr 19, 2017
    2
    Goodbye BioWare. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice ...

    I will never again pre-order, nor even buy a BW game until its been well reviewed (by users, not bogus "professional critics"). Do not be fooled by the 8-10 ratings, EA/BW employees are on here creating fake reviews to try to put lipstick on this boring boring pig. There's no way anyone who played and loved prior ME titles    Goodbye BioWare. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice ...

    I will never again pre-order, nor even buy a BW game until its been well reviewed (by users, not bogus "professional critics"). Do not be fooled by the 8-10 ratings, EA/BW employees are on here creating fake reviews to try to put lipstick on this boring boring pig. There's no way anyone who played and loved prior ME titles could accept this horrible addition.

    I have been a BioWare fan for the longest time, from KOTOR, to Dragon Age and especially the Mass Effect series which I've literally logged thousands of hours on. I would count down the days to their next release. I'm one of the few that loved ME3, I didn't have a problem with an ending with the death of the player or even crew, everything has to end sometime and I was ready for a new setting.

    DA I was the first long anticipated release for me of a game I never did a second playthrough despite many play throughs in prior titles of the series. I hoped the ME series would be spared this, but apparently not.

    There is so much that is wrong with this game!

    I've come to expect great story telling from a BioWare title and this fails at that with an awful and boring story that only starts to get mildly interesting towards the end.

    BioWare chose high volume, low value corporate form fitted checklist content over substance and art. The game is replete with boring, excessive, pointless dialog, delivered emotionless and without the gravitas of the prior titles. You can easily see this YouTubing some dialog from ME1-3 and compare to some dialog in ME A. The dialog drones on in monotone from emotionless faces (even with the latest patch), making you want to skip it all.

    The checklist style seems to have bled into the quests, which like DAI are MMO style low value boring fetch quests that have little to no impact on the core story. In ME1-3, the side quests for the most part had everything to do with the core story!

    There's even checklists for political correctness issues which are awkwardly forced into the game seemingly for no other purpose than for people to see that BioWare is a very progressive organization. They don't contribute to the story, only distract from it.

    The squadmates are bland and completely forgettable. The new alien species and planets are cliche - desert world, ice world, oversized mushroom world, ....

    Instead of quests ending with plot twists, like Cerberus spoiling your plans and setting up for a Reaper takeover of Thessia, we get anti-climatic alien Sudoku puzzles! How do these even fit into an RPG? That is nothing but laziness!

    Oh, and because BioWare apparently views women as some sort of inferior gender that will suffer psychologically by seeing attractive models in a game, they made all character models butt ugly. I mean really ugly, especially compared to prior releases (they did the same in DA I). Not only that, clearly they wanted to prevent us from making an attractive player in the character creation by allowing a choice of 8 hideous heads and minimal ability to modify them. The CC has been gimped, you can make a clown but you can't make a character that looks like you or is attractive.

    While I like the enhanced mobility of the jump jets and the flexibility on the skills, taking out the pause (situational awareness), ability to load out teammates, and the ridiculous 3 power limit dumbs down the action to a basic shooter. I think that is the point. BioWare wants to move this to multiplayer and microtransactions so they wanted SP to be exactly like MP play.

    This game is a boring waste of time. Do not buy unless you like a space shooter and don't care about terrible story, voice acting, dialog, etc... BioWare is just a shell company now, banking on nostalgia to carry them through the next few limp-wristed deliveries.    … Expand
  10. BPoole
    Mar 22, 2017
    1
    Dragon Age: Inquisition 2.0, now with space travel!

    Such bad animations

    Really poor dialog

    Lots of fetch quests, without meaningful choices & consequences.

    AI gets in the way. How did AI get this bad?

    Only good thing from the game is the feel of the combat.
  11. Skylortrexler
    Mar 25, 2017
    3
    Imagine all the worst things about Mass Effect 1. Now add in the maps from Dragon Age Inquisition and the crafting system as well. Now you've pretty much got the ME:Andromeda experience. Sprinkle in some bad animations and poor voice acting and you've got it.
  12. Lasius-Niger
    May 17, 2018
    0
    This is what happens when you trust and give responsibilities to SJC's (Social Justice Cowards)... Gamers wanted Ivanka, BioWare is giving them Chelsea...
  13. rile
    Mar 21, 2017
    3
    A trainwreck that never ends, the quality of Bioware games continue to plummet just as it has since 2011, where the first big controversial game was released, Dragon Age II. The last title worth its salt released by the company was in 2010, with the release of Dragon Age: Awakening, the expansion to the modern classic Dragon Age: Origins.

    Of course I've still played every game they've    A trainwreck that never ends, the quality of Bioware games continue to plummet just as it has since 2011, where the first big controversial game was released, Dragon Age II. The last title worth its salt released by the company was in 2010, with the release of Dragon Age: Awakening, the expansion to the modern classic Dragon Age: Origins.

    Of course I've still played every game they've released to date, including the infamous money-squandered MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, hoping that one day they may return to form. But that is a distant dream, an impossible reality as they've proven themselves incapable of it. And it's worth noting that Inquisition is the only game to date that I've not finished - as it adhered to an archaic quest design that was mostly found in korean MMORPGS over a decade ago.

    Mass Effect: Andromeda promises a return to the roots, a back to the basics to the much beloved original Mass Effect of 2007 release. It's no wonder why it quickly became a classic, and in many ways it set a new standard for RPGs back then. It does this by giving the series a soft-reboot, away from the repear conflict as well as allowing a much greater customization of Ryder, as well as the return of exploring the surfaces of alien planets. Even introducing new races where as the old had grown too familiar to remain 'alien'.

    It does live up to its promises on a superficial level, only delivering the exposition and mechanical on a barely serviceable level. The mechanical customization of Ryder is the only progress this game makes over any of its predecessors. The level of possible roleplay and directing the character to suit you has been distinctly reduced, even well below Mass Effect 3's standards, that were already treading on a thin ice and barely classified as an RPG.

    The issue that has sparked the controversy that has reached into all crooks and corners of the internet starts with the animations, Models do not interact without severe clipping, lip synchronization is aft to miss the beat and the facial expressions do not match the tone of the voice actors. It's reminiscent of a controversy surrounding Star Wars the Old Republic where it was mocked for months upon months for its jank animations.

    And it's all justified.

    Would it be the only issues, the game would be grand and great, but the exposition and narratives you walk Ryder through are uninspired and you'll find yourself simply going through the motions, without any of the enthusiasm. The companion characters are shells, left without the necessary development and motivations that one would find in other RPGs of today. And there's no friction, the companions dont butt heads with displays or representations of an ideal of theirown to challenge or bolster the players thinking.

    It was a great boast of the developers to claim the game holds the most dialogue they've ever had in a game, but in spite of that the game was remarkably short on exposition. Most of the time you'll be going through objecitves that have been found in open world games in the past six or seven years, exploring derelict ruins and climbing towers to scan with the infamous 'find stuff easier' vision. It's a wonder this has not been rid off with modern gaming, given that even as early as Fable 2 with its glitters that merged the aft-used tab-vision into its aesthetic design, and while it could be argued that the scanner does the same, it's more of an obstruction than anything to have to use it to look at everything in hopes of finding anything.

    The voice acting is bad, and this is in spite of a talented cast of actors. And the only conclusion that can be drawn from this that Bioware themselves did not know the tone or the beats of the game, so you'll find that the emotional performances delivered by the big name VA's is all over a place, as is often the case with games that have a poor director in the booth.

    If not for the added customization of Ryder, the combat would be just on par with the rest. But the procedural cover system leaves much to be wanted, where-as the older games had tight controls in regards to the cover, this one takes the control away from you and tries to detect whether you're in a position to take cover, and if it senses it, it does it. Of course, this leads to many, many situations where you'll shout at the game to take cover in a place where it obviously should be possible, but isn't. And there are other situations where you'll want to remain in cover, but can't, depending on your aim.

    I've been lenient about the games flaws thus far, tried to write my thoughts down without the emotional disappointment and frustration that I felt often while I played it. And I'm running out of available characters. Simply put, Andromeda is nothing short of the worst game Bioware has ever made. Everything that did go wrong, has gone wrong.    … Expand
  14. Allmass
    Mar 22, 2017
    1
    Bioware is dead, time to admit it. All last members of senior creative staff left early 2016, and this abortion of a game was made by interns and students.

    - zero creativity and reused story concepts: remnants/protheans studied by Liara/PB, badass krogan Wrex/Drack, evil antagonist Saren/Archon, generic evil cannon fodder geth/kett and so on - writing looks like it was done by 15 year    Bioware is dead, time to admit it. All last members of senior creative staff left early 2016, and this abortion of a game was made by interns and students.

    - zero creativity and reused story concepts: remnants/protheans studied by Liara/PB, badass krogan Wrex/Drack, evil antagonist Saren/Archon, generic evil cannon fodder geth/kett and so on
    - writing looks like it was done by 15 year old fangirl, and is downright retarded in some places
    - mindnumblingly boring and repetitive open world activities look like they were ripped from generic ubisoft game
    - do I even need to beat a dead horse of horrible facial animations and Sara's atrocious face? Holy **** I honestly feel bad for Jayde Rossi

    EA just decided to cash in on diehard fans of a dead franchise before the end of 2016 fiscal year and call it a day.
    Bioware will be dissolved shortly after they push couple of crappy DLCs for this monstrosity.
    Fifth fleet out.    … Expand
  15. Violett
    Mar 21, 2017
    4
    After I saw the news when Bioware are going to be sold to EA - I was like "RIP Mass Effect". This was well expected - everything EA touch starts to rot and stink. This is not the first game they corrupted. It is strange they didnt pervert ME2 and ME3. Companies like EA or Ubisoft must stay in their FIFA NHL field and not to go in area they have no idea what to do. They are able to makeAfter I saw the news when Bioware are going to be sold to EA - I was like "RIP Mass Effect". This was well expected - everything EA touch starts to rot and stink. This is not the first game they corrupted. It is strange they didnt pervert ME2 and ME3. Companies like EA or Ubisoft must stay in their FIFA NHL field and not to go in area they have no idea what to do. They are able to make niche products, this is true, and many people like it - in the nearest future it will be Mass Effect 5, Mass Effect 6, 7 ... bright and colorful games, but totally without soul.

    But lets support what I said above with some analysis. After recent news I released I'm not going to preorder this, not even buying this at all. But my m8 bought it anyway, despite my warnings, so I can write this review.

    - Graphics: Its quite nice. Really, graphics is fine, when you playing ME it is like you are watching blockbuster movie. This is the only reason I put 4 score here.

    - Plot: this is the main reason why we play ME, right? Right? Well, there are none. Where is Miranda? Where is Liara? Where are Reapers? Seriously, plot is dumbed down to some Android game. Please, go repair this module, because I'm technician and have no idea what to do, and dont even have tools o0

    - Gameplay: MMO quest system in single player game is the most absurd thing one can ever done. EA got warned after DA:I - do not do this **** again, but no, why we should listen to players? We are EA, we know better how to feed you.

    - Combat system: Well, it is okay. Honestly I dont remember how complex it was in ME 1-3, but here it is look like some japaneese slash and hack colorfest. Teleportations, explosions. Nothing special actually.

    - Animation: This should be the part of the graphics, probably, but I just had to separate this out. This is TERRIBLE. Face animaion is just abysmal. WHY SHE IS ALWAYS SMILING, like WTF. Like "my father is dead, and this is so funny." Is this some sort or black comedy, no? I even dont mention various graphical bugs and glitches, And have you seen this new azari-Shrek?

    Verdict: If you like WoW-style games - like bring 10 flowers, or kill 20 pigs - you might find this game intresting, if you like games where you need to shoot without thinking - you might find this game intresting, otherwise, especially if you are fan of ME universe - keep out of this, imagine ME3 was the last game, like HL2 and the next part will never come out.

