A fun rpg, but there are some areas that need improvement.

User Rating: 8 | Mass Effect PC
By wait321 | Review Date:
This game offers a fun experience. For an RPG, the combat mechanics are decent and the storyline is solid. The sci-fi setting is appealing since everyone's familiar with the notion and limits of technology (whereas anything goes for magic). The various abilities, weapons, and stats creates a large pool of combat options and ensures that the battles are not repetitive. The paragon/renegade system is great improvement over Bioware's good/evil system that's in their other rpgs, because it's more realistic. People and actions can rarely be classified as good or evil and it's silly for a game to try.

However, there are several mechanics that need to be improved. For one, there's no need for the player to drive around the Mako on the planets, especially since 90% of every planet is nothing but mountainous terrain. Driving from place to place is a chore; I want to just pick the target site and jump right into the action.

I also don't like how there's only a few "dungeon" designs on various worlds. If you explore various planets, you'll soon realize you're running through the same buildings, just with different furniture and enemies.

Also, you'll soon realize that the sniper rifle is useless. There's no limit on the range of weapons, so as soon as you fire on an enemy, they all fire at you and hit you hard. The computer opponents have near perfect aim and the sniper rifle cannot kill in one hit, so using it puts you in a situation where you'll likely die before you get off a second shot.

Overall, it's a great game and you should definitely play it. If the developers spent a little more time polishing the game, it could have been a masterpiece.

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