Followers of BioWare’s eternally-praised Mass Impact franchise have been handled to fairly a spectacle immediately on social media, simply in time for the annual N7 vacation that commemorates the sci-fi RPG collection each November.
Nevertheless, this undoubtedly wasn’t your regular celebration of days previous with Commander Shepherd. As an alternative, we obtained one thing cosmically hype-inducing, to place it flippantly.
Beginning this morning, it initially got here within the type of fairly cryptic clips posted on EA’s official website that every solely final a couple of seconds, and got here with some mysterious transcript codes on the prime, embellished with notable terminology like “Andromeda”, “Alliance”, together with “Epsilon”, “Oculon”, “Nebula”.
The clips on their very own have been onerous to decipher for particulars, however by the tip of the afternoon EA had lastly launched a full model of your complete scene, all 34 savory seconds of it.
Naturally, gamers flocked to the likes of Twitter and Reddit to take a position and pull aside each millisecond and each visible element of the video that they will. There isn’t a dialogue of any type, or any textual content on display screen that provides something away in any respect.
The focus is a mysterious, masked character decked in some very slick-looking N7 gear. Brandishing a pistol, they stroll by way of a hall and out into an unrecognizable however possible unforgiving panorama on an unnamed planet.
There isn’t a copious quantity of issues to make observe of, other than the unknown character strolling previous a Krogan within the very first second of the video. We’d possible assume that this ominous-looking particular person is our new protagonist, and about all now we have to go on is that they’re tall and slender in physique, and carrying N7 gear which appears to point their given faction.
Some have identified that “Epsilon”, which is the fifth letter within the Greek alphabet, may presumably trace at a possible title for the franchise’s fifth installment. Others speculate that every one three phrases, “Epsilon”, “Oculon”, and “Nebula”, may additionally function an abbreviation for “Eon”, one other potential title.
Regardless of the case, EA clearly wished to be a magnet for each die-hard fan on this event, they usually undoubtedly have. It’s the most important divulge to date since BioWare’s weblog put up late final yr. As to once we might get extra of an official take a look at what to anticipate with “Mass Impact 5”, our educated guess can be the Recreation Awards on December 7, precisely one month from now.
If that proves to be the case, we’ll undoubtedly be light-speed quick with protection of that announcement.