It is always good to see a level of study in real time. Owlcat has been a loved study for many years, producing role -up games from top to bottom such as the Pathfinder series. However, The Expanso: Osiris Reborn marks an important change for Chipre -based studio. Not only is it your first third -person role -playing game, but it represents a substantial effort to adapt an IP already established and loved with AAA production values.
Duration Gamescom 2025, we sat down with the Owlcat games and saw a demonstration of 60 minutes of this long -awaited Next space game. At the same time, we can ask both questions and really deepen the objectives they have with the extension: Osiris Reborn.
Duration of sixty minutes, we saw a printing role game that seems to be the Clean monitoring of Mass Effect’s trilogy Fans have wanted for more than a decade, with many of their own turns and game mechanics that feel exciting for gender. However, for unconditional extent fans, the game is firmly rooted in political emotions and IP tradition. Can they achieve a balance and keep everyone happy? The first signals look good.
Rooted in the source material
The Exponse: Osiris Reborn is an original story along with the first two books (and the first two and a half seasons of the television program). In fact, the study has been inspired by the dramatic and visual style of the show when it comes to film and history missions. Osiris Reborn is completely intertwined with the program events. The factions, political systems and the world of the world are every lord; It can be said that Owlcat is dealing with all aspects of the world of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck with the greatest care and attention.
The key moments that appeared in the program, such as iconic video images of the key figures, will appear in the game. You can find teddy models of famous cartoon characters on a television program on a delivery on a desk.
None of this means that the newcomers won something to understand here, thought. The sympathetic characters and the classic Mass Effect style -style staff provide an attractive hook, and the original story gives rookies a new entrance point to the franchise.
You can play such as Earthers, Martians or Belters, with notable differences between each option. A character of the demonstration, Larry, is an important talent and it is significant that the other characters, and their speech and behavior reflect that of the Belters. The genre you choose, you will have a brother of the same genre, forming the personal spine of the main story, where you play as a pink waters mercenary.
Through the game, you will meet new classmates, each with their own specializations, personalities and features that can affect the game, history and options and dialogue options you have. A partner can sacrifice a solution to repel an enemy shipping action, while your player character has another method: it depends on you to choose which way to take, but ignoring the advice of your associate could affect your relationship with them in the future.
Mass Effect has returned, in all but the name
The Exponse: Osiris Reborn owes a lot of your game DNA to Mass Effect. It is a third -person classic shooter based on the cover with a large amount of skills mixed there, such as drilling rounds and the ability to highlight enemies through the walls. You can customize your character and also choose a base game style. There are no classes, and the game is not interested in locking it in using certain equipment or weapons. Instead, they form a baseline for your character that you can build with gun options or skills.
You can combine skills, weapons and equipment to address enemies and different threats, adapting the march for each meeting. The armored enemies will be loaded, and others will sit and hide behind the roof, which forces it to take them out.
You can also rely on your classmates quite significantly in battles. You can have two next to you in fights, but we only had one in the demonstration (our brother). Each partner can be directed to complete certain actions, tell those who attack or instruct the issue to interact with the environment; It is a reminiscence of the contextual mechanics of “call to action” in the game Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy.
A warning appears when a nearby environmental object is interactable. These can destroy or create coverage sections, or even knock down parts of the world, such as ceiling fans, in the heads of your enemies for brutal death. Each partner has their own way of doing things.
Owlcat said that a clear way of “wanted to differentiate us in the market” is that even the companions who are not with you will play a role in the missions. That may be talking about communications with the player, offer options to address the objectives or, in the example of our demonstration, help with air support and attack enemies from the ship. This means that the companions who did not choose to fight against do not disappear in the ether for 40 hours while using everyone else.
Comba and combat systems are incredible robust and well committed. We have only played a small section, but so far, no mechanic, system or idea seems to have an underutilized bone leg or medium Scooter. This is a clean evolution for WLCAT and one of the richest role -playing games that I can remember in recent years.
The game is structured in a series of explorable areas with secondary missions, secrets and chest chests to find, but it is not an open world in the traditional sense. There will also be secondary missions, many of them Missable, so it is worth exploring and talking with all you know, something that RPG fans do not need to be told twice.
Some secrets are hidden behind the verifications of statistics skills, such as science and persuasion, and throughout the game, you are investing in these skills and building your inventory of weapons, armor and equipment, either buying or looting them. There is no RNG for Stat skills verifications, thought; It is a simple passage or failure system that depends on how many points it has.
Make you pieces everything
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One last thing that extended by demo is graphic fidelity and technology behind the extension: Osiris Reborn. Character models and lip synchronization are first category here, and feels like a large budget title when it comes to production values.
Explore the exterior of your ship shows some beautiful views of space with excellent lighting and a solid soundtrack. The game also had orbit in real time, which we found that it particularly found an impression, since you can see that your ship revolved through space when you are floating.
The sound is cushioned when fighting in space to reflect the lack of an atmosphere, and there is a physical system in real time that means that enemies and objects will float in the conviction based on the force that they or the direction they threw.
In addition, there is an impressive level of detail and environmental destruction. The walls inside the ship fall apart as signaling, paint and exterior shell receive bullet damage, and can completely destroy a weaker cover in combat
These environments can also change depending on their choices, duration of history, moments of history. We chose to attack the invaders instead of surrendering, and towards the end of the demonstration, the ship’s runners torn in pieces and entered into fighting bodies that exploded before arriving.
After seeing more than 20 games in Gamescom, The Exponse: Osiris Reborn has been the highlight of the program, and was one of the best pure game exhibitions for a game we have in a long time. He still has a path to go, but Owlcat seems balance to have a moment of rupture with Osiris Reborn, and Mass Effect fans and the universe of expenses will be delighted with the respect and care that is infused in each pixel on the screen and each mechanic.
The extension: Osiris Reborn is reaching personal computer” PlayStation 5and Xbox x/s series. We do not have a release date at this time, but we will keep it informed as more information falls.
