Will BioWare finally announce the release date of "Mass Effect 4" at E3 2015?
While the gaming studio has yet to make the official announcement, Video Gamer reported that the game will most likely hit shelves before the end of March 2016.
The website noted that there has been a report from Pachter about the upcoming games for 2015-2016 saying,
"FY:16 is expected to feature incremental releases Mass Effect 4, Mirror's Edge 2, a new Need For Speed game, and Star Wars: Battlefront, as well as meaningful re-orders for Battlefield Hardline, which launched in late Q4:15."
In line with the release date news, DSOGaming reported that new information about the game's plot setting has been revealed via online survey.
According to the publication "Mass Effect 4" will be based in Helius Cluster, without Commande Shepard and his team.
"The next Mass Effect game takes place in the Helius Cluster (a cluster of 100s of solar systems in the Andromeda Galaxy), far removed by time and space from Commander Shepard's heroic acts and the final events of the Mass Effect trilogy," the leaked details said.
"You are a pathfinder, a combat trained but un-tested explorer leading an expedition into the Helius cluster to establish a new home for humanity. As you explore this sprawling series of solar systems (over 4x the size of Mass Effect 3), collecting resources and building colonies, you will encounter the savagery of untamed lands in the form of cut-throat outlaws and warring alien races. To survive and colonize the wild reaches of space, you will need to grow your arsenal, your ship, your crew and make strategic (and often uneasy) alliances to fight against increasingly menacing foes. Along the way, you will encounter the remains of a once powerful and mysterious alien race, the Remnant, whose forgotten technology holds the key to gaining power in this region of the galaxy. As you uncover who the Remnant were, and the mysteries their ruins contain, you are drawn into a violent race to find the source of their forgotten technology that will determine the fate of humanity."
As previosly reported, there has been an ongoing rumor claiming that the great Commander will no longer be included in "Mass Effect 4," following statement from lead writer Mac Walters.
"Well, I can't get into details, but the idea is that we have agreed to tell a story that doesn't relate necessarily to any of the Shepard events at all, whatsoever," he revealed to IGN.
"That's what we've been deciding for a while. But throughout it all, one of the key things is that it has to be 'Mass Effect.' It can't just feel like a spin-off. It has to feel like a 'Mass Effect' game at its heart, at its core. Just without the Shepard character or the Shepard specific companions."
Could the new information confirm Walters' statement? The remains to be seen until "Mass Effect 4" release date.
Together with the new plot details, the upcoming game is reportedly going to take advantage of the new gaming consoles' online capability to feature a multiplayer campaign.
"If anyone is concerned that online will take away from single player, I assure you that SP will be MASSIVE in the next Mass Effect," Wynn tweeted.
Things are getting real now and I need an excellent Producer to come shape online for the next Mass Effect - https://t.co/L4G3OBAn87 - Chris Wynn (@The1Wynn) February 11, 2015
