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UK Mall 1 - Mass Effect (PC DVD)
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List Price: £34.99
Our Price: £9.68
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Electronic Arts
EAN: 5030930065683
Platform: Windows XP
Release Date: 2008-06-06
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent game, DRM or not....
Comment: I found Mass Effect to be an excellent game, and it is one of the rare few that actually makes my completion list (BioWare now being the only company to have two completely separate games on that list), due to sheer enthralling storytelling.
The characters are interesting, the gameplay fun, the story well told, and all in all it's one of the best games I've ever played.
As a side note, a lot of reviews, both on Mass Effect and other EA releases have been whining incessantly about the DRM, but since it can be removed without stopping the game from running, I really don't see what all the fuss is about. Get rid of it and play the game anyway if you want to, or stop complaining about something you weren't going to play anyway.
Customer Rating:
Summary: EVIL DRM
Comment: Avoid this game unless you dont mind your pc being infected by DRM
EA can keep their DRM infected games.
In contrast there is a software publisher called Stardock (Sins of a solar empire) who have a totally different view on how customers should be treated.. here is Stardock's Gamer's Bill of Rights:
1. Gamers shall have the right to return games that don't work with their computers for a full refund.
2. Gamers shall have the right to demand that games be released in a finished state.
3. Gamers shall have the right to expect meaningful updates after a game's release.
4. Gamers shall have the right to demand that download managers and updaters not force themselves to run or be forced to load in order to play a game.
5. Gamers shall have the right to expect that the minimum requirements for a game will mean that the game will play adequately on that computer.
6. Gamers shall have the right to expect that games won't install hidden drivers or other potentially harmful software without their consent.
7. Gamers shall have the right to re-download the latest versions of the games they own at any time.
8. Gamers shall have the right to not be treated as potential criminals by developers or publishers.
9. Gamers shall have the right to demand that a single-player game not force them to be connected to the Internet every time they wish to play.
10. Gamers shall have the right that games which are installed to the hard drive shall not require a CD/DVD to remain in the drive to play.
If enough people boycott EA (with their pay per play plans) and support companies like Stardock, then our PC gaming future may be something to look forward to..
Customer Rating:
Summary: DRM, Blah, blah, blah. It's a great game!
Comment: This is a great game. If you liked KOTOR and KOTOR2 you'll like this. People moan about the DRM which is strange when you consider that Windows uses DRM.
Customer Rating:
Summary: What a disappointment, sounds good, runds terribly
Comment: When I read about this game, it sounded to be just the sort of game I enjoy the most. However EA Games and Bioware should be ashamed to have issued this game without,seeming to, have really tested and made it suitable for all platforms and the general set-up of PCs. If you read the requirements, most purchasers would be right to think that they have to either nuy a specially constructed PC for the game or build their own. Once you've got past that hurdle, if you bothered in the first place, you will find that the game regularly 'locks-up', the sounds are all un-balanced, it's difficlut sometimes to hear what characters are saying with background noises and music drowning out most conversations. This happens even if you try and asjust sound levels.
The game crashes on a regular basis and sometimes when you wnant to re-start, you get one of those strange 'windows messages', about secuirty being breached or permission not grannted or of a general protection fault.
From a critical point of view, the graphis aren't that good, the old KoToR series had cleaner looking graphics, Oblivion and Quake 4 are far superior.
Basically it could have been a classic game but fails miserably
My advice is don't buy it the are other games just as good
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great game, but don't purchase
Comment: Mass Effect is in essence a great game, with great graphics, great characters, great plot, great playability, long lasting and clever.
It is rare that a video game treats the user like a mature adult and allows him/her to make his/her own descisions regardless of consequence.
But the Securom Encryption on this game means i will never purchase it. For those not in the know, Securom modifies the core kernel(core programming if you like) of your operating system vista or XP. Meaning there is no possible way to remove it (except a complete reformat) and allowing access to god knows what to your computer. Not only is this wrong on any level the debate rages in an American court over its legality.
Only a fool would do this, and will permanently stop you running PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE programs such as Nero, Some slysoft programs and Daemon tools. All essential programs for a PC gamer.
So to sum up, this game is great, one of the best i've played and i have a catalogue of 300+ games, i would quite happily pay £40+ for this if DRM wasn't there, but if you have any sense, play this on a friends PC, on an XBOX if you want about 75% of the enjoyment of the PC game, on a PC you were going to format anyway (even then you only get 3 installs of the game), or like many people out there take the easy option and play a pirated copy of the game without the DRM.
