Combat often feels quite weightless, but can be helped with a few damage-boosting skills. Unfortunately, enemies feel spongy, and often you’ll pump round after round into an opponent without much in the way of feedback. If you want to pretend to be Boba Fett, you can do that. Tweaking your shield and weapon power levels to try and get an advantage in fights feels crunchy and satisfying, while you can also board disabled ships and take them for yourself if you’re that way inclined, making space combat a satisfying diversion to scuffling around planetside.Ĭonversely, on-world combat feels very similar to Fallout 4 or Fallout: New Vegas, although many planets have their own gravity and the addition of boost packs - a jetpack, proving that a rose by any other name does smell just as sweet providing the rose is a jetpack - means that firefights feel quite different to most other games. When this goes wrong, and it likely will, you’ll get into dogfights that feel thrilling but also mechanically complex. There’s even ship-based stealth, where you cut the power to all of your ship’s systems and chug slowly forward in the hope of avoiding detection. The way parts of your ship slowly thrum to life as you power up various systems is satisfying, the clunky way you power through space makes fights feel tense, lasers and ballistic rounds bouncing off your shield as you keep an eye on the all-important hull strength.

Building spaceships is one part of Starfield that feels expansive and, even on a controller, toggling power between your ship’s different systems is easy to do but feels surprisingly intricate.

If they’re on the ship, they’re getting a ticket to the main event.

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