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| Fight for the fate of the galaxy in the award-winning Mass Effect Trilogy role-playing game. As Commander Shepard, you have to face all the challenges that come your way as you rise from Alliance Marine to the galaxy’s most elite soldier in this Xbox 360 video game. Once you reach the top, be prepared to lead the galaxy in an all-out war against an ancient, ruthless alien race called the Reapers. From your team aboard the SSV Normandy to your personalized arsenal, you have to decide what can help you save the day in this Xbox 360 video game. As you travel to unexplored parts of the universe in the Mass Effect Trilogy role-playing game, you will meet enigmatic characters with their own stories and agendas. What’s more, you get over 75 hours of story content and access to Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer mode with this Xbox 360 video game. | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| Publisher | Electronic Arts |
| Game | Mass Effect Trilogy |
| UPC | 014633198058 |
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| Release Year | 2012 |
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Let's start with the good points:
1) great voice acting and lipsync
2) great storyline and moments of 'epicness'
3) fun, challenging fights - It's great how you can pause the action and plan your moves. It actually becomes very necessary as the fights get more challenging.
4) interesting open-ended galaxy - go anywhere and explore every system. you never know what you'll find.
5) RPG level-up elements are balanced
6) good visuals - not great compared to today's standard, but still really good.
7) the ATV is the most AT I've ever seen - It makes driving and exploring worlds really fun (especially with a good sound system).
8) The music score fits the moods really well. Some of them go overboard actually. Really good music for moments that don't really deserve it. My opinion on that one.
Now for the bad points:
1) Shadow rendering stinks - turned it off
2) 5.1 surround sound disabled - you have to manually inable it through the ini.
3) A lot of diversity, but can definitely seem to get repetitive and predictable.
4) The AI in fights works very well for close combat. Stinks at distance combat (sniping, long range canons)
5) You have to set it to "veteran" and "low" targeting assistance for a decent challenge. Any less and it would be fairly easy for the average gamer.
6) Not like "Gears of War" but about half way there. If the action moments were coupled with elements of GoW and Resident Evil 4, this game would be excellent, but you can jump over boxes, through windows, and the like. You can take cover easily enough, but no quick dodges and rolling across the floor make for some pretty lacking action scenes.
It's always easier to pick apart the bad stuff, but all in all, it was worth the money I paid for it. Be sure to enable 5.1 speakers if you have them, disable dynamic shadows, and enjoy your game.
This is possibly the best game I've played in recent years. The role-playing experience is fantastic, all NPCs have full personalities, and I don't mean your teammates (although some of them do too; more on that later). Every person that you can talk to is different from the next one. The combat system is great as well, especially for me as I'm not all that great at full on shooters. You can seamlessly pause the game during combat and give your two teammates commands, although sometimes their AI can leave you wanting. However, they can turn the scales in your favor in a seemingly hopeless battle. You just need to use them right. A lot of games tend to let you down a bit when it comes to the ending. This game does not. It ends very well and although this is only the first in a trilogy it also has a definite ending to a singular story.
On to the bad. The graphics, while beautiful, do not mean a thing when the animators can't make humans look like humans. The lips (as in all Bioware games) do not move like human lips which detracts quite a lot. Plus the way NPCs end a dialog is so unnerving, it's looks as if they have to excuse themselves so they can use the toliet. And to me the most horrifying experience is this: I love when there is a romance in games. Baldur's gate and KOTOR got it right. Mass Effect did not. Sure they had a sex scene (and I'm not for or against this; it is simply part of the game to me), but really there was no lead up to it. You can only really have four or five conversations with your love interest before all of a sudden you're in love or lust or whatever and then you get down and dirty. This was an unforgivable atrocity and BioWare should be ashamed. I felt a greater connection with the Hanar who wanted to preach about the Enkindlers (a side quest NPC) than with any of the love interests (main NPCs). Normally my favorite character in RPGs is the love interest because they actually have character. Jaheria and Viconia in Baldur's Gate, Bastila in KOTOR where my favorite characters from their respective games, simply because I felt I knew them. Not so in Mass Effect. Wrex was by far the coolest character in this game, which is not a bad thing as he was fraking awesome! However, my point is there wasn't enough time to get to know the love interest to actually care. And we'll end that there.
Despite my cons taking up more space, I still give Mass Effect an excellent score. I have never, ever played a game through twice in a row. I spent almost five days straight playing this game through twice and I doubt I'll ever find another game like that. Unless Mass Effect 2 is better, cause Dragon Age certainly doesn't look like it. So yes, this game is awesome. Buy it. Love it. And if you don't, you're probably not even human. Maybe a Krogan.
Oh and on a psuedo related note to BioWare personnel should they read this: Mass Effect 2 better be a direct continuation with the same main character with the ability to import old characters a la the old Quest For Glory games. KOTOR2 pissed me off something fierce. (These two sentences actually correlate if you've played this game. You might not agree but it does make sense;)
Thanks for reading, and support more great games by buying this one! ie, don't try to justify the pirating of this game because it has a ridiculous three time install only and an activation thingy (not a real activation thingy, by the way). Oops, I'm about out of space.
Bioware. Amazing. Real-time 3rd person shooter Sci-Fi RPG. If the mention of that description has you intrigued, buy this game right now.
Graphics:
The graphics are amazing, if your computer can support the requirements. I have an 8800GT and it plays on highest settings with no hitches.
Sound:
Great ambiance, scores and sound effects are well done and fit the theme of the game.
Gameplay:
If you like shooters or RPGs, give this game a look. The combat is reminiscent of Gears of War style 3rd person game play, and is actually quite in depth. The RPG aspects are what defines this game. This isn't a shooter with RPG elements, its and RPG that uses a shooter combat system. True to their other RPGs, there are countless possibilities, customization, side quests and mini-games to supplement the main story line, and trust me, the main story line is really quite good on its own.
This game is for everyone who enjoys shooters and RPGs, if your PC can handle the system requirements.
Almost like a movie where you pick where the plot goes. A great, star system-spanning plot keeps things moving. I really like the setting, the vast Citadel ship serving as the hub of your adventures while you fly around the galaxy in your very cool spaceship. The artwork and character design is fantastic. Most of the play mechanics work pretty well. I did not like the inventory management system or the terrible controls for driving your ground vehicle (although they were so bad that my own driving made me laugh more times than anything else in the game). A real joy to play and then play again doing all the things you didn't do the first time around. A great storyline and engaging play mechanics make this one a winner.
The game itself, incredible. The way choices you made affect you in the future, amazing. The amount and customizabilty of weapons and gear, incredible. That combined with good graphic, interesting storyline and high replayability makes Mass Effect epic.
The only negatives I have found are that registering the game so you can get the dlc is a bit more time consuming than one would like given that EA purchased it so the registration process involves two different sites reading correctly from the other instead of one site controlling it all, and there are a couple of minor glitches that have forced me to reload. (An elevator or two half worked, locking the character on the elevator without it moving or allowing you to exit)
Still, replaying those very few and far between sections was more than enjoyable and the rest of the game functioning wonderfully more than compensate. An added bonus, when you finish this game you can import your character into the second Mass Effect and carry some things over if you wish to, including the looks of your character.
I would reccomend this game, this series, to anyone who has a computer powerful enough to play it and hope that if you have the choice that you choose the PC version. It looks better among other optomizations including a better combat system. This is a game to look forward to if you haven't played it and one of the few games that has enough different choices to be made that I am more than willing to replay it to see what happens since the outcomes can be different.