This is the fourth Mass Effect game that's been made.

It follows the story of the Ryder's. At the start of the game, you can choose to play as Scott or Sara Ryder. They're the pathfinder for their mission to Andromeda. It's their job to find a place the humans can call home. That would be too easy though, wouldn't it? When they arrive in Andromeda, they find their previously chosen and assessed "golden worlds" to be not what they used to. They're uninhabitable. Ryder had to find a way for them all to survive, and eventually thrive, battling against both nature and hostile alien forces.

Have you ever heard the phrase, "Kick ass, go to space, represent the human race". This game kind-of emboldens that. You get to kick-ass, plenty of time, defeating Kett, Remnant, and some good ol' fashioned crazy wild animals. It's got a multi-player feature, if all you want to do is kill things. It's also got some beautiful graphics. If you've got a PC capable of handling it, crank everything up to Ultra, even if just for a while, and marvel at the worlds Bioware have created.

I liked the new aliens, from the Kett to the Angara. The story, whilst somewhat linear compared to previous Mass Effect games, was still enjoyable, and the gameplay wasn't too difficult. I mean, I've finished it Twice on Normal, so it can't be that hard.

Wish it was longer, but then I wish that on all the amazing games I play. Guess it's a compliment of sorts. I didn't want the game to end.

Go back and reply Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3. And I did!

Excited, and sad.

Excited because this game is brilliant, and I've waited quite a while for a new Mass Effect game.

Sad, because whilst the Ryder's are decent enough characters, they're not Shepard. Shepard from the original trilogy, voiced by Jennifer Hale, is just amazing.

Also sad because Bioware have pretty much abandoned the game.

Bioware, the assholes. I love them for creating the game, not so much for abandoning it. There was plenty of room for this game to have DLC, whilst some people hate it, I would've been open to buying it to expand an already great game. Bioware have basically gave up on the single player portion of the game, ending support for it. So quickly after launch as well! They're still supporting Multi-Player, but Single Player has always been my preferred game mode, so I'm pretty annoyed about that. They even went as far as dissolving the portion of the studio that made this game. I didn't think it was that bad!

It's got a lot of bad press. Some deserved, some not. From release, the game had it's flaws, but a decent majority of them were fixed. I feel like in this day and age, people don't give games a chance before they immediately judge. And the number of people I know that won't even try the game, because of the bad press it got at the start is ridiculous. They don't allow themselves to form an opinion, they just piggy-back from someone else's and that pisses me off.

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