    ...omg EA what have you done...    … Expand
  16. BRubble
    Mar 23, 2017
    1
    5 YEARS? It took 5YEARS to throw this POS together?! Really? ....really? 5 years.
    This is what happens when you farm out to sweat shop teams. This is what happens when Bioware hires based on ethnicity (so they can pat themselves on the back for their diversity) instead of actual talent. This is what happens when your focus is more on the trans/lgbt/alien sex than the important aspects of    5 YEARS? It took 5YEARS to throw this POS together?! Really? ....really? 5 years.
    This is what happens when you farm out to sweat shop teams. This is what happens when Bioware hires based on ethnicity (so they can pat themselves on the back for their diversity) instead of actual talent. This is what happens when your focus is more on the trans/lgbt/alien sex than the important aspects of the game. This is what happens when you give the writing to some college undergrads. This is what happens when EA gets their little rat claws too deeply involved. I could go on and on but you get the point, Its garbage. THIS is what happens.    … Expand
  17. Astralify
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    The gamebreaking:
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    The dialogue wheel and dialogue "choices". Since this topic hurts my very soul, I will go further punishing myself, with a question that pretty much summarizes what I think about it: "- Why did you even bother?" - The Combat/gameplay. Well, what can I say, other than it's no longer a Mass Effect game, thanks to the combat. Pretty much what happened with DAI. Gone is    The gamebreaking:
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    The dialogue wheel and dialogue "choices". Since this topic hurts my very soul, I will go further punishing myself, with a question that pretty much summarizes what I think about it: "- Why did you even bother?"
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    The Combat/gameplay. Well, what can I say, other than it's no longer a Mass Effect game, thanks to the combat. Pretty much what happened with DAI. Gone is the tactical/RPG/SQUAD based combat. There is no pause any more. There is no tactically using the abilities of your squadmates. THE VERY THING THAT MADE MASS EFFECT DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER GENERIC 3rd Person shooter. Yeah, we've lost that. It's gone.

    Speaking of that, I am not going into the multiplayer, because It's not something I'm interested in, nor I care about.

    Also, the watering down of the "class" system, turning it into this "jack of all trades" skyrim type **** I will not go into details about my personal "hate" of these kinds of systems. The reason for this is the same as the reason we saw it in Skyrim - laziness. Because it takes all kinds of effort to balance different classes, and we know that with companies, "effort" means "costing more money".
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    The infamous animations. I won't say much about them, because they've already turned the game into the biggest meme-generator of 2017.
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    The writing. It's simply abysmal. It's very hard to get immersed in this supposedly story/character driven game, when the words that come out of everybody's "tired" faces are nonsensical and sometimes worse than fanfiction. What HAPPENED with the writing? Also, the whole setting/story is boring and uninspiring.
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    The characters. Well, I'm not going to go into them much, because I know that this could also be considered a subjective thing. For me though, they are terrible. "Bethesda-facepalm" level terrible.
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    The sound design, in particular some of the alien voices. It's like they didn't even try.
    Also, the "music" some times was atrocious. Like in the Vortex. So generic and annoying.
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    Bugs (some gamebreaking), glitches and overall lack of polish of nearly any aspect, which leads to the conclusion of a rushed product. A rushed 5-year-in-development product, if that is possible.
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    And then we get to the character creator. A very huge thing in these kinds of games. So what's going on with it? Well, basically it has been completely butcherred, to the point that for the most part it's non-existent. It's more like character "selector".

    We are talking Ubisoft's The Division level of laziness here. You have 9 scanned heads for each gender, of wich you can pretty much change only the hair, make up (and the choices are ridiculous btw), and a very limited skin tone slider (more on that later). There is virtually NO customization of the faces. You know, one of THE BIGGEST things these games, creating your own avatar. People like me spend many hours in character creators, tweaking.

    We all know that the CC in the previous games were never that great. But at least you could create unique and different faces. Changing different fetaures like eye shape, nose shape, mouth shape, brow shape and so on. In andromeda, you can't do that. Since the heads are scanned (although as a character artist myself, I can think of several ways to create the system in a way, that this would be non-issue). Which is simply sad. They didn't put any effort into this very essential aspect of the game.

    To be honest, I did not expected this to happen. The last remaing RPG feature of this game, to simply be crapped on to such extend. It's honestly the deal breaker for me. Not to mention the fact that Bioware lied, when they said that they will not change the CC much from DAI. But I guess the only thing that they didn't change (or dumbed down), was the color wheel for some things like eye color and makeup.
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    Now I'm not going much into the obvious "Political Correctness" and SJW agendas, splashed all over this game, one of which is the uglification of the females. I can get geeky and nit picky with this one till we all get "asari" in the face, but I won't. There is more about it around the web.

    But the thing that goes too far, is the lack of white character presets for the females. Aside from most likely catering to regressive feminists like Sarkeesian, the fact there are purposefully no white presets is simply a disgrace.

    Not because I'm offended personally or whatever **** the apologists will throw at me, but because when you do something like that, you are intentionally igniting/creating racial tension amongst the community. This to me is so wrong, so sick and twisted, that I have no words for it. This thing alone is enough of a reason to boycott the studio and the publisher. And when you see things like this happening, some people like Manveer Heir start to make a whole lot more sense.
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    CONCLUSION
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    As a game that carries the "Mass Effect" name (to sell itself), and all the expectations that comes with that, it's a 1.
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  18. echoss
    Mar 28, 2017
    2
    I've been waiting for new Mass Effect game anxiously and I really wanted to like it, but...
    Instead of the great characters, conversations and voice acting of previous Mass Effect games, we get characters that are hollow and generally not likeable. Conversations range from tolerable to downright embarrasing. Voice acting is high school drama club level.
    I guess everything that needs to    I've been waiting for new Mass Effect game anxiously and I really wanted to like it, but...
    Instead of the great characters, conversations and voice acting of previous Mass Effect games, we get characters that are hollow and generally not likeable. Conversations range from tolerable to downright embarrasing. Voice acting is high school drama club level.

    I guess everything that needs to be said about animations has already been said. It's just sad.
    Faces are just plain ugly and human characters look like puppets from the Thunderbirds with their oversized heads.

    Side quests are repetative and get boring quite fast.

    On the positive side, planets look reasonably good and some even great. Exploring is fun.

    Pros:
    - graphics in planets
    - mako + exploring
    - combat
    - multiplayer

    Cons:
    - characters visually
    - animation
    - dialogue & voice acting
    - side quests

    I don't know what has happened to BioWare, but this game feels like the death of Mass Effect franchise.    … Expand
  19. ui876will
    Mar 24, 2017
    1
    Reasons to buy

    - It's called Mass Effect

    Reasons NOT to

    - It is boring
    - The story is cheesy
    - The animations are a joke
    - The graphics were downgraded
    - The characters,specially the women,are horrible
    - It was made by SJWs

    Now,if you still want to buy it,it will be your problem. I did my part to advertise you.
  20. gobhoblin
    Mar 21, 2017
    5
    I don't understand how people are giving this a 10 on here and posting that it has lag and animation problems in the same review. What does 10 mean to you?

    Bad animations
    Bad character models
    Bad scaling
    Weak dialog
    Terrible voice acting
    Decent combat
    Boring scan ability that pads game time
  21. Derrik4999
    Mar 24, 2017
    1
    It's too boring yet it can be fun

    It's VERY repetitive,what you do from the start of the game you do 10 hours later,the same **** New area: Kill a bunch of people,talk with people,kill a bunch of more people,do some retarded stuff and go to the new place. the fighting is fun but that's all there really is,the animations and voice acting is **** for such a high budget game. really dissapointing.
  22. Shermos
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Quick recommendation: Don't buy. Not worthwhile for new players, and an insult to the original Mass Effect trilogy, even with its flaws.

    Firstly, I want to disclose that I am a long time fan of the Mass Effect universe. I was not happy with the idea of moving the setting to the Andromeda galaxy, throwing away a rich setting and wonderful characters which had been built up over years. A good justification was needed to win me over. I couldn't see it.

    Mass Effect Andromeda had five years of development time. The resulting game is something I would be embarrassed to sell with my name attached to it. Most people by now will be aware with the problems with facial and general animation. The game also appears to have a lot of other bugs at the time of release. It is not clear how many will be fixed by patches. This is only the beginning of the game's problems.

    The premise for Andromeda does not make sense. We are told the trip from the Milky Way took over 600 years. This is too long even when using cryo sleep. People who stayed at home would continue to advance technologically and develop faster, more efficient faster than light travel. They could make the trip in a fraction of the time, and have already set up a new civilisation by the time the original expedition arrives. This isn't a good start for a game in the sci-fi genre, and the failures of logic and reason get worse.

    Bioware is known for telling good stories and creating excellent characters. It failed considerably on both counts. The main storyline is extremely generic. It adds to a feeling that the game is based on badly thought up and written fan fiction. Worse, we are not given enough reason to care about the characters at our sides. The worst examples being the protagonist's father and main antagonist. We meet the father at the start of the game knowing nothing about him. He dies in the very first mission without the game giving us any reason to care about his loss. He had the protagonists job of "pathfinder" already occupied, and he had to be removed. Why not make his death occur later in the game, or else make the protagonist be in charge in the first place? You don't make someone so important die until the character has had enough time to develop. That brings me to the antagonist. He is the big bad, with no depth whatsoever. He only seems to exist to be in the player's way, and we can't reason with him. Not even an alien from another galaxy should be evil for the sake of being evil and incapable of reaching an accommodation with the protagonist. The first time we meet his people, shooting begins immediately, and the player is not even given the choice to try to negotiate.

    The dialogue is awful to the point of being unintentionally funny. Voice acting is not much better, although I don't fault the voice actors for this. They had to work with terrible writing, and it seems as though they aren't able to get a feel for the setting and context their dialogue was being delivered in.

    Combat is the game's only redeeming feature. People who enjoy shoot 'em up games will probably enjoy this component and the multiplayer section. That said, it is not ground breaking, and the AI enemy is average at best. Squad mate AI in the single player section is terrible. The developers somehow managed to make it worse than it was in the original trilogy. I wanted to shoot one of my "Companions" to save the enemy the trouble, but the game wouldn't let me do so.

    The following point will matter to long time fans of the Mass Effect series. Andromeda gives the big FU to the established lore from the original trilogy. The trip to a new galaxy should not be possible with the technology available at the time the sleeper ships are supposed to have been built. Only a hand wavy explanation is provided. The expedition members seem have access to technology which didn't exist in the original games. This wouldn't be an issue if the expedition left after the events of Mass Effect 3, where we could expect technical advancements to have taken place, even in the aftermath of the Reaper war.

    Bioware wanted to move the setting to Andromeda, and have the expedition leave before ME3 to avoid dealing with the consequences of the ending choice of the trilogy. We were told they especially didn't want to choose a canon decision. The new game renders this change of setting pointless. One of the choices was synthesis between organic beings and artificial intelligence, a choice which was very unpopular with the vast majority of the fan base. We learn that everyone in the Andromeda expedition has been physically linked to an AI called SAM. Nevermind that AI research was considered highly illegal in the original trilogy. This is a huge slap in the face to the fan base. A canon choice appears to have been chosen anyway, so why bother with the setting change? Why throw away so many characters and places we love?    … Expand
  23. alex_baranowski
    Apr 25, 2017
    2
    Well - I used to love Mass Effect series. Even after horrible ending of Mass Effect 3. For me Mass Effect was about story. Story was deep, with hard moral choices, amazing dialogues (especially as Renegade :)), and creating future of universe. Now Mass Effect is about fighting - yes Andromeda has amazing fight system, better than average locations but nothing more. It's quite depressingWell - I used to love Mass Effect series. Even after horrible ending of Mass Effect 3. For me Mass Effect was about story. Story was deep, with hard moral choices, amazing dialogues (especially as Renegade :)), and creating future of universe. Now Mass Effect is about fighting - yes Andromeda has amazing fight system, better than average locations but nothing more. It's quite depressing because you won't find any memorable character. There are also terrible cringe worthy dialogues. Story is average. Voice acting is lacking emotions. There are bugs - like not moving enemies, fu**** up facial animations, loading textures etc. Great universe with wasted potential.… Expand
  24. Effectsorz
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    Possibly the worst game Bioware has ever released.

    The animations are awful, the game is full of political correctness and in general a god awful story that ignores everything that happened in the previous games. If you are like me and thought Dragon Age: Inquisition and Fallout 4 was bad, then do NOT buy this game. This game is 100x worse than any of those titles. It is simply the    Possibly the worst game Bioware has ever released.

