IGN Starfield Review
Gameranx Starfield - Before You Buy
GamingBolt Starfield Review - The Final Verdict
ForceGaming - I Played 100 Hours Of Starfield - The FINAL Review
Starfield reviewed on PC and Xbox Series X by Dan Stapleton. It’s never a great sign when someone recommends a game on the grounds that it gets good after more than a dozen hours, but that’s very much the kind of game Starfield is, and I do recommend it. There are a lot of forces working against it, and the combination of disjointed space travel, nonexistent maps, aggravating inventory management, and a slow rollout of essential abilities very nearly did it in. It was the joys piloting a custom spaceship into and out of all sorts of morally ambiguous situations in a rich sci-fi universe that eventually pulled it out of a nosedive. I’m glad that I powered through the early hours, because its interstellar mystery story pays off and, once the ball got rolling, combat on foot and in space gradually became good enough that its momentum carried me into New Game+ after I’d finished the main story after around 60 hours. Like Skryim and Fallout 4 before it, there’s still an immense amount of quality roleplaying quests and interesting NPCs out there, waiting to be stumbled across, and the pull to seek it out is strong.
GamingBolt Starfield Review - The Final Verdict
Starfield is truly special. There’s never any shortage of games that promise staggeringly vast and complex experiences, but Starfield is a rare example of a game that somehow actually delivers an experience with even more staggering depth and scale than what it promises. It delivers in nearly every way possible, from its painstaking world-building and how effectively it builds its interstellar setting with rich, captivating lore to the main engaging stories you’ll discover throughout the galaxy, both big and small, from the endless amounts of freedom it offers in letting you be who you want to be and play how you want to play, to how ridiculously fun and rewarding its ship building and spaceflight gameplay loop feels. For those who’ve been wondering if, after the last few years, Bethesda Game Studios still has it in itself to retain its crown as the king of massive RPGs, its latest space-faring RPG sends those questions flying out the airlock.
After two straight weeks with Starfield, it feels like I'm just getting going. While not without it's issues, I REALLY like this game. Here's my review.
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