Award-winning voice actor Jennifer Hale, best known for voicing the female version of Commander Shepard in the first three Mass Effect games, is speaking out after a leaked trailer for the sci-fi franchise’s next title was leaked online.
The Mass Effect community was hit hard this week by news that EA is closing down BioWare, the 30-year-old studio known for spearheading Western RPGs with series like Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Jade Empire, and others.
Rubbing salt in the wound, EA also revealed the next Mass Effect game (supposedly titled Mass Effect Universe) was canceled. This revelation hurt even more after staff who formerly worked on the project spoke out about it online, with one even leaking a full-length trailer for the game on Reddit. This trailer promised a game that would have been everything fans wanted and more — and it even caught the attention of FemShep herself.
Hale responded to a re-upload of the Mass Effect 5 trailer on X/Twitter, and it seems she’s just as hopeful as the rest of us that somehow, some way, the game will still get made.
“It's extraordinary,” she wrote. “I’m holding hope for magic to happen. This community and you incredible devs deserve that and more.”
Two days prior, she went live on Instagram alongside fellow Commander Shepard voice actor Mark Meer, who plays the male version of the character, to address fans in the wake of EA’s devastating decision
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