    The animations are awful, the game is full of political correctness and in general a god awful story that ignores everything that happened in the previous games.

    If you are like me and thought Dragon Age: Inquisition and Fallout 4 was bad, then do NOT buy this game. This game is 100x worse than any of those titles. It is simply the worst AAA game released this year, if the user score did not convince you already.    … Expand
  25. XmasonX
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Game is buggy

    AI sometimes goes in a T pose in combat.

    Bad animations

    Bad dialog

    Bad writing

    Bad dialog wheel

    MP uses p2p instead of dedicated servers.
  26. MaxOverload
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    It's really just Mass Effect: Badly. Badly written, badly animated, badly rendered. There is no patching their way out of this. There's no talent left at Bioware capable of doing better than this. Time to let the franchise and the studio die while they can still be remembered fondly.
  27. tirith2708
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Complete Mess.
    This "game" is rushed cash-grab made by completely different people than ME trilogy. Aside from obvious technical flaws and bugs it also panders to SJW community which already ruined enough things in this world.
  28. taufirec
    Mar 22, 2017
    4
    If this were a sci fi title put out by a small indie studio as a new IP I would consider it good, but as a AAA title made by a studio known for quality writing, the game is bad. The 3d models and animations make it abundantly obvious that the people working on them are not qualified to be doing that kind of work, the writing is amateurish and often times laughable, the characters areIf this were a sci fi title put out by a small indie studio as a new IP I would consider it good, but as a AAA title made by a studio known for quality writing, the game is bad. The 3d models and animations make it abundantly obvious that the people working on them are not qualified to be doing that kind of work, the writing is amateurish and often times laughable, the characters are shallow and often quite uninteresting, but luckily the core gameplay is good. Content is...lackluster to say the least and the game ends up having a lot of bugs as well as the same issues that ME 1-3 had with conversations that should have been fixed considering they worked on this for 5 years. Honestly, if this is what Bioware puts out, then I can safely say I won't be purchasing another game made by them. As for this game, It's already been approved for a return so I won't be bothering with it again either.… Expand
  29. Navinor
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    What enrages me most is the fact the game is trying to teach me about political correctness.

    The characters are slapping me their feminist and SJW ideology right in my face. Dear Bioware (well we all know you are not Bioware anymore...) please, PLEASE stop trying to teach me stupid political agendas through your games. The only thing you are achieving is fueling my fury. And you    What enrages me most is the fact the game is trying to teach me about political correctness.

    The characters are slapping me their feminist and SJW ideology right in my face.

    Dear Bioware (well we all know you are not Bioware anymore...) please, PLEASE stop trying to teach me stupid political agendas through your games.

    The only thing you are achieving is fueling my fury. And you do not wand that. Because nothing enrages me more, when my beloved universe is occupied by SJWs and feminists.

    My only reaction to this is making shure your game will turn to ash. And i will gladly work on it.

    +

    Bad animations

    Bad dialog

    Bad writing

    Bad dialog wheel

    MP uses p2p instead of dedicated servers.    … Expand
  30. Fuzi0n
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Worst. Bioware. Game. Ever. Avoid!

    Awful animations. Terrible writing. Lame story. Boring combat. Flimsy world design. Bland exploration. Laughable character design. Subnormal AI. Appalling directing. Lousy voice acting. Insufficient RPG mechanics... the list is long. Pack all of this terrible game design into an awkward alien sexual fantasy soft porno and you have Mass Effect 4...    Worst. Bioware. Game. Ever. Avoid!

    Awful animations. Terrible writing. Lame story. Boring combat. Flimsy world design. Bland exploration. Laughable character design. Subnormal AI. Appalling directing. Lousy voice acting. Insufficient RPG mechanics... the list is long. Pack all of this terrible game design into an awkward alien sexual fantasy soft porno and you have Mass Effect 4...

    Mass Effect 2, Baldur's Gate 2 and Dragon Age: Origins are three of my favorite games of all time, it is so sad to see how far the once legendary Bioware studio has fallen from greatness. RIP Bioware.    … Expand
  31. XanGambit
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA is a massive disappointment. Yet another game that was rushed to the market long before it was ready. The game is plagued with bugs, the dialogue is terrible and the story is bland and recycled. It's another money grab from EA.

    Additionally, another thing that's a big turnoff is that there is no character creation option for Caucasian skin. I thought this may have    MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA is a massive disappointment. Yet another game that was rushed to the market long before it was ready. The game is plagued with bugs, the dialogue is terrible and the story is bland and recycled. It's another money grab from EA.

    Additionally, another thing that's a big turnoff is that there is no character creation option for Caucasian skin. I thought this may have been by mistake, but apparently the game's devs actually left this out intentionally because of political beliefs. That's right. This game allowed its creators to inject racism and politics into probably one of the most-used means of escape from the dregs of every day life by people: video games.

    Back to the game, though. It's rushed, incomplete and buggy. There are a lot of side quests, but their quality is low. The content overall is just poor. Crafting is pointless, combat is over-simplified and limited, and the quality of animation is some of the worst I've seen of games in the past couple of years.

    Basically, stay away from this title. It's probably just a good idea to stay away from EA in general. This isn't a "one off" for them. It's become the norm. And lastly, don't support games that knowingly and intentionally build in their real world hatred and bias into them. Seeing video games politicized is something I never expected to see.    … Expand
  32. StarScream2092
    Apr 3, 2017
    2
    Andromeda is another reminder why not to pre-order games. Honestly anybody who thought that this can live up to the trilogy was instane. People should stop defending this game because it have great combat and above average graphics.

    1. Writing is childish, like really boring. Here and there it made you smile but it was far less than in trilogy. 2. Story is just a place holder,    Andromeda is another reminder why not to pre-order games. Honestly anybody who thought that this can live up to the trilogy was instane. People should stop defending this game because it have great combat and above average graphics.

    1. Writing is childish, like really boring. Here and there it made you smile but it was far less than in trilogy.

    2. Story is just a place holder, nothing epic. Feels like they wanted it to be just average.

    3. Animations, are are a HUGE disaster. If EA will be happy with sales of Andromeda they will create another mess like this and sell it. So be prepared.

    They treat it like any another company, -make the game at lowest cost possible, sell as AAA game.
    Witcher 3 is an exception.    … Expand
  33. alilsneaky
    Mar 21, 2017
    3
    Has less of what made mass effect games good, and more of what made them bad

    Negative: The UI is a clunky mess (as happens so often with bioware games), Dialogue's writing is often cringeworthy and fan fiction quality. The delivery of the voice lines shows that the voice actors were clearly forced to record one line at a time without being given any context for the line they were    Has less of what made mass effect games good, and more of what made them bad

    Negative:

    The UI is a clunky mess (as happens so often with bioware games),

    Dialogue's writing is often cringeworthy and fan fiction quality. The delivery of the voice lines shows that the voice actors were clearly forced to record one line at a time without being given any context for the line they were reading. You can hear inflection change several times for no reason within one string of sentences.

    Remember much of the content being fetch quests and chores that made DA:I so much worse than previous bioware games? Those are back again

    Almost none of the characters are likeable or relatable as human beings

    Batman detective mode scanning: who asked for this? really?

    Gameplay: movement is clunky (the jetpack dash is only a bandaid) , hit reactions are mostly absent or just not satisfying (compare andromeda to something like binary domain to see what can be done with enemy hit reactions in a third person shooter). None of the encounters with regular enemies are interestingly designed.

    Body and facial animation quality is all over the place, ranging from kind of poor to making you wonder how it got past QA bad. the lows are REALLY low and there are a lot of them.

    Optimization leaves much to be desired with plenty of framepacing issues. In general the graphics don't feel like they justify the performance I'm seeing. Many modern AAA open world games look better while running MUCH better than this.

    Outside of the 4 explorable planets the rest of them are just another **** scanning "minigame" (if you can call it that) like in ME2

    Story: the whole setup of ryder's story makes no sense. Why are you a 'pathfinder' going down to the surface to see if a planet is inhabitable when the planets themselves already have a bunch of colonies established on them from other arks... You're no pathfinder, you're just some jackass who shows up after people have already started settling. In the end it's just another trite bioware power fantasy, the same exact forumula they've used for every game since KOTOR: you're the chosen one who has to gather a crew from different locations to go meet the big evil and defeat it once you're assembled your power rangers.

    Positive:

    Nice views out in space from your ship

    Some of the weapon models look really cool (shame the gunplay and enemy hit reactions are ass)

    Some decent space theme tunes

    Take a mass effect game that has all the usual flaws (bad ui, subpar combat that wouldn't fly in other 3rd person shooters, some cringeworthy dialogue) but amplified and with additional flaws from DA:I and modern open world game tropes.

    Then remove the things that makes them worth playing (interesting lore, some likeable characters and character arcs, pretty solid delivery of voice acting).

    What are you left with? 3 out of 10 that's what you're left with.    … Expand
  34. Xarxan
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    They really expect that people should buy this mess at full price when it's so unfinished. And don't even get me started on the looks part.

    A decade from now people will still remember Commander Shepard but who will really remember Mcgeneric and his/hers ugly animations.
  35. coustoe
    Apr 4, 2017
    0
    Didn't quite believe all the negative reviews about the bad animations and had to try for myself. They were right. The bad animations are on a level where they ruin the the playability and immersion of the game. Tried to play through but kept on getting headaches from the weird animations and bad dialogue. Possibly one of the worst Bioware games I have played.
  36. TheMarshmallow
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    What do you get when you mix a team of politically minded developers with a high-profile game series? Andromeda apparently. Characters who present their Religion, Sexuality, and Politics first and foremost, in a game where none of it matters, shatter immersion for anyone who has sour history with the subjects. Couple this with often times utterly non-existent facial animation (savingWhat do you get when you mix a team of politically minded developers with a high-profile game series? Andromeda apparently. Characters who present their Religion, Sexuality, and Politics first and foremost, in a game where none of it matters, shatter immersion for anyone who has sour history with the subjects. Couple this with often times utterly non-existent facial animation (saving spotty Lip Sync which are completely separate files that are used universally) and broken animations (arm twists that create an effect that reduces a characters arm to paper, or guns being held backwards) and you have a broken product.

    The only and I mean only redeeming quality of this game as a returning fan of the series is the Gameplay, which is supposed to be a secondary consideration for a BioWare game.

    What happened to the titans of the genre? They fled the studio four-five years ago and left it to the vultures is what.

    Pile on the controversies surrounding developers (Manveer and Aliie) and the Studio's Leadership eagerness to lie, and protect one deplorable human being and another incompetent animator and its a wonder how this game reached golden. It is golden write -- released? I'm not playing a Steam Early Access Game right?    … Expand
  37. evonre
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    joke animations
    joke dialogue
    joke writing
    boring gameplay
    decent multiplayer

    This is just a bland MMORPG, nothing more. Maybe I have unreasonable expectations on BioWare, I'll remember next time. BioWare is only a second-tier studio now.
  38. Elaxor
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    This is not Mass Effect i knew. Doesn't even look like AAA project. Fan-fic writing, awkward dialogues, lame jokes, outdated graphics and animations, casual combat, boring side-quests. There are better games to buy. Shame.
  39. Discusguy
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    This game just isn't sucking me in, horrible story, horrible dialog, buggy ai.

    I'm done w/ Bioware ME 3 fool me once, DA I shame on me, ME A shame on you.
  40. inkblowout
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    I cannot believe I waited 5 years for this pile of garbage to be released.

    It's just a big mess overall, animations are the least of their problems. Story is lacking compared with mass effect 1 and 2. And character development is just bland, it feels like I'm talking to cardboard cutouts. They characters don't feel like actual people, they are just there to take up extra space.    I cannot believe I waited 5 years for this pile of garbage to be released.

    It's just a big mess overall, animations are the least of their problems. Story is lacking compared with mass effect 1 and 2. And character development is just bland, it feels like I'm talking to cardboard cutouts. They characters don't feel like actual people, they are just there to take up extra space. Squadmates aren't even comparable to the amazing squadmates we had in the previous games. Hell, even JACOB from mass effect 2-3 is more interesting than these guys. The only thing that is great is the exploration and the gameplay but that's it. Even the RPG elements are trash.... allowing everyone to spec into everything!? Seriously! That's not a good RPG, if you spec. into biotics, you'd ONLY have biotic powers.... but nope in Andromeda, you wanna have biotic, tech and explorer powers... no problem you can do that with no limitations and no negatives, just wow bioware.... way to really dumb it down for everyone. After 15 hours. I stopped played because I was just damn bored, never felt like that during a Mass Effect game which is a damn shame.

