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Mass Effect: Andromeda Latest News
A new trailer has arrived for Mass Effect: Andromeda, featuring the best look yet at the game's combat. It's a good rundown of the different types of weapons and what's most effective in each given situation. Check it out below:
Mass Effect: Andromeda Release Date
Mass Effect: Andromedawill arrive on March 21, 2017. The game is coming to XBO, PS4, and PC. EA and Origin Access subscribers will have a limited 10-hour trial of the game before it officially launches. The trial will be available on March 16.
BioWare general manager Aaryn Flynn confirmed on Twitter that Mass Effect: Andromeda will not have a season pass. For those who aren't familiar with what a season pass is, it's basically a one-purchase package that unlocks all downloadable content/add-ons for a particular game as the new content rolls out. Another EA game to forego a season pass was Titanfall 2. When asked about what DLC BioWare would offer for Mass Effect, Flynn simply answered that the company would talk about that at a later date.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda Trailer
While we're mere weeks away from experiencing Mass Effect: Andromeda, BioWare has decided to stoke the hype fires just a bit more by releasing two new trailers for the game.
The first is a cinematic preview that gives us a brief overview of the game's plot, characters, and one-liners in as stylish a manner as possible:
The second trailer serves as a surprisingly informative look at the Andromeda Initiative and the men and women who make up the intrepid group known as the Pathfinder Team.
During the company's CES presentation, Nvidia showed off a Mass Effect: Andromeda trailer that featured another look at the game's combat as well as a new environment full of mechanized villains. The trailer also featured a look at the branching skill trees.
Take a look below:
If this Mass Effect: Andromeda trailer is to be believed, this is going to be one huge sequel. Also, there are scenes featuring wrist-mounted flamethrowers. Either one is reason enough to be excited.
Another trailer debuted during N7 Day that gave us a few new story details about Mass Effect: Andromeda. The game teases a 600-year voyage to the edges of the Andromeda galaxy on four giant arks. "It's a one way trip," says the narrator of the orientation video. Each ark is led by a Pathfinder, who is a "a blend of elite soldier, scientist, and guide." These arks are headed towards "the Golden Worlds" located in Andromeda's Helios Cluster.
Ryder, the main protagonist of the game, is one of these Pathfinders leading these pilgrims on the journey to find a new home for humanity. Check out the orientation trailer below:
The cinematic trailer for Mass Effect: Andromeda has arrived. We get our first look at the new crew, which includes a new Asari character and there's also a quick glimpse at a Salarian. The new villain also debuted in the trailer. It's unclear if he's the character doing the narration in the trailer, but his physique isn't unlike Saren's from the first Mass Effect.
While it's been a long time since the Normandy was around, it does look like the game will feature a new ship. Also, featured in the trailer are giant mechanized monstrosities that I hope aren't Reapers.
Check out the trailer below:
BioWare dropped another trailer ahead of N7 Day (Nov. 7), which is when we'll learn a lot more about Mass Effect: Andromeda. This trailer hints at the new game's story, as space pioneers board ships to another galaxy. Check out the trailer below:
EA debuted Mass Effect: Andromeda's first gameplay trailer during a tech demo at the PlayStation 4 Pro unveiling in New York City. The trailer gives us our first real glimpse at gameplay, running in 4K, as well as introduces to Ryder, the game's protagonist. We also get a look at an alien species called the Remnant.
Check out the trailer below:
It was also revealed that the two characters you can play as are brother and sister. Said BioWare creative director Mac Walters during the demo: "We're seeing our male character, at E3 we got to see our female character. A little surprise here: These two are actually brother and sister. They both exist in the game world at the same time. If you're playing as the female Ryder, your brother is out there somewhere in the universe.”
We've also met their father, according to Walters: "The character we saw two E3s ago, the N7, is actually your father. So we have got the full Ryder family revealed. We'll do names and things in the future."
The future isn't too far off.
BioWare creative director Mac Walters revealed on Twitter that the main character's name is Ryder and can be played as either male or female.
Bioware and EA provided Mass Effect fans a deeper look at the world of Andromeda via this E3 2016 trailer showcasing the upcoming title's cinematic side:
And here's the trailer released at E3 2015:
The game's adventure will be unrelated to everything you've played thus far with Commander Shepard, the first trilogy's hero, and takes place in another galaxy. Fittingly, a trailer was released on N7 Day 2015 and it's all about Shepard saying goodbye.
Check out the trailer here:
"You are the explorer now," Jennifer Hale, the voice of female Shepard, says in the trailer. And she follows it up by signing off, effectively ending Shepard's era of space adventures and opening up the next adventure to the players.
"We are travelers, constantly moving forward, and looking back. Alone and as one," she says. "We have no choice but to try for our insatiable curiosity, for our fear in what should happen if we don't. You are the explorer now. We will say goodbye, and you will look back one last time, and know that wherever you go, we will be with you. This is Commander Shepard, signing off."
Nice words from Shepard. Long live the Spectre!