As it stands today, how would you rate Andromeda multiplayer?

“Just enough”

This is a “just enough” game based on the just enough principle. The visuals are very nice (characters and maps) but in every other department the game is built to give you “just enough” to sell the illusion that it is a proper game and not a money scam.

Game stability: this is a prime example, the game was buggy as hell at release, it was ready “just enough” (barely or not at all) to be released.

Maps: There is only a minimal variety, it is “just enough” to claim such variety exist. The effort is uninspiring and there is complete lack of uniqueness. I mean we are in a different galaxy but we get the standard “ice world”, “desert”, “mountain side” and “alien spaceship” maps. These maps could be anywhere (on Earth).

Enemy factions: we get a cheap copy-paste of the ME3 “militants”, “robots” and “space zombies”; “just enough” to claim that there is a “variety of factions”. The composition of these factions is utterly uninspiring: remnant has 5 units; kett has 6 (not counting the behemot) and the outlaw has 5 not counting the ME3 agents (turian, salarian, asari, krogan). Just enough, just enough. Not counting the very generic outlaw units (trooper, sniper, mech) the only unit specific to andromeda is the adhi!

Weapons: cheap watered-down copy-paste of Me3 weapons. There is not a single unique idea which has no ME3 counterpart. They even managed to f@ck up the copy-pasted ME3 weapons. The variety is “just enough” to claim that there is such and then it is artificially bloated by the “S”, siphon, bulwark and concussive versions.

Melee: it is the same just enough principle. There is the punch and the krogan headbutt, “just enough” to claim that there is more than one melee type. Absolutely zero effort to create anything unque or even to implement old ME3 system.

Powers: they purged the best powers of ME3 (warp, reave, stasis, warp bubble, lots of grenades, proxy mine) and castrated the rest (like overload). Again, there are “just enough” powers in the game and they are used highly repetitively, see next.

Kits: cheap copy-paste, “just enough”. There are three kits with throw and lance combo, why? There are other repetitions, like the throw and ED and barricade & ED combos, why? Totally uninspiring.

Overall, I have the feeling that MEAMP was just a burden for Bioware, but they were forced to do it. They put in “just enough” effort to make the game and as soon as their contractual obligations were over they moved to a different project. I just do not see the love, the care, the effort to create something unique and outstanding; it is a cheap copy-paste with jetpacks.

Score: “just enough”, 2+1 (for the visuals).