BioWare Edmonton and Montreal general manager Aaryn Flynn has been playing the next Mass Effect, according to a comment on Twitter.
“Great time playing the next Mass Effect game in Montreal,” he said, showing an off-screen photo of the BioWare logo.
“Ambitious. Beautiful. Fresh but recognizable. And fun.”
The next Mass Effect game is in development at BioWare Montreal, a support team founded in 2009 now working on its first lead studio project.Although the design document is complete, we’ve heard very little about it.
We know*it won’t star Shepard, or even “Shepard 2″, and that it’ll run on*Frostbite 2, sharing some mechanics with Dragon Age: Inquisition. This reference may suggest that Mass Effect 4 is a more traditional RPG than the shooter-driven original trilogy, which would explain whyBioWare keeps referring to it as a “new thing” for the series.
We don’t know if it is a prequel or sequel, but in either case*BioWare has promised to be respectful of earlier games.
Don’t expect to hear much about the new Mass Effect until after Dragon Age: Inquisition ships in the third quarter of 2014.
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