Mass Effect 1 (Game Review)

Well, i just beat it, and now I am anxiously waiting to play ME2, but first how was this game. ehhhhhhhhhh, its was ok, like I felt the only reason why i kept playing the game was because it would make the ME2 experience better. Let me explain the problems i faced in this game, and there were too many, which is a bummer. To start, the first level gives you a really weak tutorial, sure it shows you how to use cover, but it quickly jumps over some pretty basic controls. Example, it wasn't untill seriously the last level that i figured out that some glow bars were my sheild level, i just thought it was some special move bar. Another thing that really bothered me was the elevators in this game, are soooooo slow, like you can seriously wait a good 45 seconds just to go down one floor. Plus screen tearing is present and textures popping in are rampant, which really dampers the gameplay. Also another thing i noticed was that some characters when, they get poisoned never get cured, and there is no remedy to cure your team mates, so they just stay with low health all the time, making them die in one hit. So I ended up using combat orintated teammates which seemed to have stronger health and restore their health after being poisend. The main problem i had was the auto save was sooooooo shitty.


Let me explain, i would go through a series of flights fighting enemy only to get killed, then sent ALLL the way back down to the bottom. Yeah, i know this might sound a little silly, but when you have to go 5 levels up with extremely hard enemies rushing you it can get really frusturating. However, it wasn't untill later in the game that i realized, they had a save buttom, which makes the game wayyy more playable. Ok, now for the good parts of the game. The story was really interesting and intriguing , plus just like all Bioware games they give you the option to say what you want in the dialoge box, making it your choice to be good or evil. Combat was really fun, team mates act fairly dumb and stupid, but are good for staying close to you and backing you up. Exploration is gigantic, there are roughly about 12 galaxys and with in these galaxys are 2 or 3 three systems and with in these systems are 4-5 planets which are either story plots or side missions. So there is tons of replay value if you find the time to play each side mission. Sadly the side missions fail in orginaility, most are the same and redundant. Character models look really clean and sharp esspecially for being created two years ago. Overall this game was fun to play because of the story but contained a shit ton of flaws which will have you throwing your controller in frustration. But once you get past the flaws the game is really entertaining, especially if you make it to the end, and see the ending its quite a shocker!