Mass Effect Galaxy Released for iPhone

For what it is, it's good. Appreciate the work the developers put into it. Seems like they were pressed for time.

IGN has a review up. I feel like I saved 5 dollars.

http://wireless.ign.com/articles/996/996974p1.html

This game is a very simplistic shoot 'em up game, where you only control the target your character automatically shoots at. You choose the target by simply tapping on it.
The controls are, well, pretty much terrible. It is controlled by tilting the iPhone, just like every other bloody iPhone game. I would prefer a d-pad just like in wolfenstein.
The game itself said that it recalibrates the accelometer every time you load up the game (or was it each battle? I forgot already), so most of the time I never really knew where the center was.
The game has a more "cartoony" and stylized art direction which I consider a plus.
There are also dialogs you saw in Mass Effect, with having multiple choices to answer.

Well, the only bad thing I found about this game are the controls. Which are bad.

cell phones still have a bit of evolving to do....

I put in about 15min with the game over lunch today, and here's what I have:

1. Mass Effect: The Loading Screen
I find I spend about half the time in the game staring at a loading screen. Combat occurs on a room-by-room basis, with most rooms having 3-5 bad guys. Clearing a room is pretty quick, and then it's on to a loading screen!

2. Framerate pain
Whenever the action gets too frantic, the game slows to a crawl. I've died a few times because I didn't know I had lost all of my health. I'm wondering why the game has such problems as I've played what seem like more visually complex games on the phone before without problems.

3. Choices that aren't choices
In conversation, I'm given choices but it doesn't feel like those choices matter for anything yet. I might as well go with the default in every conversation branch.

4. I want this as a cartoon
There's key story bits in this game, but it feels like I'm wading through awkward combat sequences, and stilted conversations to get to it. The cartoon cutscenes are fun and interesting. I'd like the story of this game done in a 30min cartoon.

Again, just my initial thoughts. I'm not discarding the game yet, I'm just not sure about its lasting appeal.

Are there significant story elements that tie into ME2?

I don't care about the game but I have a boner for the ME universe.

Any initial impressions? Guess I'm just going to download soon anyways.

Is like the other EA games where it runs out of memory every two seconds.

Horribly horribly BAD

Ok, someone should man up and buy this and tell us how it is! I would uhh...but...

woohoo this looks interesting

i really wanted to play this even though i really don't want an iphone or itouch but now that i see the screens, it's ok. it doesnt look good anyways

Now I need a Touch. Or to steal my brother-in-law's for awhile.

As long as it loads quicker than SimCity I'll be happy.