TheGnome

Pros: Highly customizable races/game setup. Large maps, with unique sector mechanics. Large tech tree. Good graphics/sound Cons: Shallow gameplay, poorly balanced, feels incomplete. UI is very good in places, but where it's bad, it's really bad. Annoying cutsie race selections. Epic Games exclusive.

Decided to grab this despite the negative reviews, assuming this was down to a small group of haters. Wow was I wrong. What exactly was wrong with the game? Everyone is talking about how horrible the animations are, and they're right. The facial animations have all the expression of a melted action figure, and are about as plastic. The story would have been acceptable video game foof if not for the franchise of Mass Effect being STORY DRIVEN. This would still have been overlookable if the game play was stellar. It's not, it shines in places, but in others (such as inventory management) it is a step back to the 1990's. Scanning. Whee. Last and definitely not least, in this day and age I've come to expect some political/social agenda but this was ridiculous, I felt like I was going through a sensitivity training course at a Marxist daycare, rather than playing a video game. How about this: LEAVE YOUR POLITICS OUT OF GAMES REGARDLESS OF WHAT SIDE YOU'RE ON. I'd no more want to hear about this dreck than a character droning on about the wonders of supply side economics.