Mass Effect Andromeda Reviews
On the surface, it felt like the stars were aligned to make Mass Effect Andromeda one of my most anticipated games in a very long time. I absolutely love the original trilogy, and the idea that this was going to be a "Dragon Age Inquisition" in space captured my imagination. The problem is, the execution feels rushed, and in the end what I had hoped would be a spectacular game simply has to settle for being a pretty good one.
Great combat and decent story ideas are largely squandered by a game that buckles under the weight of its technical flaws
Mass Effect: Andromeda offers the dream of exploration in a distant galaxy, but every time the dream looks like it’s within reach, it’s snapped from your grasp by poor quest design, performance problems, or simply mediocre writing.
A fantastic game despite a bunch of problems. There is a lot to improve, and the technical issues will hopefully get patched. If you can look beyond that, you will experience polished combat, explore several planets and get to meet a new crew.
Mass Effect: Andromeda's flaws outweigh its strengths, as while I definitely enjoyed the gameplay and exploring the various planets, the uneven quality of the side missions, dialog and character designs can't be ignored.
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Everything else, however, is of the quality you would expect of a Mass Effect game. The writing and characters are amazing. The combat is extremely enjoyable, the graphics are gorgeous, and the plot is gripping.
Mass Effect: Andromeda may not be a flawless return to a well-known world, but its has no real competition in its own sub-genre. As the first chapter of the new series, it does its job well, but you have to give it a chance to prove it.
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There are a handful of good stories to be found in Andromeda, but they’re hidden away, worthwhile moments tucked within hours and hours of disposable ones. In an effort to be as comprehensive as possible in tone, styles of mission objective and purpose, the game ends up feeling as impossibly vast as nature but as rigid and artificial as a computer system.
Mass Effect: Andromeda is a great game buried under a mountain poor design choices and narrative shortcomings. Everything is more complicated than it needs to be, and the sheer amount of busy work forced upon the player is staggering, but if you can be bothered to put in a few hours doing the admin there are plenty of rewards for fans of the series. It's not the Mass Effect you were hoping for, and it doesn't live up to the high standard set by the original trilogy, but as a jumping off point for a new trilogy in a new galaxy there are enough promising characters and intriguing story elements to suggest the Andromeda 2 might be everything you wished this game would be.
The tale is the right mixture of occasionally-interactive cutscenes and third-person adventuring to enhance the feeling that you're starring in a big budget space movie that, despite the reams of dialogue, doesn't require you to think too hard in order to keep up.
Andromeda is fun… sometimes. Other times it's a dreary slog through recycled cutscenes, infantile character interactions, and a lot of badly masked loading screens.
Andromeda is still Mass Effect, and for some that might be enough, but this avenue needs more to be held in similar esteem. It does reach a satisfying conclusion, at least as far as the buildup warrants, but it takes the long way around. It does hit something that feels like a fresh, Mass Effect-patterned beginning, but a lot of the sophistication in plot that's alluded to is left up in the air.
Mass Effect: Andromeda is a huge and addictive game which stands for nearly 100 hours, but unfortunately is suffering from a few irrelevant ideas. If Bioware did not look for changes where they were not needed, the end results would have made a better impression.
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Mass Effect Andromeda isn’t necessarily bad. It has its own highs and lows and it can be an enjoyable experience. But previous entries in Mass Effect franchise raised the bar so high, that Andromeda is a huge disappointment compare to them, even for the die-hard fans of this universe.
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As a huge fan of the first three games, the state of this game is honestly depressing. I fully grasp the idea that this is supposedly the first game in a new trilogy and that things are being set up for the next games. I still hope that is the case. There are some decent foundations here that could lead to some really fantastic adventures in the next two games if BioWare plays their cards right and addresses the major issues that plague this game.
Some slight technical issues occasionally hamper what is a solid Mass Effect entry. Fun, dynamic combat, some great missions and an interesting new setting provide an enjoyable place to get lost and spend some time in. It does sometimes feel like a “Mass Effect Greatest Hits” but there are worse things to be.
Mass Effect Andromeda could have been one of the best RPGs ever, but sadly the game never realizes its full potential. While the gameplay experience and RPG mechanics are mostly well done, with the best combat system of the entire series, the predictable story, uninteresting characters, and generally mediocre writing make the Pathfinder's quest to find a new home for humanity not as memorable as it could have been.
The game is very fun and you'll find yourself spending hours and hours without getting bored but unfortunately Mass Effect Andromeda having significant quality problem, fighting system and skill tree in addition to dazzling environments also design variety, but complexity in unnecessary things like side missions pushing developers to neglect the main story, Problem with the game that Mass Effect Andromeda is unfinished production with quality problem but when you play it you will find the game not bad at all and definitely enjoyable but when evaluated objectively there will be a lot of problems that cannot be condoned within the core of the game
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