Mass Effect: Andromeda is an upcoming action role-playing third-person shooter video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Although it shares the universe of the original trilogy, the title is considered a game derived, not the fourth episode of the saga.
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I was very excited hearing that this was coming out and from the trailers it looked fantastic, sporting 4K graphics and an awesome story. However, this was not the case. My third day into it I've pretty much put it on the shelf. The graphics are not impressive for 4K at all and is more like the graphics from ME2. This in itself is disapointing considering how long it's been since ME2. The charicters in the game are very poorly animated and many of the NPC characters have the exact same faces. Not a lot of difference between the Asari faces or even the Salarian faces. The animation was done by someone who has never done game animation before and it shows. Now on to the game play. The missions are very slow and repetative to say the least. While the story is very rich and compelling, the battle mechanics are a big sloppy. The enemy AI has perfect aim at you and ignores your team members with perfect accuracy, even on Normal difficulty you will find some of the enemies impossible to defeat. There were many times when I was killed and reloaded from the last checkpoint it would lock up for nearly 20 minutes and then get a crash notification from the PS4. Maybe things will change if they patch it, but you definitely won't get better animation or graphics. It was very obvious that this was a new team making this game and EA was doing their usual business practice of rushing a game without truly doing any QA. I would not recommend this to any hard core ME fans and even the casual fan will find it very frustrating. Wait a few weeks and buy a used copy if you really want to try it out. I would definitely not pay full price for something that feels more like an add-on for ME2 or ME3.
Mass Effect: Andromeda is an upcoming action role-playing third-person shooter video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Although it shares the universe of the original trilogy, the title is considered a game derived, not the fourth episode of the saga.
What's the difference between this and the "deluxe" version? It looks like you get the deluxe version extras as a preorder bonus for this. So what's the point of pre-ordering the deluxe?
The deluxe version only comes with some extras such as a Pathfinder Uniform, some Armor skins and weapons skins. You also get the soundtrack and some weapons for Multiplayer.