Mass Effect PC Reviews
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As well as the FPS combat works, the vehicle combat and driving is a mess. The vehicle bounces around like a superball regardless of the planet gravity level. It bounces around on big balloon tires, landing on its roofs sometimes and then inexplicably, in complete ignorance of the laws of physics, kind of flops back onto its wheels again. The turret points left or right independent of the vehicle direction, but can only move vertically very slightly with respect to the vehicle level. Coming over the lip of a hill it is impossible to hit objects on the far side because your turret is pointed into the sky. You have to go over the hill onto the downslope to fire effectively, and since the crosshair seems to be just flat wrong you have to see where your shots hit to know how you're doing. Unlocking doors, hacking computers and the like are accomplished through a minigame that is something like a circular version of frogger you'll understand the comparison if you try it which is about as annoying as the waterpipe game in Bioshock. Why all these games feel the need to replace a simple die roll for success with a minigame is beyond me. You would think they would understand that anything you end up doing in a game 50+ times is going to become irritating.
The second is at RPGFan with a score of 88%:
BioWare has created a top-shelf RPG with Mass Effect, though it's not without its flaws. Many of the issues present in the Xbox 360 version of the title are gone, and while there are new issues thrown into the PC version, they are minor in comparison. Mass Effect's main story is still short I finished in fourteen hours with about one third of the side-quests complete but there are enough side-quests to provide another ten hours or so of gameplay into the mix. Additionally, the downloadable content from the Xbox 360 version will be available as a free download on the PC at a later date. If you're at all a PC RPG fan, it would be difficult not to recommend Mass Effect to you. While RPG elitists and snobs may turn up their nose at the streamlined, shooter-like combat, the core game is simply quality and is one of the best single-player PC RPGs released in the past few years.
And the third is at GameBoomers with a score of "A+":
While the game is not perfect and has its moments of oddly placed dialog and the occasional glitch, the only other adjectives I can use in reference to Mass Effect are immersive, imaginative, expansive and just plain fun. BioWare has a potential dynasty on their hands with this game if a game editor is ever made available. Apparently, additional content is already up on BioWare's website. Due to the ability to select different Character Classes, Dispositions, and the multiple directions that decision and dialog trees can run, re-playability is high for this game.
While I know that there are some political issues surrounding the game's copy protection, and the need to have an Internet connection the first time you start the game (which for me was a seamless process), I cannot help but wholeheartedly recommend this game. It is definitely worth it.
