Anthem 2 Would Have Been "Great", Devs Were "Gutted" It Was Cancelled

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Before Lord of the Rings: Gollum, before Redfall, before Babylon's Fall, CrossfireX, and Gotham Knights, there was Anthem. When it was released back in 2019, Anthem was the biggest disaster gaming had ever seen, so full of bugs and glitches as to be virtually unplayable. Even when fans struggled through Anthem’s technical issues, they’d only arrive at an end-game that didn’t actually exist. As a result, players left Anthem for greener pastures, and EA eventually shuttered Anthem's servers.

But before EA canned Anthem for good, BioWare had an ambitious plan to revitalize the game called Anthem Next. Sadly, we'll never know exactly what BioWare had in store, but according to one former dev, it would have been "great."

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Responding to Ashley Rochelle's tweet about game devs revealing their worst-rated games, former Bioware dev Ian Saterdalen topped Aliens: Colonial Marines with Anthem. "I learned a lot on this project," he wrote. "We knew it wasn't ready, as this game was literally created in 15 months. Which is unheard of for a game that scope. Anthem 2 would have been great!"

Anthem 2 here likely refers to the canceled Anthem Next update. In follow-up tweets that were later transcribed on Reddit, Saterdalen revealed that BioWare actually had a separate development team working on Anthem Next beside the 30 devs tasked with keeping the main game stable.

"The team was gutted when it was canceled," Saterdalen admitted. "The game was really fun and was going in the right direction. The team had hit a really great milestone when EA canned it."

Saterdalen went on to confirm that the vast majority of reports on Anthem's troubled development cycle were true. He credited