    It's shocking how Bioware went from the masterpiece of "Baldur's Gate" to this piece of ****

    Rip Bioware 1998-2017    … Expand
  41. Strelok_VSOP
    Mar 21, 2017
    3
    This is not the Mass Effect.
    An empty and boring open world. EMPTY characters - just dolls or mannequins, with an absurd appearance, behavior and history. The plot is so smeared and not interesting that it is lost even against the background of the general sadness of the game. It's boring. It's terrible. From ME there is nothing left.
    And all this, apart from the HORRIBLE technical    This is not the Mass Effect.
    An empty and boring open world. EMPTY characters - just dolls or mannequins, with an absurd appearance, behavior and history. The plot is so smeared and not interesting that it is lost even against the background of the general sadness of the game. It's boring. It's terrible. From ME there is nothing left.

    And all this, apart from the HORRIBLE technical problems. There are many, very many.
    Here are just some of them that I encountered during just a few hours of play:
    - Stupid bots that do not react to you if you are beyond 40m;
    -stretching in textures, literally (I went to the drawer to recharge and got stuck near it, I can not do a step to the side);
    -passes and spans through textures (literally - enemy spaceships fly through buildings, bots with heavy machine guns pass through the walls directly to you in the rear, the Transporter passes through the textures)
    -Animation of persons. This is generally horrible. I did not look at the faces of the characters, otherwise it's impossible to play;
    - animation of characters in general, very strange at times, although this is the lesser of problems;
    - enemies, appear where they were killed, if you moved more than 300-400m from them;
    - FPS drops without a reason. You play - everything is good, and BOOM - you have 5 frames;
    - The game freezes on downloads. This is generally enrages. The game is sometimes loaded for 20-30 seconds, and sometimes it just "does not load" and hangs. It remains to press - alt + F4;
    - very hard downloads while driving on the planets. You go by transport, it hits the wall like a wall and for 3-5 seconds nothing happens, even the camera does not turn. Trifle, but enrages.

    The plot is very weak, barely something is given for the crumbs, but by this time, as a rule, you are no longer interested. And if you seriously digress - the plot does not cling, it's just not interesting; This is a problem not only of a weak plot, but also of its submission, which is at the zero level. Dialogues are simply dejected, after 2 hours you just skip them, skip DIALOGS in RPG !!!; Sometimes the dialogues look like the ravings of a madman.

    And most importantly, from skipping dialogs NOTHING does not change, you, skipping dialogs - perfectly understand what is happening. In addition, they are very dull, which is partly a consequence of the characters "dummies." The system of dialogues with different versions of emotional colors - simple does not work. Not only that from different options nothing changes, so also the implementation is very bad, and in fact facial animation only adds firewood in this stove.

    It should be said about some tasks that disappear when you approach them. Or those that do not disappear when you finish them. For example, yesterday did a side task, but the items for the task, which you need to collect for it, have appeared anew. It's funny.

    Of the pluses - a vigorous combat system, but - due to the fact that enemies are FAT - all the advantages with a jet pack come to naught - because you can not kill anyone while you hang over their heads, even if the enemy is alone. There is not enough damage, but the enemy will pile you with bullets instantly. As a result, playing with jumps and strakes - after 5-6 battles it all comes down to the usual positional fight at the middle distance with a biotic cast. If you sit down to fight closer - they will crush a meat - a dozen enemies, half with armor (to shoot this armor - you need to shoot 2 clips in the head) - they storm and throw meat. It's not about the requirements for direct hands, tricks and tactics, just enemies have a lot of health, nothing more.

    Cool car. The car is steep and that's it.

    But all these pluses are boring after 4-5 hours of play.

    In addition, the game is very annoying with the emphasis on tolerance and sympathy for LGBT and feminism. For whom is this? For what? Unclear.
    Again - ugly, mediocre people. The editor of the character is made so that it was impossible to create a beautiful protagonist. Trifles, but very unpleasant. And there are a lot of such trifles.

    Do not waste your time and money on this. The game is terrible.    … Expand
  42. Azeriel
    Mar 31, 2017
    0
    Let me preface this by saying: In an era where we were graced by the quality level of GTA V and The Witcher 3, in what way is this level of quality release is acceptable?

    If you're an old-school Mass Effect fan (like I am), feel free to skip this one - or get it once it's heavily discounted with all DLCs included. There is nothing Mass Effect about this except in name and the "sci-fi"    Let me preface this by saying: In an era where we were graced by the quality level of GTA V and The Witcher 3, in what way is this level of quality release is acceptable?

    If you're an old-school Mass Effect fan (like I am), feel free to skip this one - or get it once it's heavily discounted with all DLCs included. There is nothing Mass Effect about this except in name and the "sci-fi" theme. You lost control over your squad, you lost squad customization, you lost paused strategy, and you lost having all your abilities instead of just 3 loadouts per combat. Furthermore, this is not a Mass Effect story you'd love and respect. Facial animation and all the other glitches are one thing, the simple fact that you simply couldn't care less to the two main protagonists (because they're as bland as a sack of potato) is another. Unlike Shephard, the game removes majority of you meaningful interaction and decision by removing the Paragon/Renegade option. All four options of your dialogue wheels pretty much saying the same thing with a different intonation or sentence structure. If the original Mass Effect trilogy is an epic full-length premium cinema, this is their direct-to-DVD spin off.

    If this is your first RPG however, and you never played Mass Effect before. Go for it. You have no greatness to base on, and the simplified RPG system of this game will serve you well as a training wheel of such genre going forward. Not to mention there will be more than enough flashy combats to keep your attention glued to the screen before you can repeatedly press skip on the next conversation.

    TL;DR, if you're a Mass Effect fan, let the taste of that great masterpiece fade with Shepard instead of being marred by this new release. If you're new to the genre, the franchise, or just looking for a mediocre cover-based shooter masqueraded as a Fischer-Price RPG. This is for you.

    In the era where we seen The Witcher 3, GTA V, and Horizon Zero Dawn, in what way this garbage release is deemed acceptable?    … Expand
  43. D34THGR1PS
    Apr 11, 2017
    2
    I don't understand the love here. I think this game is solid ****
    - Cringeworthy Joss Whedon-style writing.
    - Voice acting is utter garbage. - Offline MMO scanning fun for whole family. - They managed to **** up their own lore. - Plot holes and illogical void bigger than the game's budget. - Liberal twitter blogger's wet dream. SJW cuck agenda everywhere. - Bioware fixing    I don't understand the love here. I think this game is solid ****
    - Cringeworthy Joss Whedon-style writing.
    - Voice acting is utter garbage.
    - Offline MMO scanning fun for whole family.
    - They managed to **** up their own lore.
    - Plot holes and illogical void bigger than the game's budget.
    - Liberal twitter blogger's wet dream. SJW cuck agenda everywhere.
    - Bioware fixing "offensive" transgender npc dialogue lines instead of actual game.
    - Fixing animation problems weeks after the realease instead of making game solid in the first place and charging it full price for players to beta test it.

    + You can actually save your time and money by not buying this garbage.    … Expand
  44. Mandra
    Mar 26, 2017
    1
    It's really heartbreaking to give a game labelled "Mass Effect" such a bad grade...

    I asked for a refund after playing like 3 or 4 hours because the immersion was constantly broken by something. Here is a quick list : - Ugly characters and facial expressions (one of your team members seems to be constantly smiling, even when announcing the death of someone, everybody's eyes seem to    It's really heartbreaking to give a game labelled "Mass Effect" such a bad grade...

    I asked for a refund after playing like 3 or 4 hours because the immersion was constantly broken by something.

    Here is a quick list :
    - Ugly characters and facial expressions (one of your team members seems to be constantly smiling, even when announcing the death of someone, everybody's eyes seem to be popping out)
    - Everyone seems to be black, there's no way to have a white or asian skin for your character
    - The character creator itself seems outdated and almost have less options than Dragon Age 2
    - Important dialogues permanently cancelled by NPCs you pass by
    - A lot of dialogues seem to have been written by angry teenagers
    - Broken animations (I spoke to NPC's in T-Pose)
    - Rain falls on characters face, not helmet
    - The UI lacks polish and has unexpected behaviors (scrolls not draggable or that reset the scrolling to the top, very simplistic buttons design, almost ugly sometimes)
    - You can unlock a lot of powers in each spec, but can only have 3 active at once (sure you can switch between 4 loadouts but then again that's just shortcuts for shortcuts, let us at least have 6 powers active at the same time, that's a minimum)
    - Overall menu navigation is tedious, especially the quest tracking (very irritating)

    All those things totally broke my experience and as a result I didn't feel in a Mass Effect game, I felt in a broken imitation and I'm upset because I've been waiting for this game for a very long time and I absolutely adore the series.

    I might buy it again one day if there are patches, but for me as of march 26th 2017, that's not a Mass Effect.

    Also : I pre-ordered, I shouldn't have, nobody should EVER (except for limited editions and such), so that EA doesn't start thinking "oh ok they'll throw money at us even if the game is unfinished, ship it guys!"    … Expand
  45. Vidicus
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    When a company forgets why people play games, and instead pushes social agendas, they make games like Mass Effect Andromeda. Look elsewhere for Sci-Fi gaming goodness. The combat is fine but the exploration is only on a few planets out of a hundred. The rest are simply a click to finish exploring. Add bad animations, bad voice acting, remove emotions, lower companion customization andWhen a company forgets why people play games, and instead pushes social agendas, they make games like Mass Effect Andromeda. Look elsewhere for Sci-Fi gaming goodness. The combat is fine but the exploration is only on a few planets out of a hundred. The rest are simply a click to finish exploring. Add bad animations, bad voice acting, remove emotions, lower companion customization and controls, and you have Mess Effect: Andromeda. I also missed the awesome soundtrack of the first game. Overall a missed opportunity for Bioware. I believe they have now destroyed their name and reputation to the point it will hit their profits.… Expand
  46. maxt4578
    Mar 24, 2017
    2
    Half-baked abomination of a game.
    Developers discarded a huge opportunity of new and engaging story in another galaxy, instead decide to play safe and made an awkward clone of a previous games, even going as far as reusing previous assets (models, animation, mechanics).
    Writing is abysmal. Logical errors and plot holes the size of the supermassive black hole. Some examples: - After    Half-baked abomination of a game.
    Developers discarded a huge opportunity of new and engaging story in another galaxy, instead decide to play safe and made an awkward clone of a previous games, even going as far as reusing previous assets (models, animation, mechanics).

    Writing is abysmal. Logical errors and plot holes the size of the supermassive black hole.
    Some examples:
    - After travelling 600 years to another galaxy you visit first planet in a prologue, completely unexplored, with recon mission. On that planet there are mysterious alien installations, thousands of years old. Guess what you find there? A scope for your rifle. Not a technology, that you have to research first ot use it. just the damn thing, that you can slap on your weapon. Another galaxy, folks!

    - First contact with an alien race, an important and frightening event (remember First Contact war from the lore of the series)? Nope. Instant understanding and cooperation.

    - Hero is the last hope of colonists, tasked with finding new worlds for the survival of everyone must buy his equipment for credits... Come on, there are million ways to circumvent this stupid situation, there could be requisition points, new tech research for gradual upgrades. Nope, credits.

    - Research and crafting. There is no reason to explore planets and collect resources, when you can forfeit research and development entirely and just buy things for credits. Takes away the exploration spirit everyone hoped for.

    This is just a surface scratching without going into details.

    Dialogs.
    Dialogs seems to be written by 10 year old. Characters spew exposition like in a bad movie. Mindless and numb droning of the NPCs will force you to skip the conversations entirely. Blatant mis-casting of the voice actors, which make characters dull and forgettable. Dialog options regressed even further, than infamous Renegade/Paragon system from previous games. Simplified romance options always show up in the wheel with "heart" icon, not unlocked through conversation and interaction. Just choose "heart" repeatedly and you get the romance scene. That easy. No engagement whatsoever.

