The first book entitled “Mass Effect: Andromeda Initiation,” written by fantasy author N.K. Jemisin, has already come out in August, while the next three books will come out in March 2017, in September 2017 and March 2018.
Interestingly, the second and third novels still do not have authors but the fourth shall be written by “Mass Effect” creative director Mac Walters.
During the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2016 held in June at Los Angeles, California, Walters said that “Mass Effect: Andromeda” would take place hundreds of years after “Mass Effect 3.” The hundreds of years became the operative word for the development of the “Mass Effect” novel series.
Incidentally, the “Mass Effect” video game franchise has been hounded by a system that favored good and evil choices by gamers using a Paragon/Renegade morality system.
So if gamers would push their playable characters in either of those two directions, they would be granted more powerful abilities. But those who shall take the neutral path or the in-between choice, they will be left with fewer options to help them battle their enemies.
Apparently, “Mass Effect: Andromeda” shall do away with not giving many powerful abilities to those gamers who will make the neutral path.
Mac Walters confirmed that “Mass Effect: Andromeda” shall feature shades of gray for gamers which have become the in-thing among current video games.