 The Monday letters page wonders if AI was used for the Tomb Raider remasters, as one reader looks forward to the final Mario Kart 8 DLC. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk A game of many halves Starfield sure is proving very divisive and I'm not surprised. Not only have you got the complication of it being an exclusive and a Bethesda game – so that's two sets of fanboys before you even start – but you've also got the question of whether being so much like Skyrim and Fallout is a good or bad thing. I think one of the other problems is that the more you play it the more complicated the question of whether it's any good gets. On the one hand the main story starts off poorly and gets worse and worse over time. By the point you realise it's just going to be the same thing again and again the whole game starts to feel more like a 2/10 scam, especially when you get to the terrible non-ending. But the more you play the more you get into the side quests and, in my experience, these are mostly very good. The Crimson Fleet pirate one is especially good, with the most interesting group of non-player characters, but a lot of the others are great too, like the one where you find what's basically a sci-fi Batcave or the stuff with the old school colony ship. At the very least the game is very inconsistent, and I would certainly agree with the Reader's Feature at the weekend that says it has no business being given a 5/5 or 10/10 score, no matter what you think of it overall. Me personally, I'd give it a generous 8/10. Terry Gold Warts and all I would like to comment on the Starfield debate as I have a point of view that differs from the majority. Starfield has taken a bit of a kicking since its release, and everyone has been weighing in to share their opinions on how the game has failed in so many departments. I have read many of these reviews and commentaries and I have to agree with a){kind=link}
The Monday letters page wonders if AI was used for the Tomb Raider remasters, as one reader looks forward to the final Mario Kart 8 DLC.
To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk
A game of many halvesStarfield sure is proving very divisive and I’m not surprised. Not only have you got the complication of it being an exclusive and a Bethesda game – so that’s two sets of fanboys before you even start – but you’ve also got the question of whether being so much like Skyrim and Fallout is a good or bad thing.
I think one of the other problems is that the more you play it the more complicated the question of whether it’s any good gets. On the one hand the main story starts off poorly and gets worse and worse over time. By the point you realise it’s just going to be the same thing again and again the whole game starts to feel more like a 2/10 scam, especially when you get to the terrible non-ending.
But the more you play the more you get into the side quests and, in my experience, these are mostly very good. The Crimson Fleet pirate one is especially good, with the most interesting group of non-player characters, but a lot of the others are great too, like the one where you find what’s basically a sci-fi Batcave or the stuff with the old school colony ship.