Anthem is Bioware's attempt at making a Destiny except with rad exo suits and flying.
It is like Destiny in that there are a handful of classes, no set roles, recharging abilities as well as an ultimate, fun traversal, a bunch of aliens to shoot, some story about some ancient macguffin or another I think, and nice graphics. The mission design is kind of also go to X location and shoot things until you go to Y location from what I have seen.
It is unlike destiny that honestly the combat isn't as good when compared to something made by a house that almost exclusively makes FPS games. None of the guns are as punchy, nor does it have something similar to hitting the weak point for massive damage. I think I like the dialogue/characterization of the NPCs more. Traversal has a bit more management to it since you can overheat but skimming a river is sure cool. The loot system is basically how all gameplay customization is done. Your loot is not only guns but your active abilities(like your class ability and grenade in Destiny), and passive armor bonuses. I haven't messed with it so far this demo but there is a crafting system to make items for all of the above too it seems. The cosmetic system is also miles above the shaders. You can customize not only paint color but material type for six different categories as well as decals, clean and dirty shaders and unlockable part types. This seems to be where any of the microtransaction stuff might come in. Oh and probably the emotes too.
I dunno what else to say really cause I really only know what I know from playing the demo. You can play it too this weekend if you have a fast enough connection to download it. Or on the 15th with EA Origin Access Premier, or the 22nd when the game actually comes out.. or... I dunno I'd have to look at the chart again.
I don't know if anyone around here is interested in it but I'm definitely gonna pick it up for either PC or PS4.
Also this is just an excuse to make people look at my good good javelin designs.