It's hard not to fall under Mass Effect's visual spell, with its grainy film effects and creepy original take on conventional sci-fi tropes (like this unfortunate fellow, the biological victim of one species' disturbing machinations). If you're not offended by the sloppy action sequences or brittle RPG elements, Mass Effect tells a perfectly decent adventure story with several filmic elements bolstered by an excellent sense for techniques like 180- and 30-degree continuity editing during dialogue or scene transitions that other developers simply ignore.
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Mass Effect: Xbox 360 Game Doesn't Live Up to its Hype
Beautifully rendered with an above-average plot, Bioware's new sci-fi epic for the Xbox 360 still turns out to be a disappointingly overhyped encore to Microsoft's main holiday act in gaming, Halo 3.
Gracefully Cinematic
The Fate of Everything Depends on . . . Your Chitchat Skills?
Released Too Soon?
Less Shoot-'Em-Up, More Interactive Cinema
Just Imagine the Whiteboard Dialogue Trees
Roam (and Jump) If You Want To
The Character of Its Convictions
A Modicum of Class and Talent
AI Stands for Artificially Inept
Watered-Down Tactical Shooter?
A Lexical Jungle
Gracefully Cinematic
A Reasonable Range of Alien Antics
Booty Clog Up
Evolution or Devolution?
Bottom Line: Overhyped
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