While there's good reason to associate Exodus with Mass Effect, it's more than the fact that they are both, at the end of the day, space sci-fi RPGs. There's also the strong BioWare DNA; Archetype Entertainment founder and former BioWare creative James Ohlen may have left the studio last year, but it doesn't take much digging to find a lot of BioWare experience is still there. In fact, the three developers I spoke with directly for our Exodus Big Preview have BioWare on their resume.
But the inspirations for Exodus are much wider and varied than that. In fact, when I ask about inspirations for the upcoming video game – mechanically, narratively, whatever other -ly you can think of – during my recent visit to Archetype Entertainment's studio in Austin, Texas for my Exodus hands-on preview, Mass Effect isn't really mentioned until I explicitly bring it up.
