I’ll keep it short.

Positives: Combat is excellent, the versatility and freedom of movement and abilities there is wonderful. The premise of finding new homes is very compelling and makes exploration feel genuine and meaningful. Exploring on the rover is fun, locations look really interesting, and the aesthetic/design direction is awesome. A return to multiplayer is also great.

Negatives: Multiplayer objectives seem exactly the same as ME3’s multiplayer. Would be more interesting if the whole game was Co op compatible. May break immersion, but would break up some of the monotony of the multiplayer. Obviously, the facial and character animations were laughably bad. EA/Bioware should be embarassed to have launched the game in this Alpha state. Same with severe performance drops (ps4 pro), constant texture pop-in, (even switching cameras in a conversational scene on the ship would cause character model textures to pop-in) and lack of clarity on responses. The indicator of intent is nice, but sometimes selections aren’t AT ALL what I wanted my character to say. Breaks immersion. Some interfaces, like weapon crafting are also terrible. I see the team wanted to do something different and unique, but it’s a mess. Spending too much time looking back and forth between menus, and deciphering it.

The game simply isn’t done, and I suspect it’ll take some time before it is done. But the core exploration and combat are exceptional.