Mass Effect Reviews

BioWare’s Mass Effect is the subject of another trio of favorable reviews. The first is at Hooked Gamers with an overall score of 8/10:

Despite its bugs Mass Effect is a great game. The story is engrossing and, with two sequels already planned, promises a whole lot more. With its fun and fresh gameplay, with a combat system that you can mould to fit your play style and a dialogue system that is the very best of its kind, this game is definitely the evolutionary step forward for role-playing games that the genre has been in dire need of. It may be a little rough around the edges but Mass Effect is one of a few diamonds in the mound of games that have come out recently.

The second is at Deeko with an overall score of 9/10:

Mass Effect has, for me, lived up to my expectations and in some ways exceeded them — doing slowly what KOTOR did. Drawing me into its world and making me feel comfortable; a place where everything just seems right. In the end that’s how BioWare games are, they have their own beat. Sure, at first you feel awkward and keep missing a step, but little by little you find the right pace and begin to drum along to the right beat and when you do, it feels so damn good. BioWare has managed to, despite the many delays and at times feared expectations of the combat system, deliver what is one of this console generation’s finest role playing games, proving once again that Western developers are taking risks in a field that was once filled with swords and sorcery and the results are phenomenal. Mass Effect is the icing on a deliciously moist cake that has been the 360’s line-up this year. In a year full of Halo 3’s, Bioshock, and The Orange Box — Mass Effect stands as one of the most genre defining games this year for any console… even with it’s small faults.

And the third is at RPGamer with an overall score of 4.0/5:

Mass Effect also offers up a decent challenge to gamers of all skill levels, with enemies scaling to the player’s level and several difficulty settings being available that can be adjusted at any time. While the normal difficulty setting is likely well-balanced for most players, an easier difficulty as well as several harder difficulties are available. All in all, Mass Effect manages to be a great, thoroughly enjoyable game, but Bioware still has several kinks to work out before this trilogy wraps itself up.