Starfield
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Starfield Trailers
Starfield – Official Live Action Trailer
Starfield Official Gameplay Trailer
Starfield Direct – Gameplay Deep Dive
Critic Reviews for Starfield
Starfield pairs near-impossible breadth with a classic Bethesda aptitude for systemic physics, magnetic sidequests, and weird vignettes. But in sacrificing direct exploration for the sake of sheer scale, there's nothing to bind it together.
Starfield has a lot of forces working against it, but eventually the allure of its expansive roleplaying quests and respectable combat make its gravitational pull difficult to resist.
Starfield shares plenty of DNA with Skyrim and Fallout 4, but ultimately falls short of both.
I came into Starfield wanting to explore the stars, and I got a brilliant sci-fi story instead. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little disappointed.
A disappointingly low-tech space exploration game that relies too much on the legacy of Skyrim and Fallout and lacks the innovation and imagination to do its concept justice.
With this kind of freedom 'avoiding the main mission' is the main mission.