You may have forgotten about Exodus in the year since it happened first revealed at The Game Awards 2023 with actor Matthew McConaughey, who plays his main character. The good news is that, about a year later, he has now received the first gameplay trailer, showing an action that seems to appeal to those who like bang, okay.
Why? Well, things are looking great Mass Effecty, with copious suggestions on what seems to be a number of sci-fi movies and games going on for the last ten years. Oh, and an armed bear that wants to get into Matthew's McConaugway.
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This first look at gameplay, which you can see below, comes after Exodus developer Archetype Entertainment has spent the past couple of months releasing teaser videos that see McConaughey tell us about stuff in the game universe in its classic version.
One of those things is the “Awakened Bear”. These are literal bears that have been weaponized and apparently have received information, so that they can run medical supplies to remote space colonies and – as McConaughey has said has recently happened – can be used as fur rewarders. Think BG3 lad Halsin animal form, but if he woke up one morning with Minthara's personality in some kind of Freaky Friday swap, I accept it.
Anyway, in the gameplay trailer, McConaughey's character is fighting one of these bears, using his sci-fi gizmos to slap it up, after some clever running away. This is pretty much the high level, with everything else looking very Mass Effecty – you're in a space suit, you're shooting and sneaking your way through space dungeons, you talking to other people in space suits. There is also a floating frog at one point, which I liked.
It's worth noting that Archetype Entertainment is full of BioWareyness, having been co-founded by former BioWare devs James Ohlen and Chad Robertson, so it's no surprise that it's a bit Mass Effecty vibe-wise .
“Join the Travelers, as they sacrifice their lives to travel through the Centauri Universe on a dangerous mission to save a remote awakened civilization from being invaded by Celestials,” reads the trailer's blurb, ” Our service – our sacrifice – is finding worlds, seeds of hope, breaking empires.
Okay, McConaughey and Archetype, you don't have to shout.
In other development news formerly with BioWare, original Mass Effect trilogy director Casey Hudson studio Humanoid Origin unfortunately shut down last month citing a lack of funding, never letting go of the game he was working on.
