One of the lead actors behind BioWare's Mass Effect Andromeda has spoken out about the game's disappointing critical and commercial response, and placed much of the blame on publisher EA.
Andromeda launched back in 2017, and had the unenviable job of continuing the Mass Effect franchise following the climactic Mass Effect 3.
Response to Andromeda was mixed, with sky-high expectations from fans clearly not met. Reviews were also middling — not terrible, but not great — and a far cry from the original Mass Effect trilogy.
Tom Taylorson, the male voice of leading character Ryder, told fansite We Are Mass Effect that he thinks the game got a bum rap, and was done dirty by a publisher expecting too much from it, not being fully cooked, forced out the door too early, and forced to use corporate's shiny new engine when many of the team didn't know how to work with it.
Taylorson said he was disappointed, obviously, in Andromeda's reception, and felt terrible for the BioWare Montreal staff whose work was panned.