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'''''Starfield''''' is an upcoming [[Action role-playing game|action role-playing]] [[video game]] developed by [[Bethesda Game Studios]] and published by [[Bethesda Softworks]].<ref name="gamesradar">{{Cite web |last=Weber |first=Rachel |title=Starfield is Bethesda's next big RPG series and here's everything you need to know |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/starfield-release-date-trailer-next-gen-news/ |access-date=2021-06-27 |website=[[GamesRadar+]] |language=en}}</ref> The game was formally announced during [[E3|Bethesda's E3 Press Conference]] in 2018.<ref name="gamesradar" /> The game is set in a space-themed world. It will be the first new [[intellectual property]] developed by Bethesda in over twenty-five years. The game is scheduled to be released in the first half of 2023 for [[Microsoft Windows]] and [[Xbox Series X and Series S|Xbox Series X/S]].
'''''Starfield''''' is an upcoming [[Action role-playing game|action role-playing]] [[video game]] developed by [[Bethesda Game Studios]] and published by [[Bethesda Softworks]].<ref name="gamesradar">{{Cite web |last=Weber |first=Rachel |title=Starfield is Bethesda's next big RPG series and here's everything you need to know |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/starfield-release-date-trailer-next-gen-news/ |access-date=2021-06-27 |website=[[GamesRadar+]] |language=en}}</ref> The game was formally announced during [[E3|Bethesda's E3 Press Conference]] in 2018.<ref name="gamesradar" /> The game is set in a space-themed world, and will be the first new [[intellectual property]] developed by Bethesda in over twenty-five years. The game is scheduled to be released in the first half of 2023 for [[Microsoft Windows]] and [[Xbox Series X and Series S|Xbox Series X/S]].


== Setting ==
== Setting ==
''Starfield'' is set in an area that extends outward from the [[Solar System]] for approximately 50 light-years called The Settled Systems.<ref>{{Citation|title=Starfield – The Settled Systems|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjh5DJCEpxY|language=en|access-date=2021-10-21}}</ref> Around the year 2310, the two largest factions in the game, the United Colonies and Freestar Collective, engaged in the bloody Colony War. The game takes place 20 years after the events of the Colony War in which the major factions enjoy an uneasy peace. The player will assume the role of a customizable character who is a member of Constellation, an organization of space explorers.<ref name="wapost e3 2021" /> The game can be played in either first- or third-person perspectives.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kim |first=Matt T.M. |date=June 17, 2021 |title=Starfield: 6 New Details, Including 1st and 3rd Person Viewpoints |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/starfield-first-third-person-gameplay-details |access-date=2021-06-30 |website=[[IGN]] |language=en}}</ref>
''Starfield'' is set in an area that extends outward from the [[Solar System]] for approximately 50 light-years called The Settled Systems.<ref>{{Citation|title=Starfield – The Settled Systems|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjh5DJCEpxY|language=en|access-date=2021-10-21}}</ref> Around the year 2310, the two largest factions in the game, the United Colonies and Freestar Collective, engaged in a conflict called the Colony War. The game takes place 20 years after the war in which the major factions enjoy an uneasy peace. The player assumes the role of a customizable character who is a member of Constellation, an organization of space explorers.<ref name="wapost e3 2021" /> The game can be played in either first- or third-person perspectives.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kim |first=Matt T.M. |date=June 17, 2021 |title=Starfield: 6 New Details, Including 1st and 3rd Person Viewpoints |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/starfield-first-third-person-gameplay-details |access-date=2021-06-30 |website=[[IGN]] |language=en}}</ref>
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''[[The Telegraph (newspaper)|The Telegraph]]'' pointed to a book on the astronaut’s shelf in the narrative trailer — ''[[Sailing Alone Around the World]]'', a memoir published in 1900 by [[Joshua Slocum]], the first person to make a solo circumnavigation of Earth who vanished at sea in 1909.<ref name="telegraph">{{Cite news |last=Silver |first=Dan |date=2021-06-13 |title=Starfield world exclusive: E3 2021 trailer secrets revealed by legendary director Todd Howard |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gaming/news/starfield-world-exclusive-e3-2021-trailer-secrets-revealed-legendary/ |access-date=2021-06-27 |issn=0307-1235}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=S. Good |first=Owen |date=June 13, 2021 |title=Starfield: What we know about Bethesda’s next RPG |url=https://www.polygon.com/e3/22532350/starfield-faq-release-date-story-canon-xbox-series-x-pc-bethesda-e3-2021-trailer |website=Polygon |accessdate=June 27, 2021}}</ref>
