Anthem Gamescom demo feels a lot more natural than what we saw at E3

Source: www.gamerspack.com --- Monday, August 27, 2018
Anthem is one of the more anticipated titles coming to GamesCom 2018, and while we didn’t get to experience it hands on, I was lucky enough to have been able to watch live gameplay. In many ways, the game looks different and a lot more down-to-earth when you watch live gameplay. The Anthem GamesCom demo was the same one we saw at E3, but now played “off-script.” The demo starts with some dialogue followed by every player picking their Javelin exo-suit. The walker you are riding halts, and the players jump down, and quickly jet off to explore their surroundings. Anthem allows you to fly whenever you want. You can hover in place, or fly to where you are aiming your sights, all with very intuitive controls and UI. One of the players flies under a waterfall, showing off the capabilities of the Frostbite 3 engine. It’s one of my favorites, especially after seeing what it can do in Star Wars Battlefront 2 and now this Anthem demo. There is also quite a lot of wildlife around, although you can’t interact with it, at least not in the demo. The devs explain that the full game to have the same quality of story and content that we’ve come to expect from (most) Bioware games, and I’m very hopeful that the game will be as fantastic as previous projects like the Mass Effect trilogy or Knights of the Old Republic. Also, the game will focus less on romances and more on friendships – something quite new to BioWare. The demo has the team heading ...

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