It appears that Bioware’s new open-world action RPG, Anthem, will not be released this year. According to Kotaku, the game has been delayed and is now planned for an early 2019 release. Moreover, and as Kotaku’s sources claimed, the Fall 2018 release window that EA revealed at E3 2017 was never realistic.
Anthem is powered by the Frostbite 3 Engine and will allow players to team up with friends as Freelancers — the bold few with the courage to leave civilization behind and explore a landscape of primeval beauty.
Players will be able to wield an arsenal of Javelin exosuits, each equipped with unique weapons and abilities. Players can band together with friends, confront the dangers you find, and grow in power with every step.
It’s also worth pointing out that the game will not be using EA’s dynamic difficulty adjustment according to BioWare’s creative director, Brenon Holmes.
Electronic Arts and Bioware have not commented yet on Kotaku’s story!
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This looked pretty cool graphically but it was lame wrt gameplay. I hope they take the extra time to focus on that.
I seriously doubt anything will change for the better. The only thing that’ll change is visual fidelity – it will definitely take a hit. No worries though as this was shaping up to be quite a shallow venture from the get-go.
Yup, shallow sums it up. They gave the ingame characters abilities that look cool upon first viewing but if you think about it they’re just “OP”. No good gameplay will come from being able to fly freely, that’s why we’ve never had a good Superman or Iron Man game. You’d need enemies that can keep up with you and we know EA is not in the business of creating challenging enemies with respectable AI. It’ll play like Destiny or worse.
Guys forget it or about destiny 2
Try warframe its free and its free to play model is actually one of the best out there
Bit grindy, though, but yeah, solid fun regardless.
Called it, they have to figure out how to remove and subsequently rework the loot box-based progression system (read: pay-to-win) in order to avert another scandal.
I am with you man, I agree this must be the reason 🙁 It really makes me p|ssed off that they potentially ruined what could of been an epic game(I loved the E3 video personally looked rad).
I really think EA needs to just be removed from the gaming scene and all their IPs be sold off to good companies.
They delayed it to add lootboxes.
Its gonna have loot boxes, I dont care
I always wanted to play a game where I can fly as a person, BUT WHAT THE HELL SUCH GAME HAVE TO BEADE BY EA?
EA : so the game is ready …. now .. we need to figure out how f*ck it up with microtransaction and loot boxes .
that’s part of it of course. but it was clear at e3 that this could take a while.
yes
you don’t count as “anyone”, corporations aren’t people.
I’m good with a delay, which is all for a better game in the end.
This is be a Destiny & Warframe killer!
RIP Bioware
Surprise! i tried to tell people this would be a 2019 game when it was announced at e3 last year.
That stupid title though. Bioware was destroyed during production on Mass Effect 1 or 2. Anyone who still takes that name seriously after ME3 or Dragon Age Inquisition is the reason EA does well.