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Loading...Boring.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 40
Date: February 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It seems half-baked. It's a bad shooter, bad driver, and the story is blah. Where's the excitement? Long loading times walking around exploring make it even more boring. Cut scenes and long loading times before every battle make you want to put the game down after a few deaths.

I get a spaceship!...oh wait, I just point and click on a planet : (

I get a gun!...oh wait, I have to level up instead of just getting better with it : (

There's something exciting I get to do in a city!...oh wait, I have to talk to him, go here, go back, go back to the first place, go back to talk to him, and go back again...Loading...wow I got 10 XP : (

I realize some people like this genre, and overlook its flaws, but a game should make you want to play the game instead having to fantasize about what you think it could be.

If I had to say good things about this game, I would say the talking system is innovative, and the idea of exploring planets and shooting the place up is intriguing, but it doesn't quite come through in this game.

Not worth the money.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 90
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Wasted money. Great if you like role playing and want to be bored to death.

Worst game on 360

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 37
Date: March 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'm a big fan of Bioware and of the Xbox 360 in general, but this game is boooring. The dialog is slow. I spent 5 minutes talking to a character and it didn't advance the storyline at all.

You would also think that if one is going to spend 5 minutes in an elevator, the next level would LOAD while one is in the elevator.

All in all the game is slow and boring. After about 2 hours of gameplay I found myself rooting for the machines to take back the universe.

Boring,Boring,and Boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 30
Date: February 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i have wasted 3 days of my life playing this pointless boring game i do not know what everyone sees in this game i kept playing just thinking it would get better but no it doesnt the graphics are great but the gameplay sucks you just have to stand there during endless talking scenes and when it is over guess what here comes another talking scene you feel like you are playing a movie rather than a video game please rent this game before you buy it i am so glad that i did .thanks for reading

Tedium, thy name is Mako

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 23
Date: March 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Mass Effect is so close to being great. If it spent a few more months in development it could have been something really, really fun. Sadly this game is unplayable.

Story and Pace - Great, I was sucked in from the begining. It's like playing a really fun and interesting movie.

Foot Combat - at first a little weird, but once you get the hang of it, it's exceptionally fun. Something you'll find your self looking forward to.

Graphics - a few texture pop-ins and rare and non-problematic frame rate issues. Overall just great.

Driving the Mako tank - Here is where I just stopped playing. Controling the tank feels like they took the controls for the warthog in the Halo series and just went out of their way to make them worse. Ok. I can deal.

Combat in the Mako tank - Forget about it.
- Your F***ing torret doesn't move up and down while your fighting enemies on various levels, you you have to physically be on the same level, though they can shoot you from where they are.

- The reticle seems to be the exact same color as the back ground.
- 5 hits and your dead. Yeah, you can heal your tank, but like once, and even then you have sit there imobile by while dudes wail on you.
- You'll be fighting hordes of enimies you can't see until after they've hit you three or four times.
- When you die, and you will die often. You have to watch the same UNINTERUBTIBLE F***ing cinematics instead of just being thrown back in.

I finished Ninja Gaiden and Lost Planet with little difficulty, (OK they were tough as hell) But THIS?! It's not fun. If they made the Mako Tank portions of this game better, then I'm sure this game could be a really great experiance. As is, I can't even F***ing advance in the game, it's just to frustrating and difficult to...um advance in the game.

Just note, the tank is a small portion of the game. But one so frustrating it'll make you want to throw your controller.

Bottom Line
A lot of people love it (and good for them man)
A lot of people hate it
I say rent it. Your saves will still be there if you like it so much you want to own it.

Great Story, Horrible Combat

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 50
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Probably the absolute WORST combat manuevers ever. Player is slow to move; squad members do not listen to commands; game is riddled with bugs. One of the most annoying characteristics is that you cannot fast-forward through much of the talking sequences.

Mass Effect SUCKS!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: August 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Do not buy this game it sucks. What a joke, I wish I could get my money back.

