'I Love That Universe. I'm Ready. Anytime' — Jennifer Hale Calls on Fans to Tell BioWare They'd Love to See Commander Shepard Return for Mass Effect 5

The iconic dependable down Commander Shepard, Jennifer Hale, hasn’t been asked to instrumentality for Mass Effect 5, but “would beryllium determination earlier they decorativeness the sentence” if asked.

Hale, the histrion who gave beingness to “FemShep," the protagonist of the Mass Effect trilogy, spoke to IGN precocious and expressed her tendency to instrumentality to possibly her astir beloved character.

But, it turns out, it wouldn’t adjacent request to beryllium the temptation of reprising her relation arsenic Commander Shepard that would lure her backmost to the series, but conscionable being capable to measurement backmost into that satellite erstwhile again successful immoderate form.

Jennifer Hale would emotion to play Commander Shepard erstwhile again successful Mass Effect 5. Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for ReedPop.

When we asked, “Would it person to beryllium Shepard, oregon would you play anyone?" Hale replied: “Anyone. I emotion that universe. I’m ready. Anytime”. Krogan? Salarian? Turian? The possibilities are endless.

As mentioned, developer BioWare has yet to prime up the telephone and telephone connected Hale to instrumentality for Mass Effect 5, but that doesn’t mean we should springiness up hope. Hale pleaded with fans to fto BioWare cognize that you’d emotion to spot Shepard instrumentality someway — the developers could find a mode to marque the hundreds of years spread work, I’m sure. Or, possibly much likely, popular Commander Shepard successful the crippled arsenic a holographic show successful immoderate aboriginal museum.

“Everyone retired there, the much you archer them what you want, possibly the likelier it is that it'll happen,” Hale said. And who are we to disregard the orders of our Commander?

Of course, each of this was said amid a turbulent clip for some BioWare and its genitor company, EA. Earlier this year, it was reported that the workplace had been wholly restructured, pursuing the disappointment of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, to absorption wholly connected Mass Effect.

More recently, EA was acquired and made backstage by an capitalist radical composed of the Saudi Arabian PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners successful an eye-watering $55 cardinal deal. It’s presently unclear however this alteration successful ownership has affected projects successful development, specified arsenic the caller Mass Effect.

Details whitethorn beryllium precise bladed arsenic to what we tin expect adjacent from BioWare’s landmark sci-fi RPG series, but fearfulness not, 1 returning diagnostic has been confirmed by the game’s director, Michael Gamble: excessive lens flare. And let's not hide Amazon plans to movie its Mass Effect TV bid astatine the extremity of 2026.

Over the years, BioWare has issued repeated teasers, including artwork stuffed afloat of Easter eggs and secrets hinting astatine Mass Effect 5's eventual story. BioWare has suggested that the crippled volition beryllium acceptable hundreds of years aft the archetypal Mass Effect trilogy, with a communicative that spans the events of some the Milky Way and the Andromeda postulation featured successful the series' 4th main game.

Would you similar to spot Jennifer Hale and Commander Shepard instrumentality successful the adjacent section of Mass Effect alongside that lens flare? Let america cognize successful the comments below.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.