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Exodus: Five Things You Need to Know

Exodus: Five Things You Need to Know

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A Massive Amount of Uncut Exodus Gameplay Has Appeared Online

Make some space. If you're at all interested in Exodus — the Mass Effect-style sci-fi RPG coming to PS5 next year — then you should definitely give these fresh gameplay videos a watch. Dropping over the weekend, this footage is brand new, showcasing uncut gameplay across a main story mission. Between YouTube channels ENFANT TERRIBLE and Insider Gaming, there's almost two hours of demo footage to get through. Read the full article on pushsquare.com

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Exodus Ending and Character Fates Change Based on Your Choices

Exodus is an upcoming sci-fi RPG that will account for the decisions you make in its story, and its narrative director explains how it'll all be reflected in the end.

IGN / Michael Higham
Interview

Playing Mass Effect-inspired RPG Exodus was an uncomfortably familiar space trip, despite some brilliant zero-G fights

Full disclosure: I did not get to play Exodus with the grumpy mecha octopus sniper. "Where’s the octopus sniper?", I whispered, confusion melting into sadness as the two other members of my space station infiltration team stepped forward under the support of their dull, seen-it-all-before vertebrae. No, it’s fine. It’s fine. I’d like to say that the demo’s shooting and roleplaying moments made up for the lack of squidmates. In some places, particularly when venturing back out into the vacuum, it

Rock Paper Shotgun / James Archer
Preview

Preview: Exodus on PS5 Could Be the Mass Effect Replacement I've Been Waiting For

Space is filled with sentient frogs and bears, apparently. Up until I went hands-on with Exodus at Gamescom, I thought it looked fine. Another sci-fi RPG trying to capture the magic of the Mass Effect series, citing the experience of former BioWare, Naughty Dog, and EA developers — and somehow, Matthew McConaughey is also involved. Read the full article on pushsquare.com

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Exodus Romance Options Are Not Gender-Locked for Both Male and Female Leads

The upcoming Mass Effect-style sci-fi RPG is giving players freedom with relationships and romance options regardless of the gender they choose for their protagonist.

IGN / Michael Higham
Announcement

Exodus: Going Hands-on With This Wild Interactive Space Opera

As I help free a talking frog the size of a small car – who also happens to be an engineer – from imprisonment, I find myself thinking, “Exodus is a lot… weirder than I expected.” Simply the genre of this game had me excited – this is a true throwback to choice-based action-RPGs of […] The post Exodus: Going Hands-on With This Wild Interactive Space Opera appeared first on XBOX Wire.

Xbox Wire / Joe Skrebels, XBOX Wire Editor-in-Chief
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Playing Mass Effect spiritual successor Exodus was the best kind of surprise

My relationship with Mass Effect begins and ends with the first game (let's just blame the M35 Mako and leave it at that), and so Exodus - which is making no bones about being something of a Mass Effect spiritual successor, born from some of the same creative team - isn't a game that's been anywhere close to my radar. But the Gamescom gods contrived to put Exodus on my appointment schedule, and while the 45 minutes or so I played wasn't what I was expecting when I first sat down, I've come away

Eurogamer / Matt Wales
Preview

How Explicit Are the Sex Scenes in Exodus? It Sounds Like Mass Effect Fans Will Find Them Familiar

How explicit are the sex scenes in Mass Effect-style game, Exodus? We asked the developers.

IGN / Wesley Yin-Poole
Interview

Exodus Plays Exactly How a New Mass Effect Should | IGN Hands-on Preview

Exodus is ambitious in the same way that Mass Effect was, and now I'm expecting it to live up to that ambition.

IGN / Ryan McCaffrey
Preview

Exodus Narrative Director Explains Romance, Relationships, and Mass Effect Comparisons in New Sci-Fi RPG

The upcoming space opera RPG Exodus has drawn a lot Mass Effect comparisons, and its narrative director worked on both. He explains their differences and more.

IGN / Michael Higham
Interview

Exodus will likely win the Mass Effect spiritual successor war, thanks partly to its Cool Octopus, but I think it has a boring hero problem

With The Expanse: Osiris Reborn proving lacklustre in the hands, I'd say Archetype's time-dilating space RPG Exodus is currently closest to the much-coveted status of unofficial Mass Effect 5. The developers have dropped a release date - 7th April 2027 – alongside a new trailer which digs into the backstory of a super-intelligent octopus sniper, Salt, who fights in a mech.

Rock Paper Shotgun / Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
Opinion

Exodus Release Date Revealed, the Mass Effect-Like RPG Is Coming in April

Exodus shares plenty of similarities with Mass Effect and seems to be filling the sci-fi RPG void; you won't have to wait long to play it, too.

