The new Mass Effect looks beautifully weird, and they should never fix it

Reviews for the new Mass Effect game are set to come out on Tuesday, but many copies of it are already out, and there is a consensus forming about the game, which is that it looks weird as hell. Our own Matt Gerardi called it “stilted as all get out,” which is putting it kindly: The faces look like thick leather masks pulled taut over some sort of mechanical contraption, their mouths moving as if powered by a Rube Goldberg machine being pedaled far off screen. Games always toy with the uncanny valley, but they generally get better, year over year. We do not expect to have to look at faces like… this.
Good lord, how does a smile like that ever come into being? What hath man wrought? Nathan Ranney has collected a lot of the game’s gloriously bizarre moments, such as this, um, “walk”:
Look at these damn mouths: