Starfield

 Xbox Series X
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6.4

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  1. AncientAmber
    Sep 9, 2023
    5
    It's a strange thing to play this game. List the features of the game: open universe, space battles, terrestrial combat, diverse factions interacting, loads of different weapons, deep character customisation; it should be a great game.

    But. At no point in the game am I actually having fun in the moment. For the first dozen hours, I am instead merely anticipating enjoyment, but it never    It's a strange thing to play this game. List the features of the game: open universe, space battles, terrestrial combat, diverse factions interacting, loads of different weapons, deep character customisation; it should be a great game.

    But. At no point in the game am I actually having fun in the moment. For the first dozen hours, I am instead merely anticipating enjoyment, but it never comes. This is because the developers were so focussed on the big things I listed above that they forgot to make any of the constituent elements of those things interesting or fun.

    The space fights devolve into trivial encounters in which one holds a button while following another ship, or they consist of a series of jousts. The ground combat is seriously like something out of the 90s, the AI is basic AF and the layout of the missions means that an interesting stealth approach is generally unfeasible.

    The missions are structured in a way that leaves one simply fast travelling and waiting in loading screens, or even worse, following a cookie cutter npc as they walk incredibly slowly towards another npc. When the NPCs speak, it is with half arsed vocal performances delivering lines so boring that one learns mash the skip button within 5 minutes of playing.

    Anyone who's played Star Citizen knows that one of the best things about that game is how seamless the transition between atmosphere and space is, the knowledge that you could actually fly 2km down to the surface and land your ship enriches the (broken) experience so much. The fact that Bethesda did not allow us to fly in atmosphere and land our ships and all that is baffling to me. They go to all this effort to make different planets and outer space, but don't actually link them in an interesting way. Because of this, each planet, and space itself, feels siloed when it should all feel connected and open.

    Genuinely, honestly, the highlight of this game is the lockpicking. Finally someone has found a nice middle ground in difficulty for this age-old game mechanic.

    Between the interest in this, Star Citizen and No Man's Sky, we know the market for a great space opera game is out there. No one seems quite able to pull it off.    … Expand
  2. Fenjo26
    Sep 10, 2023
    2
    This game is so boring. At first I thought I was the only one who felt that way, but my friends feel the same. This game only made me want to download No man's sky.
  3. ckennedy
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    One of the best games of all time. BGS took their already excellent formula and improved upon multiple aspects of it, and had a very smooth launch to boot. Inflated my score a bit to counteract all the butthurt Sony Ponies review bombing. Haven’t finished the game yet but I’d say this game is at least a 9-9.5 out of 10. Maybe higher but at least a 9.
  4. pedlou
    Sep 10, 2023
    6
    Bonjour, Je lui mets la note de 6/10 ça reste un jeu jouable mais sans + Je m’attendais à beaucoup mieux et dans le genre c’est un énième witcher.
  5. CloudXz
    Sep 10, 2023
    0
    Politics Agenda... again. Games looks like it's from 1998 or something. Is pure Trash. Disgusting!
  6. cedu1980
    Sep 9, 2023
    10
    Slow at start, but after some hours is a great game. Cant sop playing......
  7. Ayvaza
    Sep 10, 2023
    4
    What else could someone expect from the vast size of the cosmos... its a whole lot of boring nothing. i dont even want to spend much time explaining why this game is boring, so in short summary:
    The open world is filled with ugly looking ressources and wildlife, which can be hunted/gathered and scanned, anyone could build a better world with a map builder on any game, i even remember    What else could someone expect from the vast size of the cosmos... its a whole lot of boring nothing. i dont even want to spend much time explaining why this game is boring, so in short summary:
    The open world is filled with ugly looking ressources and wildlife, which can be hunted/gathered and scanned, anyone could build a better world with a map builder on any game, i even remember doing a better job at farcry2 or 3 (dont remember anymore), where the maps actually looked pretty.
    So in all that boring nothingness, you get a few outposts/settlements/buildings, where you can loot and explore, guess what, opening the door will require to wait a few seconds for you to enter, its probably just a small loading screen. after entering it, you will get a whole lot of items you can loot, there comes the other thing which made me hate the gameplay, 135kg where i can store stuff, and its already full after like 5mins of exploring a building. so you either have to overload your companion or run back to your ship and store it there and come back later. but dont worry, thats not the only quality of life feature which is missing, the game also doesnt have a map (i mean a technology advanced enough for space travel but not maps), it also doesnt have a minimap.
    the fasttravel system is complicated, you have to look at the location with your scanner and use fasttravel.

