Owlcat Video games’ The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is a space-set third-person action-RPG primarily based on The Expanse TV collection and the novels by James S. A. Corey (aka Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck). When the trailer debuted earlier this summer season, the comparisons to Mass Impact have been virtually fast. Alexander Mishulin–the sport’s inventive director–recently acknowledged that Mass Impact influenced the event of Osiris Reborn. However the crew plans to go in its personal route relatively than merely copying Mass Results’ strategy.
“It is totally different [from Mass Effect] in some ways,” Mishulin informed Polygon. “To begin with, we make our story a bit bit in a different way. We’re making extra decisions and penalties, and we wish to guarantee that this sport nonetheless has lots of them supplied with lots of company.”
For instance, Mishulin famous that gamers will not be locked into character paths like paragon or renegade. The participant can determine whether or not their characters come from Earth, Mars, or the Belt. That alternative will have an effect on how NPC and companion characters react and relate to them throughout the sport.
The sport’s story is ready throughout the first two and a half seasons of The Expanse, and the participant’s character would be the captain of essentially the most superior ship within the galaxy. Whatever the participant’s decisions, the captain can be a twin, and each siblings are on board the ship. Nevertheless, the twins could not at all times see eye-to-eye about the very best plan of action.
Whereas there will probably be a number of romance choices on the ship, Mishulin famous that Osiris Reborn will characteristic “much more handy consumer interfaces [and] handy approaches to the gameplay,” relatively than making an attempt to copy Mass Results’ gameplay.
Owlcat Video games hasn’t set a date for The Expanse: Osiris Reborn but, however it is going to be out there on Xbox Collection X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC. The studio can be presently growing Warhammer 40,000: Darkish Heresy.