The next game in the Mass Effect

“ Each game franchise needs to innovate and improve their experience based on what's best for it.

That's according to BioWare general manager Aaryn Flynn, who explained on NeoGAF that despite both titles making use of DICE's Frostbite Engine and open world gameplay, Mass Effect will be paying far greater tribute to the previous entries in the franchise than Dragon Age: Inquisition does."All of our games are using Frostbite now," he explained. "We've said the next Mass Effect (and our new IP, but I won't expand on that yet) uses some of the technology from DAI. We've been enjoying building larger areas that you can explore with less friction, so that'll be there as well."We're very proud of what DAI has achieved, but that does not set a 'template' for what every other game we make needs to be. Each game franchise needs to innovate and improve their experience based on what's best for it, not just what another game had success with because 'well that was successful'."Last year we got an update on the progress of the next Mass Effect, saying it was "in the middle of development." So far we know that the next Mass Effect game will be " fresh but familiar " and that it may not relate to Sheperd at all . For everything else we know, head over to our Mass Effect wiki

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