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Actually Anthem was known by a different name during his first days of development. According to a detailed report on the development of Anthem (and its many problems) published on Kotaku, the first team that worked on Anthem called the project Beyond.

In fact, it turns out that Beyond was much more than just a working title. The first working title of the game was actually "Dylan". In the early days of AnthemThe development of, the team chose Beyond because it represented exactly what they wanted to do with the game (both in a larger sense and in the idea of ​​leaving his fort to venture into the world beyond). They apparently went so far as to print t-shirts with the name Beyond on them.

At the time BioWare was ready to officially go ahead with the development of BeyondHowever, EA informed the studio that they would have to call it otherwise. EA simply felt that it would be too difficult to guarantee the rights to the name Beyond. At that time, BioWare went to name Anthem which was apparently one of the other titles that they had cast when choosing the name of the game.

The only problem was that Anthem apparently did not mean anything. A person who spoke about game development even noted that some team members were frustrated by the fact that the new name of the game simply did not make sense. While Beyond was based on what the team was already working on, this same team should find a way to incorporate the name Anthem in the experiment.

What makes all this so much more interesting is the fact that we had already learned (via additional material) that Anthem It was originally a group of human survivors who crashed into a hostile extraterrestrial world. The original pitch of the game implied the idea that the players had to survive in this world through both combat and resource management. Some members of the team went so far as to name names like Darkest Dungeon, Dark Souls, and The shadow of the collosus when describing the original version of the larger ideas and mechanics of the game.

So, basically, you could say that Beyond was actually a different BioWare game that we never had. However, it would be more accurate to say that ideas in Beyond were rolled into what was eventually called Anthem.