The First Hands-on Demo of Exodus Awes and Delights with Its Lofty Ambition

We played 'Exodus', a sci-fi RPG that should please 'Mass Effect' fans, even if you can't romance the talking octopus

An explosive hands-on demo has us more excited than before for the new action RPG led by BioWare veterans, who talked to us about its making.

Playing Mass Effect-inspired RPG Exodus was an uncomfortably familiar space trip, despite some brilliant zero-G fights

Full disclosure: I did not get to play Exodus with the grumpy mecha octopus sniper. "Where’s the octopus sniper?", I whispered, confusion melting into sadness as the two other members of my space station infiltration team stepped forward under the support of their dull, seen-it-all-before vertebrae. No, it’s fine. It’s fine. I’d like to say that the demo’s shooting and roleplaying moments made up for the lack of squidmates. In some places, parti…

The first hands-on demo of Exodus awes and delights with its lofty ambition

Exodus by Archetype Entertainment has all the fixings to follow in the footsteps of gaming’s sci-fi greats. And it’s not just Mass Effect, even though the Texas-based studio was founded by a few BioWare veterans who worked on the likes of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, and Mass Effect 2. The Exodus reveal at […]

Saving The Space Frogs On Khonsu In Exodus

Last month, we traveled to Austin, Texas to play Exodus, a promising sci-fi RPG made by former Mass Effect developers. We cover a lot of ground in our exclusive 14-page cover story, including several missions of hands-on gameplay, but the piece ends with impressions of a mission set on Khonsu. It's an orbital platform above Lidon, the game's home world, and it's home to a society of giant talking frogs. In other words, it was a highlight of the …

Our EXODUS Hands-On Makes the Mass Effect Comparisons Unavoidable, As Archetype's Debut Game Leans Hard Into Choices and Cover Shooting

It's been seven years since former BioWare veteran James Ohlen founded Archetype Entertainment in Austin, Texas, later revealing the studio's debut game as EXODUS. Ohlen has since left Archetype for personal reasons, but the hype for EXODUS remains high, especially among Mass Effect fans. Not only is the inspiration crystal-clear, but Archetype also hired the acclaimed writer of the original trilogy, Drew Karpyshyn, to create the game's narrativ…

Exodus steps out of Mass Effect's shadow with combat that builds on BioWare's RPG and a galaxy that I'm itching to explore

After finally playing this sci-fi RPG for myself, Mass Effect 5 is here and it's Exodus