Mass Effect review by Potential Gamer

Potential Gamer's review of Bioware's epic RPG Mass Effect.

Check out potentialgamer.com for the full review:

http://potentialgamer.com/2008/08/07/mass-effect-reviewed/

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• mass
• effect
• bioware
• rpg
• roleplay
• potential
• gamer
• gaming
• game
• oblivion
• knights
• old
• republic

[RageSeth]

36 seconds in and you already have taken down the game a lot. In your batman review you mentioned that the place feels alive but here you say its dead when the characters are about the same in the sense they stand around and do little but at least in here their dance clubs were you can dance and a gentlemen's club you can go and watch the entertainment.

[PotentialGamer]

I have to say, having the option to go into a nightclub and dance in Batman:Arkham Asylum would be brilliant. :P

[PotentialGamer]

Not at all, and your comments are appreciated. The full review is in written form on the Potential Gamer website, if you're interested, btw.

[RageSeth]

Well the review comes off that you didn't think it was a good game. Its sounds like the combat is weak, the characters aren't developed, the game is a rip off of other game titles, and that due to the characters appearance they're emotions are not done correctly and despite good voice work all the scenes probably fall flat.

[RageSeth]

From a programers perspective asking for every character in the game to constantly be doing something different and to be interactive with the huge size of the game is a bit much and I'd probably drive my team insane with such a task since the more crap they have to do the harder it gets and requires more time to put it together and more likely more glitches can happen.

[RageSeth]

Fallout 3 pull this off better with characters you can talk to and having them walk around but they held back a bit on the graphics and it worked out ok but of course theirs a lot more glitches because of it.

[RageSeth]

No one is saying their work is flawless as I have issues of my own but if your doing a review you should try and give us a good idea of what you think. Is the game worth buying? Is it a rental? Did all the things you point out drag it to nothing? I'm only pointing these out to help you out so you shall get better as well so I hope you don't take my comment too personally ^_^

[ShadowVoodooNinja]

decent game. story is really believable cos of all those details, action is real time , and thats really amazing, the all idea of game is like new genre. cos of that those few bugs, glitches can be forgiven. nice review btw. and again i havent seen such well developed story since kotor (both of em).

[PotentialGamer]

I really like Mass Effect. Just because I highlight areas that need improving doesn't make it a negative review. If every fan of Bioware goes around pretending their work is flawless they'd never improve.

As for all the side missions and backstory detail in the weapons and equipment...it's nice, but would be much more impressive if any of it had an actual bearing on the game itself.

As for the audio quality of the review - I agree. Still working on that side of things. :)

[RageSeth]

((Had to edit stuff out due to size. but audio was low, learn about character back stories, making character sacrifices, was some things that got messed up with my trimming.))