Thread: Mass Effect Review

End of January 2008: ”This game is complete bollocks, why the fuck has this received such glowing reviews when all I can see is a bloody Shooter/RPG fudge, and how are you supposed to install all these weapons mods I keep getting?!”

Start of December 2008: “Alright then, I suppose I’d better finish this one off before the next slew of games arrive on Xmas day.”

And so began my journey into the Mass Effect. With such an inauspicious start and low expectations form earlier in the year I was suddenly overwhelmed by my new-found love of a game I had so easily written off as clunky and boring... I know, blasphemy! The incredible graphics brought the characters to textureless life and the conversations began to suck me in, I wanted to know more about the Turian-Human war, more about the myriad of species and charachers wandering around in this enormous space station and most of all I wanted to make sure I did everything right so I would get to bone the blue chick!

My journey around the Universe was not always smooth, with seemingly endless elevator rides, irritating space navigation system and sometimes less than brilliant combat being a few of my personal pet hates.

But enough of the bad and onto the good. The conversations, oh my god, these are truly awesome, the voicing of the characters is flawless and the fact that you can mould Shepard in your own mould (albeit a gruff space marine with cropped hair mould) is truly fantastic! Once you figure out the use of weapon mods you can spend ages fiddling with your setup to find your own perfect balance, overheating mega weapon or averagely powerful reliable gun, the choice is yours to make!

While I’m sure most of you will agree with the score at the end, there are some improvements that need to be made for the sequel, improved load times, reduced texture pop-in, less empty expanses on non-story worlds, more enemy types (I got sick to death of Geth and Rachni) and better action sequences.

Final Score: 9.5/10 (I’ve got to leave room for Mass Effect 2)

Dude I thought u were bad mouthing it how you would have died. Spot on review mate some problems but they are fixed.roll on the sequel.

Originally Posted by BlackKnight616

most of all I wanted to make sure I did everything right so I would get to bone the blue chick!

LOL. Nice. Now I'm gonna be worrying about that too.

Originally Posted by BlackKnight616

The conversations, oh my god, these are truly awesome, the voicing of the characters is flawless and the fact that you can mould Shepard in your own mould (albeit a gruff space marine with cropped hair mould) is truly fantastic!

That's one of the things I love about the game so far, and one thing that I think it does really well.

Awesome review. Just makes me want to go home and play it, hehe. *fidgets impatiently*

just ourchased this o friday evening, only cost £5.99 from blockbuster, hae to say after an hour playing i am hooked cant wait to get into it even more..

I hope the first elevator you go in starts to take a while then Shephard goes...

"Fuck this!" Smashes the elevator controls and then it speeds up

Ive just started playing this and i have to agree that the first part of your review is spot on at least.

Bad bits:
The combat is shit (i just stand there and keep bashing until the enemies all die).

Its hard to find your way around, and ive picked the soldier class which means im likely stuck with a boring character.

If the story is all thats good about it then why not just watch a movie, the gameplay is a bit poor thus far for me.

Good bits:
At first it felt very restriced and then when you get given the ship and theres loads of places to go my brain burst.

The dune buggy thing is quite good fun.

Something is keeping me vaguely interested but i cant put my finger on it.

Oh aye, and how come if i pick teammates with good electronics skills i still get the message "electronics skill too low"? Does this mean that the choice of squad mates is essentially pointless?

Fallout3 pisses on this from a great height.
(way for me to dig up an old thread!!)

if you picked a soldier then you will just keep hold of the trigger until they die, i wouyld recommend being an adept of infiltrator.

Too late for that mate - im not going back.

I'll just wade thru it asap.

Stick with it. Balance your squad mate, your a soldier so you want a Tech (Tali) and a Biotic (Liara) build Tali's decryption first and Liara's biotics. Pretty soon you can hack everything and blow the geth up whilst hiding behind a woman. Everyones happy