Unlike Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which hits shops later this week, Mass Effect 5 will not seek to tweak the sci-fi franchise’s established visual style, he said.
With a positive critical response to Dragon Age: The Veilguard now safely tucked under its belt, BioWare’s Mass Effect 5 project director Michael Gamble has reflected on some of the differences between the studio’s two upcoming projects.
“Mass Effect is photorealistic and will be as long as I’m running it,” Gamble wrote in a post on X. “Both are from the studio, but Mass Effect is Mass Effect.
“It really works,” he wrote in Eurogamer’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard review, noting how in particular it enhances facial gestures and helps draw out “the inherent fantasy and emotion in scenes and environments”.