Everything you need to know about the next Mass Effect: Trailer, release date and more
(Pocket-lint) — The original Mass Effect trilogy is one of the most beloved gaming sagas of all time, a soaring space epic that managed to nail both small character moments and dialogue and the sweeping arc of its galaxy-scale story.
It's so well-liked that the mere announcement of a remaster for the trilogy made big waves, but that pales compared to the hype being generated for the now-confirmed next full entry in the series. For now, we've got no title and few details, but you can find out all the important facts right here.
Even getting confirmation that the next Mass Effect game is in active development has taken plenty of time, so the headline news here is that a firm release date is still very much a ways off. However, we've made real progress nonetheless!
It was only in November 2020, on N7 Day, that BioWare made the small announcement that it was working on the next game, along with a single piece of concept art that's above, as the header image for this piece. We thought that was encouraging enough, but then in December 2020 BioWare debuted a teaser trailer at the Game Awards.
It's a brief look, and we'll get into its implications for the new game's story down below, but it conspicuously doesn't end with any sort of indication of a release window, which is hardly a surprise. It's therefore vanishingly unlikely that we'll see the game release this year. In fact, late 2022 would be our starting bet, and we should probably prepare you for the possibility it could take longer.
Still, that might be a while off but there's still comfort in knowing that it looks like the saga will carry on eventually.
Those rough conclusions we can draw about the game's release window being far off can lead us to some fairly obvious
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