l am not going to make this review about the game itself. Clearly there have been people that have been disappointed by the new game (me not being one of them), but this is an art book for the Mass Effect Andromeda game, not the Mass Effect Andromeda game itself. So the games success is completely irrelevant to me when it comes to taking about the overall quality of the art design team and this art book. What I do care about when it comes to art design and video game art books is the quality of the art from the game and on this level, Bioware has yet to disappoint me to date and this book continues that streak.
One of my favorite aspects to these kinds of books is the concept art and how you see characters go from concept art all the way to finished design. Its a process that I have always found highly intriguing and this book has some fantastic concept art. I also love that most of these books contain never before seen artwork for the game. If these books were just nothing but the artwork we have all already seen...well, there wouldn't be too much incentive to buy it, but when you add the amazing art that you have likely seen with the really fascinating concept art along with the never before seen artwork and what you get is a very modestly priced art book that will more that satisfy the Mass Effect fans of the world. Even for those that didn't like Andromeda, but still consider themselves a Mass Effect fan due to the original trilogy, there is still plenty of quality artwork in here that would make this a solid purchase.
Bottom line - these last few years have been some of the best to date in regards to video game related art books. The video game companies are putting a lot more effort into these kinds of art books then they ever have before so what you ultimately have is a video game industry that is chock full of amazing video game art books and short of a few misc titles for series I don't really care for, I have purchased most of them and this book can more than hold its own against all of the other quality video game art books that have been released the last few years running. If your a Mass Effect fan and enjoy art books, this should be a no brainer purchase. And best of all it has a very moderate price which makes purchasing it all the easier. This book will be proudly displayed on my bookshelf along with all of my other Mass Effect and other video game related art books. Just a fantastic job all the way around on this book!
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I absolutely love the art inside the book. I love the cover (front and back) as well. I enjoyed looking through the concept art seeing how certain characters and alien races developed. The commentary was also insightful.However, I'm not sure what happened during the shipping process. I bought new, and when it arrived, in a box, the plastic seal was broken and several pages have been bent and even slightly ripped in a small part of the back of the book. It's a minor issue and has nothing to do with the contents of the book.
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