HALO 3 is that single player was ok again hyped too much and failed to deliver, online is terrible I give it a 7/10.

PGR4 well BC will never get it right as PGR2 felt and played the best so PGR4 gets a 7/10.

Mass Effect gets a 9/10 it would have got 10 if it didnt have texture pop up issues and frame rate issues other than that the game is fantastic and I am now on my 3rd playthrough!

"Even you, the one supposedly in charge of the game’s narrative, feel emotionally suppressed. That Mass Effect presents the same binary moral choices as KOTOR is no surprise – the Dark/Light balance there becomes Paragon/Renegade here – but you’d have expected a more nuanced result after all these years. The conversation wheel, which pops up early to keep the speech rolling, asks you to choose tone rather than precise words. At worst, the choices are so moderate as to be more or less the same, and the words which come out don’t relate."

And the dialogue system that soooo many have praised isn't the revoulution like i thought it wouldn't be. there's no way in hell it would've been possible for it to be as great as i thought without advanced sims' style A.I.

i wish people didnt spout that crap "omg western rpgs are better because you're making your story and you have choice"
no son with a lot of these wrpgs there are still rigid walls you HAVE to go down. You only have the choice to view the storyline bioware have crafted for you from different angles. It's still essentially the same story(20 hr). The shift in (space odyssey) narrative if the character was truly liberated and you had choice should have resulted in a mix of character types i.e. (godfather=mob boss) (taxi driver=loner) (raging bull=short tempered boxer).
You're character should be able to go down similar routes as diverse as this effortlessly.

All you're really doing is deviating from the inevitable big choice in slight ways that don't give that much emotional satisfaction. In order for their hyped system to work they'd need to literally construct widely different story elements.
but then that'd annoy the star-wars fappers that are the one's who'll give this flawed game 10/10. "omg i'm in star trek" ugh

if you're WRPG character doesn't react realistically to every minute change in the narrative stream with realism, then it flops. What bioware did (i didnt even see this coming) was they made sure that a lot of the time 2 or so of your responses in a specific scene would get the same results. With 22,000 lines of dialogue what else are they gonna do?

everything i guessed would make this game a dissapointment has come up. From the emotionless trader/medic/soldier npcs, to the recycled sub-quest areas, and excess of futurist sterile silver locations.

has it's faults but nothing worth crying about.

If you don't like the game then don't play.

Guess the reviewer didn't get the cheque from M$.

always spewing so much hate and just when I think he can't embarrass himself any worse than he has before, he manages to prove me wrong, ha ha....keep the 4 bucks, I think you need it.=

btw, to each his own, I'm loving ME, its taking too much of my time right now some of my bud's keep sending messages to get me to play some COD4, but I've been too deep in the story, think I'll take a break though and play a few rounds with 'em tommorrow, anyway lol @ the haters=

JOY

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This is about what I would've given it... I spent 6 hours on it and it was just littered with technical limitations. Slowdown, pop up, muddy textures... It was inconsistent and, although, fun... it just didn't do it for me. It's not the end all be all game. As I've said many times, had this been for pc and pc only... it would've been special. The consoles limited the scope of this game. Bar closed.

7 out of 10=sh!t

This game is a 9+, below that just pure retarded. Game of the year better than Bioshock

Speaking of console limitations:

So with all the AC bugs on the PS3, that means the console is on its limit ?

Pardon me ?

It is all about polishing, trust me !

ME uses 6,79 gigs on the DVD DL (8,5 gigs capacity), it is not nearly filled (please, don't bring up the notorious "Oh boy, with Blu ray, everything would have gone better"-topic, that's pointless) !

Bioware just should have held the game back for another month to polish it (The same goes for AC !). That's it !

mass effect is one of the best games ive played this year, truely is epic and you can make it as long as you want, im now on my second playthrough and its completey different from my first playthrough as now im choosing different dialog.

if you have a 360 i recomend playing this game.

Having completed Mass Effect yesterday I have to say I agree with what Edge said in their review, but would have given a score of 8/10 rather than 7.

I loved almost every moment of the game. After CoD4 it's my favourite game of the year, but that doesn't mean I can not be objective and see it's faults. In my opinion the game is worth 8/10 and no more.

This year we've seen a lot of games get crazy high scores, and while I don't always agree with Edge they are usually on the money with their reviews (if not overall scores). It's nice to see a few publications and websites (such as Eurogamer) give honest reviews and not be swayed by advertising money or publisher pressure.

i knew it , Xbots must be crying right now

A game site isn't unreliable before it have been proven that
_A_ It recieves money from someone connected to gaming (unless it is ad money)
_B_ Given Hour of Victory a 9+

This reviewer got a opinion, now you guy are talking trash about Edge because of a game critic's opinion? Wow, you like Halo, you must be complete dumbasses.
See how that works?

Now go away and don't come back 'till you got something proper to say.

