Anthem is a four-player shooter game from BioWare and EA.

Anthem gameplay videos: Check out the Lost Arcanist and Triple Treat story missions

BioWare and Electronic Arts opened the doors for hands-on play with Anthem, the four-player co-op shooter set in EA’s first new game world in a decade.

The online game will keep evolving over time, but it has a campaign with a main story that a single or up to four players can complete. I had a chance to play the game at Electronic Arts’ headquarters in Redwood City, California. Overall, I had about six hours to play game. That was just scrating the surface, but I enjoyed the intense co-op firefights, the mobility of the flying mech suits, dubbed Javelins, and the beauty of the strange new sci-fi world. You can see a couple of my edited missions in the videos embedded in this post.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.