With recent reports indicating that EA is continuing its plan to produce a TV series based on the Mass Effect franchise following the closure of BioWare, former project lead on the now-canceled Mass Effect project, Michael Gamble, has indicated that the game was being made to complement the show.
As caught by Mass Effect fan Kala Elizabeth on social media, Gamble said in a post over the weekend that “Both are meant to complement each other.” He wrote this in response to a question about whether the Mass Effect Universe plot was going to be used for Amazon’s adaptation of the franchise.
In the weeks following BioWare’s closure, many vague details about the canceled Mass Effect project have been surfacing through a number of reports. One of these has indicated that the game was going to take place around 600 years after the events of Mass Effect 3, with the original trilogy’s story being referred to in the universe as the “Reaper War”.
Rather than having Commander Shepard return as the protagonist,
