PC Gamer preview - it's not great fam.

LOL
Shinobi--or whatever his name is--was saying that the review embargo wasn't because Bioware was worried about their game... YEAH RIGHT! The devs knew they were releasing a steaming pile of ****
That's why they hid the CC from us until right before launch. They flat out lied about the facial animation "bugs" being fixed, too:

I watched a live stream of the early access prologue and saw the infamous "exploding mouth" glitch several times (where the lips protrude about three inches from the face in a bizarre baboon mating call while talking)

IIRC, Shinobi also said that the CC in this game was fantastic.

SERIOUSLY?!? Are you kidding? Also, I saw back in February Aaron Flynn tweeted that the MEA CC was very similar to that of DAI because they really liked that one and didn't want to re-invent the wheel... so instead they strip the wheel bare and give us a single spoke and say "here ya go! Enjoy"

Show me on the doll where Bioware touched you...its ok Timmy...you can show us...

Seriously though, 'steaming pile of shiznit' is a bit of a stretch even for people who aren't quite into the game. A good majority of the reviews have positive things to say about the game with only a few disliking it. Everyone is entitled to their opinion of course, but don't take two negative reviews out of say...20 positive ones...and tell me the game is a steaming pile of shit. Its like those people who think vaccinations are evil because they read about it on a single, back alley website as opposed to proper medical journals.

I just got finished with the early access trial thing and so far Im fairly happy. There were some janky animation bugs and the character creator was indeed a step back, but I disagree about characters. Liam is a very down to earth regular guy and I like that about him. Cora is a bit of down to business type but she has a humorous side that I've enjoyed. Finally, Vetra, has me intrigued. I knew Id like her but I didnt realise she would interest me this much. The graphics are beautiful, the combat is fun as balls and the exploration doesn't feel like a drag. I will say that the scanning thing can slow the game down if you're as anal as I am about scanning everything.

All in an all, a good game. A good Mass Effect game.

Well, there's some worrying stuff in there, especially since unlike the RPS guy it wasn't remotely hard to take these guys seriously...

Can't say I'm surprised the start feels rushed, suspect as much from IGN's first 13 minutes. Should have spent some time in introducing father and sibling before leaving for Andromeda at the start. Should also have kept dad around for an hour or two but developers seem very scared not to make the player the leader and hero very early on.

Two of the four people were still enjoying it though, despite some complaints, so that's a good sign. And one of the other two had been too busy running benchmarks.

Interesting as well how they said it was a mistake by EA to limit them to talk about the early game with the one having played more of it liking it a lot more but unable to say why...

This.

They do say it's a RPG with shooter elements rather than a shooter with RPG elements, so that's a positive. For me, anyway. Makes it more likely I'll pick it up eventually.

I'm really baffled by the ludicrous decision to have your character have a sibling and then never show the interaction or try to set the chemistry between them. In a better world you'd craft both twins, then watch an introduction where 'something happens' while both twins are on-screen, active, then the game could let you choose one of them as your MC.

Why should you care about a big white box? If your sibling doesn't wake up in reasonable time-frame there's NO reason to have a sibling at all.

We pretty much know what to expect from writing. I don't like it, others will. To me it reeks of tweets that millennials react to with a shoddy GIF of a black girl clapping. But there are other issues involved, like the quest UI or cumbersome scanning that kill joy even if you like the dialogue and don't mind stiff faces.

Do people really care that much about reviews anyway? Play it yourself and if you enjoy it who cares what anyone else says. I have seen reviews of many games that are high rated but I thought they were absolute rubbish. Like others have said it is a preview, not a review.