by Dragon Age: The Veilguard and, to a lesser extent, Mass Effect 5 may be at the forefront of 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. Some BioWare fans were already worried that the popular RPG studio was moving into live-service, co-op-focused, looter-shooting territory with a game that had far more in common with Destiny than Mass Effect . Reports of a difficult development raised more eyebrows. And then, of course, the game itself launched with long loading times, technical glitches, and confrontational combat involving you and other exosuited Iron Man-y friends saving a lush alien planet.
Whatever crowd the game attracted on its release day didn’t last too long, prompting the studio to go back to the drawing board with a massive update, a re-release tentatively called Anthem Next , which publisher EA ultimately shot down so BioWare could make it safer. success with sequels to Dragon Age and Mass Effect.
So yes. Anthem is in the rearview mirror of the studio which continues to work on the same two series it created two console generations ago. But that also doesn’t mean Anthem has been completely forgotten.
Ben Irving, who worked as the co-op shooter’s lead producer and has since joined Tomb Raider makers Crystal Dynamics, recently tweeted that he would “love to reboot Anthem someday” in response to an online fan who continued to blow up an alien. mechs in the game. “It’s amazing how many people are still so excited about Anthem so many years later,” he later said. “Anthem still has all the potential in the world…”
In the meantime, check out our upcoming games of 2024 and beyond list to find out what’s on the horizon.
