★★★★☆Hype has infiltrated every particle of Starfield since its announcement in 2018. After all it marks the first game set in a new universe for Bethesda Game Studios – the developer behind behemoth role-playing games such as Skyrim and Fallout 4 – for more than 25 years. On the one hand it’s a sprawling space epic and a glossy tribute to decades of science fiction, ranging from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Star Wars and Blade Runner. On the other it’s more like “to infinity and not quite beyond”, as nagging flaws prevent it from entirely reaching the stars.
Starfield poses a question: what could you do with a galaxy in the palm of your hand? The answer is almost anything and the
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