Dutch Game Reviewers opinion on the game after playing hours of it.

Hi,

As you may already know: I'm Dutch. So, I follow Dutch game journalists and magazines. One of the journalists working for the popular Dutch "Power Unlimited" game magazine got to play the game at Bioware for 3 hours or so. This is his opinion as a huge fanboy of the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series:


I translated the important bits, you can read it for yourself if you want to, but you have to use a translator if you're not Dutch.

www.pu.nl/artikelen/preview/mass-effect-andromeda-preview/

Also, he acknowledges that if you want to have a good impression on a Bioware game, you have to put a lot more hours in it than the amount of hours that he put in.


- The first few hours of the game didn't blow him away.

- Performance capture hasn't improved since DA:I. "They may have more detailed faces, but the face animations are really the same as the ones in Mass Effect 2. Also, the protagonists carry most of the first hour of the game a breathing mask under their helmets, so you do not even see their faces! A small number of dramatic moments come so much less about and it just feels a bit impersonal. Bioware should be the pioneer in these things, shouldn't they? Emotion is their expertise!

- After playing the beginning of the game, he got to play a bit further in the game, where he was able to walk on the tempest and talk to everybody. This was amazing according to him and he was sad that after an hour walking on the ship he had to go on a mission.

-Gameplay is less tactical: now, it really is an action-RPG.