Oh, and to the guy above me claiming ME is a flop... Just... No... A game critic gives it a 7/10 and it's a flop?
Seriously man... <_<

I think this is the best 7 game I have played in my life. Is kind of difficult to judge this game. Its a 10 experience game but an 7 overall. Final review: Buy this game. But i agree with the 7. it just have some thing that lower the score. I dont even know what im saying. This game make me confuse

Mass Effect didn't live up to the hype.

One of the huge PS3 exclusives Ratchet and Clank Future gets a 7.5 from Gamespot

Now one of the huge 360 exclusives gets a 7/10 from EDGE...

Hey, I guess its even then... its fair

So Halo 3 gets a 10/10 from Edge and the PS3 fanboys go nuts. Now Mass Effect gets a 7/10 from Edge and the PS3 fanboys go nuts.

Which nut are you?

7/10 is just right.

7/10 is fair, i don't think i've ever been quite so disappointed by a game that promised so much.

Basically, Mass Effect is as Great as you make it. IF you suck the story will suck. If you cant kill the enemy clean you have the wrong loadout. If you are missing the point you have not done any codex homework. If you have no sence of direction you are lost. If you didnt pace yourself and has burned yourself out trying to beat the in one sitting for 20+ hours we cannot believe you because your judgement has been impaired due to lack of sleep. Mass effect has lived up to the hype. It was exactly as advertised. Sci-Fi adventure, No desicion is easy, Galactic political drama. In that aspect, it seems any score less than a 9 is from a burnout. It will be o.k. you guys still have uncharted and all you have to do is go straight. dont worry about games to complex for children who cannot read or know the meaning of action vs. consequence. This Message has been RAM MAGNUMS APPROOVED...

They have been spitting games out like clockwork. They are what next generation games are all about. All the games we know and love with more graphics. Games never before done. A system we all appreciate and respect for always being first and on time. Xbox will continue to surprise all of us. Except those who are willing to look into our business and criticise everything from the disc to the package in came in. If only other would pay attention to those japanese people who create games for them, then maybe they could actually get a game they cannot criticise.

xbots = girls..... if u guys get a life maybe everything is diferent
stop cryin for averything girls do something 4 ur lifes insted cry everyday

Play Uncharted Drakes Fortune or the up and coming
Unreal Tournament 3 only on the PS3.

P L A Y B 3 Y O N D

play uncharted and the "up coming blaah blaah" everthing is up coming on ps3 huh? shoulda waited to buy it huh? the best game you suckers got is uncharted? come on its not that good. mass effect is a great game. its at least different. could have been longer and lots of graphical issues(it even stuttered during the credits) cant figure that one out but considering the replay value of the game it really is pretty massive. i say 8.5 is a fair score. only games like mario or "the up coming" smash bros should get 10s. cause they do what they are ment to do with no flaws and still manage to be new and original.

1.Mass Effect
2.Bioshock

Honorable mention for COD4, Halo 3 & Uncharted. The 500th installment of Mario on the Wii does not impress me, nor does R&C. I guess I'm "too old" for those types of games, but then again, I don't think I'd have either of those games as my personal GOTY when I was 15 years old, versus the other available contenders this year.

If Mass Effect didn't have any framerate hitches, it would be GOTY hands down, period. Best videogame story of "Next Gen" undoubtably, and one playthrough is as long as Bioshock + COD4 + Uncharted combined.

MASS EFFECT FTW !!!

Back in the old days, even though people often disagreed about whether a game was good (its subjective remember), people could almost always agree whether or not a game had good graphics. Not so anymore. Just look at ME. A ton of people out there are saying that ME has incredible graphics, and I thought it had the worst next-gen graphics I've ever seen. Worse than BulletWitch. Whats the deal? This game is sooo ugly. I'm not spamming or whatever that word is, I really just don't understand this. Am I looking at the same game? Very odd.

The guy did not fancy the game that much... had a bad day at work (coffee machine was broken, his wife "had a headache" the night before).

:P

It sure raises the voices to say "bleh..B..." when everybody else is shouting "A!"...

Still a GREAT game.

Uncharted is what these nit wits are hollering about that game is for kids who like to unload a pistol into a man that can take a whole clip. Very unrealistic. Can you say linear? Very good. Now go play uncharted and remember that gears of war kicks this games a$$! Mass Effect is a RPG like oblivian. No comparison to Drake's Homosexuality. Seriously The enemies on uncharted are stupid and why would you have to solve a childs puzzle to find guards waiting for you. Mass effect is exploraration uncharted is saturday morning cartoons action. Get it, Got it, GOOD. Now Grow up. X-box has moved on. we as a community look past ps3 gamers and are very used to just calling you guys a bunch of losers starving for a descent game. LOL!!! Sony mind ya business and get your fans back they are smelling up my xbox forums with their stupidity.

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.