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27th May 2008, 07:57	#1
Tim S Pewlius Caesar bit-tech Staff Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Ascot, Berks Posts: 18,021	Mass Effect PC http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2008/...ss-effect-pc/1 Mass Effect has finally landed on the PC, where it arguably should have been all along. Draconian copy protection has made the release of the game controversial, but all that matters right now is whether the game is up to scratch - let's take a look... __________________ Tim on Twitter \| Tim's Blog \| Tim's Flickr The bit-tech Blog \| bit-tech on Twitter \| Join the bit-tech & Custom PC folding team (#35947)

27th May 2008, 08:25	#2
Cadillac Ferd Multimodder Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Maaaaryland, USA Posts: 219	I love me some BioWare, and I'm very glad to see that porting Mass Effect (and that whole EA business) didn't affect the quality of what was clearly one of the best RPG's of the past year.

27th May 2008, 08:44	#3
johnnyboy700 Hypermodder Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 784	Yep, I'll give this one a shot now its made it to the PC.

27th May 2008, 09:30	#4
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27th May 2008, 10:42	#5
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27th May 2008, 10:53	#6
CardJoe Player Character bit-tech Staff Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 7,945	It does have some protection on it - the same as BioShock, I've been lead to believe. Whether that will be affected by 120% or not I don't know. __________________ this is joe's non-bit-tech blog

27th May 2008, 12:03	#7
Mentai Supermodder Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New Zealand Posts: 492	I've got this on preorder, but it comes out a within a week of my exams. Urg!

27th May 2008, 12:08	#8
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27th May 2008, 12:12	#9
CardJoe Player Character bit-tech Staff Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 7,945	I'm just gutted because I've promised myself I'm going to finish The Longest Journey and Dreamfall before tackling this in my own time. The first game alone is 50+ hours long! __________________ this is joe's non-bit-tech blog

27th May 2008, 12:24	#10
bahgger Supermodder Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 584	Why do Bit-Tech get it a whole week and a bit before it arrives in the UK?!?! YOU GODDAMN TEASES

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does this game use any annoying CD protection (securerom) ...

The game comes infected with SecuROM.

You are supposed to activate the game online on installation and everytime a patch is applied. Also, you are limited to three installations. After those have been used, you need to call EA and beg for extra installations.

A game to avoid.

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My thoughts exactly... I got my hopes up for a second there!

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A game to avoid.

A game to avoid because of a minor annoyance such as securom? It seems a bit silly to deny yourself something you may have been looking forward to because of copy protection. OK so securom is a bit irritating but it hardly affects your experience of the game unless you are a pirate, in which case i have no sympathy anyway.

Personally i cant wait to buy the game, been looking forward to this one for a while. I had to play through KOTOR I & II just to hold off for a little while!

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27th May 2008, 13:08

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A game to avoid because of a minor annoyance such as securom?

Absolutely. Ludic software with limited installations is to be avoided.
Spore is out of my list also.

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OK so securom is a bit irritating but it hardly affects your experience of the game...

My game experience would be affected in July/August, after the upgrade.
You see, I dual-boot XP-32 and Vista-64, buying "Mass Infect" in June and installing it in both my OS, I already expended two out of the three allowed installations.
Then, I upgrade in July/August, re-install the OS and am unable to install the game in both OS without having to place an international call to EA and beg for a fourth installation. If EA allows a fourth installation...

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... but it hardly affects your experience of the game unless you are a pirate, in which case i have no sympathy anyway.

I also have no sympathy for pirates or P2P freeloaders.

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Personally i cant wait to buy the game, been looking forward to this one for a while.

So was I.

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A game to avoid because of a minor annoyance such as securom? It seems a bit silly to deny yourself something you may have been looking forward to because of copy protection. OK so securom is a bit irritating but it hardly affects your experience of the game unless you are a pirate, in which case i have no sympathy anyway.

Personally i cant wait to buy the game, been looking forward to this one for a while. I had to play through KOTOR I & II just to hold off for a little while!

Your right as a pirate its much easier to enjoy the game.

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27th May 2008, 13:15	#18
crompers Dremedial Join Date: May 2008 Location: Leeds, UK Posts: 1,224	Well I must say I can see you point of view there, but at the same time im sure you'd accept that your situation is probably not representative of most people who will buy the game. Copy protection is certainly something that needs to be looked at in PC gaming but i have to say that i find most are very dramatic when describing it. When Bioshock came out everyone threw their hands in the air and proclaimed that PC gamers where a dying breed etc and then promptly went out, bought the game and after 2K ironed out a couple of issues within the first few days of release, thoroughly enjoyed it. __________________ \| Q6600 G0 @ 3.21ghz \| ACF7P \| GA-P31-DS3L \| 4GB HyperX 857mhz \| XFX GTX280 655/1210 \| WD 160GB \| Maxtor 250GB \| Black Gigabyte Aurora \| OCZ GameXStream 700W \| HP LP2475w \| AE Aego M 2.1 \| Roccat Kone \| Saitek Eclipse \| Steam: psycrompton PSN: crompers85

27th May 2008, 13:20	#19
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