Starfield - Shattered Space Review

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The Guardian reviewed Starfield: Shattered Space:

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Starfield: Shattered Space review - much Va'ruun for improvement

The first story expansion for Bethesda's big, bold, rickety space RPG arrives after a year's worth of incremental updates that have already ironed out the game's most egregious flaws. Those quest-breaking bugs have been squished, there are now vehicles to make planet-side travel less of a chore, city maps are at least partly useful these days, and there's now a 60fps mode for those playing on Xbox Series X. But Starfield's fundamental problems remain - turgid, rubbery NPCs; the baffling profusion of loading screens - but just as the Phantom Liberty expansion finessed Cyberpunk 2077 in its entirety, Shattered Space arrives poised to improve upon what came before.

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Perhaps the next package of extra content will lean more into Starfield's strengths, rather than amplify its weaknesses. But it really does feel at this point as if most of Starfield's imperfections are baked in at the technological and conceptual level, and only a full-blown sequel, rather than continued updates, would be able to address them. It's only because there is a such a bright kernel of brilliance here that it's so disappointing to see Starfield's galactic potential remain cosmically unfulfilled.

Score: 2/5