    - no normal fasttravel
    - no map
    - no minimap
    - super bland coloring / watching the game is enough to bore the sht out of you
    - boring introduction
    - boring and ugly world
    - the moment you start enjoying the exploration , your bag gets full

    i for my part didnt enjoy it, i bought the preorder pack for over 100bucks, got a refund, played it on the gamepass and still didnt enjoy it and quit early on.
    never gonna trust any of the gameplay reviews again
    looks like bethesda is hoping that the modders fix their game, or they wanna implement features like maps, higher storage capacity with a paid dlc    … Expand
  8. HughMBehavior
    Sep 8, 2023
    5
    Pretty boring so far (4 hours.) I'll change my review if that changes. This game needs a big dose of medicine from Dr. Nomansky.

    This is MOST DEFINITELY a Gamepass Game. At least you'll be able to play Civ 6 & Monster Train & GREAT RPGs like Pillars of Eternity 2 & Dragon Age & New Vegas & Oblivion if you don't like this. Or No Man's Sky! Those are some good consolation prizes. And    Pretty boring so far (4 hours.) I'll change my review if that changes. This game needs a big dose of medicine from Dr. Nomansky.

    This is MOST DEFINITELY a Gamepass Game.
    At least you'll be able to play Civ 6 & Monster Train & GREAT RPGs like Pillars of Eternity 2 & Dragon Age & New Vegas & Oblivion if you don't like this. Or No Man's Sky! Those are some good consolation prizes. And you'll need em. Maybe.

    I'm not knocking a point off for the BS "current day" The Whole World is Californya Bruh politicult crap. Not yet anyway. Let me get 20 hours in. That's when I'll either quit or revise this up. Orrrrr down.

    Also note: this game may get a lot better over the years as fans fix it. It's not like BETHESDA will. They are the anti No Man's Sky shop. Todd Howard is too busy "working" on Starfield 3076.    … Expand
  9. Arkane7
    Sep 10, 2023
    1
    This could have been a great game and something to play until Star Citizen arrives but instead its a mess of repetitive gameplay and poorly executed mechanics. They gone full force with the identity politics as well which really breaks game immersion. And that is the main reason a lot of us play videogames for, the immersion aspect and as an escape from the real world. Your're not going toThis could have been a great game and something to play until Star Citizen arrives but instead its a mess of repetitive gameplay and poorly executed mechanics. They gone full force with the identity politics as well which really breaks game immersion. And that is the main reason a lot of us play videogames for, the immersion aspect and as an escape from the real world. Your're not going to find that here.… Expand
  10. Xavsc47
    Sep 8, 2023
    5
    The game feel and play like a 2010 game with 2015 graphics, very outdated for a AAA game.
    In my opinion, the gameplay is average, main quest is mediocre, the npc are souless, glitchy, with one of the worst AI that i've seen in a very long time.
    The game is not open world, its collection of instances all seperated from eachother, some are poorly randomly generated. This caused me to alway    The game feel and play like a 2010 game with 2015 graphics, very outdated for a AAA game.
    In my opinion, the gameplay is average, main quest is mediocre, the npc are souless, glitchy, with one of the worst AI that i've seen in a very long time.
    The game is not open world, its collection of instances all seperated from eachother, some are poorly randomly generated. This caused me to alway fast travel through the game and have an abusive number of loading screen.
    All of this really broke the immersion of the game for me..

    However i liked the spaceship building and some moment through the game were and quest were great.

