Go back and play the original Mass Effect. It's still the best game in the series. Switching to my Level IV Tungsten Ammo into my assault rifle because the synthetics were charging and using dynamic WHOLE TEAM abilities to survive an Insanity mode fight was epic fun. Not to mention one of the most epic bad guy reveals ever... "I am beyond your understanding... I am Sovereign..." (Anybody?)

But then they had to make it Multi-Player because you know, business, so they blew up the whole combat systems to turn an RPG into a Hybrid first person shooter, which ruined II and III. The story and characters is what you enjoyed, not the game play, so you remember them fondly. But go back and replay ME1 and move over to ME2 and you will instantly realize where it all went wrong.

Andromeda is "Paint by Numbers" big studio gaming. The original ME Team have obviously moved on to other things. This cookie cutter experience was meant to be saved by "big visuals" (which did look great) but ultimately ends up a soulless experience. ME-A is what happens when the execs hire MBA's to run the show instead of fostering and maintaining their talent pools that provided the original inspiration.

Bottom line... EA is the devil... EA is where games go to get their souls ripped out of them. Suck it EA.

Man Forza doesn't get front page billing huh? Even on Xbox launch day? I actually had to search for it. Strange.

@RicanV @GamerShock Never checked that one. I would say though, I would like to see any quality first person shooter with greater than 12 hours of play. But your right, they just don't exist anymore.

I mean even Assassin's Creed. Is that a series that really needs multiplayer? I worry about any game that starts integrating multi-player, for me it usually means the downfall of the game (for my style of play). Though Black Flag has been amazing so that logic doesn't play out for that game.

But I think back to Knights of the Old Republic, and wonder if the same thing will happen to the Elder Scrolls series.

@RicanV @GamerShock You are of course right, I think it would have been better to say, "not interested spending time" in multiplayer.

Just read on another site that the campaign is only 4 to 4 1/2 hours long. I guess I'm finally going to give up on this series. Might as well just make it a call of duty multiplayer with regular map updates through DLC and call it good.

@RicanV @GamerShock You would think, but the truth is you have to spend a lot of time "leveling" up. I just don't want that kind of time commitment. Beyond that, I just want a cool "world hopping" story to play through then never think of the game again. And 5 to 6 hours of game play is not worth the $60 bucks. Especially when I can pick up Black Flag and play for 100 hours.

So how long is the Campaign mode? Game to game it seems to get shorter and shorter. Started at 12 to 14 and was a generous 5 hours last game.

For a guy who likes to play shooters but doesn't have time for online multiplayer will determine whether I get the game now or not.

Hey Valve, I remember those guys, they put out some first person shooters and stuff a decade ago right? Oh and the thing where you shoot holes in other things and jump through those holes to get at other things... wait what was I talking about?

This is total non story now that Microsoft has reversed all these restrictions (region locking, always on, etc)

Wow, Didn't know gamespot was such a bunch of MS haters. Is this all based on DRM or did you just decide that MS would be the enemy this generation? And that comes from somebody who agree's and hates the online/drm/dlc bs.