Not a fan of the series typically, but I saw it had a lot of praise. Still not a fan of the series. There's just a lot of meaningless stuff for you to do everywhere. The improvements that all the little itty bitty tasks give don't feel proportional to the increase in power or progression in story that they should. Writing was fine to good, from what I played. Very fleshed out world. Starting from here in the series was a little confusing, but they did an ok job at letting me know what was going on. To summarize, it was made by EA, so....