8 Big Budget Video Games RUINED By Terrible Graphics

The Mass Effect series has never been a stranger to the uncanny valley, with its character models never seeming quite lifelike enough to warrant much praise.

However, the original trilogy made up for these flaws with wonderful gameplay, excellent storytelling and some breathtaking environment design. Despite Mass Effect 3's ending being widely ridiculed for its simplistic approach to a trilogy that prided itself on player choice, the trilogy is rightly well-regarded in most respects.

Mass Effect: Andromeda, released 5 years after the trilogy concluded, was a highly-anticipated follow up that sadly followed suit in undermining its overall quality with its visual issues.

Whilst its environments and vistas were once again breathtaking, making appropriate use of current-gen hardware, the game's character models and animations showed an entirely new level of ineptitude. Somehow looking worse than the 2007 original at times, facial animation is almost entirely absent from many cutscenes save for some poor lip syncing, and most characters display a dead-eyed stare comparable to a House Of Wax victim.

Most depressing of all is the fact that the gameplay was otherwise serviceable - it didn't really break new ground and wasn't quite the giant leap that the series needed, but it was a truly sad case of an experience completely overshadowed by some appalling graphics.