    I hope bethesda step up their game quality and gameplay for their next release (elder scrolls 6), because this was not worth of being call a AAA game in 2023    … Expand
  11. Kratos_0611
    Sep 8, 2023
    1
    I had very high hopes on this game as Bethesda promised ground breaking innovations in an rpg game never seen before but to be honest I am really disappointed with the game. This game is nothing special and a complete waste of time exploring 100s of barren planets and infinite loading screen. Character models are very outdated as well and story is boring. I give it a solid 1. I do notI had very high hopes on this game as Bethesda promised ground breaking innovations in an rpg game never seen before but to be honest I am really disappointed with the game. This game is nothing special and a complete waste of time exploring 100s of barren planets and infinite loading screen. Character models are very outdated as well and story is boring. I give it a solid 1. I do not recommend it to anyone.… Expand
  12. Sharpruben
    Sep 9, 2023
    4
    The game is very slow and does not look very good Also it will never be a contender for game of the year
  13. CIPKO_IBAH
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    Nice game. Pretty decent graphics. I have a modern computer. 12600k and 6800 no freezes and glitches. I am not a fan of such games, but I played it with pleasure on Gamepass PC. Thanks Microsoft and Bethesda.
  14. Tdmb
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    Fallout 4 but without the open expanse to explore. Non stop loading screens break up what could be a great exploration game. Outerworlds with a larger budget and polish.
  15. Diegoccas
    Sep 10, 2023
    0
    One of the most bad optimized games, lot of bugs waiting for user to fix it, most of the open world content is boring and a lost of time, the main line story is poor without good plot the game is not the best release from bethesda.
  16. Capanga666
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    10 day game review. I'm loving the game, most of the reviews I've seen are compared to other Bethesda IP's, come on guys, this is a new experience. This game would have been impossible to develop 10 years ago due to the amount of loading times, but they don't even last 5 seconds, yes there are many menu screens and this is an important part of the game, not just walking, shooting and10 day game review. I'm loving the game, most of the reviews I've seen are compared to other Bethesda IP's, come on guys, this is a new experience. This game would have been impossible to develop 10 years ago due to the amount of loading times, but they don't even last 5 seconds, yes there are many menu screens and this is an important part of the game, not just walking, shooting and skipping all the dialogues. There's so much in the game, so many possibilities, so much hidden history, so much going on. The factions are very well built.

