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Mass Effect: Paragon Lost teaser released

Animated prequel to Mass Effect 3 gets nine-minute sneak peek; due on DVD and Blu-ray December 28.

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Though the Mass Effect full-length movie may been headed back to the drawing board with a new writer, upcoming prequel Mass Effect: Paragon Lost is due out in just two months. A new trailer (below) for the animated movie has been released, giving fans a nine-minute look into the new fiction.

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Paragon Lost is a prequel to Mass Effect 3. It focuses on the pursuits of alliance marine James Vega, who is voiced by Freddie Prinze Jr. (Scooby Doo, She's All That). Vega is in charge of a Special Forces squad tasked with battling an alien threat known as The Collectors.

Paragon Lost is due on DVD and Blu-ray on December 28. It was developed from a collaboration between series creator BioWare, production company Funimation, and Japanese anime studio Production I.G.

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a nice diversion

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Looks really nice :)

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The animation looks better than Dragon Age Dawn of the Seeker.

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animation looks like it was made in the 90's

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@bielzabob

So animation from the 90's is a bad thing then? So why is Batman The Animated Series 10x better then this? You know nothing. Nice try.

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@bielzabob is that a bad thing???

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@vadagar1 @bielzabob Yes.

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@DarkSaber2k @bielzabob *watches old transformers movie* no its not :D (yes I know Tmovie was made in the 80s)

I like the art style although vega should have looked like the guy in ME3...but no biggy

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Truly incredible: even when he gets an entire feature length movie starring him, James Vega STILL doesn't have a bit of personality.

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wow Ninja Vega at 5:11

Looks good! the voice acting however... ummm not very bad, but not the quality I am used to hear in the game, feels kind of strange.

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Buying!!!!

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@Acejs223 Idiot!!!!

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@DarkSaber2k @Acejs223 *use biotic shock wave on Darksaber* ...OPS you had a fly on your face :P

sorry :3

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yikes, looking like an 80's bad cartoon. now, only if they got that guy who did the G1 Transfromers to do ME, it might have a chance to become an instant classic. Vega? seriously? oh, well there's always the live active movie to look forward to.

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@gamerx100 I'm pretty sure there was more than one guy who did the voices for G1 Transformers. There was at least a woman too, unless that one guy was very talented. :-P

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Man I am having a hard time believing this was animated by Production I.G. I can still see their style a bit in it but it is not really on par with their other works like Ghost in the Shell, Moribito, or Sengoku Basara. Just really doesn't look good in this at all.

When I originally saw they were animating this months ago it sounded promising, but after that video I'm not really interested. Vega AND poor style I cannot take.

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Pretty good for an animated film. Must buy for me :)

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I would rather have scene a movie about the fall of the Prothean empire.

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Always with the anime toons. "snore"

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Anime... ::snore:: notoriously bad writing, make sure you remove a few more frames to "save money" for the American release and make the animation look extra choppy

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not bad but the acting need work its horrible

since its made by japanese i hope there will be audio option since they are the best in the world for anime voice acting.

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I like.

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Sideflips? Really? Akimbo assault rifles?

Sigh. Typical anime.

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Anime. Awesome. Because that's clearly the only way to do any video game to animated movie/cartoon adaptation.

/end sarcasm

I wish these companies would stop doing every freaking video game cartoon in anime. Anime is such a niche market.

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@smoke_dog_4ever As an anime fan I totally agree. Anime may have been a little main stream in the early to mid 2000's but around late 2007/early 2008 anime went back to being a more niche market. Its like Marvel anime, I don't understand why it has to be anime to make it more mature. DC has their PG-13 animated movies that are non anime and they do just fine.

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when I saw the picture I thought it was a new awesome Dead Space movie but BOOOOOO mass effect BS

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Story and action seemed pretty cool. Don't like the art style at all. Those facial expressions make it look like an episode of Speed Racer. That's not a compliment.

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surprisingly, this doesnt look very good at all..

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What's a Mass Effect?

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Why would we want a prequel to mass effect 3 ? That seems like such an insignificant story.

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This looks much better than expected!

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Do you hear that hum? Is it just me?

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Not a bad looking toon. Reminds me a bit of Animatrix and that was watchable.

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Looks like the same crew that did the original Dead Space animated movie. They did a good job on that one, and while I wasn't originally interested in this, I hafta admit the trailer preview intrigued me. Guess I'm getting it after all; heh.

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This is loco.

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I saw this on other sites, not too shabby a story, not the greatest from what it seems. I dislike the animation though.

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Nice preview!

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Watch this guys, I saw a pre-screening at NY Comic Con and it is decent. Not brilliant or iconic, but cool stuff that rehashes some stuff from ME2

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Can't shake the feeling it looks like Cartoon Network without censoring. And Vega? Seriously?

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Why Vega of all characters? What about Garrus? His struggle in Omega before Shep met him again? Why not Ashley or Kaidan? Why not a movie about Thane and his assassinations?

Vega is the most boring char in ME. Never used him after Priority Mars

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@TheDarkNut Because Vega was designed to pull in the typical shooty-action crowd of players with his generic big, male, muscle bound "Sir, yes, sir!" aesthetic. That's why he has so much Extended Universe content.

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@TheDarkNut OMFG. OMFG. OMFG. Thane. Dude. As you can tell by my avatar....he's my favorite! I would buy that day one.

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Seems pretty neat, I guess I'll check this ou-

"It focuses on the pursuits of alliance marine James Vega..."

Oh.

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Megaman?

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Vega was the least interesting character in the whole series.

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I agree loco

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I love mass effect, but thiis movie is done in such a derivative and simplistic art style, it would've been much better to just use the in-game assets they already had

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I have been following ME: Paragon Lost since Comic-Con talk about it and I for one looking forward to this. First day buy for me on Blu-Ray and being it on Anime is a bonus for me.

P.S to all the Haters, if your not into this, why come hear then?

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Perhaps they weren't haters and were genuinely interested but ended up being unimpressed or let down by what they saw? Just maybe.

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That is also true.

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