After months upon months of being teased, Starfield has finally revealed some gameplay footage at the recently concluded Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase.
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The 15-minute Starfield gameplay trailer went into several aspects of Bethesda's new "epic" RPG, including first-person combat, story, and the character creation/crafting systems. According to ArsTechnica, the most promising aspect of the new game is its ship building mechanics, which allows players to build their own ships according to their specifications.
Here's the gameplay reveal:
In the trailer, fans are treated to footage of a ship landing on a moon called Kreet, which Bethesda mainstay Todd Howard says happens early in the game. Their quest here is to find an abandoned research facility, and early on you can see that Starfield can be played in either first or third-person - much like other Bethesda bangers like Skyrim or Fallout 4.
Starfield's world detail was on full display here, but some gameplay aspects like mining minerals might remind players of another space-trotting adventure: the revitalized No Man's Sky. Soon after, the Starfield gameplay trailer puts forward one of the game's biggest assets: its factions.
The abandoned research lab that the player found was occupied by the space pirates of the Crimson Fleet, which are basically the game's "bad guys." Earlier, GameNGuide reported that players can actually join the Crimson Fleet if they want, either to become a true space pirate or bring the organization down from within as a mole.
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From there, the gameplay switches to first-person shooter mode as the player character mows down the pirates - all while Bethesda shows off the game's interior space visuals, general RPG/gunplay mechanics, and the varying cities and environments that the players will get to explore.
Todd Howard caps the presentation off by showing just how big the game is: over 1,000 explorable planets. And that's where the trailer ends. With an announcement that aside from the Xbox Series X/S and PC, the game will also be available via the cloud.
Starfield's Size At A Glance
Starfield's size is no No Man's Sky. But perhaps it's going to be far, far different as Hello Games' galaxy is procedurally generated. Bethesda may have gone the hand-crafted route with their over 1,000 planets, and that could be a good thing for a lot of players.
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The planet that Bethesda used to help illustrate the game's size is the one called Jemison, writes GameRant. It plays host to the city of New Atlantis, which is one of the multiple hub areas that players will get to land on and explore throughout the game. As previously mentioned, just Jemison itself was sizeable enough to perhaps rival the open-world of an entire AAA game today.
These promises might come at a cost, though. 100 galaxies with over 1,000 planets sounds huge. But Bethesda's track record of making big promises isn't spotless at all (*cough* Fallout 76 *cough*), so only time will tell if all of this will live up to the hype.
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