So far i'm pretty impressed with the game. Stupid plot aside though i've got a number of annoyances that limit it to no more than an 8/10 score.
Many of the "side quests" seem to spawn by walking near someone, then head to your ship, buy the item, walk back, and gain money. This is shit game design. plain and simple.
Te planetary exploration is also complete crap. Either of the previous methods were a little tedious, but again a shitload more interesting than "press scan twice in space, run from reapers, fly back, click "get loot" button on planet. again. terrible design.
Final gripe: The camera is waaaaay too close. WHY U NO ZOOM OUT???
Other than these, the game is epic. each set piece, battle, and level seems to be well thought out, much longer than the disaster of 2's tinylevels and gives me at least a great feeling as regularly reported of being in a life and death struggle etc blah blah.
Though at this stage, i've still only got 3 squadmates to play with though which is a little disappointing (i've done every side quest i can and am at around 50% war progress so far), and several of the ones i hear people talking about are dead. Admittedly As an infiltrator, Edi and James are all you need but meh.
Some of the quest chains, such as the Quarian Fleet / leigon / AI bits are absolutely stunning - it would be a shame to miss out on them.
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