Starfield

 Xbox Series X
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6.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 6232 Ratings

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  1. Kooolout
    Sep 7, 2023
    9
    Action RPG anyone? Gunplay, spaceships, outpost and of course character development and relation building. I’ve gotten lost in this game everyday since sept 1st. Give it a shot cause it’s worth it!!
  2. hugo0
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    o que dizer sobre esse jogo? quantas promessas e ilusões foram feitas pelo falastrão do todd howard? um jogo com uma boa premissa, porém traduzido de forma porca e sem identidade. é um jogo feito as pressas, sem capricho.
  3. HorusVenus1210
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    I love open world games, zelda, the witcher, Skyrim and that kind of games, Starfield it's different, it's addictive I spend my whole day thinking about the planets i will explore, thinking about resources to improve my ship, I'm just in love with this game. thank you Bethesda.
  4. DevilDjinn
    Sep 7, 2023
    4
    Game lacks any real vision. Feels very bland and uninspired. Does nothing to change the formula up. Space exploration is boring and tedious, gun play is acceptable, graphics are quite dated for a 2023 game.
    Its by no means a bad game, it just isnt a good one. It might be time to look at updating the creation engine Bethesda.
    Very disappointed.
  5. Aterdian
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    Warning!! This game is not for everyone, and reduce ur expectation with Seamless Exploration stuff can do much and much thing like other game do.. But still, this game is trully a classic masterpiece even if i never played Bethesda game before so yeah this game introduce me with all Bethesda thing people talk a lot.. In a good way this game hook me up to play any other Bethesda game likeWarning!! This game is not for everyone, and reduce ur expectation with Seamless Exploration stuff can do much and much thing like other game do.. But still, this game is trully a classic masterpiece even if i never played Bethesda game before so yeah this game introduce me with all Bethesda thing people talk a lot.. In a good way this game hook me up to play any other Bethesda game like fallout 4 and skyrim. If u looking a game with varied choices to through ur adventure this is the game u need consider, embrace it and dive more ntil u lost in space. The quality of side quest itself is lovely great compared to other video game main quest.. Cant ask more, this game is lovely with all rpg, combat, space combat, side quest, dst.. Cutscene loading screen?? Its forgiveable for me… Expand
  6. OnlyOneHere
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    This game is a huge steaming pile of garbage. For goodness sake, why does Bethesda still keep using this same outdated PS2 engine? Enough already. This is literally just a reskinned Fallout 4. It plays and feels exactly the same, not to mention that Fallout 4 was already an outdated piece of garbage when it first released. The greedy developers are too cheap and lazy to update or get a newThis game is a huge steaming pile of garbage. For goodness sake, why does Bethesda still keep using this same outdated PS2 engine? Enough already. This is literally just a reskinned Fallout 4. It plays and feels exactly the same, not to mention that Fallout 4 was already an outdated piece of garbage when it first released. The greedy developers are too cheap and lazy to update or get a new engine. Not even EA is that greedy to use stone age engines for their PS5/XSX games. Bethesda is now owned by a multi-trillion dollar company and it's pathetic they still use this same Nintendo DS 2D minigame for lockpicking in a $70 next-gen only title. I can pick locks in real-time in Atomic Heart, and that game was made by an inexperienced no-name studio with a much smaller publisher. That just proves Bethesda are extremely greedy and lazy. You can't open doors in real-time, nor can you grab anything in real-time. The developers bragged about 1000 planets, but it's nothing more than 1000 glorified interiors.

    The missions are boring and repetitive. The story is terrible. The character models are so hideous, it makes me want to puke. The facial animations are laughable. The gunplay is horrible, and so is the inventory system. The space battles are a joke. The physics are complete trash. When I fall into the water 100 feet in the air, there's no splash nor does my character go underwater. The water doesn't even react to grenades and explosions. This $70 next-gen only title runs at 30 FPS. The protagonist doesn't talk. These cheapskates didn't want to pay for a protagonist voice actor. The AI is incredibly stupid. I can't believe the amount of Xbox fanboys lying about the lack of bugs. That is an absolute lie, there's many bugs in this game. Speaking of fanboys, they claim that the game gets fun in about 12 hours. A game shouldn't take that freaking long to be fun. This garbage costs $70, it should be fun right from the get-go. If an entertainment product doesn't entertain, then what's the point? I also love how these fanboys make that claim, because they're basically admitting that the first 12 hours are boring.