    Worlds.
    Developers tried to create the open worlds, but instead got generic, empty and forgettable planets with dull quests. Uninspired and repetitive alien installations, awkwardly respawning enemies, overall lack of creativity throughout gameplay: these are the flaws that should never be in the first place, with the foundation like previous games and high project budget.

    User interface.
    Horrible design decisions, not just one step back, but a giant leap from established and comfortable interface from previous installments. You easily get lost in the menus, sub menus and tabs even when trying to do simple things, such as change quest tracking. Crafting menu is even worse. Unintuitive key mapping - to open a map you press "M" once, to close it press "Esc" twice. Map is buggy, half of the time you can't even locate your position, the marker just dissapears, making you take a wild guess. Minimap is no more, instead we got Skyrim'esque compass with markers that is just awkward to use, especially when driving in the vehicle.

    Animation.
    It's bad. Forget about stiff faces and bad syncing everyone are talking about. We have awkward movement, disappearing weapons, disappearing helmets, characters sliding instead of walking, NPC models suspended in midair, models clipping through the ground, invisible textures, madly rotating eyeballs, impossible gestures, just to name a few. It looks and feels as if it is an early alpha build. Even minimal quality control should have noticed and reported these massive issues, but alas...

    tl:dr verdict:

    An insult for the veterans of the series and tedious, boring experience for the newcomers to the franchise.    … Expand
  47. fsdgf
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    Terrible writing, terrible story, terrible animations, terrible characters, terrible voice acting and bland, boring combat.

    I'd love to mention a positive about the game, but there really isn't one. Don't get this game.
  48. Panches_S
    Mar 27, 2017
    3
    Основные минусы для меня

    - Слабый сюжет. -Плоские персонажи. - Пустые диалоги. - Никакой атмосферы. - Слабые побочные квесты. - Слишком много багов. И это игра от Bioware ( хоть и от них осталось лишь название)? Лишь за красивые планеты и неплохую визуализацию ставлю 3.    Основные минусы для меня

    - Слабый сюжет.
    -Плоские персонажи.
    - Пустые диалоги.
    - Никакой атмосферы.
    - Слабые побочные квесты.
    - Слишком много багов.
    И это игра от Bioware ( хоть и от них осталось лишь название)? Лишь за красивые планеты и неплохую визуализацию ставлю 3.
  49. Thylbanus
    Mar 21, 2017
    5
    Take this for what it is worth, but I cannot finish this game. It's not engaging enough. Take anything I say with a grain of salt. You have a pretty shallow story that is interspersed with nothing but mission grinds. The voice acting is 75% bad and there is absolutely no reason to find any relation with your companions. The later ones are a bit more interesting, but you don't have anyTake this for what it is worth, but I cannot finish this game. It's not engaging enough. Take anything I say with a grain of salt. You have a pretty shallow story that is interspersed with nothing but mission grinds. The voice acting is 75% bad and there is absolutely no reason to find any relation with your companions. The later ones are a bit more interesting, but you don't have any Morden's sings moments. You can't have any agonizing decisions to make. DUDE, your decisions have as much meaning as the RGB ending of ME3! (*flashback eyetwitch*) You don't have... FUN!

    I shouldn't go off about the negative without some positives. Other than the horrible human wax dolls, the rest of the environment is QUITE pretty. The worlds, while limited in quantity, are still large enough to be interesting, but small enough to remember where you are going, as long as the mission doesn't unknowingly update. (Sorry, I said I'd try to be positive).

    The scope is quite nice for a game of this age. The crafting is lackluster, but having the modding back is nice. The combat is SUPER fun, but I'd rather have them spent the energy in the story and deal with the old system if there were a trade off. Has many hours of content.

    All in all, this probably would have been a higher score if this didn't have the Mass Effect label, but as it does it loses points for not living up to the legacy.    … Expand
  50. Terrastro
    Mar 21, 2017
    3
    So many bugs! Crashes and graphical glitches. Weird animation and cameras which get stuck in dialogue scenes and won't follow the character, NPCs and companions who freeze and don't respond, and worst of all, save game corruptions. This game is not release ready.
  51. vinod95014
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I really wanted to like this game... And I was looking forward to it for a long long time.

    But the same issues that were brought out when the first trailer came out (Facial animations), the ones we were told would be fixed, are still there, and are even worse than I expected. It is downright immersion breaking, because of flat lifeless expressions, characters that sound emotionless, writing that is Below average at best, and often atrocious. The open world of this game feels similar to DAI and Ubisoft games, that have you running around gathering stuff, and doing other boring activities that feel like a chore rather than being fun.

    Gone is the sense of control you felt over your actions, as the Paragon/Renegade option has been replaced for being too binary, and instead replaced with a bunch of options that are meant to convey your tone, but end up saying the same thing. You hardly have any control over your characters actions. No matter what you do, you are always going to be the good guy. The ability to be rude, which was an integral part of what made mass effect so fun, is gone. You want to play as a dick? No, you are not allowed.

    Your companions are forgettable for the most part, with perhaps two exceptions, and one of them being memorable in a bad way. Peebee is perhaps the most irritating and badly written character I have ever seen in a game. All the characters lack any sort of seriousness despite the danger around them, and the conversation sounds like some sort of disney channel show set in high school. She just spouts off stupid one liners and bad jokes, and in place of having a binary option of paragon and renegade which influences how characters react towards you, you are instead given a binary option between professional and casual that determines how peebee reacts towards you. I found myself wishing I could somehow get her killed or kick her off the ship after the first mission with her, as I found her so irritating and cliche.

    The characters that have human faces are especially bad, as they look like they have been clubbed in the face as babies, and have a dazed expression that is interrupted only by their eyes making odd and rapid movements in all directions. Their faces are almost always fixed in one position, and the lip syncing is so awful it makes you cringe.

    The combat is however, pretty good. At least at first. It also has some big flaws, mainly glitches that leave you stuck floating along slowly when you land after using your jump jet, or your character unable to find a position behind cover because he slides along another feet after you take your finger off the move key. For some reason the developers have chosen to remove the ability to control your teamates beyond telling them where to go.. You cannot use their abilities for combo detonations anymore, and you yourself are limited to three hotkeys, which makes having more than three abilities in a profile somewhat pointless.

    The story is very dull, and lacks any of the seriousness and feeling of wonder that I loved about all the previous games. This is a surprising thing to realize when there was so much potential here in this setting. Instead this new galaxy you are thrust into is almost identical to the one you left, with the reapers replaced by another similar species, and a one dimensional evil species that you end up battling for most of the game. You find yourself trudging from planet to planet, fixing the weather by doing sudoku puzzles and a bunch of irritating fetch quests.

    I never expected this game to be so poor, but it is. I found myself struggling to play it after a certain point, and was so bored I went back to playing ME 1. I reccomend waiting till this game is patched and the price goes down to match its quality, which is to say when it is around 10 to 20 USD. If you are a fan of the previous games, prepare for disappointment.    … Expand
  52. Ogi79
    Mar 22, 2017
    1
    This game is soo bad its not worth even piracy !! This game is not worth piracy! Yes , its that bad! Yes its that bad! Dont waste time and money on this crap.
  53. 4Core
    Mar 22, 2017
    1
    Do Bioware have any QC? This game should have never leave the studio. It's unfinished crap with a lot of bugs, bizarre animations and crashes. I needed to restart game 5 times to finish one mission because it was so bugged i cannot continue. Even gameplay isn't strong thing for this game. Story is mediocre the whole plot is idiotic that seems to be written by 12 years old from DeviantArt.Do Bioware have any QC? This game should have never leave the studio. It's unfinished crap with a lot of bugs, bizarre animations and crashes. I needed to restart game 5 times to finish one mission because it was so bugged i cannot continue. Even gameplay isn't strong thing for this game. Story is mediocre the whole plot is idiotic that seems to be written by 12 years old from DeviantArt. Every character is bland and boring they can't even compete with characters from OT. This game should have never exist.… Expand
  54. Jimbob2k666
    Mar 21, 2017
    4
    I'm so happy EA Access gave me a 10 hour trial of this game. It has saved me £50. Maybe worth a sale purchase somewhere down the line if they fix all of the issues, but then again, you can't fix a story and recast and re-record the entire voice acting. I felt like I was playing one of the original ME games the graphics are really bland for the most part. I wasn't expecting much anywayI'm so happy EA Access gave me a 10 hour trial of this game. It has saved me £50. Maybe worth a sale purchase somewhere down the line if they fix all of the issues, but then again, you can't fix a story and recast and re-record the entire voice acting. I felt like I was playing one of the original ME games the graphics are really bland for the most part. I wasn't expecting much anyway so I am not that disheartened by how poor this has turned out to be.… Expand
  55. Freestate2nd
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    A total disaster. Poorly optimization, plenty of bugs. A bland story without soul, stupid characters, technical flaws in the animations that destroy emotional involvement with them and changes in combat that make them simpler than the previous ones. A turd covered with silk. A loss of money and time.
  56. sniperfoxdls
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    If you were looking for an overhyped flop, you came to the right place. Not quite on the same level as No Mans Sky, but still and avoid-at-all-costs game, at least for right now. Horrible writing and animations and bugs upon bugs upon bugs ruin what could have been a good game. Another Bioware miss.
  57. Thraktor
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    This isn't even a RPG anymore its a shooter game now, Bioware has chased the CoD market. To also mention that game has lame writing, bad animations & poor AI.

    MP uses P2P instead of dedicated servers.
  58. thejesterbot
    Mar 23, 2017
    1
    Such a step backwards from the trilogy. I actually thought (for the most part) that each of the original 3 managed to improve upon the series. This however, appears to be a gross departure in terms of quality, customization, etc. Even the character creation options have been chopped to a mere fraction of the previous two titles! Add stony dialog, terrible voice acting, and a lack ofSuch a step backwards from the trilogy. I actually thought (for the most part) that each of the original 3 managed to improve upon the series. This however, appears to be a gross departure in terms of quality, customization, etc. Even the character creation options have been chopped to a mere fraction of the previous two titles! Add stony dialog, terrible voice acting, and a lack of quicksave, and this is nothing but a generic-console-game that tacks onto a pre-existing franchise for IP. Thumbs way down, and a huge disappointment after pre-ordering!… Expand
  59. your_neighbour
    Mar 26, 2017
    0
    Ok I am not going to bash it on the political things alright, just based on technical side of the games. At many climaxes the characters just STAND STILL there with a totally BLANK face. You think fallout was bad? Try Andromeda. Even Sims 1 has better body language and face morphing than this 40 million dollar title developed over 5 years. Is this what 40 million dollar makes?

    Too bad    Ok I am not going to bash it on the political things alright, just based on technical side of the games. At many climaxes the characters just STAND STILL there with a totally BLANK face. You think fallout was bad? Try Andromeda. Even Sims 1 has better body language and face morphing than this 40 million dollar title developed over 5 years. Is this what 40 million dollar makes?

    Too bad it's too late for me to get a refund I thought yeah it is no big deal it's just the face but the level of bad really puts you OUT OF TOUCH with the immersion, it's like when you have a bad glitch that deforms your character and you can't turn your head away from it.

    If you are reading this, you have been warned, it's bad. Wait for a new one.    … Expand
  60. pessoadoalem
    Apr 6, 2017
    0
    This game is just trash.
    -Awful animations.
    -badly optimized for pc, frame rate drops every time -bugs everywhere -writing at high school level even though the combat is good, but by time it gets boring af, the crafting system is bad, it gives you all schematics at the beginning, the squadmates are extremely forgettable, i dont even remember the names. i would give it a 3/10 for    This game is just trash.
    -Awful animations.
    -badly optimized for pc, frame rate drops every time
    -bugs everywhere
    -writing at high school level

    even though the combat is good, but by time it gets boring af, the crafting system is bad, it gives you all schematics at the beginning, the squadmates are extremely forgettable, i dont even remember the names.

    i would give it a 3/10 for the graphics and the combat, but i will give it 0/10 because it has Denuvo and they sell the game buggy as hell    … Expand
  61. TheGnome
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    Decided to grab this despite the negative reviews, assuming this was down to a small group of haters. Wow was I wrong.

