11/8/2023 0 Comments Huntdown switch review![]() ![]() There's a messy, kinetic madness to the shooting action here, it actually feels weighty, enemies are just about smart enough to make engagements interesting, locations provide all the explosive barrels and other components you need to make a right old mess and there's an exquisite range of guns and melee weapons, grenades, mines and hacking tricks and traps to make use of as you go. ![]() In terms of the combat, well, it's easily the best we've seen in a Bethesda RPG. There are also plenty of smaller settlements, outposts and camps to discover as you blast from planet to planet (via some menus, unfortunately), ensuring that you'll get your fill of meeting strangers to take on random silly errands, solve small-time local problems and disappear into or down every unexplored cavern and facility you come across in classic Bethesda fashion. The game's larger hub areas are all nicely distinct from one another, managing to evoke memories of the likes of Mass Effect through the rather sterile New Atlantis, the Fallout series in the form of Akila, and even Cyberpunk 2077 when you finally get around to visiting the aptly-named Neon. We love Morrowind, were utterly spellbound by Oblivion, have bought pretty much every version of Skyrim (not a proud boast) and yet this is the one, we reckon this is the one we'll end up loving the most in time. ![]() If you want a sprawling sci-fi narrative that goes to some surprisingly interesting and emotional places (no spoilers here), seemingly endless side quests, activities and breathless exploration to indulge in, it's all here. ![]() There's a fantastic universe to set about exploring, quite simply. It looks fantastic overall, a galaxy packed full of awe-inspiring vistas, incredibly evocative planets (even when they're entirely barren) and some of the best large hubs and cities we've seen in the genre. This is Bethesda's best RPG, there's no doubt about it, and for as much jank as there is, it's still far more polished on release than anything that's come before from the studio. However, for all the things that haven't transpired as we may have wanted or expected, there's so much good stuff here that, in the end, we've fallen entirely in love with Starfield. There isn't the level of freedom we expected (or were perhaps led to believe), this isn't anything like No Man's Sky, and there's been plenty of chatter online already about the barriers you'll run into on planets, we don't need to regurgitate any of that. Its menus are a pain in the neck, its maps and inventories are bewildering at the best of times, it often feels like there are too many ways to do the same thing (can I fly straight to my destination, do I fast travel, should I hold X or open a menu and jump from there?) and all the usual messy cameras and misbehaving NPCs are present and correct.īut to focus on these relatively minor points - and in the grand scale of things they are relatively minor - would be to sweat the small stuff while a galaxy full of excellent adventures awaits. It's very much in line with what's come before from this studio, a great big sprawling RPG that's full of heart, full of fun and full of the kind of jank we've pretty much come to expect at this point with Bethesda. Yes, in the end, Starfield isn't some dramatic, game-changing moment. Luckily for us, all we really wanted was the latter, because that's pretty much what we've got here. Was this going to be some monumental step forward for video games, a piece of interactive art that forever changed the landscape, a seismic shift for the RPG genre as a whole or just, well, Skyrim in space? Subscribe to Pure Xbox on YouTube Watch on YouTubeĭepending on how much you bought into the hype during the long run-up to the release of Bethesda's Starfield, it's hard to know quite what you might have been expecting when you finally sat down to press the start button and get stuck in. ![]()
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