

When the end of the decade rolls around in three years, there’s one game that will almost certainly be a part of the conversation on what the best games of the ‘10’s are, and that’s Red Dead Redemption. Details on which aliens you can sleep with have not been revealed yet, but hopes are pretty high. It’s not just a story departure either Andromeda will have an open-world setting, a first for the series, and allow the player to fully customize their character’s stats instead of choosing from pre-set character classes. Mass Effect: Andromeda follows Sara/Scott Ryder, an operative tasked with searching for new planets for humanity to colonize as they travel the Andromeda galaxy and meet various allies and enemies on their journey. However, the method that BioWare is using to continue the franchise is the only logical way to do so: Set it in a completely new galaxy with a completely new cast 600 years after the events of the original Mass Effect trilogy. While the degree to which it was satisfying is…debatable, the ending of Mass Effect 3provided a definitive conclusion to the story of Commander Shepard, making any future entries a difficult task.
