By Dean Takahashi of the San Jose Mercury News
Friday, December 28th, 2007
"I've been a been anticipating Mass Effect ever since I saw the first demo of the game in Amsterdam at the X05 unveiling of the Xbox 360's first slate of games. This was the first next-generation game that I saw with the highest of ambitions: crossing the uncanny valley. The valley is the familiar problem of computer-generated images. The closer they approach reality, the more disturbing the images are, particularly human faces. By trying to do good human facial animation, the developers at BioWare endeavoured to make games as emotionally interesting and visually appealing as movies. As such, this game promised a big leap forward in cinematic storytelling and game play.
It delivered on the first, but not on the second. While the conversational system and facial animation is perhaps the best I've ever seen in a video game, the game play is maddeningly flawed. Call it Mass Defect."
Thanks to their innovative approach to gaming, RPGs like Dark Souls, Final Fantasy VII, and Dragon Quest left a significant impact on the genre.
ES3 set things off, it's a shame they got greedy and decided to cut corners so the executives could get huge pay days.
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The Mass Effect N7 Day teaser has already been decoded, and it features Liara T'Soni talking about The Council, and The Geth can be heard too.
Better not bring back Shepherd from the dead with some half assed space magic.
@snowb420.
Yeah I saw that at the end of my play through as well. I think they will bring Shepard back….. or at least a mutant version turned villain. Lol
It is a role playing game. You level up your skill and weapons in RPGs. If you have ever played a RPG you know better than to fight a big boss when you are at a low level. Bioware has made almost every level available to explore, but that doesn't mean you will succeed on those levels.
He is harsh - I really enjoyed this and didn't find it too difficult.
But it was flawed, and its only right that some people will point out the obvious problems with an otehrwise brilliant game. Most will choose to overlook the issues, but for some it will be a show stopper.
its on the 3fixme
Well retards this " Mass Defect " won Game of the Year somewhere, forgot which site. Envious Fanboy aren't you?
It is sad, that the reviewer did not like or grasp the RPG element of the game. But then if you present the game as a FPS you shouldn't wonder about people playing it like a FPS.