![]() ![]() Some options, like makeup, are still gender-specific in the character creator. But it was one of the features I heard BioWare talk up in the run-up to the game’s launch, and considering it’s the first step toward playing Legendary Edition, I don’t think it serves as the game’s best feature nor a great advertisement. That isn’t awful – as I said it’s adequate. This opportunity was missed, and Legendary Edition essentially has the character creator from Mass Effect 3. There was scope for BioWare to have added dozens more hairstyles, facial hair styles, tattoos, and the like, as well as giving more options for tweaking and personalising Shepard’s appearance. The character creator is thus a bit of a let-down – it’s adequate, and perfectly usable, but also very dated and nothing special. There are more options than Mass Effect 1 and 2 had, but not many more, and in terms of things like hairstyles, I’m not seeing many that I didn’t see in Mass Effect 3 almost a decade ago. However, the character creator feels scarcely changed from where it was in Mass Effect 3. But I love customisation aspects in games, and I’ve been known to spend ages just getting my character to look exactly the way I want them to! The original Mass Effect’s character creator was limited, but BioWare had promised it had been upgraded for Legendary Edition – and that the character creator was now standardised across all three games. Many players seem to be happy with the “default” look of Commander Shepard, and if that’s you then power to you, friend. If each of the three games have individual options, why have this options menu on the launcher at all?Īfter getting into the actual game, the first thing to do is use the character creator. So in that sense, my very first impressions were poor! The three-game launcher – at least on PC – feels like a bit of a waste why even have a page for options if you’re meant to configure things in each game individually? The launcher also serves as another hurdle in the way of actually playing a game, taking up a few seconds of loading time each time you want to play. I was ready to write a couple of paragraphs complaining about how threadbare this makes Legendary Edition, but after checking the three games individually, the expected graphics, audio, and gameplay options are all present. I wanted to look through all of the options and tweak things like graphics, subtitles, and so on, but there were practically no customisation options. Upon booting up Legendary Edition after waiting for it to download, unlock on Steam, and then install, the game’s launcher left me confused and deeply unimpressed. Large file sizes like this are increasingly common, but as I hope to upgrade my internet connection in the months ahead, hopefully it won’t be too much of a problem for me in future! But we’re off-topic. In some areas there have been significant improvements, but in others – especially the visuals – I’m underwhelmed.Ī long time, as you can see! Thank goodness for Steam allowing pre-loading of certain titles. ![]() This isn’t a full review – it’ll take me weeks to fully play through all three games! But I’ve spent enough time to share my first impressions, especially considering that Mass Effect 1 was the title which supposedly received the most attention from BioWare. So which is it? I’m about two hours into Mass Effect 1, and I’ve taken a very brief look at Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 as well. Worst case, I’ll play a disappointing fake “remake” – but still three great games meaning I’ll likely have a decent time. Best case, I get to play a massively enhanced version of all three games and I’ll have a fantastic time. In that sense, picking up the game was a risk, but as I only own the games on the Xbox 360 and haven’t played them in at least five years, it was a risk worth taking. Super Mario 3D All-Stars, which I bought in September, left me seriously underwhelmed, and despite adoring the Mass Effect series, I didn’t see much in the run-up to the launch of Legendary Edition that I felt justified the upgrade. For the second time in less than a year, I’ve spent a whack of money on an updated version of an older trio of games that I enjoyed playing in years gone by. ![]()
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