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damage with a massive shield and scattering the enemy with fi re and explosives. Interceptors use their superior mobility to take out key targets with their fi erce melee attacks, fl ipping around like ninjas. Finally the Storm hovers above the fi ght raining down blasts of fi re, ice, and lightning to disrupt the enemy forces. While each has its clear
Robot rock 4 Scars are insectoid scavengers that clash with the Freelancers over Shaper technology. 5 Some of the best loot is found in dungeon-like ‘Strongholds’. 6 Most of the wildlife of the planet is massive, making life dangerous for humanity.
role, there’s lots of room to tweak your playstyle within that. “I could set up a Storm to be a complete support class where I’m primarily priming damage, setting everybody up to do combos,” explains Warner. “On the other hand I can set that up to be a high damage class, setting up and detonating combos. Or I can abandon the combos altogether if I want and just go for pure damage. That would be the same Storm loaded out in three diff erent ways, playing very, very diff erently, and that’s true for all of the classes.” Speaking to us ahead of
Anthem’s launch, Warner could hardly wait to see what players
get up to with this kind of freedom at their fi ngertips, defi ning for themselves what a ‘balanced team’ looks like. “There’s a lot of fl exibility in the system,” he says. “I’m sure we’ll see YouTube videos of players taking on really tough content with, say, four Interceptors, or four Storms, and that’ll be really fun to watch.”
Telling tales When it comes to
the story, fans of BioWare’s planet-hopping Mass Eff ect series, or fantasy epic Dragon Age, will fi nd plenty of
parallels – you’ll natter with a variety of supporting characters, unravel mysteries, and make
some tough choices. But there are also a number of diff erences that make Anthem feel like its own proposition. While the Javelin missions
are in third-person, cutscenes and all actions back at the game’s central hub take place in fi rst-person. The city of Fort Tarsis comes to gorgeous life courtesy of Battlefi eld V’s Frostbite 3.0 engine, and the intimate perspective helps
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