Anthem can be played solo, BioWare stresses

Anthem can be played solo, BioWare’s Casey Hudson has stressed in a new blog post.

“I talked last time about Anthem being ‘a story you can experience with friends.’ There were, understandably, some questions and concerns about story in multiplayer. Specifically, ‘what if I don’t want to play with randos?’ ‘What if I don’t have friends that I play games with?’ And, ‘I like to be the one making choices in my story—if it’s multiplayer, won’t the story get watered down?’,” Hudson wrote.

“As a player, I worry about these things too—which brings us to the last line of our mission: become the hero of your story. In a BioWare game, you should feel like the story is about you. You create your own character, you decide what happens next, and you become the hero,” he continued. “I think the reason people are concerned about whether these things are possible in a multiplayer game is because it just hasn’t been solved well before.

With Anthem we’re taking this problem head-on and structuring the entire game design to provide a specific solution for this. We’ll be sharing details on how it works very soon. We think it creates a unique experience where you have control over your own story, but your story is set in an ever-changing multiplayer world. And yes, even though Anthem is meant to bring out the best parts of playing as part of an online community, you can choose to play through the story with only your friends, or even on your own.”

We’ll hear more about Anthem at EA’s E3 2018 press conference in June.