Next Mass Effect will ditch open world and return to series' "classic format", insider teases
Mass Effect developer BioWare is pulling back from Andromeda’s open-world approach and plans to streamline its world for Mass Effect 4.
The news comes via Window Central’s Jez Corden, who’s heard rumours that BioWare plans to “ditch open world and go back to [the franchise’s] classic format”.
Corden made the claim in the latest edition of his podcast, The Xbox Two Podcast, in a broader conversation about the pros of established studios sticking to the development blueprint that made their games so special versus the cons of taking risks and innovating, only for it to instantly crash and burn.
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