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| From: Electronic Arts
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $26.48
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Rating:  193 reviews
Sales Rank: 952
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Genre: shooter_action_games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 19081
Model: 19081
UPC: 014633190816
EAN: 0014633190816
ASIN: B00140P9BA
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Fantastic game despite the DRM issue June 2, 2008
Brian Poetzel (Wisconsin United States)
33 out of 56 found this review helpful
What can I say. This is a great game. The game is beautiful, the controls are sharp and the story is great. It's a GOTY contender for me. If you liked the KOTOR (knights of the old republic) games you'll like this one too. It's just like those except it's set in it's own, new universe.
On to the DRM. You only get three installs and then you need to contact EA for further installs. Similar to what Bioshock had. That's it. What it won't do is destroy your computer like some people would have you believe.
If the 3 install limit turns you off then don't get the game. But you're missing out on a great experince. It's a 5 star game with 1 point off for the DRM.
And yes, I do own the game unlike most of the people who are giving 1 star. They're basing their reviews on anecdotal, second hand evidence and assumptions. They dislike the DRM so they're trying to slander the game to send a message to EA. In other words, they don't know anything about the game and really shouldn't be reviewing it in the first place. Don't go by them if you are thinking about a purchase.
 No Amount of Buffing Can Change a Pigs Ear June 3, 2008
M
33 out of 45 found this review helpful
I think some are rating it 5 stars solely to try to offset the many that find the DRM oppressive.
Nothing can make a game good; story, graphics, effects, etc., when you will not be able to play the game in the future due to the limitation of 3 installs and the history of EA to pull the plug on many of their games and stop supporting them.
It is true, you can not make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
Consolitus May 30, 2008
Joanne Bridges (So Lake Tahoe, CA United States)
32 out of 49 found this review helpful
Any fun this game could have had is instantly destroyed by the shaky cam, enforced third person viewpoint where one third of your viewscreen screen is constantly blocked by the main character's back. The lack of a first person perspective+getting rid of the nausea inducing wobble cam shows this game to be pure consolitus.
PC gamers don't support Bioware, they're just a cheap console gaming company nowadays, evidenced by the fact they refused to put a first person perspective OPTION into the PC port.
If Bioware release a future patch that offers a first person perspective, I'll re-edit this review, but until then I'll tell every PC gamer in sight to avoid this console port like the plague.
3 activations = complete joke May 31, 2008
J. H. Bell
32 out of 45 found this review helpful
It's ridiculous that we can only install the game three times and then have to beg EA to install again. Just say no.
Deciding to Pass on an Old Evil June 4, 2008
Sattracer Jenquia
30 out of 37 found this review helpful
In all fairness I decided to read through 5 pages of these reviews to see if I wanted to try this game. The reason for this is something that EA did long ago that left a bad taste in the mouths of THOUSANDS of gamers. EARTH AND BEYOND (Remember that EA?) was a game very similar in so much as it was space, multiplayer, etc. What EA did here was simply sell out the gaming engine to a larger company and WHAM they shut down the servers. After charging $60 a copy for this game, they ran it 2 years or so and destroyed EVERYONE'S access. I do not trust Electronic Arts but because this was a Space genre and I love them, I decided to just peek and see if things had changed. Apparently things HAVE changed, for the worse. NO, I will not install your "security" software that is being forcefed by your game. If you can't control access with game codes like 2/3 of the other gaming community companies, tough. This is another attempt by Microsoft to herd millions of gamers to console by selling a crap PC plat and then cashing in on a Xbox sale. NOT going to happen. And I stand by my original stance, I will never own another EA title... And btw, after so many pages of bad reviews, you see the 5-stars so many in succession, I would bet that EA has their PR department overloaded writing their own rebuttal reviews. Do yourself a favor, avoid EA, they deserve it.
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