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One of the lead actors behind BioWare’s Mass Effect Andromeda has spoken out about the game’s disappointing critical and commercial response, and placed much of the blame on publisher EA.
Andromeda launched back in 2017, and had the unenviable job of continuing the Mass Effect franchise following the climactic Mass Effect 3. Gone was Commander Shepard and the beloved Normandy crew, replaced by new customizable hero Ryder and a fresh cast of shipmates. And gone was the saga’s sense of trilogy-closing urgency — reset to a more smaller-scale adventure, designed to place building blocks for later sequels.
Response to Andromeda was mixed, with sky-high expectations from fans clearly not met. Reviews were also middling — not terrible, but not great — and a far cry from the original Mass Effect trilogy.
Work on the game was led by satellite studio BioWare Montreal, while the company’s Edmonton headquarters focused on its big online shooter hope Anthem, and much has been written about how this working setup presented challenges. Reports have also detailed how BioWare Montreal spent a lengthy period exploring the use of procedurally generated planets, until this idea was scrapped and much of Andromeda’s final
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