Bethesda has never been the best at developing satisfying gunplay. Each time I’ve picked up Skyrim on console, I’ve instantly wished I was playing on PC instead so I could find a mod, any mod, to make its combat more tolerable. The Fallout series is slightly better on this front because its V.A.T.S. system allows you to slow down time and target specific body parts on your enemies, view your percentage chance to do damage, then watch as the bullets fly through your opponent in grisly slow motion. Fallout may be better, but neither series is known for its visceral gunplay (or bowplay, or magic staffplay). Id and Bethesda Game Studios may be under the same corporate umbrella, but these games are as far from Doom🤪 as you can get without leaving♐ the first-person perspective.
Which is why, while watching Bethesda’s lengthy 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Starfield Direct last month, I breathed a sigh of relief. The gunplay looks good — not just good for Bethesda, but actually good. If I saw some of the antics this game lets you get up to in a dedicated first-person sho♒oter, I would still be excited to strap on a jetpa♓ck and get to work.
The presentation managed the all-important task of making it seem like it will be viscerally fun to fire its guns, and equally fun to maneuver around your opponents. That isn’t why most players will buy this game, but it will certai💮nly make it more enjoyable while getting from place to place. The guns look responsive, and the enemies can take a few hits, but aren’t bullet sponges. When the player boards a ship to take out its crew on foot, each enemy goes down fairly quickly and the guns have an immediacy that Fallout’s lacked, even out of V.A.T.S. Introducing spaceships as a new kind of bandit camp is an exciting wrinkle, because instead of just looting them, you can add them to your fleet.
Most importantly, the game has a jetpack and, better yet, a dedicated jetpack skill that you can upgrade over the course of a playthrough. I’m a big fan of the acrobatic combat in games like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Titanfall 2, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Doom Eternal, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Neon White, and while Starfield almost certainly won’t feel quite as good as those masterclasses in kineticism, the jetpack l🔯ooks like it will add a fun new twist to encounters. Being able to fire a few shots from cover, then pop out, fly overhead, and land behind the enemy for the kill shot is something I don’t foresee myself getting tired of for a long, long time.
Part of the trouble with judging combat in a game you haven’t played is that you can’t evaluate how it actually feels. Starfield might be slightly off and I wouldn’t be able to tell from looking at capture; I need to actually play it. But if the combat feels as good as it looks, it's stacking up to be Bethesda’s best shooter yet.