It’s got a lot of those elements to it that let you become a character and participate in this. He also explained some more of the game's background saying 'the story is that are a member of a group called the freelancers that are out there to protect and save humanity on an alien planet far away.' He also expanded on some of the gameplay: 'there are shooting mechanics in it, it’s an action game, it’s a role playing game. This is much more about having fun join a game world that is lush and exotic and really sucks you in.' In an interview with Edmonton AM, Bioware's general manager Aaryn Flynn described the game as 'a genre we call science fantasy very much like Star Wars, very much like the Marvel universe.' The fantasy part comes in, he says, because, 'you see a lot of amazing things happening but we don’t worry too much about why they’re happening or how they’re happening, the science of it.' That's more Mass Effect's job which he describes as 'more our real hardcore science fiction IP. 'You see a lot of amazing things happening but we don’t worry too much about why they’re happening or how they’ve happening.' EP for Mass Effect and Star Wars: Knights of the Republic is on Facebook.

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