It's not nearly as good as 2 or 3, but I would say its almost as good as the first one. The open exploration is nice and the flexible play style is definitely a plus. The story (although I'm only about 16 hours in) seems fine, but the area where I think this game fails is the characters. None of the characters are particularly deep or even likeable. It's a decent game for what it is, but by no means a worthy successor to mass effect 3