At the Consumer Electronic Show 2017 (CES 2017), a new gameplay trailer for Bioware's Mass Effect: Andromeda was released. Check it out below.
It looks like the Normandy..er Tempest and her crew will once again be facing robotic adversaries based on the released video. Are they somehow connected to the Geth and/or Reapers? Or is this a new sentient species? There's also the possibility that these are just normal robots left to defend the mysterious planet shown below.
With only two months left to go, there's certainly a lot of mystery and methodical build-up to Andromeda's launch. Are studios now fearful of rasing gamer expectations TOO high and repeating the No Man's Sky debacle?
ABOUT MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA
Mass Effect: Andromeda is the fourth installment in the Mass Effect franchise and is chronologically set 600 years after the events of the original Mass Effect trilogy, though the story is heavily influenced by the events of Mass Effect 2. With Commander Shepard discovery of the Reapers and the threat of galactic extinction, humanity and a core group of various Alliance species launched a space ship into the farthest reaches of space in order to escape the clutches of the synthetic annihilation machines. Gamers will play as either Sara or Scott Ryder, the children of N7 operative, Alec Ryder, who was given the special title Pathfinder by the Alliance.
Bioware first announced Andromeda in November 2012 on twitter by a Bioware exec before being formally confirmed by the developer at E3 2014. It will be released on March 21, 2017.
Instead of a straight narrative, Andromeda will mark the first time in the series that an open-world setting has been released.
As with the last installment, a multiplayer component will also play a key role in how the story unfolds.