Exodus didn't do much for me when it was first revealed at the 2023 Game Awards, but my interest in it started to grow after Matthew McConaughey began dropping daily Exodus trailers like some kind of deep space David Attenborough. Today we got our first look at some actual Exodus gameplay, and I hate to say it but I'm back to feeling rather ambivalent about the whole thing, which to my eye looks like nothing so much as an alt-universe Mass Effect.
To be fair, you can't take away too much from any individual trailer: They're tiny slices of hours-long games intended to generate hype above all else. But there's just so much going on here that so closely echoes Mass Effect, right down to the glowing neon space-magic stab-glove. You can call it "celestial tech" all you want, but come on, that's an Omni-Blade.
