BioWare considered making a spacefaring Mass Effect spin-off for Nintendo DS.
The project, named Mass Effect: Corsair, would have been a first-person space adventure where you piloted a ship around the galaxy’s lawless regions.
Details have come to light now from former BioWare veteran Mark Darrah, as part of a MinnMax interview (thanks IGN).
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“You’d fly around [in] a ship,” Darrah said, adding that it was set “in a part of the galaxy that was more piratey and not really fully explored”, possibly “batarian space” – although Darrah isn’t 100 percent sure.
It sounds like this could be the Terminus Systems, the area largely explored in Mass Effect 2 where mercenary gangs largely hold control.
“It was going to kinda be a combination of Privateer and Star Control,” Darrah continued. “You would be independent, you’d be more like a Han Solo character, not a Spectre. And you’d be flying around, picking up cargo, exploring, and selling that information back to the human Alliance.”