When will EA learn.... and btw the same goes for all new EA games, Crysis, Spore, Farcry 2 and who knows what else
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent game, DRM or not....
Comment: I found Mass Effect to be an excellent game, and it is one of the rare few that actually makes my completion list (BioWare now being the only company to have two completely separate games on that list), due to sheer enthralling storytelling.
The characters are interesting, the gameplay fun, the story well told, and all in all it's one of the best games I've ever played.
As a side note, a lot of reviews, both on Mass Effect and other EA releases have been whining incessantly about the DRM, but since it can be removed without stopping the game from running, I really don't see what all the fuss is about. Get rid of it and play the game anyway if you want to, or stop complaining about something you weren't going to play anyway.
Customer Rating:
Summary: EVIL DRM
Comment: Avoid this game unless you dont mind your pc being infected by DRM
EA can keep their DRM infected games.
In contrast there is a software publisher called Stardock (Sins of a solar empire) who have a totally different view on how customers should be treated.. here is Stardock's Gamer's Bill of Rights:
1. Gamers shall have the right to return games that don't work with their computers for a full refund.
2. Gamers shall have the right to demand that games be released in a finished state.
3. Gamers shall have the right to expect meaningful updates after a game's release.
4. Gamers shall have the right to demand that download managers and updaters not force themselves to run or be forced to load in order to play a game.
5. Gamers shall have the right to expect that the minimum requirements for a game will mean that the game will play adequately on that computer.
6. Gamers shall have the right to expect that games won't install hidden drivers or other potentially harmful software without their consent.
7. Gamers shall have the right to re-download the latest versions of the games they own at any time.
8. Gamers shall have the right to not be treated as potential criminals by developers or publishers.
9. Gamers shall have the right to demand that a single-player game not force them to be connected to the Internet every time they wish to play.
10. Gamers shall have the right that games which are installed to the hard drive shall not require a CD/DVD to remain in the drive to play.
If enough people boycott EA (with their pay per play plans) and support companies like Stardock, then our PC gaming future may be something to look forward to..
Customer Rating:
Summary: DRM, Blah, blah, blah. It's a great game!
Comment: This is a great game. If you liked KOTOR and KOTOR2 you'll like this. People moan about the DRM which is strange when you consider that Windows uses DRM.
Customer Rating:
Summary: What a disappointment, sounds good, runds terribly
Comment: When I read about this game, it sounded to be just the sort of game I enjoy the most. However EA Games and Bioware should be ashamed to have issued this game without,seeming to, have really tested and made it suitable for all platforms and the general set-up of PCs. If you read the requirements, most purchasers would be right to think that they have to either nuy a specially constructed PC for the game or build their own. Once you've got past that hurdle, if you bothered in the first place, you will find that the game regularly 'locks-up', the sounds are all un-balanced, it's difficlut sometimes to hear what characters are saying with background noises and music drowning out most conversations. This happens even if you try and asjust sound levels.
The game crashes on a regular basis and sometimes when you wnant to re-start, you get one of those strange 'windows messages', about secuirty being breached or permission not grannted or of a general protection fault.
From a critical point of view, the graphis aren't that good, the old KoToR series had cleaner looking graphics, Oblivion and Quake 4 are far superior.
Basically it could have been a classic game but fails miserably
My advice is don't buy it the are other games just as good
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great game, but don't purchase
Comment: Mass Effect is in essence a great game, with great graphics, great characters, great plot, great playability, long lasting and clever.
It is rare that a video game treats the user like a mature adult and allows him/her to make his/her own descisions regardless of consequence.
But the Securom Encryption on this game means i will never purchase it. For those not in the know, Securom modifies the core kernel(core programming if you like) of your operating system vista or XP. Meaning there is no possible way to remove it (except a complete reformat) and allowing access to god knows what to your computer. Not only is this wrong on any level the debate rages in an American court over its legality.
Only a fool would do this, and will permanently stop you running PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE programs such as Nero, Some slysoft programs and Daemon tools. All essential programs for a PC gamer.
So to sum up, this game is great, one of the best i've played and i have a catalogue of 300+ games, i would quite happily pay £40+ for this if DRM wasn't there, but if you have any sense, play this on a friends PC, on an XBOX if you want about 75% of the enjoyment of the PC game, on a PC you were going to format anyway (even then you only get 3 installs of the game), or like many people out there take the easy option and play a pirated copy of the game without the DRM.
When will EA learn.... and btw the same goes for all new EA games, Crysis, Spore, Farcry 2 and who knows what else
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