''[[The Telegraph (newspaper)|The Telegraph]]'' pointed to a book on the astronaut’s shelf in the narrative trailer — ''[[Sailing Alone Around the World]]'', a memoir published in 1900 by [[Joshua Slocum]], the first person to make a solo circumnavigation of Earth who vanished at sea in 1909.<ref name="telegraph">{{Cite news |last=Silver |first=Dan |date=2021-06-13 |title=Starfield world exclusive: E3 2021 trailer secrets revealed by legendary director Todd Howard |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gaming/news/starfield-world-exclusive-e3-2021-trailer-secrets-revealed-legendary/ |access-date=2021-06-27 |issn=0307-1235}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=S. Good |first=Owen |date=June 13, 2021 |title=Starfield: What we know about Bethesda’s next RPG |url=https://www.polygon.com/e3/22532350/starfield-faq-release-date-story-canon-xbox-series-x-pc-bethesda-e3-2021-trailer |website=Polygon |accessdate=June 27, 2021}}</ref>
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== Development ==
== Development ==
''Starfield'' represents the first new [[intellectual property]] (IP) by Bethesda Game Studios in 25 years, and has been described by director [[Todd Howard]] as "''[[Skyrim]]'' in space".<ref name="pcgamer">{{Cite web |last1=Livingston |first1=Christopher |last2=Senior |first2=Tom |date=2021-06-15 |title=Starfield: everything we know about Bethesda's next RPG |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/starfield-release-date-trailer-2022/ |access-date=2021-06-27 |website=[[PC Gamer]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="wapost e3 2021">{{Cite news |last=Goldberg |first=Harold |date=June 13, 2021 |title='Starfield': Todd Howard discusses Bethesda's new space-based RPG |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/06/13/starfield-bethesda/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |accessdate=June 29, 2021}}</ref> The studio had been delving into space-themed games since as early as 1994, according to Howard: they had gotten the rights to make a game based on the ''[[Traveller (role-playing game)|Traveller]]'' role-playing system, but shortly lost those; their ''[[Delta V (video game)|Delta V]]'' game in 1994 had been part of this ''Traveller'' license but had not been fully realized.<ref name="wapost e3 2021" /> Their ''[[The 10th Planet]]'' was a cancelled [[space combat game]] to be published in October 1997, from which the atmosphere of ''Starfield'' was derived.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Helen |date=May 22, 1997 |title=Bethesda's E3 Lineup |url=http://headline.gamespot.com/news/97_05/22_beth/index.html |website=[[GameSpot]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20000611145828/http://headline.gamespot.com/news/97_05/22_beth/index.html |archivedate=June 11, 2000 |accessdate=November 12, 2019}}</ref> Howard stated they had rights to ''[[Star Trek]]'' in the 2000s and he pitched an idea for a role-playing game in that setting, but this failed to go forward.<ref name="wapost e3 2021" />
''Starfield'' represents the first new [[intellectual property]] (IP) by Bethesda Game Studios in over twenty-five years, and has been described by director [[Todd Howard]] as "''[[Skyrim]]'' in space."<ref name="pcgamer">{{Cite web |last1=Livingston |first1=Christopher |last2=Senior |first2=Tom |date=2021-06-15 |title=Starfield: everything we know about Bethesda's next RPG |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/starfield-release-date-trailer-2022/ |access-date=2021-06-27 |website=[[PC Gamer]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="wapost e3 2021">{{Cite news |last=Goldberg |first=Harold |date=June 13, 2021 |title='Starfield': Todd Howard discusses Bethesda's new space-based RPG |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/06/13/starfield-bethesda/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |accessdate=June 29, 2021}}</ref> The studio had been delving into space-themed games since as early as 1994, according to Howard: they had gotten the rights to make a game based on the ''[[Traveller (role-playing game)|Traveller]]'' role-playing system, but shortly lost those; their ''[[Delta V (video game)|Delta V]]'' game in 1994 had been part of this ''Traveller'' license but had not been fully realized.<ref name="wapost e3 2021" /> Their ''[[The 10th Planet]]'' was a cancelled [[space combat game]] to be published in October 1997, from which the atmosphere of ''Starfield'' was derived.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Helen |date=May 22, 1997 |title=Bethesda's E3 Lineup |url=http://headline.gamespot.com/news/97_05/22_beth/index.html |website=[[GameSpot]] |publisher=[[CBS Interactive]] |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20000611145828/http://headline.gamespot.com/news/97_05/22_beth/index.html |archivedate=June 11, 2000 |accessdate=November 12, 2019}}</ref> Howard stated they had rights to ''[[Star Trek]]'' in the 2000s and he pitched an idea for a role-playing game in that setting, but this failed to go forward.<ref name="wapost e3 2021" />