    I don't think it's a 10 game, but I gave it a 10 to contrast with the bias of bad ratings. I would give it an 8. I had a lot of fun, I think the stealth mechanics could have been a little better developed, as well as facial features in intense dialogues, small problems.
    Exploration would be more fun if it weren't so randomized every time you land in some corner of a planet. They wanted to give the feeling of infinite possibilities but created an immense lack of interest in random exploration. That's the only point that made me take 2 points out of the game.    … Expand
  17. SkyrimGalicia
    Sep 9, 2023
    9
    Por los vídeos que he visto pinta genial,un Universo para vivir una gran aventura ,personajes ,facciones,toda la ambientación está muy bien, además este juego seguro tendrá muchas expansiones,si le ponen multijugador esto da para role play en Twitch.
  18. RelicCastle
    Sep 10, 2023
    6
    Bethesda Has A Major Problem With There Game Engine, the Creation Engine, Anyone Who Has Played Starfield Will See That Major Problem With the Game Engine, Creation Engine Is Outdated By At Least 10 Years, Because the Creation Engine Is An Iteneration Of A Game Engine That Is 25 Years Old and the Only Reason Why Bethesda Uses This Game Engine Is Because It Has Mod Support, So Bethesda AtBethesda Has A Major Problem With There Game Engine, the Creation Engine, Anyone Who Has Played Starfield Will See That Major Problem With the Game Engine, Creation Engine Is Outdated By At Least 10 Years, Because the Creation Engine Is An Iteneration Of A Game Engine That Is 25 Years Old and the Only Reason Why Bethesda Uses This Game Engine Is Because It Has Mod Support, So Bethesda At the Expense Of Using A Buggy, Glitchy, Outdated, Missing Basic Game Engine Tech Of 2023, They Would Rather Cater To the Mod Scene To Fix the Game Instead Of Making A Brand New 2023 Game Engine ESPECIALLY FOR ELDER SCROLLS VI, OR FALLOUT 5, OR STARFIELD 2, With Starfield In Particular, Thare Are Lots and Lots Of Loading Screens and the Reason Is Obviously Because the Creation Engine Is Using Source Code From An Iteneration From A Game Engine Thats 25 Years Old, It Was Like the Most Basic Of Basic Building Blocks 25 Years Ago When Making A Game Is To Have Loading Screens, The Reason Why Starfield Has No Seamless Transitioning, Which Is the Ability To Fly From Space To the Surface Of A Planet WITHOUT CUT SCENES Is Because The Creation Engine Was Never Programmed To Deal With Flight In General, The Reason Why Starfield Has No Atmospheric Flight, Which Is the Ability To Fly In the Atmosphere Of the Planet, WITHOUT CUT SCENES Is Once Again the Creation Engine Was Never Properly Programmed With Flight Mechanics In the First Place!!! To Me This Is So Obviously To Know If You Think About It and To Know What Has Been Reported Of the Game Engine By the Press, I Have Been Calling On Bethesda To Create A Brand New Game Engine For the Last 10 Years Because I Could See the Mess Of the Engine Really Since Morrowind, Back In 2003 On the Original Xbox.....To Me, For the Fact That Bethesda Is Using This Game Engine Should Be An Embarrassment!!!! It Is the Game Engine That Is the First Building Block That Is the Determination Of How Great A Game Will Be Produced In A Great Game To Be Developed By the Game Engine!!! The Story I Have Gathered ONLY LASTS ON AVERAGE 20 HOURS, IM SORRY BUT AFTER 7 YEARS OF PRODUCTION AND YOU CAN ONLY MANAGE TO MAKE A STORY LAST FOR 20 HOURS IS EMBARRASSING WHOLLFULLY MISMANAGEMENT!!!! The Story Should Have Lasted At Least 100 Hours!!! I Never Understood In Game Development How You Can Create A Location and Yet That Location Would Not Be Part Of the Story,??? The Locations In A Game World Has To Be Made For the Story In Of Itself Not For the Sake Of Just To Be Made!!!! Why In the World Did Starfield Get Produced With 1000 Planets When Those 1000 Planets Do Not Have Any Purpose To Explore Them For There Is No Quests On Them To Do, I Would Have Rather Had Lets Say 200 Planets Handcrafted To Make As Part Of A Cohesive Story Not 1000 Planets With Nothing To Do On Them!!!!… Expand
  19. JohnEdw
    Sep 10, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Horrible, se torna aburridor con 10 horas de juego, esperaba muchísimos de este juego pero la verdad me ha decepcionado completamente … Expand
  20. Backbone55
    Sep 9, 2023
    10
    Best Bethesda game ever. The game starts off extremely slow but then becomes one of the best RPGs ever made
  21. AntiReviewBomb
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    It’s pretty meh. Loading screens rather than actual flying to and from planets.
  22. GirlGoneGamer
    Sep 7, 2023
    5
    At most this game is a 7 but it’s because at the time of writing this review and over 3 days worth of play time I can say it’s not really a complete game, it’s not worth the $70 price tag. Honestly if you get it, just go ahead and play it via gamepass or ask a friend to game share with you. It has bugs, texture fails, the trees in certain planets look like they were copy and pasted from anAt most this game is a 7 but it’s because at the time of writing this review and over 3 days worth of play time I can say it’s not really a complete game, it’s not worth the $70 price tag. Honestly if you get it, just go ahead and play it via gamepass or ask a friend to game share with you. It has bugs, texture fails, the trees in certain planets look like they were copy and pasted from an N64 game… also the water has no splash effects and doors seem to be floating away from the wall… Honestly I can’t stress this enough don’t waste $70 on this title only buy it via gamepass or for $30. Now I will say the game is better via PC so if you do get it PC is the way !!!… Expand
  23. propulsion
    Sep 10, 2023
    0
    This game was ruined for me by the AI. It is terrible, some of the worst AI I have ever seen. There was not much immersion in the game for me due to the main story and lame space travel, and the AI killed the remaining bit. You can shoot a 1000 bullets at the security guards as long as you don’t hit them and they don’t care. Just like I don’t care about this game.
  24. OldAndCynical
    Sep 8, 2023
    6
    I'm a old fan of Bethesda games, and have been playing them since Daggerfall.
    So, it really pains me to tell how poor this game feels when compared to the previous greats of Bethesda.
    First, the visuals really are XboxOne era, and level desing on the various habitats is painfully bland and uninspiring. And the planets are very barren and monotonous affairs indeed. Combat, enemy AI and    I'm a old fan of Bethesda games, and have been playing them since Daggerfall.
    So, it really pains me to tell how poor this game feels when compared to the previous greats of Bethesda.
    First, the visuals really are XboxOne era, and level desing on the various habitats is painfully bland and uninspiring. And the planets are very barren and monotonous affairs indeed.
    Combat, enemy AI and various other elements feel like a step backwards from Fallout 4.
    But for me, the worst part are the stories.
    Now in previous Bethesda games, the unique and original stories were what made me love them. Such fascinating stuff. But in Starfield, the stories feel very bland in comparison, and in many places, feel like they were ripped from Mass Effect and other scifi sources. So, not very original or unique.
    Any good stuff? Well, character creator is very good, and there are plenty of interesting skills to choose from. Unfortunately not all of those skills have that much use in the game proper! So, this means that you are given a promise of a deep RPG with all those skills, but then you will actually be playing a very shallow looter-shooter.
    Bugs? Sure. Lots of them. But what game does not have them at launch. But I can already see, even when patched up, the game will not be nearly as good as other Bethesda games. 6/10, and that because I like Bethesda.    … Expand
  25. The_marsy
    Sep 10, 2023
    6
    Game is better on XSX then PC and I have a 4070Ti, this game is just unoptimised on there, cross save works when it wants too. The NPc's are mainly boring the dialogue is a snooze fest I skip majority of it they just aren't interesting, the gameplay is decent definitely not anything special though and I hope you like loading screens because this has them worse than most ps3 games
  26. Antekto
    Sep 9, 2023
    5
    Game is full of action and fun. Interesting approach to space opera in game.
  27. MoOnomegAa
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    It's a very great game. With some minor issues. It doesn't deserve the review bombing and the hate from trolls and kids that is so stupid so I go for a 10. There is so much to do in the game, it's a great exploration and adventure game, not a space sim and seamless one for sure, but that is a great rpg that takes the best from elder scrolls, fallout and mass effect. Play it yourself andIt's a very great game. With some minor issues. It doesn't deserve the review bombing and the hate from trolls and kids that is so stupid so I go for a 10. There is so much to do in the game, it's a great exploration and adventure game, not a space sim and seamless one for sure, but that is a great rpg that takes the best from elder scrolls, fallout and mass effect. Play it yourself and don't pay attention to the hate train and internet madness. You need at least considerable amount of hours to really enjoy it and see all the mechanics and content it has to offer. It's not a casual game.… Expand
  28. Rincemac
    Sep 9, 2023
    5
    I did not get spoiled by anything, did not read any hype review, I just wanted to play a good new Bethesda game - since they are so proud of the fact it's the first truly new IP in 25 years, I hoped they'd really deliver on it... since I started playing their games with Morrowind, I had some hopes they'd make it. Sadly they did not.

