Mass Effect Galaxy
By Electronic Arts
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Description
WHEN THE GALAXY IS IN PERIL—ONLY A BIOTIC-POWERED SUPER-SOLDIER CAN SAVE THE DAY! "The BioWare development team is proud to bring you this brand new Mass Effect adventure on a great gaming platform. We hope you enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed building it!" - Kevin Barrett, Executive Producer, BioWare
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You are Jacob Taylor, a combat power-house in this story-telling adventure, made exclusively for your iPhone® and iPod touch®! Enjoy the stunning art in this stylish animated graphic novel experience. Control Jacob’s actions with a new combat and narrative wheel interface.
ENGAGE IN A GRIPPING STORYLINE
Only you can foil a star-spanning plot to knock humanity off the galactic stage. Alien terrorists are preparing to unleash a devastating biological assault. You must stop them!
UNLEASH A TORRENT OF FIREPOWER
Armed with the latest weaponry, technical countermeasures and awesome biotic energy, you will defeat heaps of enemies in your quest to maintain the delicate balance of power amongst a host of alien species.
GET COOL INSIDER INFORMATION
Two of the main characters in Mass Effect Galaxy will also appear in the upcoming Mass Effect 2 game for PC and Xbox 360. Discover their backgrounds and get a deeper insight into their motivations in the Mass Effect universe.
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What's New in Version 1.1
-Increased Stability
Customer Reviews
My Review (so far)
Well I'm only part-way through the game but I thought I'd take a break and share my thoughts.
First of all, the game is incredibly professional. The cutscenes are absolutely amazing and the story so far reads like your traditional Bioware epic (a good thing). The music is also very good, featuring both songs from me1 and new music as well. There's also some very good voice-acting, though it's only for the cutscenes and a few lines here and there. The whole game looks great, from the dialogue screen to the characters to the effects during combat. The combat itself manages to be fast-paced, strategic, and satisfying.
That's not to say it's perfect. The framerate drops dramatically when more than two enemies are shooting at you, and the accelerometer controls feel clunky and unresponsive at times, particularly at the start of each fight and during the afformentioned framerate drops. The two problems are illustrated best during the first boss fight, which would probably be impossible if it weren't for the fact that Jacob shoots on his own. The game is also very big, and took a pretty long time to download. I made sure to restart my phone before playing.
Overall though, the game is a great deal at only 5 bucks(!), and feels like it could last awhile.
The included high-quality trailer for me2 is nice too.
Tough To Recommend
Not at all like Mass Effect proper, tho you'd be a fool to expect that in the first place. Little skill or strategy is involved at all. A cursor auto-targets all enemies, and you walk your character around the environment from a top-down perspective with the accelerometer. Dead zone is way too big. The dialogue system is inconsequential, as well. I would only recommend this to die-hard Mass Effect fans. The license is the only appealing part of the game, and it means nothing to newcomers.
Great story, but...
They just should have skipped the action sequences. Just because the iPhone has an accelorometer, does not mean you should use it for games like this.
I love the Mass Effect story so much, that i'm forcing myself through. A tap to move, or even turn based would have made this my favorite game. I feel like i'm playing the old fashioned game where you move the ball around a maze, trying to avoid the holes (like Labyrinth). Pitiful.
- $1.99
- Category: Games
- Updated: Jul 03, 2009
- Current Version: 1.1
- 1.1 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 127 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Electronic Arts
- © 2009 EA International (Studio and Publishing) Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.
