Are the kett and angara actually the same species?

To me this is like asking if Asari and Humans are the same species, or if one is a sub-species of the other. After all, Asari have a striking resemblance to Human females.

We'll know in a few weeks, but as the incredibly cliché saying goes, you can't always judge a book by it's cover.

Agreed. That's why I say I can go "either way".

Asari were intentionally designed to be blue space babes. Why design kett and angara to look alike, though? Was it unintentional? Coincidental? Or, are they related? We'll know pretty damn soon.

Its hard to believe this game is weeks away, given the non-existent marketing campaign. It's been a strange ride.

A lot of that had to do with development costs though.... Like I remember watching a Dev video about garrus's creation in the OT as a whole. At some point there was a remark made about how the artists were limited to doing something that fits on a human structure rig (comment wasn't garrus specific if I remember right) due to combat gameplay reasons.

But the asari were specifically designed to be basically blue humans females. When creating the kett and angara, two brand new alien races, why would they try to make them look similar and not completely different? Answer is either laziness or they're related.

Your imagination isn't running wild. They're not the same species even though they look almost identical. The people who made the game are lazy, useless and completely incompetent because they don't know how to create a brand new race from scratch. That takes creativity and talent and the people who made this game do not possess either of those qualities. That's what you're seeing in this game - lazy, shoddy work, re-skinned versions of previous races. Very little thought has gone into it. As you can see, they've made all the aliens look humanoid apart from just three species, and those humanoid races all look almost identical with very minor differences. They're all re-skinned versions modelled on humans. So no, your imagination isn't wild. The visuals in this game are simply horrible, created with no creativity and no originality.

It's not the size of our galaxy, so they are most likely planning to expand it with each new game. They called MEA a saga, and implied we might not even play as Ryder again. So it's more like DA now possibly.