When comparing Mass Effect Andromeda vs Tekken 7, the Slant community recommends Tekken 7 for most people. In the question“What are the best PS4 (PlayStation 4) games?” Tekken 7 is ranked 38th while Mass Effect Andromeda is ranked 156th. The most important reason people chose Tekken 7 is:
In the Tekken series emphasis is put on close-range combat, allowing you to punch, kick, grapple, parry, block, counter, and even perform dramatic finishing moves on your opponent. There are almost no missiles or any other long-range attacks, so you and your opponent will always be in close proximity to each other. This makes the fights feel a lot more fun, dynamic, and personal, allowing the combat to stay exciting for a long time.
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Pros
Pro Combat is very fast paced
The combat in previous entries of Mass Effect has been based on getting behind cover and having good aim. That aspect still exists in Andromeda, but thanks to the new jump jet, things are much faster and much more fun. The jump jet allows you to vault over obstacles or make quick dashes while running, which lets you flank, charge, and generally just outmaneuver enemies in many more interesting ways.
Pro Exploration is quite fun
Nearly every planet in Andromeda is unique from the others. There's different terrain and environments to check out, new hazards to watch out for, and a plethora of missions to complete on every planet.
Pro You can change the way your character works on the fly
In Mass Effect Andromeda, the class system is incredibly open, and classes can be swapped at any time, even in the middle of combat. Essentially, you can go from being a battle-hardened front line soldier to a crafty engineer, or even to an infiltrator that's capable of invisibility. This will also swap out your abilities, which makes sure you're always prepared for the next challenge you have to face.
Pro Good Story
Pro Fun multiplayer
Mass Effect Andromeda's fast-paced combat from single-player works well with the team-based multiplayer matches, where up to four players cooperate to complete hacking or target objectives while fighting back against waves of enemies. Maps are densely packed with obstacles and winding rooms to take cover in or to take the enemy by surprise. Aggressive foes actively push back forward into player territory even on lower difficulties, keeping matches fun and intense.
Pro Dynamic and exciting gameplay
In the Tekken series emphasis is put on close-range combat, allowing you to punch, kick, grapple, parry, block, counter, and even perform dramatic finishing moves on your opponent. There are almost no missiles or any other long-range attacks, so you and your opponent will always be in close proximity to each other. This makes the fights feel a lot more fun, dynamic, and personal, allowing the combat to stay exciting for a long time.
Pro Great character customization
You can extensively modify your character's appearance, which includes changing clothes, hairstyles, accessories, and even recoloring most items. What's more, you can unlock additional customization items by playing the treasure battle mode. All of this allows you to give your favorite character a very personalized look while also giving additional incentive to play the game.
Pro Large variety of characters
Tekken 7's has a roster of 38 characters among whom there are celebrities, professional fighters, soldiers, robots, ancient demons, and even various animals. Each character has a very distinct appearance with multiple additional costumes, and even personalized fighting styles. There's enough variety you'll most likely find someone that fits your taste and playstyle.
Pro Excellent arenas
Tekken 7 has over 20 unique and beautiful stages that include urban areas, mysterious temples, and an active volcano. Each one has a very distinct color palette, ambience, and feel to them, so you won't get tired of fighting in the arenas for a very long time.
Pro Incorporates best features of previous games
Tekken 7 combines some of the best features that previous games of the franchise had, such as the ability to side-step in the 3D scene, various arena interactions where different objects can be used as weapons, fun cameos (Street Fighter's Akuma is a playable character), and highly dynamic gameplay.
Cons
Con No single-player DLC
There will not be any single-player downloadable content for Mass Effect: Andromeda. This is especially disappointing because, by the end of the game, the writers clearly intended to give more context through DLC about certain galactic races who were absent from the original story. With the news that the publisher, Electronic Arts, has put the Mass Effect franchise "on ice," the series' future looks bleak.
Con Sub-par storytelling
MEA's writing is very inconsistent throughout the game. Sometimes the dialogue is really poor, having lines like "my face is tired". Other times characters forget important information such as the length of their trip to the Andromeda Galaxy, showing surprise at things that should be obvious to them. Even though there are few great moments with moral grey areas, most of the story feels rushed, incomplete, or done by completely different teams with different visions for the game. The end result is a story that lacks immersion and isn't very memorable.
Con Poor face textures and animations
Widely mocked and ridiculed near Andromeda's release, the facial animations, eye movement and tracking, and general skin textures are still sub-par, even after patches meant to fix these issues. Characters look unnatural and downright ugly at times, with the female Ryder inspiring dozens of cringe-worthy compilations of her cinched facial expressions and comical duck-like running animations. Moving to the Frostbite engine no doubt hampered the team's efforts to create believable faces, but in a Mass Effect game, the faces especially should not have been as bad as they were.
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Con Can be difficult to learn for beginners
There's quite a lot to learn in Tekken 7, including how to use throws, parries, sidesteps, and even counters. Unfortunately, Tekken 7 has no tutorials to help you to learn any of these important mechanics. All you can do is go to practice mode, open the move list, and practice each move.
Con Irrelevant storyline
Like most fighting games, Tekken 7 is very action-centered, so the plot sometimes feels like an afterthought. It's presented through an hour and a half worth of cutscenes, which wouldn't be that bad but the developers decided to hire the world's most monotone voice actor as the narrator. Sometimes it becomes so unbearable to listen to him, you'll just want to skip the cutscenes. After a few skips you'll start doing it automatically and forget the story even exists.