EA set to Release BioWare’s Anthem in March 2019

<h3>EA has officially stated that Anthem is set to release in March 2019&period;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>For a game of which we&&num;8217&semi;ve seen so little&comma; this means that there ought to be plenty of coverage for Anthem at E3 next month&comma; especially as EA tries to climb out of the loot-box shaped hole it buried itself in&period; And if there&&num;8217&semi;s one studio in EA&&num;8217&semi;s portfolio that can save them&comma; surely it must be BioWare&comma; right&quest; I certainly used to think so&period; I haven&&num;8217&semi;t totally given up hope that the Western RPG Master&&num;8217&semi;s of Yore might rise up from their own ashes&comma; but I am nonetheless concerned&period; Anthem seems to have become intrinsically tied to the livelihood of BioWare&comma; as we know it&period; And the assumptions of what the project is&comma; and the little we&&num;8217&semi;ve seen of it is&comma; perhaps&comma; cause for caution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-138029" style&equals;"font-size&colon; 16px" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;05&sol;09143831&sol;BioWare-Anthem-EVERYTHING-YOU-NEED-TO-KNOW&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1500" height&equals;"750" &sol;><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3>Is EA Gambling with BioWare&quest;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>So what the hell is Anthem&comma; exactly&quest; This question has been running through my mind for better part of two years&period; Is it basically Third-Person Destiny&quest; Is it Monster Hunter with guns and mech-armor&quest; Is it some completely novel idea we just haven&&num;8217&semi;t seen yet&quest; The point is&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know&period; No one does&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If March is the date for Anthem&comma; E3 is EA&&num;8217&semi;s last chance to show it to us&period; Any word of mouth I&&num;8217&semi;ve heard on the topic of Anthem has been&comma; at best&comma; tepid&period; With Destiny itself seeming to lose favor among its constituents&comma; this spells trouble for Anthem if our assumptions are correct&period; If Anthem is essentially Destiny with a BioWare RPG progression&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m afraid that formulae will prove too little&comma; too late&period; I am willing to trust that BioWare has something special here&comma; but they need to show us&period; The hype-train needs to start moving for a March release on a title of this caliber&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;goo&period;gl&sol;images&sol;puhF3r"><img class&equals;"alignright wp-image-138045 size-medium" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;05&sol;09190029&sol;ea-kills-bioware-300x300&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"300" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I almost wonder if EA is gambling with BioWare&comma; putting pressure on them in order to bank on the cache of their name while EA Proper is&comma; itself&comma; under scrutiny from the public&period; This is a dangerous space for BioWare to be&comma; given the Mass Effect&colon; Andromeda debacle&period; The future of BioWare has become tied directly to Anthem and I fear for what might become of them if things go wrong with this new IP&period; The only other hope is a new rumored Dragon Age title&comma; which they would be wise to showcase at E3 as well&period; But Dragon Age has always had a bit of Terrence Malick effect – loved by critics&comma; but mixed reviews from the audience&period; Unless Dragon Age manages to innovate at the deepest of levels&comma; the brunt of the responsibility still falls to Anthem&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;