Is BioWare's Unannounced Game "Mass Effect Online?"

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Posted November 18, 2010 - By Nikole Zivalich

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Yesterday BioWare teased us with a mystery screen shot and binary codes. Today rumors are swirling that the unannounced game is actually a Mass Effect multiplayer spin-off, which I've named "Mass Effect of Duty."

Mass Effect 1 and 2 are sci-fi RPGs with no multiplayer elements. According to an unnamed "development source" BioWare Montreal is working on a spin-off game that will appeal more to the Call of Duty demographic. The source went on to tell Kotaku that the game would follow the same formula as CoD and Halo: A light story mode and heavy on multiplayer. The single-player lead would not be Commander Shepard.

BioWare Montreal announced several months ago that they were looking for multiplayer programmers. BioWare's co-founder, Greg Zeschuck, mentioned in a past interview that other games that take place in the Mass Effect universe but aren't a part of the current Mass Effect trilogy could be made. Does this mean we could be getting Mass Effect Online?

In yesterday's post, many of you speculated in the comments that this game could be a FPS set in the Mass Effect universe taking place during the Contact Wars. Some G4 readers said they didn't care what the game was as long as it wasn't a "Mass Effect ODST." If the development source is right, that could be exactly what we're getting.

I guess we'll have to wait until December 11 to know for sure.

Source: Kotaku

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Nyax

A first person shooter taking place during the First Contact War ( when humans first jumped through the mass relays and ran in to trouble with the Turian Hierarchy) would be EPIC!

Bioware has given the Mass Effect universe such an expansive history that it would be a crying shame not to be able to play through such an important event that had major repercussions; repercussions that were quite evident in Mass Effect 1& 2.

I also think that a gritty FPS would would better suit the First Contact War quite well. A solid shooter with good old Bioware storytelling would be great, kind of like Saving Private Ryan In Space.

And as much as I love Halo I would like to see a it knocked of it's perch as king of sci-fi shooters

Posted: November 18, 2010 5:20 PM
stewie9001

Mass of iron (Fe)
Coldest temp on earth.
Mass (Fe) CT on earth
Mass effect on earth.

That would be so dumb, i just brought that up because i saw it in the pictures on bioware's website yesterday.

Posted: November 18, 2010 5:14 PM
RPG-fan

I doubt it. Bioware won't make another MMO especially before The Old Republic is out. It's like Blizzard making a Starcraft MMO to compete with WoW.

Posted: November 18, 2010 5:12 PM