A trailer for Mass Effect 5 meant for internal purposes at BioWare has leaked online, offering a glimpse at what might have been.
The trailer, which IGN has verified as legitimate, was created for internal purposes only and was not meant for the public. It appeared on Reddit just a day after EA's shock cancelation of the game and its developer, BioWare. It includes the title 'Mass Effect: Universe.'
The trailer begins with a message: "The following is in-engine footage from our small team. It uses our pre-production assets.”
The trailer has a number of familiar elements, including weaponry, powers, and alien species we've seen in previous Mass Effect games. There's a glimpse at a sex scene, a Mass Effect relay, space travel, and a nightclub, all Mass Effect staples. There's even a galaxy map on display inside your ship.
It looks like players would have assumed the role of a former military operative now in a "new line of work." The job is to stop fires before they start. An older Liara T'Soni appears, helping the player character out in a bar fight.
BioWare had spent the past half a decade teasing the next Mass Effect's setting and story. We'd had it confirmed that Mass Effect 5 would have been set hundreds of years after Mass Effect 3, and feature a narrative that re-centers the action on the franchise's original Milky Way setting, long after the Reapers were defeated.
Since yesterday’s dramatic news, a number of people who had worked on Mass Effect 5 talked in vague terms about the game it was shaping up to be. On X / Twitter, New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente responded to a user who said, “A game industry that cannot figure out how to make a sequel to the literal best game of all time is a game industry that is fundamentally broken,” with: “We did figure it out. We were working on a great game. Just saying.”
One person who was laid off from BioWare, cinematic supervisor Tony de Waal, took to LinkedIn to say Mass Effect 5 would have been “something special,” offering players “a level of autonomy and choice that no other game has been able to match.”
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