Anthem is an online multiplayer action
role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.
The game was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox
One on February 22nd, 2019.
Set on an unnamed planet, players
assume the role of Freelancers, heroic adventurers who wear powerful exosuits
to defend humanity from the threats beyond their cities' walls.
The game's
title refers to the Anthem of Creation, a powerful and mysterious force
responsible for most of the extraordinary technology, phenomena, and threats in
the world. In the main narrative, the player's Freelancer is tasked with
stopping the villainous Monitor from seizing control of the Anthem.
Setting
Anthem is set on an unnamed planet
littered with advanced technological relics that harness an omnipresent energy
source known as The Anthem of Creation.
Unstable relics can spontaneously
terraform sections of the planet, mutate wildlife, change the local climate,
create portals, and spawn monstrous creatures.
Extremely unstable artifacts can
envelope a significant area with destructive energies, storms, and creatures,
rendering them barren and inhospitable. Such events are known as
Cataclysms.
Humanity has limited knowledge as to the origins of these relics,
how they work, and the extent of their abilities, but believe they were created
by a godlike race called the Shapers, who abandoned the planet thousands of
years ago for unknown reasons. The Anthem and the Shapers are revered by some
people as the source of all life.
By Santiago Sandoval
and Luis Lozano, Step 9.
