There is a huge bias in the industry... A huge one. Anyone looking at the mess that is Assassins Creed and the rampat slowdown and freezing of Mass Effect and then seeing their 9's is beyond me. Uncharted is a smooth, beautiful experience and it gets 8.9 and 8.5's... Go figure.

Also, Mas seffects biggest problem for casuals will be its size. They really should ahve cut this game into 4 parts and made it a episodic download. 1 a month. That'swhat I would've done.

So all the reviews have stated that this game isn't:

A graphical achievement.
A technical achievement.
A good gameplay achievement.
Lacks real RPG elements.

Its just an interesting game.

Which deserves AAA status? Am I missing something here?

I am glad reviewers are finally starting to be honest, this review. Like the PCWORLD review said everything IGN/Xbotfansite.com have said.. The game has a ton of flaws.. yet still received a 9/10 & 11/10 yadda yadda. It strains the 360 to even load levels.

This was just one of many nails in the coffin for the 360. I don't understand the world of reviewers..

How can a game with so many flaws still manage to get AAA status? yet games with no flaws, amazing technical achievements, great gameplay.. are sidelined. Something is wrong, and UGO is on the right track.

Again, I am not saying ME is a bad game.. I am sure it will be a blast to play. But don't you think its a bit ridiculous that all of its problems keep getting ignored? No, the game doesn't make up for it. Its the year 2007. I am paying 60.00 for a quality product. Glitches/Bad AI/loading problems/texture popin problems due to non-optimized texture streaming is ridiculous.

ME & Assasins creed are in the same boat right now as far as technical failures. Sites that have good relationships with the developers clearly aren't rating it what the game really deserves.

@ Allround(PS3)gamer, Will4Hire and all those others about the score of the game:

Mass Effect went up

From 92% to 93% and now

it's at 94%!

http://www.gamerankings.com...

And Ratchet & Clank keeps decreasing. Started at what, 94% or so? Now on 89% and going down (few days ago 89.6%, now 88,8%)

http://www.gamerankings.com...

They're both based on multiple reviews. So you can't call a bias on that. If you think the whole industry is a conspiracy theory against the PS3 you need to check the head at the doc

another bad bad review for mass effect

True that.

good average for a game.

90+ avg. damn
it's something you dont see on the PS3.
ohwell.

A game's greatness can shine beyond its flaws sence when did game reviewing become more about its bugs than the game itself?. Theres bugs and glitches in some PS3 games that don't even get mentioned in reviews its only after the game is out that we start reading about flaws so stop the crying.

Go play...

Bioware making console video games. LMAO

"I'll buy it cause storyline and graphics is what I like, but I can not believe they scored it a 9.75 on just those factors. I am not making this up; if you don't believe me pick up a copy of Gameinformer #175"

"Sounds like
Sounds like this game might kill your 360. I wouln't buy it, wait nevermind you have a 3yr warranty go ahead."

What surprisses me, that off all of those posters above 90% or so is PS3 owner and scared about another AAA game over 90% average reviewed.

YOU GOT NONE EXCLUSIVE that's why you need to get your frustration out.

We 360 owners can understand that. We feel sorry for you. Keep searching for flaws in Mass Effect, so you won't see the one major flaw out there. The PS3

biowares games always have glitches and framerate issues...its because their huge games with huge amounts of dialog..if i have to hear the bs that uncharted and or ratchet are the best looking games this gen im going to puke,even the huge rpg mass effect blows those games away visually..dont even get me started on bioshock and or gears..uncharted might be the best lookin ps3 game,but it cant touch the best lookin 360 games..

"Don't buy into the hype....but Mass Effect still kicks ass."

B+ is not bad especially considering it's on the low end of the review side of things.

Obviously for some people portions of the gameplay and the graphical glitches have a 10%-20% impact on the perception of the game as a whole. But for an overwhelming majority the rest of the game is so superb that it doesn't detract from the experience by even 10%. (All the 10/10's to 9/10's). So to the overwhelming majority, this game is a must have. For those who can't set some issues aside and allow them selves to get into the game, good luck finding anything as fun to play. Despite a few reviews that say it's great, but not perfect, it's still a AAA game, by far.

No doubt Bioware is learning, and they're going to recognize what needs to be done as they go into Mass Effect 2.