Solid Story Line + Poorly Executed Concept = Painful Waste of Time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: August 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

ME attempts to build a real-time RPG and shooter into one game stealing concepts first seen in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Amazing game). ME's combat system is convoluted and slow, the conversion/interaction is slow and mostly fruitless, the story line is enjoyable but slowly delivered. I can't say I played the game for more than an hour or two before re-selling it.

Awful Follow-Up to KOTOR

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: August 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Let me say Knights of the Old Republic is one of my favorite RPGs of all time. The way they meshed turn-based combat with real time was a revelation that no game has since matched. But this game was boring as hell. I played it for over 5 hours, and all it seemed to me was a running simulator with a bad third person shooter mechanic thrown in. Sure, the conversation mechanic was interesting for the first 10 minutes or so, but after a while it was like watching a movie I had to also direct, instead of just enjoying it. Generic sci-fi themes also abounded, lacking the cohesiveness of the Star Wars universe for an underlying premise. I would say Bioware is great at interpreting a story that has already been realized for them, but awful at trying to come up with an original concept, AND executing it in an interesting fashion.

Some brilliant moments...but very bland gameplay

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 12 / 62
Date: November 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing video games for years, I was there for the launch of the atari, I saw the same company sink the industry in 83 and I saw the brilliance of Nintendo in 85. I drove to Atlanta Georgia in 97 and 98 to be apart of E3 and met the heavy weights like Bernie Stolar, Howard Lincoln, Shigeru Miyomoto, I chewed out Capcom for taking too long on getting a sequel for Bionic Commando and I was one of the lucky few who got spanked by the hot girls who were there to promote thrill kill (which EA killed for good) and I survived several hours in line on a few occasions to get the newest console the next day.

My qualifications are unmatched and respected, my love and loyalty for video games knows no bounds. My mind is an encyclopedia of video games of which my coworkers constantly refer to.

One of my school collegues works for EA and helps in the sound department for the medal of honor games, I have a friend who is going to school to be a video game programmer and I have another who has perhaps the biggest vintage/rare collection of video games in the western hemisphere. We are talking prototypes of games that never made it to stores. Video games have been a significant part of my life.

When Mass effect was first talked about I got excited. This looked to be awesome. However I was let down..Hard..please proceed to find out why...

When I popped this puppy in my 360 my jaw dropped. I mean the graphics are just beautiful and the sound was perfect. It stopped my wife in her tracks and she just sat there in stunned silence as the game was getting warmed up. I was smiling like joker on steriods, this is it the space adventure I DREAMED about. When I played the actual game I felt my excitement level amp up. It didnt take long for it to level out, drop than bottom out than just out. heres the problem folks. Glitches, lot of them and while the game is breathtaking visually and has a great score I realized that I was talking and wondering around...ALOT. The meat was missing from the hamburger. The combat just seems like an afterthought. There is no doubt in my mind that this game was rushed to meet the holidays. No doubt at all. Also I thought it would get better when I was given command of my own ship and to go out and explore but it never really felt diffrent than the beginning. I didnt feel that rush to do anything really. its just walk around and talk, listen to people complain about thier surroundings and the geth. Also, your team in combat are just useless, they get killed very easily. Your better off running solo.

The game is very pretty and the story seems to be very well thought out but ya know...something is missing...yea..its called FUN..FUN FUN!!

Where is it? I do agree that its not a instant gratification game like Contra or supermario brothers but come on, Mass effect is begging for more life and vibrancy. Everything while pleasing is very bland and just...well dead. Video games should never be seen as a chore, Mass Effect is the equivalent of cleaning your house. Talk, talk, talk, than glitch, talk, glitch, talk, clunky boring combat, teammates die, glitch, talk, talk, glitch.

The story while epic is most definatley incredible, unfortunately the game play cant ahere to the same quality. Thats its biggest weakness that I saw. The glitches didnt help either. And yes I already traded it in for store credit to my dismay.

Gameplay:5
Music:9
Graphics:10

Overall: 6.7

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