The Mass Effect Thread

[Asher]

First review is out...GameInformer gives it 9.75/10.

US release date: Nov 20th
Europe: Nov 23rd

GI's snippit:

It's an adventure that is so captivating that you'll be counting the days for the sequel. It takes interactive storytelling to new heights, and brings the player closer to content than ever before. It's easily one of the year's best titles and one of the most impressive games to date. [Nov 2007, p.151]

[flash9286]

New video showing off the combat.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/27419.html

[DrSpike]

It does look good.

[Straybow]

The aliens can levitate and climb walls, but apparently they never think of dodging and weaving when they move, or hiding. No wonder guys with pitiful 21st cen human tech can take them out like hunting duck.

[Asher]

Some awesome screenshots/impressions here: http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.p...&postcount=167

[Sandman]

A sniper rifle against slow and dim-witted Bioware baddies doesn't seem very fair.

[Nostromo]

I looks good, despite the somewhat generic sci-fi setting. Am I the only one here who has a been-there-done-that feeling each time he or she hears something about that game? It seems to me that Bioware has been doing the same game over and over again, but each time with a different setting.

[Asher]

I wasn't aware bioware made a game that felt like Rainbow 6.

[flash9286]

bioshock makes games?

[Nostromo]

The gameplay footages I saw reminded me more of KOTOR than Rainbow 6. Unless I missed something, it will not be as realistic (one hit one kill) as Rainbow 6. Maybe there will be more tactical depth this time around. That would be nice.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Nostromo
I looks good, despite the somewhat generic sci-fi setting. Am I the only one here who has a been-there-done-that feeling each time he or she hears something about that game? It seems to me that Bioware has been doing the same game over and over again, but each time with a different setting.

Aside from the KotoR games not sure what you mean. NWN was certainly very different.

[snoopy369]

KOTOR (not 2, as that's obsidian), Jade Empire, and Mass Effect all sound rather similar in concept to me also ...

That said they were both rather good so I am not complaining

[DrSpike]

Ah yes Jade Empire (which I have but haven't played through yet). I don't recall it being similar in scope to KotOR though.

[snoopy369]

I'm not entirely sure how you define 'scope', but it was a very similar game, although of course with a different setting, and some substantial differences in execution of smaller points. It's not that they're the same game by any means, but they're fundamentally the same big-picture design; you could tell that the basic gameplay was similar, in the sense that d20 games have similar gameplay even if quit different in the small details. That's what makes them all great (or good depending on your pov) - the small picture elements that make the game unique.

They're similar in the sense that they're essentially a subgenre of RPGs, that only Bioware makes games in.

[DrSpike]

That's a gameplay point though, and not what Nostromo was saying.