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BioWare’s 4v1 online action-RPG ‘Shadow Realms’ has been cancelled.
The decision to can the game was confirmed by BioWare Austin’s general manager Jeff Hickman last night, who explained that, “right now there are other projects for the team to work on”.
“We’ve made the decision to not move forward with development of Shadow Realms,” Hickman said. “We fully recognize that this news is disappointing to some of our fans, so I want to explain more behind this decision.
“While the team did amazing work on the game concept and we got lots of great feedback from our fans at events and through other game testing, right now there are other projects for the team to work on within the BioWare studios for the coming year and beyond. We’ve got an incredibly talented team here at the Austin studio, and they are excited and already deep on new projects within the BioWare family, ones that will make some great BioWare games even better.
“These include additional ongoing enhancements to the award-winning Dragon Age: Inquisition, as well as the next game in the Mass Effect series and other new IP.”
BioWare Austin’s biggest focus, however, will be on MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic.
“As every Star Wars fan knows, this is a massive year in the Star Wars universe,” he continued. “We have some great plans for expanding this epic game this year, and look forward to sharing the news about those plans with our players in the coming weeks.”
Shadow Realms was announced by EA in August and was described as an episodic story-driven online action RPG. Its main hook, however, appeared to be the 4v1 online combat which, much like Evolve, saw a 4-player team work together to take down a player-controlled Shadowlord.
Source: shadowrealms.com
