Mass Effect: Andromeda features father Alec Ryder and daughter Sarah Ryder in an epic new story.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda has big gameplay changes, an epic story, and a new galaxy

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Mass Effect: Andromeda debuts March 21 as the next chapter in BioWare’s epic space series. Electronic Arts took the wraps off the gameplay in its first hands-on session at EA’s headquarters in Redwood City, Calif., and we were there to play it.

Mass Effect: Andromeda is one of the company’s major releases of the year, and it begins a fresh new story without the previous Mass Effect trilogy’s main hero, Commander Shepard, who appeared in Mass Effect (2007), Mass Effect 2 (2010), and Mass Effect 3 (2012). The title will debut on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and on Origin on PC. This story stars new heroes, Sarah or Scott Ryder (two twins: you can choose which one to play as), and it got off to a good start in my preview.

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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.