Forget Dragon Age and Mass Effect 5 for a minute, this Anthem dev would “love” another shot at BioWare’s doomed co-op game

Dragon Age: The Veilguard et, dans une moindre mesure, Mass Effect 5 might be front and centre in everyone’s minds right now, but Anthem’s lead producer would “love” to return to the studio’s failed live service game.

In hindsight, Anthem’s doomed release should have been obvious to everyone involved. Quelques Bioware fans were already trepidatious about the storied RPG studio pivoting into live service, co-op focused, looter shooter territory with a game that had way more in common with Destiny than Mass Effect. Reports of a troubled development raised more eyebrows. Et alors, bien sûr, the game itself launched with long load times, technical troubles, and divisive combat involving you and other exosuited Iron Man-y friends saving a lush alien planet.

Whatever crowd the game attracted on release day didn’t last too long, prompting the studio to go back to the drawing board with a massive update, re-release thingy tentatively called Anthem Next, qui publisher EA eventually shot down so BioWare could make safer hits with sequels to Dragon Age and Mass Effect.

Alors, yes. Anthem is in the rear view mirror for the studio that’s continuing to work on the same two series it created two console generations ago. But that doesn’t mean Anthem’s been completely forgotten, non plus.

Ben Irving, who worked as the co-op shooter’s lead producer and has since left to join Tomb Raider stewards Crystal Dynamics, récemment tweeté that he’d “love to reboot Anthem one day” in response to an online fan who was still blasting alien mechs in the game. “It’s amazing how many people are still so enthusiastic about Anthem so many years later,” he later mentionné. “Anthem still has all the potential in the world…”

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