    There's nothing to do in the open world. Wait, did I say open world? There are loading screens when visiting other planets. It's the same garbage as Witcher 3, can't even explore the entire open world in real-time. The planets are empty. It's just wastelands full of rocks, plants and more rocks. Yeah I get it, most planets in the universe are empty. But let's not forget you can't even explore an entire planet, nor can you explore outerspace in real-time like you can in No Man's Sky, meaning Bethesda clearly had the choice to only make us explore the interesting parts. They didn't make that choice. To make matters worse, there's no land vehicles, making it more tedious to explore these empty landscapes. Speaking of exploration, there are no maps. They could have at least added a proper map for the so-called "cities" but the developers were too lazy for that. I don't want to waste my time trying to find the gun shop. What is it with Bethesda calling small settlements cities? If those are cities, then Paleto Bay and Sandy Shores from GTA V are cities.

    There is no multiplayer. So once you beat the story, there is literally not a reason to play this game again. Charging $70 for a game with no replay value is a cash grab. Where's Team Deathmatch? Where's PvP space battles? Co-op? Anything? It is highly embarrassing that an indie studio like Hello Games can give me co-op, yet this veteran AAA studio backed by a multi-trillion dollar corporation can't even do that. Even a failure defunct studio like Volition can give me co-op. A very tiny studio like Coffee Stain North can give me co-op. I could make plenty of examples in regards to other smaller studios humiliating you Bethesda and Microsoft, but why should I even bother doing that when you already do an amazing job at humiliating yourselves. I mean, just look at those NPCs. They don't react to you firing your weapons, a basic detail that many PS2 games had. I remember playing N64 games with that little detail. I am sick to death of Microsoft's low quality trash. I expect a dozen top-notch AAA biblical gaming experiences by now from a multi-trillion dollar company. I don't recommend this game at all, unless you want to support laziness.    … Expand
  7. iZayko
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    One of the best games of the year, stunning graphics and exploration is just amazing, happy yo have and xbox and play this wonderful game.
  8. Monkey_Panic
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    A legendary game that will be remembered forever.

    Its a massive open world Rpg with so much to do that it can take months to complete it. So many different stories interconnected, the paths you choose the decisions you make molds it into a fine role playing game.
  9. Luckjulio
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    O jogo está incrível, não se deixem influenciar pela mídia, apenas joguem e tenham sua próprias conclusões,o jogo é fantástico…o jogo começa a ficar bom depois de umas 2 horas, depois fica sensacional
  10. nareshjkin
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    I have played this game for Hrs before rating this 10/10. Its a masterpiece which will be played for long and enjoyed by all. As it got Story,Graphics, Side Quests of the length of mini games...
  11. Balint20
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    Starfield is amazing just like other Bethesda game studios Titles like Elder scrolls It is amazing
  12. abdogm90
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    I don't play it at all I don't play it in Xbox series x or s or pc but it is a masterpiece
  13. ASMONGOLDLEGEND
    Sep 7, 2023
    1
    Unfortunately a lot of bugs and glitches wasted my time with reload and save
  14. Mac1972
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    Gigante!!! Viciante!!! Um dos melhores jogos dessa geração, não consigo parar de jogar
  15. Universo
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Esse é um lixo, o produtor desse jogo é mentiroso, motor gráfico é horrível, npc de filme de terror, combate medíocre… Expand
  16. Kiddorf
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Got this game on PC & Series X through Gamepass
    Even though i didn't "buy" the game I feel MS owes me money for having wasted my time on it and devaluing gamepass. Thats how bad this game is
    This game turned out to be a huge disappointment, its a mediocre Bethesda game and a downright awful space game. For starters the space is fake, theres no exploration. Ships are purposefully    Got this game on PC & Series X through Gamepass
    Even though i didn't "buy" the game I feel MS owes me money for having wasted my time on it and devaluing gamepass. Thats how bad this game is

    This game turned out to be a huge disappointment, its a mediocre Bethesda game and a downright awful space game.

    For starters the space is fake, theres no exploration. Ships are purposefully designed to be slow as molases (despite having tech for warp engine across galaxies) so you dont stray far from the planets atmosphere (which btw is a fake png too) unless you hit throttle for literally hours on end

    How convenient huh? That space ships with warp technology across technology, moves so slow it cant move around solar system at reasonable speeds

