Mass Effect Review

Mass Effect recieved a 9.4 on IGN, an 8.5 on Gamespot and a 9.0 on 1up. I will not incorporate any averages into my reviews, but just my own thoughts on the game, not that I'm unfair.

I want to make sure that everyone knows this blog includes reviews although I haven't reviewed anything yet, I'm going back to 07 to recap what games are the best of the best, so here it is...

Mass Effect had a lot of good points that some people didn't see because of it's flaws, the game has some buggy, and laggy loading times, which couldv'e been fixed with just a loading screen. the in-game was worse, if you walk into a room with 5 enemies, you can see the levels of detail being aplied as well as the textures on their body. The one flaw I hear a lot about but see no real problem to is commanding your squad. When commanding your squad you can try to command them to go somewhere using the up on the D-pad, the squad will sometimes fullfill the command or sometimes not, which is not reliable game tactics, though I did find that it worked about 8 times out of ten. Something you might find annoying in the game is when you try to collect an item and you squad mates are beside you. Of course you go to pick the items up but the cursor to control what target you want to interact with is not your character but the camera angle behind him. the game seems like it's meant to be first person with a lesser third person option, like...Oblivion.

The story is really a turning point in gaming history, because it allows you to change other characters opinions, morals, or relationships by your words and not your money this time around. The Character base is so intelligent and really makes you look at the potential of the newest form of on screen entertainment.

The graphics are fine after they process in front of your eyes.

The cinematics are Masterful, the detail is almost human, the framerate is good as long as the games many bugs don't make it choppy.

The Gameplay is really great, and I see more after 2 and 1/2 playthroughs that the game is a lot of the same skills being tested more and more, where other games might continue testing your skill in many different ways. That said, Mass Effect is an RPG so you'll see a lot of repetition in combat, though if you go on side missions you can max out your characters skill points that are very specific compared to most, as well as you team mates *0*.

The sound is perfect with the story and cinematics. the voice acting is the best I've ever heard and the diferent races have quite unique speech quirks that are not only creative but apply to many sci-fi fans thoughts.

This is a short game, unless you go on the side quests which you can't go on when you beat the game, because you can't freerome after the main game is finished. You can make very well made custimizations of your characters for your first, second, or third playthrough, or you can stick to the developers character that they made.

**Story: 10/10