As far as we're concerned, Mass Effect's trademark blend of third person cover shooting and unique class-based abilities has gotten better and better with each instalment. Although Mass Effect 3's combat was still a little clunky, it had enough punch to it that it felt like a solid step in the right direction - and thankfully, Mass Effect: Andromeda seems to be continuing the trend. Judging by the game's latest trailer, the combat system looks like a huge improvement over what's come before.
The big difference here is mobility, with main character Ryder able to make use of jet boosters to dodge, jump, and hover. Battles seem much more fast-paced as a result, and even though cover still very much exists, it looks like it won't play such a prominent role this time around. What's more, your character isn't restricted to certain weapon types or abilities - you'll be able to experiment with whatever you like until you carve out your own specialisations.
The trailer itself is probably our best look yet at BioWare's upcoming release, featuring a load of fresh gameplay footage. Mass Effect: Andromeda is due to launch on the 21st March in North America, and the 23rd March in Europe - but will you be buying it? Activate your boosters in the comments section below.
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Now this is more like it.
Can't wait to see the review! It's on my wish list.
Looking good. Hope they pull this off.
This game is not grabbing me like the other mass effect games did. So far graphically it doesn't look great and the game play looks a bit bland. Need to see more of the story and combat to be persuaded. Especially with so many games coming already preordered Horizon and getting Zelda. And currently still enjoying Nioh just so many games to choose from.
Everything looked pretty good except the melee combat. Looks incredibly awkward. Didn't look like combat was hard at all either. The AI looked pretty clueless in terms of awareness, but that's always been a problem in every single Bioware game. The only solution they give is to crank up the difficulty and deal with bullet sponges with 100% accuracy.
This one is make or break with bioware for me. At one point they were my favourite developer, but I haven't really enjoyed any of their work since ME 2, and that was slightly tainted by online pass nonsense. I really hope this one turns it around!
I want to see what the exploration in this game is like. If it's better than what was in ME1, I might consider getting this.
Locked at 30fps completely kills me wanting it on consoles, but boy does the combat look awesome at 60fps.
@ShogunRok Love how fluid and diverse the combat is this time. I believe they're going in the right direction. =)
One thing got me worried, though; where is our squad? How do we command them and are they even useful in combat?
@renankj Yeah, I watched this a few times and that's the only real question mark. There are points where you can see your squaddies but they don't appear to be doing much - there's a bit near the end where they're just standing in the open getting shot!
Biotic powers all the way for my Shep...erm, Ryder.
I'm not feeling this game at all anymore. The squad mates dont look appealing, and it just kind of looks bland. I can't believe I'm saying this as a HUGE mass effect fan, but I think I will wait on this one.
Pre-order this a long time ago - still think the facial animation looks off but between this and Horizon, My Spring/Summer gaming is sorted...
Its definitely the best combat ME has seen to date.
I'm going to pour so many freaking hours in to this game...
I'm doing backflips and breaking stuff over the return of weapons that have infinite ammo + cooldowns! YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHH!!! I just hope they aren't horribly under-powered.
The only disappointing thing in this trailer is that is doesn't touch on SQUAD COMMAND at all. Will they have a "hold position" command like ME1 (PC version only)? I hope combat isn't just Ryder flying around going full-auto with the squadmates only there to provide supporting fire. Can we get better flanking tactics? Character-specific abilities?
Theres been a lot of coverage recently of For Honour , Nioh and Nier but they just haven't really floated my boat but this is looking right up my street , maybe perhaps even a day oner.
I enjoyed Mass Effect 2 (didn't play the first one) but didn't really understand all the hype surrounding it tbh. It seemed like an average 3rd person game to me that was good but hardly mind blowing...
Really looking forward to this one, should be a nice return for the series!
Really excited for this game. Bioware is one of the few AAA devs I absolutely adore.
Not sure when this game releases... I won't have time to play at launch but, soon as I wrap up Zelda this game is next, no question. Love me some Bioware... combat looks much better too.
Been playing a little Nioh to pass the time. I kinda like that game.
This is one of the 3 great RPGs that I'm going to play over the next couple of months, I've pre-ordered Ghost Recon Wildlands and Horizon Zero Dawn, I only play RPGs one at a time so may be a while before I play this but I'm looking forward to it.......what a great couple of gaming months I got ahead of me
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