Asked if his new sci-fi game is "more Mass Effect or Severance," 19-year BioWare vet says you can "split the difference"
Former BioWare writer and project lead Mac Walters recently gave some insights on the new game from Worlds Untold. While details are scarce, we know it'll be a sci-fi action-adventure game, and not at all an RPG like Mass Effect.
During an interview with the MinnMax gaming podcast, the studio head of Worlds Untold talked about his career at BioWare and what's next for him at his new venture. According to him, this next project will be a mix of elements from Mass Effect and, surprisingly, Apple TV's grounded sci-fi show Severance.
When asked about the next game, Walters took some time to break down his experience working at BioWare and how that informed his work on what's coming next.
"Certainly, our first endeavor [is a sci-fi game]," Walters says in response to working in the genre. "I want to be cautious with that; you're building a studio; you don't know where the future goes. I don't think we're exclusively sci-fi, but I certainly think in our first offering, why wouldn't we lean into that? I would say that a broader term for that is 'speculative fiction.' I like that term; it's like speculating about the future and what could be."
During the interview, Walters clearly stated that the debut game for Worlds Untold would be a sci-fi action/adventure game and not a role-playing game in the vein of BioWare titles. Previously, Walters was the lead writer on the original Mass Effect trilogy and was project director on Mass Effect Andromeda and the Legendary Edition. After work was complete on the Legendary Edition, which remastered the original trilogy, Walters departed BioWare and formed the studio Worlds Untold.
When asked about the style of the game, the Worlds Untold studio head brought up the recent drama
