Well since Oblivliam1 made a bit of a screw up on his review and isn't being a very good sport, I thought I'd make a review. *Flexes review writing muscles*.
[HEADING=1]Mass Effect review by yours truly, Goat[/HEADING]
Here's a link to the trailer if you really want to see it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gZK15KcA2k.
Bad things about it
I think that the game's choice system is overated. I am a completionist and so I strive to always go for the choices where there is more depth into the storyline. However, this requires you to pour all you points into the good cop/ bad cop skills. This means that the points you have left over are spread thinly on all you other skills and so you are left with terrible armour and no abilities. What a way to cripple yourselves Bioware. Another thing that annoyed me was the sheer easiness of the game. You found crates full of weapons and armour everywhere. It is so easy to hack into those crates that they may as well just have given you the weapons. I must say though, I found the minigame of hacking quite fun. The guns you can find are ridiculously overpowered and much better than the ones you can find in shops. I usually got the best guns, left my team with shitty stuff as they were useless and omni-gelled the rest. Omni gel is like health packs for the mako (land rover thing) and trust me, you need hundreds of omni-gel as the mako is a pile of shit. another thing is that when you want to repair the mako, you can't move. That makes you a sitting duck for enemy fire. Another thing I really hated were those slow elevators.
Good bits
I thought that the storyline was well written and someone at least went out of their way to try and be creative with the characters. Although the missions were grindtastic, I still found them fun. The cinematics are beautiful though, as are the graphics. I liked the choices thing too. It meant that I would be able to do what I would do in real life...to an extent.
Conclusion
All in all, I thought Mass Effect was a good game. It left some loose ends so that it would entice me to buy Mass Effect II and I think that is the objective. To make a huge epic series of greatness. I loved the graphics and the missions were alright if you could excuse the really bad driving sections.
[HEADING=1]Mass Effect review by yours truly, Goat[/HEADING]
Here's a link to the trailer if you really want to see it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gZK15KcA2k.
Plot
It's the year 2183 AD and Humanity has discovered the art of travelling faster than the speed of light thanks to some alien artefact that they found on Mars. This obviously leads to them meeting other alien races who take immediate dislike to humans. You play the role of a stock character hero, Commander Shepard. The Game goes through all that crap where you get to customise your character but they are all going to look the same under that helmet. The only major difference is whether you are a male or female. Anyway, you start off on a human-owned planet and have to fight off synthetic droid things called geth and their pet zombies. Then, you are sent to the Citadel, a huge floating alien hunk-a-junk. In there, you are forced to do missions to gather inteligence and gang members. Along with that, you can also decide to go on these quirky little miny quests for money (credits). Then, there are three big main quests to do, each on a different planet. One involves rescuing a blue alien chick on a volcanic planet, another involves killing her mother on an icy planet (Noveria) and the third is tracking Geth movement on a dusty planet (Feros). After this is done, you are sent after Mr Evil himself, Saren, a rogue spectre (inteligence superwarrior guy). But first you are sent to yet another planet for a reason I can't remember, but it has something to do with Geth. Then, there is a final showdown with the aforementioned Saren where you whip his arse due to the stupidly overpowered equipment that you find lying about in weapons locker and crates. However, you discover that Saren wasn't alone and that he was being seduced by his evil ship, a reaper. You must race back to the Citadel and save everyone once again.
It's the year 2183 AD and Humanity has discovered the art of travelling faster than the speed of light thanks to some alien artefact that they found on Mars. This obviously leads to them meeting other alien races who take immediate dislike to humans. You play the role of a stock character hero, Commander Shepard. The Game goes through all that crap where you get to customise your character but they are all going to look the same under that helmet. The only major difference is whether you are a male or female. Anyway, you start off on a human-owned planet and have to fight off synthetic droid things called geth and their pet zombies. Then, you are sent to the Citadel, a huge floating alien hunk-a-junk. In there, you are forced to do missions to gather inteligence and gang members. Along with that, you can also decide to go on these quirky little miny quests for money (credits). Then, there are three big main quests to do, each on a different planet. One involves rescuing a blue alien chick on a volcanic planet, another involves killing her mother on an icy planet (Noveria) and the third is tracking Geth movement on a dusty planet (Feros). After this is done, you are sent after Mr Evil himself, Saren, a rogue spectre (inteligence superwarrior guy). But first you are sent to yet another planet for a reason I can't remember, but it has something to do with Geth. Then, there is a final showdown with the aforementioned Saren where you whip his arse due to the stupidly overpowered equipment that you find lying about in weapons locker and crates. However, you discover that Saren wasn't alone and that he was being seduced by his evil ship, a reaper. You must race back to the Citadel and save everyone once again.
Bad things about it
I think that the game's choice system is overated. I am a completionist and so I strive to always go for the choices where there is more depth into the storyline. However, this requires you to pour all you points into the good cop/ bad cop skills. This means that the points you have left over are spread thinly on all you other skills and so you are left with terrible armour and no abilities. What a way to cripple yourselves Bioware. Another thing that annoyed me was the sheer easiness of the game. You found crates full of weapons and armour everywhere. It is so easy to hack into those crates that they may as well just have given you the weapons. I must say though, I found the minigame of hacking quite fun. The guns you can find are ridiculously overpowered and much better than the ones you can find in shops. I usually got the best guns, left my team with shitty stuff as they were useless and omni-gelled the rest. Omni gel is like health packs for the mako (land rover thing) and trust me, you need hundreds of omni-gel as the mako is a pile of shit. another thing is that when you want to repair the mako, you can't move. That makes you a sitting duck for enemy fire. Another thing I really hated were those slow elevators.
Good bits
I thought that the storyline was well written and someone at least went out of their way to try and be creative with the characters. Although the missions were grindtastic, I still found them fun. The cinematics are beautiful though, as are the graphics. I liked the choices thing too. It meant that I would be able to do what I would do in real life...to an extent.
Conclusion
All in all, I thought Mass Effect was a good game. It left some loose ends so that it would entice me to buy Mass Effect II and I think that is the objective. To make a huge epic series of greatness. I loved the graphics and the missions were alright if you could excuse the really bad driving sections.
