Bioware’s next stab at gamer redemption was finally unveiled at a Saturday pre-E3 press conference, and it has a name: Anthem.
Unsurprisingly, details on this wholly new Bioware IP are scarce at this point, with only a brief teaser trailer shown at the EA Play press conference in Hollywood. The 53-second glimpse Bioware uploaded to YouTube features humans (or humanoids) on a jungle world preparing to defend their walled city from half-seen monsters. The narrator sounds like a finalist in a Charlize Theron-impersonation contest.
Bioware’s primary Mass Effect development team has been working on Anthem (previously code-named Dylan) for a few years, and that meant Mass Effect development duties were handed off to another Bioware studio. The most recent result of that hand-off, Mass Effect: Andromeda, launched to mixed reactions.