    I say convenient because this is a intentional cap to mask and hide the fake space, theres no space its just a map with quick travel loading screens. The planets are just segmented levels which you quick travel to

    tl,dr If you're looking for a space game, avoid this game its terrible, a waste of money and time    … Expand
  17. Colbycow
    Sep 7, 2023
    9
    Lovely. Just lovely. My only problem is how fast traveling is almost a must in order to a few quests
  18. rahiriz
    Sep 7, 2023
    9
    Only reason I give it a 9 is bc load screens can become too much. However you kinda get used to it and learn tricks to avoid them. Hopefully it is fixed at some point otherwise this game is a masterpiece and the more you play the better it gets!! I just love it
  19. Gamersi
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    Un juego muy completo e inmenso, muy entretenido, no presente casi ningún bug y para considerar el tamaño es un logro sorprendente, las posibilidades que nos presenta son muchísimas, creación de naves, misiones secundaria, facciones, una excelente historia que te atrapa, ya llevo más de 30 horas y creo que le voy a dedicar más de 500 horas
  20. Jobo3010
    Sep 7, 2023
    6
    I was looking forward to this game being the reason owning an Xbox was more than playing older titles. I even had it pre-ordered until I saw the demo and Bethesda explain what kind of game they were making, so I canceled and would wait for it to go on sale or Gamepass. Luckily Microsoft's business model is geared towards its subscription service, so I got this game day 1 for a month atI was looking forward to this game being the reason owning an Xbox was more than playing older titles. I even had it pre-ordered until I saw the demo and Bethesda explain what kind of game they were making, so I canceled and would wait for it to go on sale or Gamepass. Luckily Microsoft's business model is geared towards its subscription service, so I got this game day 1 for a month at $17, and honestly it's not a bad deal considering how disappointing the game was. I've anyways enjoyed Bethesda games in the past, with wide vistas, an interactive world with deep lore and winding stories with a few narrative choices for the player, and a leveling system that helped build all the immersion. With Starfield you certainly get the wide open maps, a heavy amount of world building and lore, but everything else feels watered down. There's no improvement to the formula with this game, it really does feel like a 4k rework of Fallout 4 with a space themed expansion. Conversation chains are redundant beyond story interaction where you choose to talk, buy, or fight out of a situation. Besides the distracting and aged face modeling and reactions, you can upset an NPC so that they 'won't talk to you again' and then just start the conversation over and try a different choice path. Interaction with the world is limited to picking up things, hitting buttons, or talking to people (besides combat). For instance: in Fallout 4 you could find a dozen computers to hack or read through to piece together a mystery through pages of context and access secret areas all in a single dungeon. In Starfield you can wander an entire city finding a few consoles to interact with that look like menus out of a PS2 era RPG, with context delivered in a few sentences. That's kind of the game in a nutshell: you get a fraction of the effort spread over an exponentially larger and emptier world. Space exploration is little more than resource hunting and developing, as there is an outpost management game that's a grown up version of what's in Fallout 4, and instead of building a power suit, now you can build ships! But the ship building isn't very in depth right now without Bethesda stripping it's mod community for content thanks to its very anti-player user agreement. The space battles are fine and the only real new thing in the game, but they're mostly forgettable considering anything else in the market like Rebel Galaxy or Elite Dangerous. The lack of depth in ship development and modification also makes most space battles not only straight forward, but really repetitive, almost a copy and paste of the ground combat. Ground combat is next to awful. Gunplay is fine, feels like a smoothed out version of Fallout 4, but controls are still clunky at times. Despite the variety of weapons adding some spice to combat, it's generally ruined by the awful AI that moves at random or not at all, acting more often as spongy sitting ducks that occasionally shoot back and glue themselves to cover.

    The game looks great and there's plenty to look at, so I've found some fun there and in some of the side quests, but like everything else in the game it's all skin deep. Exposing a corrupt politician at the end of a storyline only to have him there in his office weeks later in game and talk to you like it was the first time meeting and nothing has happened... you see it constantly and it just shatters the illusion. Bethesda tried building a giant lake instead of a deep and interesting pool, but it's only a few feet deep at parts, and often it feels like a puddle.

    I'm glad I tried it on Gamepass because it's not terrible, I'm having some fun with it, but it is a massive letdown. I might try to finish the main story and hope it doesn't play out exactly like it seems, but I'm not holding my breath and I'll eventually get bored with this and leave it for good. There's just not enough here at the core of the game to come back to, so even a better story with actual characters wouldn't hide the bland undercoat here.    … Expand
  21. TrueAuzzieJesus
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    The best Bethesda has to offer. I'm not typically a singleplayer guy but this game has me addicted.
  22. The_Claymores
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. REALLY bad storytelling. Bland uninteresting characters. Nick Valentine from Fallout 4 is more interesting than every Starfield character combined.