    What exactly was wrong with the game? Everyone is talking about how horrible the animations are, and they're right. The facial animations have all the expression of a melted action figure, and are about as plastic. The story would have been acceptable video game    Decided to grab this despite the negative reviews, assuming this was down to a small group of haters. Wow was I wrong.

    What exactly was wrong with the game? Everyone is talking about how horrible the animations are, and they're right. The facial animations have all the expression of a melted action figure, and are about as plastic.

    The story would have been acceptable video game foof if not for the franchise of Mass Effect being STORY DRIVEN. This would still have been overlookable if the game play was stellar. It's not, it shines in places, but in others (such as inventory management) it is a step back to the 1990's.

    Scanning. Whee.

    Last and definitely not least, in this day and age I've come to expect some political/social agenda but this was ridiculous, I felt like I was going through a sensitivity training course at a Marxist daycare, rather than playing a video game.

    How about this: LEAVE YOUR POLITICS OUT OF GAMES REGARDLESS OF WHAT SIDE YOU'RE ON. I'd no more want to hear about this dreck than a character droning on about the wonders of supply side economics.    … Expand
  62. NoMoreTrolls
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Who let this game pass quality control? This game is worse than ME1, game is big and looks ok though the rest of the game is so bad. AI is poor like others said, companions freeze sometimes.
  63. UberGameMasters
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    •I miss EDI (Can't emphasize that enough)
    SAM is making me uneasy and engaging with it is chipping away at my interest, exponentially.
    •The NPC's are ugly and are laden with a bland androgyny. (I see ugly people all day, don't need it in my off time. This "is" still suppose to be a fantasy, right?) •Combat & Jetpack are cool but just not enough to make up for all of ME: Andromeda's    •I miss EDI (Can't emphasize that enough)
    SAM is making me uneasy and engaging with it is chipping away at my interest, exponentially.

    •The NPC's are ugly and are laden with a bland androgyny. (I see ugly people all day, don't need it in my off time. This "is" still suppose to be a fantasy, right?)

    •Combat & Jetpack are cool but just not enough to make up for all of ME: Andromeda's failings.

    •The Character Creator is subpar. I can easily spend two (or more) hours creating my custom character in the beginning of an awesome AAA title. One of my MOST favorite parts of a game and really helps get me immersed and truly invested in my story. I was robbed of this. : /

    •Story and dialog choices seem... stale. Again, really missing a natural flair, organic humor and playful sexual energy that comes from healthy human exchanges.

    All in all, have been a major fan of the ME series since ME1 but this installment seems as though Bioware has stopped catering to it's original fan base and has instead joined the ranks of the falling "preachy" element that's not really concerned about just making something fun and sexy people (YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE) can enjoy but forcing you to be "liberal". -This game falls flat.

    But I guess the only way to have them understand, (CATER TO YOUR FANBASE, not agendas) is in their wallets. -They might want to prepare to be schooled then.    … Expand
  64. Littorio
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    This game like 9 season "scrubs", should not have existed.
    Quests, characters, animations, story - so f%ng bad, especially for Bioware.
    Mass Effect: Inquisition. Nuff said.
  65. Tain
    Mar 21, 2017
    3
    Lackluster game.

    Can't get into story poorly written.

    Stunning view of worlds and fun combat though, fun to drive around and MP is like ME3.

    Hope to see dlc that add better written characters and animations fixed in a patch,

    Animations need improvement.
  66. GiantMoth
    Mar 23, 2017
    1
    I'll be perfectly honest: I wanted to like this game. I really, really wanted to like this game. I bought a new computer with a GTX1060 so that I'd be able to run it properly. I signed up for EA/Origin's Early Access trial so that I could play it sooner. I even ignored all of those people who were poking fun at the game's (admittedly terrible) animations.

    ...But it's impossible to    I'll be perfectly honest: I wanted to like this game. I really, really wanted to like this game. I bought a new computer with a GTX1060 so that I'd be able to run it properly. I signed up for EA/Origin's Early Access trial so that I could play it sooner. I even ignored all of those people who were poking fun at the game's (admittedly terrible) animations.

    ...But it's impossible to like.

    ME:A is nothing like previous Mass Effect games. In fact, it's pretty much their opposite.

    - Mass Effect was story-driven, whereas the story in ME:A feels like an afterthought

    - Mass Effect had gravitas, genuine humor, and meaningful choices. ME:A is just childish and silly, its attempts at humor fall flat in cringeworthy fashion, and none of your character's choices feel meaningful. Oh, and forget about the Paragon/Renegade spectrum -- it's paragon-only.

    - Mass Effect had well-defined, interesting, and meaningful quests. ME:A wants you to run around ridiculous open worlds on fetch quests, and quests like "scan 16 rocks." ME:A also forces you to play an awful lot of sudoku, which is totally infuriating. (Between the sudoku and the fetch quests, I had had enough, and returned the game for a refund.)

    - Mass Effect set a very high bar with its NPCs, who grew and evolved along with Cmdr Shepard. (Especially Garrus and Tali.) ME:A's NPCs are uniformly terrible. Especially bad are Peebee, who is basically an ugly and annoying version of Liara, and Cora, a human who LARPs as an Asari commando.

    Now, as for combat, people say that the combat in ME:A is fine. I'm not sure I agree. I think that playing as a sniper is more rewarding and more interesting in ME:3. In ME2 and ME3, engagment distances were kept short due to the way the game was designed, but it was still possible to find a nice little nest and pick enemies off at a distance. In this game, due to the "open world", you can spot enemies from hundreds of meters away... but it's almost completely impossible to HIT anything past 120 meters in this game with the Black Widow sniper rifle, which is incredibly frustrating. (This is funny, as WWI infantrymen were effective at up to 1200 meters with their old 30'06 rifles, and engagements at 500m were, and remain, downright common. For more info see the US Military monograph: "Increasing Small Arms Lethality in Afghanistan: Taking Back the Infantry Half-Kilometer.") Also, the fact that you're limited to three skills, and can't control party members, really limits your options.

    And there's no cannon or machine gun on the Mako/Nomad. This is also frustrating. A very questionable design choice.

    If you like grinding MMOs, you might like this. If you like the Mass Effect of old, stay far away. This isn't really a Mass Effect game.    … Expand
  67. Schitso
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    joke animations
    joke dialogue
    joke writing
    boring gameplay
    decent multiplayer

    This is just a bland MMORPG, nothing more. Maybe I have unreasonable expectations on BioWare, I'll remember next time. BioWare is only a second-tier studio now.
  68. Amulrei
    Mar 24, 2017
    0
    If for some reason you needed more proof that Bioware is a now corpse-shell worn by unqualified SWJs pretending to be real developers, here is your Exhibit A through to F.

    Horrible writing, awful combat and animation bugs we would mock in an indy title let alone a full price triple-A release. Utterly disgraceful.
  69. J4MESOX4D
    Mar 22, 2017
    3
    Mass Effect Andromeda is an absolute embarrassment not just by the standards set by various games or the level expected in 2017; it is even inferior to all its predecessors. To think this had a $40,000,000 budget and 5 full years of development; it is completely unacceptable and Bioware should be relieved of the brand and disbanded before further damage is done.

    I'll keep it reasonably    Mass Effect Andromeda is an absolute embarrassment not just by the standards set by various games or the level expected in 2017; it is even inferior to all its predecessors. To think this had a $40,000,000 budget and 5 full years of development; it is completely unacceptable and Bioware should be relieved of the brand and disbanded before further damage is done.

    I'll keep it reasonably short as the crippling flaws are rather self-explanatory and well-known;- the story is very underwhelming for starters and is further complimented with some of the most atrocious script writing and voice acting I have seen for years. There may be 1200 voiced characters in this game as proudly stated by the developers but none of the 'actors' are skilled and most sound like they were just reading off a piece of paper instead of delivering compassionate, dramatic and engrossing dialogue. It's an utter shambles.

    The most glaring problem as we are all fully aware of is simply the facial and physical animations of the characters, It is borderline comical at times and with all the remarkable audio/visual motion capture companies in the world today; it is baffling as to why Bioware decided to do this in-house at great expense and with hilariously bad results. The original Mass Effect along with other ageing games like LA Noire put Andromeda to shame in this regard and I'm left scratching my head as to where the $40m budget was allocated.

    In terms of the gameplay; it's absolutely boring and tedious especially when there is no engaging story or characters to become absorbed in. Generic shooting, horrendous AI along with bland and barren worlds just makes you want to accelerate to the end. You can either speed through 20-25 hours or try and get your money's worth of 50+ hours with all the side quests but you'll soon become fed up of the game as a whole. Co-op MP horde mode can be fun but the same experience can be enjoyed in other cheaper games. This one is certainly undeserving of your money especially when so many aspects are unpolished or unacceptably poor.

    I'd wait five years until it's free on the Origin Store and even then it might no be worth your time. Call of Duty overstayed its welcome and declined terribly and so did Assassin's Creed. Mass Effect is teetering on the brink of joining them as its legacy is now in tatters with Andromeda.    … Expand
  70. frans_nordstedt
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    this quality is simply unacceptable for an triple-A title in 2017.

    -A 12 year old could write better story and dialogues -Characters and Animations are simply unacceptable -Buggy as hell -Boring/arcade-ish gameplay that feels targeted for small children -Mediocre graphics most of the time -Exploration is pointless (unless youre only searching for loot, dont expect to find any    this quality is simply unacceptable for an triple-A title in 2017.

    -A 12 year old could write better story and dialogues
    -Characters and Animations are simply unacceptable
    -Buggy as hell
    -Boring/arcade-ish gameplay that feels targeted for small children
    -Mediocre graphics most of the time
    -Exploration is pointless (unless youre only searching for loot, dont expect to find any exciting story elements at all)

    I tried really hard to finish the game, just to make my money worth something, but unfortunately i couldn't    … Expand
  71. Sirmorte
    Mar 30, 2017
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The game really is a mixed bag. I am surprised that many reviewers left out some important info.

    First for the good: Yes, the game plays a lot like most mass effect games. Lots of fighting without it being too boring. There is a decent story line and lots and lots of quests. I also like the idea of being able to use any skill and not be locked into set classes.

    The bad :

    First, there is an increasing tend for publishers to put in hard puzzles. thus, if you can't solve the puzzle, you are shafted. I know that you all love to do hard SEDUKU puzzles, right? Wrong. These are boring, and should be completely eliminated from the game. Even worse, they make the game very challenging just to find the puzzles in order to attempt them. It's a really crazy system that should be junked.

    Secondly,The interface, especially the quest interface for quests is abysmal. Whoever designed the quest interface should have been fired. You will find quests under the quest section,which is expected and quests in various parts of the Codex among other areas. They really, really need to sort out the quests in a much easier manner, and have the current quest always showing what needs to be done. Why they didn't just put all quests in one area and sort them between main story quests, loyalty quests and additional quests,which could be further subdivided by area is baffling. Hopefully, some nice modder will fix this.

    Third: tracking. Mass effect 1 was great because it was simple to understand and use. Sadly, this isn't true of ME Andromeda. For example, in older mass effect game sand with other RPGs, you might see a tracking line to where you need to do. ME Andromeda got rid of this and put icon at the top to follow. Sadly, some of the icons are hard to distinguish from other quest icons and they don't show a path to the quest area. You have to find how to get there and go through a lot of frustration.

    Fourth: Yes, ME Andromeda got rid of the classes. You can now pick any skill. Sadly they limited the utilizable skills to only three at a time, which is much too little. Certainly, they should have had at least 5. Even Everquest, which had very limited skills available , had 8.

    Fifth: The inventory limit is MUCH too limited. I don't know what they were thinking,but allowing only 50 slots was crazy. They should have allowed much more even if we had to purchase it at a vendor.

    Sixth: Maps in the original Mass Effect trilogy were easy to follow. This isn't the case with ME andromeda. There are lots of obstacles blocking entry and egress , and it isn't clear how to get to a particular destination.

    Seventh: Driving the Nomad is very tough at least until you get a number of upgrades. Frankly, players made a mod in the original ME trilogy that allowed steering based on mouse direction. Why Zenimax didn't incorporate this is frankly bizarre.