    TL;DR: They did a Fallout 76 on their "Space Skyrim"    I did not get spoiled by anything, did not read any hype review, I just wanted to play a good new Bethesda game - since they are so proud of the fact it's the first truly new IP in 25 years, I hoped they'd really deliver on it... since I started playing their games with Morrowind, I had some hopes they'd make it. Sadly they did not.

    TL;DR:
    They did a Fallout 76 on their "Space Skyrim" - OR: The Space Skyrim that never was. If you are a fan of Sci-Fi and "Open World" - which works in the strongest sense of the word in this game since the vastness the game simulates is humongous... however it feels almost like an empty shell when you get to explore. Much like No Man's Sky, it only gives the impression of being big and exciting, with great variations. The systems are a chore - even worse than Oblivions "use a Skill 100 times to advance in level" system, this game makes you work for even being able to Sneak, Lockpick and steer bigger space ships. It would all be acceptable if the grind wasn't that downright dull, if the Characters you meet in your first stretch of the journey weren't that kind of empty and one-dimensional-feeling and the Ship / Space mechanics weren't that "Elite Dangerous" kind of level.

    This way, you get the worst out of 3 genres and all mashed into one humongous - albeit good-looking on Xbox X, game - on PC better prepare to have a huge graphics card budet that'd buy you two Xbox Series X likely and a year of Game Pass. Maybe that's what Microsoft/Beth wanted? Sell those Xboxes... it might work initially but boy, when the people get to playing this they just might be regretting that decision.

    Bethesda seem to really love their "random number generator" engine - it drove many of their Elder Scrolls and the new Fallouts to new heights - but back then these games had a Soul infused in form of a major storyline, exciting characters to meet all across the Wastes or the vast action-filled mysterious world of Tamriel.

    If they have the "whole of eternity" to work with, it seems the previous ingenuity of Bethesda seems to get dulled and stretched too far. This game has an inkling of the brilliance that was the first 5 hours of most any Elder Scrolls Game or Fallouts 3, New Vegas and 4 - but once the vacuum of Space sucks at your brain when you realize the first 5 hours of this Megahyped Game do not reach the old heights but are a downright borefest it's a bit sad.    … Expand
  29. Annunak
    Sep 8, 2023
    5
    5/10 would be honest for this game or, more accurate to call this a load simulator. No open world, no epic storyline and just boring colours. I am glad gamepass exists, so I may not buy it
  30. Dante0
    Sep 10, 2023
    0
    So much fuss about nothing, last generation game, doesn't revolutionize anything, not to mention the 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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