Comments on: Mass Effect Review (360)

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:23:46 +0000

In a time where reviewers often succumb to hype way before reviewing games, I’d like to thank you for giving an honest opinion on Mass Effect. I haven’t played the game myself simply because it doesn’t look very appealing. I’m really a huge western-RPG fan, Oblivion is one of my favorite games. However, Mass Effect’s combat just seems like something that I would find horribly monotonous and boring. Maybe I’ll give it a rental someday but until then I really don’t understand the constant hype.

By: MoNaRky

MoNaRky — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:06:22 +0000

Character Creation -Awesome Incredibly varied w/massive amount of choices. Graphics in general, are excellent, but Game Play has some, sometimes tacky texture popping, quirky movement and animations.

With your character doing some kind of shuddering jump at times in game, that look somewhat freaky and cheap. Plus the caught in rocks and sinking into the ground stuff like in Halo III online game play. Much worse though! But in Halo the low res, texture pops, and other anomalies are forgivable because of the phenomenal game play!

Personally, I had been looking forward to Mass Effect more than BioShock which was not near the disappointment of this game. Almost like two games from two different developers. Playable? Yes! ….but irritatingly so, sometimes down right boring!

“Michael Bencic’s” review? Too kind (if you ask me), it deserves lower. I don’t blame this on Bioware though. I think we are seeing some of what we’ve seen in the past from Microsoft. Way to much pressure just to get the game out on a set budget, before it’s been properly optimized in time for Christmas.

M$ as always is more concerned with paying the inner circle of high priced execs than putting out the best products possible. Which is more than enough reason for Bungie to escape their straight jacket control systems! (there’s some developers going “Whew,relief at last”. LOLz)

Fortunately at least some of my issues with M$ and this potentially great game can be fixed with patches! ;)

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:58:33 +0000

Have to agree, I was planet hopping in 2-3 hours. While I have to agree with the review. It’s definitely for people into RPG’s because the action is incredibly spaced with many different levels of upgrades and a lot of dialog.

By: mik

mik — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:56:01 +0000

5 hours before you can planet hop? I played the game as i naturaly would, didn’t bother with side quests and was ‘hopping’ in like 2 hours easy, and my first planet I got onto has been action-packed so far.

By: Duder

Duder — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:01:03 +0000

This is a sad review. It looks like a complete rush job (someone trying to get out of town for thanksgiving ?). I wish the reviewer spend more time with the game.
I think it takes more than 5 hours to truly asses a game worth.

By: Chad Lakkis

Chad Lakkis — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:02:09 +0000

Hey guys,

First off thanks for the comments. In regards to the “12 year old noob” comment, Mike is no where near 12 or a noob. As for the comparsion to Uncharted, the reviews were written by two different writers. Despite the rumors, there is no “review-o-matic 5000″ that generates game scores.

Reviews are done one at a time, and often by different writers. You don’t have to agree with them, but to compare two writers on two different games is just silly. Don’t believe me? I believe 1up gave FirePro Wrestling a perfect 10, best wrestling game ever…check it out and see if you agree.

Chad-

By: sonykiller

sonykiller — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:07:08 +0000

are you nutssss!!!!! you gave better score to uncharted. that game sucks big time.shame on you!

By: Dude

Dude — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:11:52 +0000

This is what happens when you let a 12 year old FPS noob review an RPG.