Bioware’s Tyler Steinbring and Emily Taylor have shared some new screenshots for Anthem. These new screenshots showcase some of the enemies that players will face in this new online multiplayer title, as well as some new locations.
In Anthem, up to four players explore and battle in a dangerous, mysterious place populated by great characters and a unique BioWare story. Players will also create stories of their own while they play, so no two journeys are the same. Javelin exosuits make their pilots powerful heroes in the world, with awesome weapons and incredible special abilities that allow for combat and exploration in a hostile environment. Players will be able to customize and personalize their suits with unique paint jobs and gear so they’ll have the right tools to confront almost any situation, and look good doing it.
The game is powered by the Frostbite Engine and a demo will be released on February 1st. However, this ‘VIP Demo” will only be available to those who have pre-ordered the game or EA Access members, and will be a real representation of the final game. Moreover, the game will not allow trading between players when it launches, something that really frustrated me in Destiny. Of course this shouldn’t surprise us as, from what we’ve seen so far, this will be EA’s Destiny game.
Anthem will release on February 22nd and Bioware has not announced any plans for supporting NVIDIA’s DLSS or any real-time ray tracing effects.
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I hope this game flops so ea can finally put the gun to the back of the head of bioware.
Haha, why the hell did I thumb this up? BioWare produced my favorite gaming franchise Mass Effect 1,2 & 3. But if are right it’s time to put them down. Cause the BioWare that created that masterpiece Mass Effect 2 is long dead and gone. R.I.P. It’s all about that Games As A Service For EA. Everything has to be Always-Online MP.
Looks downgraded?
“Slightly”
from what ? You can always take screenshots that look worse than others in games like this.
I’m pretty sure on release you can go and take screenshots that look like the first trailer. I’m not saying it isn’t downgraded, but still.
This is not the final visual.
Looks nothing like what was “revealed”… Anyway, who cares? What we all want to know is if we’ll be able to pick one of the 84 genders ( hopefully updated weekly to follow the trends ) and mix and match them to onlivion…
The only Anthem the devs may bear allegiance to is the USSR one…
I like how the game is supposed to come out in February and still there is nothing about the story, the world or the “characters”. It’s always “4-player co-op experience” and “rich open world”.
This is ME:Andromeda all over again.
Day One EA products are just empty “game teaser” MTXs platform vehicles built to con people into spending spending spending in their marketplaces. Investors dont care to sell quality games anymore. They only care to sell tons and tons of Microtransactions (making 1/3 – 1/2 of their total profits) and will do everything they can to get people spending.
Their pivot to women in BFV, for example, had zero to do with being about taking up some societal cause, and more about the market analytical reports showing that women tend to spend more on Microtransactions. All about money to EA. Only money.
I’ll be skipping on this and making sure to constantly let others know they are not alone if they share my views about these AAA Microtransaction scams.
Not on Steam, don’t care.
I honestly don’t understand to whom these Destiny type games are catered to.
Empty soul-less worlds with “player created content” and the same instance based dungeon farming.
‘VIP Demo” That makes no sense. Demos are for people who are on the fence about a game so they can try it BEFORE they buy it. I guess EA doesn’t have that much faith in their product.
Off Topic
It now seems that Fallout 76 will achieve worst game of 2018 as most reviews of the game, even from the mainstream journos, are just universally panning the title.
It’s so bad that a lot of players are attempting to get a refund and in some cases some have managed to (physical copy owners mostly) by directly contacting Bethesda. Digital owners though are not entitled to a refund because of Bethesda’s no return policy on digital purchases…which in some countries like Australia is a prohibited policy.
A law firm is currently investigating a potential class action lawsuit against Bethesda for denying gamers refunds and deceptive trade practices.
ZeniMax will probably settle out of court if it comes down to it.
But it’s another wake up call to Publishers.
I would like it to be a wake up call to the gamers, and Bethesda fans in general first and foremost.
What Bethesda’s top brass is trying to pull off here is no short of blatantly lying to their customers face and waiting to see if they can get away with it.
Remember this goes to corporate daddy Zenimax now, and they make billions in mobile too, not just AAA titles. This is now a $100,000,000,000+ industry and Zen is a GIANT participating in the same Microtransaction scam models all AAA are doing and all are protected by armies of lawyers. Microtransactions have indeed been that effective in massively boosting profits and as such that is ALL they sell now where the games just act as “game teaser” delivery services.
Until consumers start boycotting them, nothing will change, which I have been doing with a few AAA companies for the last few years.
If they settle, it’ll be a slap on the wrist and a drop in the bucket for them relative to the money they all have. Sadly, the one with the fatter stacks will win and with Microtransactions, those stacks have increased exponentially.
I don’t want to be pessimistic, but I highly doubt the focus will be on a rich storyline or engaging characters. Pretty sure the focus will be on pew-pew and looting in a large, empty world. Another “game” that exploits the obsessive-compulsive desire for hoarders to get rewarded with loot. That’s the easier path. But, whatever. If it’s what gamers want, I hope Bioware makes bank on it.
Bloody Christ, what kind of compression did they apply to these screenshots???
Generic, nope, sorry, it was an insult to the word generic.
*yawn* How excit…… exci….. exc………ZzzzZzzzz……….
It looks so boring and uninspired.
The only fans Bioware has left are wondering if they can romance the two alien species shown. When the degenerates can’t they will go back to playing DA:I, ME:A because they find Bioware titles before that problematic. This is just the newest RPG maker to be destroyed by EA as they have milked all previous franchises dry and moved the company to online only, just like they did with Origin. All talent has left the building and what you have now is cheap labor, often with no real resume who is in the industry for political reasons and who often doesn’t even like gaming or gamers. This will be the last Triple A Bioware game. You can take that to the bank.
Wow 3 whole screenshots
I was just thinking this. Hahaha! Marketing teams act like we should be impressed.
Nope. Still continuing my EA Boycott that I began after getting utterly conned by Star Wars Battlefront 1. Investors don’t care about making quality games any more. These are just empty “game teaser” marketplace platforms built to present the real products of which they care more about: overpriced DLC and Microtransactions.
EA scams have been going on since after Battlefield 4 and we have been giving them waaaay too many chances all gen. When EA makes fair, flat priced, polished games packed with tons of high quality content available on DAY ONE, sell big expansions, and 100% stop selling price gouged assets (aka microtransactions) altogether – you know actually make a high quality game like the many other AAA studios have been able to pull off this gen while making tons of profit – then I’ll consider a look.
Right now, not going to touch their price gouged scams.