    Eighth: Nothing is easy with this game or intuitive. For example, on EOS , we had to shut off a force field blocking entrance to a research area. After going around the area deactivating the shield generators, nothing happened. Doesn't "deactivated mean off? -- not in ME Andromeda. Players need to not only shut off the generators but destroy two of them. Frankly, this seems more like a bug than a strange puzzle.

    Ninth: Crafting: In the trilogy, you can easily add mods. Now , no mods area can be added to weapons or armor unless crafted. Why? Frankly, I would have liked mods to be added to everything. Crafting is also much more complicated than it need be.
    I think drafting should be a lot more simplified than it is.

    Tenth: Sadly, unlike the trilogy, I found myself not caring about the characters. There certainly wasn't enough character development in the story.

    What's even more shocking is that few people are talking about all this. Much of the reviews are focusing on the animation and modeling problems,which definitely need improvement. However, to me , the game play is much more important.

    Bottom line: Yes, this does play fairly well and does have some of the compelling aspects of the original trilogy. If only Bethesda Softworks had sought more player input. It is only a C+ game, which isn't horrible---- just not fantastic like the trilogy.    … Expand
  72. paulmememan
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    EA has destroyed another franchise, one that was dear to me. While this game shows brief moments of promise, it makes the fact that it doesn't deliver on that promise all the more devastating. All that waiting and they deliver a recycled, reheated leftovers mess of a game. Complete with new and old technical problems, and the worst part is an area Bioware formerly excelled; the writing. OhEA has destroyed another franchise, one that was dear to me. While this game shows brief moments of promise, it makes the fact that it doesn't deliver on that promise all the more devastating. All that waiting and they deliver a recycled, reheated leftovers mess of a game. Complete with new and old technical problems, and the worst part is an area Bioware formerly excelled; the writing. Oh god, the writing! It is reminiscent of a middle schoolers fan fiction story. Full of bare-faced cliches in both the dialog and plot. Not a single character is memorable in their own right.

    The ending of Mass Effect 3 was a hamfisted amateur slap in the face, but this feels like a dagger in the back.    … Expand
  73. Battletoad
    Mar 21, 2017
    3
    Animation twentieth years ago. What the hell? It's impossible to play. You laugh all the time. This is a disrespect for the players. It's just absurd.
  74. Amodeusz
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    This game is very bad.
    It has no redeeming feautures.
    There are lots of bugs, gameplay is carbon copy of me3 with worst elements taken straight from inquisition(short main story, mmo fetchquests etc.) writing is laughable. Story was probably written by 17 yr kid. Characters are cliche and bad cliches at that. This game doesnt even care about established lore. Oh and animations are one    This game is very bad.
    It has no redeeming feautures.
    There are lots of bugs, gameplay is carbon copy of me3 with worst elements taken straight from inquisition(short main story, mmo fetchquests etc.) writing is laughable. Story was probably written by 17 yr kid.
    Characters are cliche and bad cliches at that. This game doesnt even care about established lore.
    Oh and animations are one of worst i have ever seen. PS3 launch titles had better animation.
    Its hard to recommend this to anyone.
    This is NOT Mass Effect, it has nothing similar with previous games.
    Mass Effect in name only.    … Expand
  75. phillyguy
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    I'm not sure what I just experienced. The writing seems like it came out of a fanfic competition. The characters were either annoying or bland. Do you like to scan things? You get to scan all the things. Would you like to scan some more things?

    Hey, at least you get to cover up your character's stroke mangled face with a helmet while you scan. The writing was so bad that I was    I'm not sure what I just experienced. The writing seems like it came out of a fanfic competition. The characters were either annoying or bland. Do you like to scan things? You get to scan all the things. Would you like to scan some more things?

    Hey, at least you get to cover up your character's stroke mangled face with a helmet while you scan.

    The writing was so bad that I was laughing half the time at the unintended humor. Once the dialogue makes you really cringe you can always go scan something. I thought the DA: Inquisition dialogue was shallow and plastic, but they managed to make things worse.

    The voice acting was milquetoast, but I really can't blame the actors considering the content they had to work with.

    On the plus side, it installed without destroying my hard drive and only ctd's once or twice.    … Expand
  76. SpecH82
    Mar 27, 2017
    5
    Simply not worth full price.
    Partly bad animations. Bad graphics on characters (npc's) in-game while you walk around the nexus. Haircuts and hair colours on said npc's look like s**t.
    Lipsync is bad Npc's look almost the same in high. Looks, sizes and so forth. Side-content are lackluster and boring. Mostly fetch quests (wow 3.0). Orchestra isn't good. Voice acting is    Simply not worth full price.
    Partly bad animations. Bad graphics on characters (npc's) in-game while you walk around the nexus. Haircuts and hair colours on said npc's look like s**t.

    Lipsync is bad

    Npc's look almost the same in high. Looks, sizes and so forth.

    Side-content are lackluster and boring. Mostly fetch quests (wow 3.0).

    Orchestra isn't good. Voice acting is bad/boring, without any feeling/emotion in parts where there should be some.

    The characters don't stand still when you speak with them. Had a chat with the team's krogan. His arms are jumping everywhere.

    To name a few bad things with this game. Frankly bioware go play witcher 3. Perhaps you'll learn something. And stop catering to sjw/feminists. Perhaps if you do that. You'll be able to make good games again.

    Now to something positive. The landscapes/environments are beautiful.    … Expand
  77. psomaster437
    Mar 21, 2017
    5
    The multiplayer is/was fun sure, but the single-player is FAR more like dragon age inq in the terms of open world and story, and that kind of story telling is fine, but having to gather 5k resources ON FOOT is not my thing and then having a finite amount of them so you can't craft all the things or experiment without TONS of farming. I did not get through the 2nd mission at nearly 7 hoursThe multiplayer is/was fun sure, but the single-player is FAR more like dragon age inq in the terms of open world and story, and that kind of story telling is fine, but having to gather 5k resources ON FOOT is not my thing and then having a finite amount of them so you can't craft all the things or experiment without TONS of farming. I did not get through the 2nd mission at nearly 7 hours into the story!

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

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

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

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

    Overall I am giving it a lower score of 5 until the issues are fixed. As which point I will redo my review.    … Expand
  78. Azuran
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Abysmally written story, one Bioware dev said it would have meaningful choices like in Witcher 3. Sadly that is not the case full of fetch quests like Dragon Age Inquisition and emotionless characters. Dialog is horrible.

    Shame on Bioware, last game from them I'll ever buy.

    Pretty sad when CDPR set a industry standard for RPGS!
  79. Muller
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    This game should never exist along with its developer : Bioware and EA. This game is bad as a whole. Not recommended.
    - Bland and short storylines.
    - Boring and repetitive Main and Side Quest. - Horrible character design both for Main Char and NPC Char. - Plot is non existent. At the end of the day i always asked to myself where is the Mass Effect 2? Where is the Dragon Age Origins?    This game should never exist along with its developer : Bioware and EA. This game is bad as a whole. Not recommended.
    - Bland and short storylines.
    - Boring and repetitive Main and Side Quest.
    - Horrible character design both for Main Char and NPC Char.
    - Plot is non existent.

    At the end of the day i always asked to myself where is the Mass Effect 2? Where is the Dragon Age Origins? All i know now is Bioware and its products are junk. Please do not buy at Full price.    … Expand
  80. PhilGPT
    Mar 22, 2017
    1
    This has got to be the most shallowest game I've ever played. It's even shallower than Dragon Age: Inquisition. There is just a lot of lack of content on the worlds you explore, the animations are poor, the story doesn't feel right.

    This is a AAA game? It feels more like a budget indie game. EA would do right if they get Bioware to just release dlcs for free and make up for this    This has got to be the most shallowest game I've ever played. It's even shallower than Dragon Age: Inquisition. There is just a lot of lack of content on the worlds you explore, the animations are poor, the story doesn't feel right.

    This is a AAA game? It feels more like a budget indie game. EA would do right if they get Bioware to just release dlcs for free and make up for this mistake.

    I think I'm done buying games from Bioware/EA. I'll just have to look around and find another AAA dev who can make better RPG games.    … Expand
  81. linksys17
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    Mass Effect Andromeda sucks. Bioware hired an inexperience team and EA rushed the process. What do you get? A laughable game with terrible animation, dialogue, and gameplay.

    Supporting this game is the same as supporting terrible business practices. We as gamers should expect more. This game is **** The bar has been set by Bethesda, CD Project Red and hell even previous Bioware    Mass Effect Andromeda sucks. Bioware hired an inexperience team and EA rushed the process. What do you get? A laughable game with terrible animation, dialogue, and gameplay.

    Supporting this game is the same as supporting terrible business practices. We as gamers should expect more. This game is **** The bar has been set by Bethesda, CD Project Red and hell even previous Bioware titles such as Dragon Age Origins, Baldur's Gate 2, and ME2. Maybe if this game came out like 10 years ago it would be passable, but now? **** no.    … Expand
  82. Alaska_Wolf
    Mar 21, 2017
    2
    I had hoped for another terrific addition to the Mass Effect universe. Instead, what I found was a superficial, poorly written, lackluster game full of bugs, poor voice acting, a horrible dialogue wheel and shallow story line. Perhaps with some serious redesign, video upgrades, patching, and several hundred $ in additional DLC content it might make it, maybe. As it stands now, I'mI had hoped for another terrific addition to the Mass Effect universe. Instead, what I found was a superficial, poorly written, lackluster game full of bugs, poor voice acting, a horrible dialogue wheel and shallow story line. Perhaps with some serious redesign, video upgrades, patching, and several hundred $ in additional DLC content it might make it, maybe. As it stands now, I'm not sure that even the legendary Commander Shepard could save this game, its just that bad.… Expand
  83. clarky
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Bioware does an amazing job at making a lifeless game with depth and visuals straight out of 2003 Unsurprisingly pushed into hands of the feeble minded masses by boss EA. My time with Bioware has now ended.
  84. partyintheback
    Mar 21, 2017
    4
    If Gameloft made a Mass Effect title, it'd look a lot like Andromeda. While this game offers more exploration than Mass Effect 2 and 3 - and I welcome that, it also offers some of the lousiest characters ever to appear in a Mass Effect. Both lead characters, the male and female Ryder, are abysmal. From shoddy animation work, to poorly detailed character models, to unacceptably poorIf Gameloft made a Mass Effect title, it'd look a lot like Andromeda. While this game offers more exploration than Mass Effect 2 and 3 - and I welcome that, it also offers some of the lousiest characters ever to appear in a Mass Effect. Both lead characters, the male and female Ryder, are abysmal. From shoddy animation work, to poorly detailed character models, to unacceptably poor dialogue and voice acting, this is a disappointing outing all around. The Bioware of today is not the Bioware we knew and loved - it's merely a shell of its former self. Dragon Age II was the beginning of the end and Andromeda is the end.… Expand
  85. worksa7
    Mar 22, 2017
    4
    The amount of critical bugs, visual design problems, and so many of the things that made the other Mass Effect games great being left out- causes the game to miss the mark.
  86. Rynn1990
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    Let's just say this.
    I was so mad and disappointed with this game that I had to create an account here just to warn you guys how horrible this game is and not to buy it.
    You have 10 free hours to try it, TRUST ME and try it before you buy this piece of crap. Personal advice : If You like Mass Effect universe, DON'T PLAY THIS GAME ;) For more details you can just check most of the    Let's just say this.
    I was so mad and disappointed with this game that I had to create an account here just to warn you guys how horrible this game is and not to buy it.

    You have 10 free hours to try it, TRUST ME and try it before you buy this piece of crap.
    Personal advice : If You like Mass Effect universe, DON'T PLAY THIS GAME ;)

    For more details you can just check most of the reviews online for this game on all of it's faults.    … Expand
  87. TheBinarySurfer
    Mar 24, 2017
    3
    I'm being generous with the 3. Weak plot and mediocre writing, godawful animations that are actually worse (in the case of the face) than the ORIGINAL mass effect a game now 10 years old. Frequent massive bugs that break the storyline, NPC's not having death animations just teleporting to a 'dead' state half the time, the female character is so godawfully wooden and robotic (almostI'm being generous with the 3. Weak plot and mediocre writing, godawful animations that are actually worse (in the case of the face) than the ORIGINAL mass effect a game now 10 years old. Frequent massive bugs that break the storyline, NPC's not having death animations just teleporting to a 'dead' state half the time, the female character is so godawfully wooden and robotic (almost inhumanly so) in her facial expression i restarted as a male Ryder within hours. MMO style world = big and empty. A game TWO YEARS old managed to do better in making it feel 'full' than this (Witcher 3). The problems go on; bad driving mechanics, somehow weaker shooting mechanics than the previous game (how the hell did you manage this?

