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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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Krogans look like crap.

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If this means that Mass Effect is getting a cell shade makeover this might actually be the redemption of the franchise, since it is a bit more reprehensible to make anything inappropriate in the way of content in what ends up being a cartoon...not even talking about anime, for just all those reasons...

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Why does everything have to anime? I'm honestly pretty tired of it.

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have to *be* anime.

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I liked it no complaints... I've seen things like Animatrix and it's right up there. who cares about frigging 1 frame per sec ppl yeesh

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Animation quality is very poor, lacks fluidity and art style is rubbish, which shows a generally poor budget for this movie. Hope the storyline makes up for it.

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@Lazy_Marine first... when I saw the animation i thought it was fanmade. I cant even expres how dissapointed I am. There isn't even 1 frame per second. They should not have made this an Anime

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Speaking as someone who actually does invest a lot of time in anime, the art style (as well as dialogue) here is a fairly poor representation of it. Don't judge anime based on a shallow nonsensical adaptation from BioWare. That's like judging all American movies as bad because you saw the Dragonball Evolution live action film.

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I really don't like the look of this. I like anime as much as the next guy, but if ever a game series didn't need an anime remake, it was Mass Effect. The least they could have done was go the route of DA: Dawn of the Seeker. That has a much better look than this.

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Mixed feelings. Anime really isnt my thing but I can still appreciate the subject matter. I really cant help but cringe at all the back flips and dual wielding though. I know there is a certain level of over the top action that inherently comes with an anime production, but this is an established universe. Over the past 5 years we've become familiar with how the characters in the universe move and behave. To see the alliance military suddenly populated by Olympic gymnasts is a rough transition and cant help but break the immersion for me.

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It's good to choose Vega for this anime. He's one of the only characters that can die at the end and no one will feel the need to complain. See ya, buttface!

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@GreySeven Someone didn't read the article... "Paragon Lost is a prequel to Mass Effect 3."

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Hope it's good. As long as it has Quarians I'll be happy with it.

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Okay, I had no expectations for this one before this sneak peek.

Now I'm definitely interested.

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a movie with a completely unfitting artstyle about a completely unfitting character. yup, sounds like biowares new style. whats with them making anime movies of very western style games? because halo did it? because you continually fail to understand how to appeal to the hardcore fanbase? because the anime style is generally used specifically because it is cheap and quick? what world is this where the last option is the most dignified?

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naw the prolem is not the "anime" its the flash animation. ive seen some pretty high quality anime (from back in the day) hell back then anime was known for being higher quality then western animation. dont get me wrong i love all the western animated classics but gi joe didnt look half as sharp as ninja scroll.

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@onewithtoenail7 Please do not dismiss something simply because it does not suit your taste. Anime is not "cheap and quick". Most anime today have very high production values. This is also being produced by Production IG, they are a very good production company. People like you are why the world views Americans as ignorant.

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@NaturalDisplay @onewithtoenail7 I believe his comment was that it is a "cheap and quick" alternative to live action films. Yep, most animes have high production values but even an anime with high production values will have its budget trumped by a live action movie with high production values. So, his comment is not THAT ignorant.

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but why Vega? sorry, harbor a slight dislike for the character so forgive the contempt. I'll still watch...but why vega...

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What can I say? Not bad, but it's hard to judge the whole movie by nine-minute fragment.

And I would like to hear the soundtracks from the games. Anime's music is tasteless.

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the shity dragon age anime and now this ....

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they dun liek it coz all down here is gamerz :c

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Wow at all this hate and prejudice because it uses an anime style. That's pretty shallow, guys. Closed-minded Americans strike again.

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@FreakshowGamer Wow! Just coz someone hates anime makes him a close-minded American? Ignorant xenophobic *insert your nationality* strikes again.

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LOOKS LIKE TOTAL CRAP! They could have made a better movie if they used the in game engine. The style just looks god awful.

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@SolanOcard Unless you can do better you shouldn't insult other peoples work. Sure its by the numbers manga, but a team of really talented artests spent a really long time drawing those characters.

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@Gazz64 @SolanOcard Gazz64: That is the laziest counter-argument to a critic ever. I don't need to know how to make a pizza to know when one tastes like shit. A regular consumer of anything knows as much about that thing as a regular creator. By your logic, everything is criticism immune coz every little thing in this world requires efforts and hard work from someone. Think about that before you insult someone coz their parents spent a REALLLLLY long time bringing them up.

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Ah! So you gotta do better than them if you wanna insult someone. I've been wrong all these years insulting people by stating my opinion. @Gazz64 @SolanOcard

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Oh Biowhere, paragons are for Dragon Age Origins.

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Looks good. I still never finished watching Halo Legends. I never really got into the whole anime craze/had time to watch it

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Shitty anime for weeaboos matters how?

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@DarkSaber2k whats a weeaboo????

I'm too lazy to use google sue me..... and why don't we have an edit tab for our comments gamespot??!!!

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looks cool and I love James Vega <3

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Thus the actual downfall of the Mass Effect series begins.

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Sweet. An animated movie about my least favorite character in the series. Can't wait.

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@Ardus Hey, don't forget it is in an art style you admire: drawn by a 5 year old blind kid with serious carpel tunnel.

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It doesn't look too bad actually. I like the animation style. There's not much about Vega that makes me think it is Vega apart from his name but I'll try to overlook that. Not sure what's with the tiny headed Krogan mind you. I'll pick this up if I find it cheap.

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The animations should have been like Final fantasy or atleast like naruto.

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They are fighting Krogans in this video.So must be based on the Krogan rebellions,atleast one part of the movie.

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Wait its not just krogans.Who are those thin and tall folks,Salarians?

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no vorcha.Mercenary group.

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@shooters125 yeah.Remember the conversation you had with James,the one when you were sparring and talking to him at the the same time,he said something about an assault on a collector base where he had to make a decision :whether to abandon his squad and retrieve the intel or to ditch the intel and rescue his squad and he chose the intel over and it turned out to be a total waste as shepard destroys their base.this movie might be based on those events.

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@PlatinumPaladin @gamefreak215jd Blood pack,definitely.I had forgotten their names.

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@gamefreak215jd The Blood Pack was it?

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@gamefreak215jd It's Blood Pack. But the movie's main antagonist are the Collectors.

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its actually not bad -i saw the movie already at anime weekend atlanta. It actually develops vega a bit makes him less of a meat head. Overall i think the movie was ok. Plus even though you know whats going to happen it exciting to watch.

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A story about one of the least interesting characters in your party. Great! I'm so intersted in this(being ironic) Do you hear that hum? Is that just me?

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As picky as I am about anime (I only have two I find watchable) I do wish they went for more of a Dead Space.... whatever it was called approach. It was still anime but at least they moved and acted like real humans would in the situation, non of this spinning, jump kick, nonsense.

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