And with the huge environments and draw distance, along with the levels of detail and the framerate they're striving for, and the small number of jaggies, I'm not surprised it glitches every now and then, especially since developers haven't perfected maximizing the next-gen systems performance.

yeah..
I think right now... the PS3fanboys just need something to vent out on.
geeez

PS3 is a stale system huh.
No AAA titles yet. that's so sad.
well... back to my AAA+ system with it's AAA+ Games.

What I find interesting is that titles like Mass Effect and Lair can have sporadic performance with framerate, tearing and whatnot and these are system exclusives. Its not like development was halted and the dev's couldnt just focus on getting the game to run smoothly.

Now Lair had other fualts of course, and Im not saying its near as good as Mass Effect but in a sense they are "unfinished" games. IMO if its a system exclusive it should run perfectly, push it back if you need too becuase people are expected to shell out $60 for the game.

My point is simply being that COD4 has set a new standard, it was graphicly amazing, A.I. was formidable enough, and it has teh multiplayer of winness, all running at 60 fps on all three platforms. Now I feel COD4 deserves GOTY becuase of that alone, but thats another story.

If it scores well, let it. If it doesn't, who cares. The PS3 is just fine. The 360 is doing fine now, but after Mass Effect? I believe this is their last big name release. What's after that?

Seriously, Mart has found a way to live inside the metacritic site, it feeds him and gives him all he needs.

Now back to mickey mania on the genesis....

Emulated.

Crappy game not buying that.

YOU GOT NONE EXCLUSIVE

hehe

hee hee

hehe

and over rated like most 360 games are..

A lot of sites say it doesnt live up to the hype and has many problems but they still give it 9's..

Yet some say uncharted lives up to its hype and is the best looking game out there but they give the game high 8's..

It BS if you ask me..

All i know is uncharted got a A from this site and a 9 from eurogamer and mass effect got a B from this site and a 8 from eurogamer

I trust eurogamer because they never fall into hyping games and ratings and they are always tough on games..

Mass Effect - the wet dream of virgin gamers everywhere

From all the sony boys that entered this thread you can see the frustration in their words. I'm sure the shock of Uncharted and R&C averaging below a 90% has upset them. It has to be hard on them knowing that the 360 continuously gets games that average 90% and up while the ps3 gets games that average 8's or 7's.

If 360 game = 2 points. The we can go back and see the real scores.

Halo 3 - 8.0
Mass Effect - 7.5
Bioshock - 8.0

When you think about it those scores seem more accurate.

the summary:

ps3 owners thinks ps3 games are better

360 owners thinks 360 games are better

reviewers thinks 360 games are better

ps3 are bitter about uncharted getting high 8's

ps3 owners think the review scores are bias and cannot be trusted

yet they jump on a negative review 360 game review and say it's the truth

pathetic.

Even though the opening paragraph was harsh, they still thought the game was pretty good, giving it a B+ overall. Not bad.

it doesnt really matter not lots of people will kno is an aaa game

I've heard negative feeds for Assassin's Creed, and that game is a great game compared to what the reviewers mad e it out to be. So heres what I'm going to do, Im going to play it,and review it my self.

Summary of reviews:

ps3 owners thinks ps3 games are better

360 owners thinks 360 games are better

reviewers thinks 360 games are better

so the truth is sonykids are bitter because everybody except loyal ps3 fans think 360 has better games, life in denial is tough, but heres the kicker, if the whole world is wrong then explain why 360 exclusives sell waaaaay better than ps3 exclusive even when you consider the difference in actual size of fanbase, hmmm why is that? 'cause even when you account for ps3's smaller install base, ps3 software sales are still significantly lower, hmmm why is that? so why aren't the majority of ps3 owners buying these so called great games?, I mean seriously isn't great exclusive games the biggest reason you buy a GAMING console?

JOY

Their highest rated, best remembered, socially loved franchise... and they have small team working on it for the past 2- 3 years?

Absolute garbage company along side all the heads that made Andromeda.

Maybe Saudi Arabia make something out of this.

overall if they could get CDPR and quadratic dream to help them make the game that would give me hope for the game

Still riding off the coat tails of the original staff from Bioware that have long since moved on.