ANTHEM has passed a significant development milestone, BioWare has revealed. Over on the official blog, GM Casey Hudson confirms that the game is fully playable in its alpha form. "Last week, the Anthem team passed its Alpha milestone – meaning that every part of the game is in, and functioning," he writes.
ANTHEM is still scheduled to release on the 22nd February next year, so the next five months or so will be spent polishing the game.
"It’s a ton of fun to play, and full of engaging character moments and storylines. But it’s also exciting to see people around the office (and at our partner studios) grouping together for adventures in this new world we’ve created. BioWare games have always been about capturing a shared experience – whether through a party of fictional characters or other players – and somehow the idea of players being immersed together in the universe of Anthem makes the setting seem even more real," Hudson continues.
It sounds like things are progressing smoothly over at BioWare then, but how's your ANTHEM hype holding up? Rocket jump and glide down into the comments section below.
[source blog.bioware.com]
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If Anthem play like Destiny then no thank. Destiny game suck
I just can't help thinking of this when Anthem is mentioned
I’m not excited about Anthem at all. I want it to surprise me, but so far everything I’ve seen is meh.
I'm very much looking forward to Anthem. It has the potential to be very good. Plus, the visuals are gorgeous and Bioware already confirmed that there's no loot boxes. You'll know what you'll pay for, every MTX is going to be cosmetic and everything can also be earned in game. All levels and such are going to be free, except maybe some new much suits sometimes down the line. Sounds good to me.
With RE2 and KH3 coming out at the end of January this game isn't even on my radar. I can only buy one mediocre MMO shooter every couple of years
The more I actually see of this game, the more I don't like Hudson...his words are just a mouthful of garbage! Either he's full-EA puppet now, or he's learned nothing from Mass Effect 3.
I think it's pretty obvious what this game will be (Destiny with a tedious 2-choice conversation system), which isn't bad...but it's annoying to hear this constant PR that tries to trick people into thinking this game will be ANYTHING like what we expect and want from a Bioware game. Boooo!
Anthem another liveserviceeee game wont be buying that game. 😁
Im not a fan of EA's ethics but i really hope that Bioware pull this off. Staying optimistic.
Count me as one of the few looking forward to this.
Every time I see Bioware connected with Anthem my hopes dim. There are so many games out there to play and I can't see myself giving this any of my time after what they did with Mass Effect.
I'm actually pretty excited for this game. Gameplay looks great and I feel like Mass Effect Andramada was just one misstep. I'm not sure if I'll pick this up on PS4 or wait until I build my gaming PC late next year to play it, but regardless I'm excited!
I think this game looks amazing. My main question is if it will have a strong single player campaign that doesn't require going online. Has this been confirmed?
So glad you took a dump on Mass Effect for this bland looking destiny clone
@Reverend_Skeeve Isnt it sad thats a good thing nowadays. 😔
@sketchturner Always online.
@Flaming_Kaiser So if I don't have PS+ I can't play? Yuck, no thanks.
How's Anthem going, Bioware?
Bioware:
Good stuff!
And here is my 2 penneys worth on this.
Not interested im happy with Destiny and Bioware need to leave EA for me to be interested in any of their games again.
I want to like this game but all im seeing makes me feel its EA and Bioware trying to get a peice of the Destiny pie that with foresaken just feels like they are getting to the table way too late.
Shame really as I regard ME1-3 as some of my all time favourite games.
So my real question on this is how long will it be before Bioware are disolved by EA or the 2 part ways ?
@Ypmud Even if they left EA, so many of the original staff have left that it really is no longer the Bioware we once knew. You'll still have the same terrible writers behind Andromeda creating their narratives (e.g. some of the lead writers on Anthem were on Andromeda), and we all know what a disappointment that was. Sucks but we should move on. I'm embracing Larian and Obsidian as we speak (fingers crossed for Owlcat too)
@Ypmud They won't part ways, the name still means something so if anything EA will disolve it just like they have with so many other studios
@Ypmud I think it might be longer than a lot of people like to think. BioWare's in a unique position in that its game (ANTHEM) is being backed heavily by EA. It's clearly a big deal for the publisher, hence the obvious budget, the marketing, etc.
The thing about ANTHEM is it may seem boring to some, but in reality it's a pretty safe bet. Unless it gets bum reviews and people start saying it isn't that great once it's released, I think it's set to be a hit.
It could even fall in line with games like Ghost Recon: Wildlands. The kind of games no one ever talks about in hardcore circles because it's considered "boring" or "uninspired", yet it's snapped up by millions. I'm not sure ANTHEM is quite Wildlands — I at least think the premise is more creative — but you know what mean.
The problem for me is that as far as I can see this game is nothing more a Destiny clone and its going to suffer the same issues as Destiny and The Division if EA are not careful and make sure content is rolled out regularly and when I say regularly i mean every 3 months minimum or they will run into the same problems as Bungie
Actually I would be happy if all the haters simply stay away from the game. So far BioWare has done an amazing job being close to the community. And I think it has very good potential to become a very good game.
It appears this game will be closer to Diablo 3 from its systems (e.g. many difficulty levels and its a looter game), paired with elements from Monster Hunter World (e.g. set out to free roaming mode to gather crafting materials, or respond to SOS signals from other players) and the general gameplay closer to ME series, but much improved upon.
So far I have barely seen anything in the game that would remind me of destiny. Just that we got a mage kind of thing in the game. Whoever thinks this game is like Destiny has absolutely no idea what he/she is talking about.
I am playing Destiny and I like Forsaken. But ANTHEM is nowhere close to what Destiny is. It is a different game, that is simply in the same kind of general genre of MMO-lite/looter-shooter. Its like saying Warframe is a Destiny clone (Warframe is older than Destiny), or even The Division being a Destiny clone. Although I do think that ANTHEM might share similarities with Warframe. But it shares almost no similarity with Destiny other than the general stuff the genre always has, sorry.
I am very excited for anthem.
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