10 Video Games With Excellent Gameplay (That Still Disappointed)

6. Mass Effect Andromeda

I’m playing through the legendary edition of Mass Effect right now and while they’re fantastic games, the combat leaves a lot to be desired. Andromeda though, really fixed that, and dropped the ball on everything else.

The combat and gunplay in Mass Effect is a bit of a crapshoot, it’s a dice roll as to whether your Shepard will take cover or try to vault over it, dodging is slow, and the guns feel incoherently different in every single game making it annoying to stick to a gun-dependent class when the sniper rifle was awesome in the first game and awful in the second.

Now, apparently the sniper rifle sucks in Mass Effect: Andromeda too, but on the whole that game really got movement and combat mechanics right.

The gunplay and traversal is night and day better than the original trilogy. Andromeda’s Nomad vehicle is actually enjoyable to drive, the moment-to-moment combat is fluid and responsive, the game gives you a jetpack, and lets you attack with clever combos which add a whole other element to combat encounters. Unfortunately, Andromeda dropped the ball on everything the original trilogy nailed. Its story wasn’t exciting, the characters paled in comparison to their counterparts in Mass Effect 1 to 3, and the writing was largely weak.

If they manage to combine the gameplay wins from Andromeda with the epic story and characters of the original trilogy we’re in for a hell of a future Mass Effect game.