Shadow Realms (New BioWare)

[Aevis]

Spoiler: show

tl;dr

- Online RPG with focus on 4-vs-1
- The player who plays alone controls Shadow Lord who acts as a game master
- Heavy emphasis on story telling and world building
- Will use a TV-inspired episodic model
- Available for PC 'late next year'

Alpha sign up: https://www.shadowrealms.com/register

https://www.shadowrealms.com/blog/game-overview

From the storytelling experts at BioWare comes Shadow Realms™, a new 4v1 story-driven Online Action RPG with dynamic co-op missions in a constantly evolving BioWare world. Join an ongoing adventure with new episodes released frequently. Experience the thrill of making your own choices as to the path you take through the story, uncovering new mysteries and revealing hidden twists unexpectedly as you progress. Fight as a modern-day Hero who suddenly awakens with magical powers and is pulled into a dark realm and centuries old battle. Team up with three other Heroes in adventures facing off against a fantastic array of demonic bosses and supernatural creatures in a raging war against the Shadow Legions to save all of humanity. Summon all your powers as you prepare to battle a player-controlled Shadowlord, who possesses the ultimate weapon – the human mind.
The power is yours. You’ve been chosen.

Key Features

EXPERIENCE EPISODIC STORYTELLING
Enjoy the excitement of a constantly evolving story as new cliff-hanger episodes are released regularly with intriguing characters and impactful choices, letting you and your friends speculate on what comes next, much like your favorite TV series.

DISCOVER A NEW MODERN FANTASY WORLD
From the dark alleys of Paris to the gothic towers of Embra, adventure through an immersive new BioWare world where machine gun wizards and bomb squad clerics rule the day.

FIGHT DYNAMIC CO-OP 4v1 MISSIONS
Team up with three other Heroes in story-driven adventures packed with fast-paced tactical combat against a player-driven Shadowlord who controls creatures, sets traps and changes the environment itself, making the adventure and the battle different every time.

DEEP COMBAT CUSTOMIZATION
Deep character and combat customization options offer you the ability to build and progress as a powerful Hero and Shadowlord uniquely suited to your play-style and one that sets you apart from the crowd. Earn and choose from a broad set of abilities that you can mix regardless of class offering a very deep and diverse set of options.
You’ve got choices and the freedom to play your way. The power is yours.
Be one of the first to play the Closed Alpha and give us your feedback!

[Dareus]

I love ARGs, so I'm totally participating in this. Let's hope this game lives up to the genre!!

[Zetanio]

Thought this email was a beta key. Was completely disappointed.

[Aevis]

Updated OP with Gamescom info and the alpha sign up. There's also a 4min off-screen gameplay vid on Youtube from the site with the 3 dirty letters.

[Purrrfect]

Got a very Secret World feeling from the guy talking about it and the vids. But it looks like it might be fun and the 4v1 would be a twist. I wonder if balancing that will be troublesome?

[Corresapolonia]

i don't like Bioware that much but the short 48 seconds teaser for "Shadow Realms" is not beautiful to look at but it is quite funny at the 6 second mark.
"Filled with evil, greater than anything on earth" - EA Logo appears.

[6souls]

Evil news sources have declared that the game has been canceled.

[Tyrath]

But the biggest focus for our team in BioWare Austin will be on Star Wars™: The Old Republic™. As every Star Wars™ fan knows, this is a massive year in the Star Wars universe. We have some great plans for expanding this epic game this year, and look forward to sharing the news about those plans with our players in the coming weeks.

MMOs ruining single player/co-op games :<

https://shadowrealms.com/blog/an-imp...-shadow-realms

[6souls]

MMOs ruining single player/co-op games :<

https://shadowrealms.com/blog/an-imp...-shadow-realms

there was also this statement from a line before that

We’ve got an incredibly talented team here at the Austin studio, and they are excited and already deep on new projects within the BioWare family, ones that will make some great BioWare games even better.

These include additional ongoing enhancements to the award-winning Dragon Age: Inquisition, as well as the next game in the Mass Effect series and other new IP.

[Tyrath]

But the biggest focus is TOR. Still blaming this on the MMO. Likely they just put extra/leftover assets to work on the other IPs.