IGN / Michael Higham
Release date

Mass Effect-like Exodus gets a release date, while showcasing an octopus companion in a mech suit

The excitingly Mass Effect-like sci-fi role-playing game Exodus has a proper release date: 7th April 2027. It's coming to PC (Steam and Epic), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.

Eurogamer / Robert Purchese
Release date

EXODUS launches April 7, 2027

Science-fiction action adventure RPG EXODUS will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via …

Gematsu / Sal Romano
Release date

Exodus, the Promising Mass Effect-Style RPG, Takes Aim at April Release on PS5

Octopus party member, anyone? Exodus, the Mass Effect-inspired sci-fi RPG that's looked really promising for a while, finally has a confirmed launch date. It's dropping on PS5 next year, on the 7th April. This means that it's not quite buried within the madness of the February and March release schedule, but it'll still have plenty of competition. Read the full article on pushsquare.com

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Exodus' character creator won't let you totally mess up its protagonist's "established look" with nose and brow slider chicanery, but you can still pick a beard

If you were planning to spend hours making sure your chin looks just right and ensuring your eyes aren't too close together when you fire up Mass Effecty sci-fi RPG Exodus, I've got bad news. Rather than a slider-based character creator with ten million sliders controlling the likes of cheek yaw and ear curvitude, devs Archetype Entertainment have decided to set the majority of protagonist Jun Aslan's face in stone to make him a more defined person, leaving only the likes of hair and tattoos for

Rock Paper Shotgun / Mark Warren
Announcement

Archetype Entertainment founder and BioWare veteran wishes Exodus didn't look so much like Mass Effect

But he thinks the team is doing a "good job" moving it further away from BioWare's sci-fi romp.

PC Gamer / Fraser Brown
Interview

EXODUS looks like a good fit for Mass Effect fans wanting something more

Due to arrive sometime in 2027, EXODUS looks like it might fit in with the Mass Effect hole in my life and the extended gameplay reveal looks very promising. Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

GamingOnLinux / Liam Squires-Hand
Opinion

Mass Effect Fans, Feast Your Eyes on a Full 20 Minutes of Exodus Gameplay

Still on track for early 2027. You can certainly tell that Exodus is being spearheaded by ex-Mass Effect developers, because it looks near identical to BioWare's beloved series in terms of structure. Much like fellow Mass Effect clone The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, Exodus has been floating around for a while. But as we steadily approach its 'early 2027' release window, developer Archetype Entertainment is keen to show off much more of the sci-fi RPG. Read the full article on pushsquare.com

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Robots and matter-altering powers help you get the edge in combat and exploration, in a new Exodus extended gameplay reveal

Here are the highlights from the time-dilating sci-fi action RPG.

PC Gamer / Issy van der Velde
Trailer

Sci-fi RPG Exodus even has a Mass Effect-like morality system, except it's not Paragon and Renegade but Paladin and Immortal

As if sci-fi role-playing Exodus didn't already look enough like Mass Effect, developer Archetype has revealed a binary morality system for the game that works in almost exactly the same way - except it's not Paragon and Renegade points we're earning but Paladin and Immortal.

Eurogamer / Robert Purchese
Announcement

EXODUS ‘Extended Gameplay Reveal’ video, screenshots

Archetype Entertainment has released a 20-minute extended gameplay reveal video and new screenshots for science-fiction … Source

Gematsu / Sal Romano
Trailer

The Mass Effect-like Exodus 'is effectively D&D in space,' Hasbro CEO says

I guess you could make that argument, but I sure wouldn't.

PC Gamer / Andy Chalk

The Mass Effect sci-fi RPG subgenre "hasn't had a good game in a long time", says Hasbro, and it believes Exodus can change that

The boss of toy giant Hasbro believes the sci-fi role-playing game space, which famously counts BioWare's Mass Effect trilogy among it, "hasn't had a good game in a long time". Moreover he - Chris Cocks - believes Hasbro's new game Exodus will change that.

Eurogamer / Robert Purchese

Exodus, the sci-fi RPG from former Mass Effect devs, couldn't look more like Mass Effect in the teasers we've been getting this month

Not to be confused with The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, which also looks like Mass Effect.

PC Gamer / Fraser Brown
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Exodus' former studio head James Ohlen touches on why he left Archetype Entertainment: "I was running on fumes"

Back in December of last year, despite being the head of the studio, James Ohlen left Archetype Entertainment, also leaving his role as producer on Exodus behind. It was a bit of a surprise, given that he co-founded the studio after having retired from BioWare in 2018. Now, in a recent interview, Ohlen explains why he made the call, coming down to potentially the most unifying experience in game dev: burnout.

Rock Paper Shotgun / Oisin Kuhnke
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