10 Bad Video Games With ONE Great Level

3. Kadara - Mass Effect: Andromeda

Good ol' Mass Effect: Andromeda gets a little more hate than it deserves.

While it was a technical train wreck at launch, full of bugs and bizarre facial animations, once all was said and patched it was a decent enough game.

However, one of Andromeda's biggest failures was how it took us to a whole new galaxy but kept everything so... normal. In the game's opening level, characters are blown away by floating rocks - a trope in every sci-fi/fantasy story ever. The fact that we then hop between desert planet, jungle planet, ice planet and... other desert planet only drives the lack of imagination home. But at least there's Kadara.

A mountainous planet, Kadara is the first place that doesn't feel like somewhere we've visited a million times. With its bronze sun, cerulean acid pools, and land corral, Kadara looks like an entire planet that was once an ocean until something mysteriously dried it up. Just like that, it tells a story and sets up an alien mystery that pushes the imagination. On top of that, it's a haven for criminals, making it the most colourful and interesting environment since Mass Effect 2's similarly themed Terminus Systems.

 
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