Picked up Mass Effect Andromeda on Origin for $5, figured even I hated it at that price there's no risk. The writing is definitely no where near what it was for the original trilogy and some of the dialog and facial animations are downright laughable, but the actual gameplay and systems are great. Combat is the best it's been in the entire series, and the RPG elements are as well. They've basically taken the skill point system of the first ME and merged it with the updated class designs of ME3. Exploration is great too, they've brought back a 6-wheeled Mako that can actually climb hills and you can free roam planets again, but this time there's actual stuff to do
It really is too bad they handed this game off to their C-team writing staff, because if they had the ME1 writers involved this would easily be the best game in the series. Even still at $5 it's more than worth it
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