    It's like having designed a sports car and 'the new model' turns out as a horse and cart, horse sold separately!!). None of these flaws are breaking on their own, but a bit like a boxing match it's rarely one blow that puts it down and out for the count, but a succession of relentless failures to match even the standard of the previous mass effect 3, all annoying and some immersion breaking that add up to a weak, even bad game not worth the money. Combine all this with the SJW nonsense (every character almost is bi-trans etc.; i don't mind there being characters that are but come on, every one almost?) and I think we're watching the slow, gradual death of a studio by a thousand cuts.

    What's also fascinating is how the review sites are still scoring it relatively well, whereas the user reviews tell the real story in most cases I suspect. Oh and the multiplayer is ok; mediocre, nothing special but fun for a few hours with friends; really not a significant iteration on ME3's though.

    Also, sadly although the ending is better than ME3's, it's not by much; it's almost as though thousands if not millions of complaints re. ME3's ending somehow resulted in more shallow, callow, weak choices. I wanted to love this game very badly as I did it's younger relatives, sadly what I got was a fantastic PR campaign and little actual substance with almost no quality or love poured into it.

    This will be the last Bioware game I buy after now preodering two mediocre releases in a row (DA:I), I'll save my cash and plough it into a studio that at least takes pride in what they produce (e.g. CD Projekt). I'd like to blame EA, but based on some of the inexperienced, or just plain idiotic (Manveer for example) folks they've hired this one's all on you Bioware.    … Expand
  88. DanMat
    Mar 24, 2017
    0
    Se fa schifo ai madrelingua inglesi figuratevi a noi, che non abbiamo nemmeno avuto il doppiaggio, stavolta.
    ME ha sempre puntato sull'immersività e non c'è immersività senza doppiaggio, tra l'altro il nostro, il migliore al mondo.
    Conosco bene l'inglese ma non per questo cerco prodotti e film in inglese, amo la mia lingua e la considero mille volte meglio della lingua che il mondo ha    Se fa schifo ai madrelingua inglesi figuratevi a noi, che non abbiamo nemmeno avuto il doppiaggio, stavolta.
    ME ha sempre puntato sull'immersività e non c'è immersività senza doppiaggio, tra l'altro il nostro, il migliore al mondo.
    Conosco bene l'inglese ma non per questo cerco prodotti e film in inglese, amo la mia lingua e la considero mille volte meglio della lingua che il mondo ha scelto perché talmente facile da poter venire incontro alle capacità mentali dell'utente medio.
    Per noi italiani questo è un gioco da boicottare assolutamente, i fessi che lo comprano avalleranno la EA a togliere il doppiaggio anche da futuri prodotti, oltre che a rovinarli. A FIFA ancora lo mettono, il doppiaggio...però a ME lo tolgono. La EA si merita di non vendere nemmeno una copia, qui da noi. Questo è razzismo puro e semplice.
    Inoltre il doppiaggio ci è sempre stato fatto pesare in termini di costi, le software house ci hanno sempre, sempre, sempre propinato la storia che il doppiaggio costa e costa tanto, per giustificare quando non c'era; e ora che non c'è...il prodotto costa forse 10 euro in meno, in Italia? Non credo proprio. Ciò vuol dire che con ogni copia venduta da noi la EA guadagna ancora di più.

    E questi sono solo i lati negativi per noi, quelli per tutti potete ben leggerli nelle recensioni qui in giro...grafica assolutamente pessima; animazioni scadenti; storia banale; protagonisti asettici, musiche assolutamente scadenti e non all'altezza della prima saga...e chi più ne ha più ne metta.
    EA = mercificazione di massa...appiattimento totale.
    Dopo Mafia, un'altra saga a puttane. Continuiamo così...continuiamo a comprare.    … Expand
  89. Dimran
    Mar 25, 2017
    1
    Полная фигня, жалею, что потратил деньги. В игре нет ничего от серии, сплошная шляпа. Я играл целую неделю, наиграл 80 часов, а что толку? Хочу это развидеть.
  90. Jojo12
    Mar 22, 2017
    3
    Gameplay didn't change much from Me3.
    Animations are bad.
    Character customization lacks polishing.
    very repetitive.
    Dialogues are clichés.
    The mood is more of a basic Action-Comedy movie than an epic game settings.
    The world is very empty.

    I would have preferred to wait another year to have a good game, than receiving this right now.
  91. Mike_Zmeke
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    I'm fan boy of original Mass Effect trilogy., not some random hater.
    I have no words, it's just horrible in all possible way compare too original mass effect series.
  92. FWordFizz
    Mar 22, 2017
    0
    Ugh I hate coming back to this site after I've already posted a review. I've played some more out of a sadistic curiosity to see if it really does get better later. It doesn't. I've now nearly completed the game from what I can see and it hasn't gotten interesting yet. This may sound odd, but I think Bioware is officially dead, and by picking apart this game I get a pretty good post mortumUgh I hate coming back to this site after I've already posted a review. I've played some more out of a sadistic curiosity to see if it really does get better later. It doesn't. I've now nearly completed the game from what I can see and it hasn't gotten interesting yet. This may sound odd, but I think Bioware is officially dead, and by picking apart this game I get a pretty good post mortum analysis. Everyone has already pointed out that the team that made Andromeda doesn't actually have any members of the staff that worked on ME2, but it goes deeper than just that. The people EA have let work on one of their shiniest franchises are majority hacks. I pointed out earlier that it feels like a fanmade romhack and I think thats really what this is. The main story is pretty **** but at least its follow able, but the side parts of the game is really what tear it apart. Space in Mass Effect has never felt so empty. No locations feel like living spaces with unique atmospheres like Omega and the Citadel did, and none of the party members are likable what so ever. Creepy faces aside the writing is just not good. It's average, and average for the video games industry is really, really bad. So what is a bioware game without good writing and set design? Bad, really, really bad. Save your dough, Mass Effect and Bioware are dead. RiP good Franchise.… Expand
  93. FuriousFernando
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    They have a lot of balls to release something like this after the stunt they pulled with ME 3.
    Did they progressively delude themselves to think it would be fine regardless of how low the quality of product is? Its as if they were sheltered people that have never played any other decent game to be able to make a comparison and see just how ridiculous everything turned out to be.
  94. Stellen
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    So many bugs! Crashes and graphical glitches. Weird animation and cameras which get stuck in dialogue scenes and won't follow the character, NPCs and companions who freeze and don't respond, and worst of all, save game corruptions. This game is not release ready.
  95. Positivus
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    A developer with such an attitude towards buyers is not applicable. Joke animations, joke voice acting, joke story. The game should have been labeled as an indie game with the appropriate price tag. Instead of delaying the game to port to another frostbite engine, they had decided to release it with awfully load of bugs on the 21st of March.
  96. AnnaBorshen
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Poorly optimized PC port. The gameplay is the only redeeming quality of Mass Effect Andromeda, but even that is locked at 30 fps. You'd think this game was developed by an indie studio on a small budget.
  97. Shmorgan
    Mar 21, 2017
    1
    Terrible, terrible game. Animations are so bad, story is seriously bad.

    Pros + Improved combat + Yay for bringing a vehicle back to drive on open planets. Cons - Dialogue wheel - MP with micro-tranactions - MP uses P2P instead of dedicated servers and no server browser list. Just like ME 3 on PC. - Terrible inventory management for a game on PC. - Exclusive to    Terrible, terrible game. Animations are so bad, story is seriously bad.

    Pros

    + Improved combat

    + Yay for bringing a vehicle back to drive on open planets.

    Cons

    - Dialogue wheel

    - MP with micro-tranactions

    - MP uses P2P instead of dedicated servers and no server browser list. Just like ME 3 on PC.

    - Terrible inventory management for a game on PC.

    - Exclusive to Origin because EA. I still bought the game, but EA games exclusive to Origin make me mad.    … Expand
  98. ENAK
    Mar 22, 2017
    2
    The downfall of Mass Effect and Bioware it seems. What happened to this company. It seems that everything they make these day is the same stream-lined, no brain, repetitive garbage that we got to enjoy in Dragon Age Inquisition. The difference is, it somehow worked in that game. Perhaps the characters were more interesting, perhaps the main story was just a little bit better. Here -The downfall of Mass Effect and Bioware it seems. What happened to this company. It seems that everything they make these day is the same stream-lined, no brain, repetitive garbage that we got to enjoy in Dragon Age Inquisition. The difference is, it somehow worked in that game. Perhaps the characters were more interesting, perhaps the main story was just a little bit better. Here - everything just falls flat. And I mean everything.

    I don't understand why people got so obsessed with some graphics issues like the animations etc. This is just a minor annoyance. As a whole, this thing just screams sub-par. NPCs have absolutely zero interesting things to say, companions are incredibly boring, the "planet restoration" quests are just repetitive sudoku-like puzzles, that you'll be begging to skip and the main antagonist is the same bunch of angry, misguided aliens that we already got to defeat in a 1000 different games.

    I don't know what's going on in that company, but there's serious management issues here and I don't think they'll be able to recover from this disaster. Oh well, goodbye Bio, you made some of the best games in the world, and now it's time to wrap it up.    … Expand
  99. padonax
    Mar 23, 2017
    0
    1. Убогая анимация.
    2. Примитивные диалоги. Такое ощущение, что диалоги ведут подростки лет 16.
    3. Посредственный сюжет. Атмосферы первопроходства, которую ЕА форсили, в игре нету. 5. Унылое сканирование, которое очень быстро надоедает. 6. Такое ощущение, что мультиплеер сворован у Warframe. 7. Под влиянием SJW-скама всех женский персонажей в игре сделали уродливыми, противно на них    1. Убогая анимация.
    2. Примитивные диалоги. Такое ощущение, что диалоги ведут подростки лет 16.
    3. Посредственный сюжет. Атмосферы первопроходства, которую ЕА форсили, в игре нету.
    5. Унылое сканирование, которое очень быстро надоедает.
    6. Такое ощущение, что мультиплеер сворован у Warframe.
    7. Под влиянием SJW-скама всех женский персонажей в игре сделали уродливыми, противно на них смотреть.
    8. Отвратительный контроль качества, а следствие и похуистическое отношение к игрокам.    … Expand
  100. Suplexer
    Mar 22, 2017
    1
    Absolutely terrible game. Terrible writing, terrible animations, terrible dialog, buggy AI, Multi-Player uses P2P instead of Dedicated Servers.

    DICE do a fine job with the Battlefield games on PC using Dedicated Servers, but EA allowed Bioware to use P2P? Shame on you EA, I pray that you will come to you're senses and have Bioware introduce Dedicated Servers and replace P2P and add a    Absolutely terrible game. Terrible writing, terrible animations, terrible dialog, buggy AI, Multi-Player uses P2P instead of Dedicated Servers.

    DICE do a fine job with the Battlefield games on PC using Dedicated Servers, but EA allowed Bioware to use P2P?

    Shame on you EA, I pray that you will come to you're senses and have Bioware introduce Dedicated Servers and replace P2P and add a server browser list for Mass Effect Andromeda on PC.    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 37 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 37
  3. Negative: 1 out of 37
  1. Riot Pixels
    Jun 5, 2017
    55
    Postcard-pretty landscapes is pretty much all that there is good about Andromeda. They serve as backdrops for a boring, cliche-ridden, somewhat demented story with forgettable characters and even more forgettable missions.
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  2. PC PowerPlay
    May 11, 2017
    80
    Enough of the classic Mass Effect, with enough new mechanics to keep the game fresh. [Hollingworth; Issue#261, p.55]
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  3. Edge Magazine
    Apr 27, 2017
    70
    An earnest attempt has been made to create a new identity for a series here, but the question of how to best frame Mass Effect's narrative strengths is, once again, left open. [June 2017, p.90]
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