    Here is the horrible story set-up in the introduction:
    - First day mining on the job. Your boss finds an anomaly they don't understand and tells you to investigate it by yourself (this would never happen in any job)
    - You touch a rock and pass out
    - Wake up and everyone says you're special because you randomly passed out
    - Random guy you don't know all of a sudden gives you his ship and robot    … Expand
  23. Marvilion
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    Easily one of the best games I've ever played in my life and it's by far the best space game in history
  24. Iampotion
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Had horrible gameplay and buggy glitches. Made it impossible to play. Immediately refunded the game. Hard to have faith in Bethesda anymore.
  25. Diogo708
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    Incrivel, roda muito bem e bonito mesmo no series S, jogo lindo!! vale muito a pena, principalmente se você já jogou titulos anteriores da bethesda, esse é tão bom quanto.
  26. Tobigamer333
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    Starfield is a Very Great GAME and game of the year contender *don't listen to the bad review bombing!!!!* (those are all the ps 5 sad fanboys that can't play starfield people and bots who created accounts only for talking nonsense and crap) I say that as someone with both Consoles This game has the fallout oblivion morrowind and skyrim vibe the music is beautiful it sometimes gives newStarfield is a Very Great GAME and game of the year contender *don't listen to the bad review bombing!!!!* (those are all the ps 5 sad fanboys that can't play starfield people and bots who created accounts only for talking nonsense and crap) I say that as someone with both Consoles This game has the fallout oblivion morrowind and skyrim vibe the music is beautiful it sometimes gives new Vegas vibe and it's the Bethesda formula through and through it was never a competitor to no man sky or Star citizen and was never advertised in general everyone who thought otherwise is an idiot) Real Bethesda Fans that love the formula never thought that all I wanted was skyrim/fallout rpg in space and this is it and that's what we got and it works great no game is perfect so people only concentrate on the negativ bs and believe me this game came out very polished compare to all the other games in the last few years and i also thought this game will not Hit me but boy it did especially when you love Mass Effect/ Star Wars/Star Gate and Sci-fi in GENERAL. (AGAIN DONT LISTE TO THE REVIEW BOMBING BS AND BIASED MEDIA) PS 5 ONLY GOT RATCHET AND CLANK LAST OF US AND DEMON SOULS ALREADY EXISTED AND THEY ADVERTISED EVERYTHING WITH 8K ON THE BOX NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THAT I'M SICK OF PEOPLE DEFENDING PS 5 I ALSO CAN'T ANYMORE DEFENDING IT ESPECIALLY AFTER THE PRICE INREASE OF PS PLUS!!)… Expand
  27. GodOfWar69
    Sep 7, 2023
    10
    God of War director hails Starfield as top 3 game all time and urges everyone to play it

    God of War Director David Jaffe has urged everyone to play Starfield on Game Pass after labelling it as one of his top three games of all time. Starfield has received a lot of positivity from the gaming community, with many players and critics alike praising the game’s incredible locations and    God of War director hails Starfield as top 3 game all time and urges everyone to play it

    God of War Director David Jaffe has urged everyone to play Starfield on Game Pass after labelling it as one of his top three games of all time.

    Starfield has received a lot of positivity from the gaming community, with many players and critics alike praising the game’s incredible locations and game-changing New Game Plus mode.    … Expand
  28. psjay
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Load load load bug bug bug！Load load load bug bug bug！Load load load bug bug bug！Load load load bug bug bug！Load load load bug bug bug！Load load load bug bug bug！Load load load bug bug bug！Load load load bug bug bug！Load load load bug bug bug！
  29. Psychonauts8
    Sep 7, 2023
    9
    Starfield is an amazing game from BGS from the beautiful scenery to the epic quests you can find while exploring the Starfield universe. It's a must play for anyone that loves sci-fi or exploring the unknown.
  30. Vergilxxz
    Sep 7, 2023
    0
    Um dos piores jogos q eu já joguei na minha vida, um completo simulador espacial, cheio de bugs
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83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 81 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 69 out of 81
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 81
  3. Negative: 1 out of 81
  1. Gamereactor Finland
    Nov 1, 2023
    70
    It's a big game, but starts way too slowly, and may never get interesting.
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  2. Gamereactor Spain
    Oct 16, 2023
    90
    It is true that you'll find a good number of barren wastelands with little to do other than extracting some resources and take off to more interesting places, but again it really depends on how you want to play. There's so much to do, so many systems and abilities to explore, missions to complete, spaceships to loot, and species to catalogue, that I honestly don't think there's anybody who thinks that exploring every square meter of this universe is the better way to enjoy Starfield.
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  3. The Loadout
    Oct 15, 2023
    80
    While it has weak spots and doesn’t push many boundaries, Starfield is still an excellent RPG experience. Bethesda has once again mastered the things it built its reputation on – world building, quest design, and deep customization. However, it’s found new things to excel at too, with exciting combat and a novel implementation of New Game Plus.
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