Mass Effect PC Reviews

Two more reviews for the PC version of BioWare’s Mass Effect start off the new week. The first is at WorthPlaying with a score of 8.9/10:

Mass Effect is an ambitious crossbreed between a sci-fi RPG and a third-person shooter, and its many strengths outweigh some small but nonetheless significant flaws. It is similar in many ways to Bioware’s other RPG outings, and if you enjoyed Knights of the Old Republic in particular, Mass Effect is probably a good way of spending the 40 hours or so that it takes to complete the game, which you might otherwise have spent inspecting your navel for scraps of enlightenment or beating up virtual prostitutes for refunds.

And the other is at Crispy Gamer with a score of “Try It”:

By juxtaposing all these genre types in one massive game, BioWare has created something that never quite becomes the sum of all its disparate gameplay parts. There just isn’t any kind of flow for you to ever get ahold of and ride out that wave of entertainment all the way to the end. It didn’t help that I ran into some common audio stuttering problems that would occasionally cause me to miss bits of the dialogue. Despite these issues, I did want to see how it all turned out for Shepard, and a lot of other folks will probably want to find that out, too.