2024-04-26 00:53:42
Archetype Entertainment may be a brand new studio, but with its ranks filled with industry veterans such as BioWare, Naughty Dog and others, it certainly has the talent to support its AAA ambitions. The studio presented its first game – a science fiction RPG Exodus Class AAA – in December last year turned the heads of a considerable number of Mass Effect fans, and since then it has revealed new details regarding it in part.
The studio recently released new video with questions and answersin which Archetype Entertainment co-founders James Olen (who also serves as executive creative director) and Chad Robertson (who also serves as executive producer) reveal new details regarding the setting of Exodus.
The developers particularly talked regarding the inhabitants of the Exodus universe. In the Omega Centauri cluster, the remnants of humanity, having fled a dying Earth, confront the Celestials, a dominant species descended from the ancient humans of Earth. However, these won’t be the only non-human species you’ll encounter in the game.
According to Olen, although all species of Exodus will have “terrestrial origin“, because of the way they have evolved over tens of thousands of years, they will be in the game”incredibly strange, wonderful and mysterious creatures“.
“Something that evolved on a planet other than Earth is generally called an alien,” said James Olen, co-founder and executive creative director of Archetype Entertainment. “Everything in the Exodus universe is of earthly origin. However, they have evolved over tens of thousands of years, so some of them have become incredibly weird, wonderful, and mysterious creatures that are often far stranger than the classic aliens you see in other franchises of Science fiction.
This also includes things like Awakened Ones – sentient animals from Earth. There are a lot of interesting things here that you can encounter, interact with and obviously fight. So yes, there is a wide variety of species beyond the Celestials.
Olen provided a bit more information regarding the aforementioned awakened animals, revealing that several “alien” species from Exodus evolved from what were once animals on Earth.
“There are a lot of strange creatures in Exodus, sentient and non-sentient, and, as I said, they are all of Earth origin,” he said. “That doesn’t mean they all originated from humans, because some of them will come from what we call awakened animals, animals whose intelligence was enhanced and then evolved over tens of thousands of years. ‘years to become creatures that sometimes don’t look at all alike.’ animals from which they come. »
And will players have the option to play as one of these non-human species, or will Exodus only allow you to play as a human protagonist? Executive producer Chad Robertson didn’t give a specific answer, saying only that the answer is “a little yes and no“.
“The answer is not trivial, it’s actually a sort of yes and no. We’re really excited regarding some of the things you’ll be able to do as a player, but we’re not going to reveal all the details anytime soon. »
Exodus is in development for PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC.
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