While Bethesda had wanted to do a science fiction game for some time and had strong ideas for its gameplay style, it took a while to cement the ideas behind what ''Starfield'' would be about as to distinguish the game from other science fiction games already released. They came onto a theme which lead artist [[Istvan Pely]] dubbed as "[[NASA]] [[cyberpunk derivatives|punk]]", that while set in humanity's future, the technology can be traced to origins in various NASA space missions.<ref name="wapost e3 2021" /> Bethesda's team began crafting a fictional narrative of events by decade of the 300 years to the game's present, as to ask "And now man is living amongst the stars: what does that mean?", according to Howard.<ref name="wapost e3 2021" />
While Bethesda had wanted to do a science fiction game for some time and had strong ideas for its gameplay style, it took a while to cement the ideas behind what ''Starfield'' would be about as to distinguish the game from other science fiction games already released. They came onto a theme which lead artist [[Istvan Pely]] dubbed as "[[NASA]] [[cyberpunk derivatives|punk]]," that although set in humanity's future, the technology can be traced to origins in various NASA space missions.<ref name="wapost e3 2021" /> Bethesda's team began crafting a fictional narrative of events by decade of the 300 years to the game's present, in order to ask "And now man is living amongst the stars: what does that mean?", according to Howard.<ref name="wapost e3 2021" />


For ''Starfield'', the concept of the game had been in the studio's mind for some time prior to trademarking the name in 2013, according to Howard. "There were no other names [we considered]. It had to be ‘Starfield'."<ref name="wapost e3 2021" /> Howard said active development of the game had been ongoing since the release of ''[[Fallout 4]]'' in late 2015.<ref name="guardian2018" /> By mid-2018, the game had moved out of pre-production, and was in a playable state.<ref name="guardian2018">{{Cite news |last=Macdonald |first=Keza |date=18 July 2018 |title=Todd Howard and Pete Hines interviewed on Starfield and Elder Scrolls |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/jul/18/bethesda-games-interview-todd-howard-pete-hines-elder-scrolls-starfield |accessdate=8 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fenlon |first=Wes |date=2018-06-11 |title=Bethesda's Starfield 'is playable,' Elder Scrolls 6 is in 'pre-production' says Todd Howard |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/bethesdas-starfield-is-playable-elder-scrolls-6-is-in-pre-production-says-todd-howard/ |access-date=2020-04-14 |website=[[PC Gamer]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
''Starfield’s'' concept had been in the studio's mind for some time prior to the trademarking of the name in 2013, according to Howard. "There were no other names [we considered]. It had to be ‘Starfield'."<ref name="wapost e3 2021" /> Howard said active development of the game had been ongoing since the release of ''[[Fallout 4]]'' in late 2015.<ref name="guardian2018" /> By mid-2018, the game had moved out of pre-production, and was in a playable state.<ref name="guardian2018">{{Cite news |last=Macdonald |first=Keza |date=18 July 2018 |title=Todd Howard and Pete Hines interviewed on Starfield and Elder Scrolls |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/jul/18/bethesda-games-interview-todd-howard-pete-hines-elder-scrolls-starfield |accessdate=8 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fenlon |first=Wes |date=2018-06-11 |title=Bethesda's Starfield 'is playable,' Elder Scrolls 6 is in 'pre-production' says Todd Howard |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/bethesdas-starfield-is-playable-elder-scrolls-6-is-in-pre-production-says-todd-howard/ |access-date=2020-04-14 |website=[[PC Gamer]] |language=en-US}}</ref>


==Marketing and release ==
==Marketing and release ==
At Bethesda's [[E3 2018]] press conference, Todd Howard presented a short teaser trailer for the game.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Phillips |first=Tom |date=June 13, 2018 |title=Bethesda announces Starfield |language=en |work=[[Eurogamer]] |url=https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-06-11-bethesda-announces-starfield-its-next-generation-rpg |access-date=April 10, 2019}}</ref> An in-game teaser trailer was presented at [[E3 2021]] during the combined Microsoft-Bethesda press event, which confirmed that the game will be released on November 11, 2022 on [[Microsoft Windows]] and [[Xbox Series X and Series S]] as a [[console exclusive]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=McWhertor |first=Michael |date=June 13, 2021 |title=Bethesda's Starfield is Xbox exclusive, coming November 2022 |url=https://www.polygon.com/e3/22532074/starfield-release-date-bethesda-softworks-xbox-pc-e3-2021 |website=[[Polygon (website)|Polygon]] |accessdate=June 27, 2021}}</ref> In May 2022, Bethesda announced that the game's release was delayed to the first quarter of 2023.<ref name="StarfieldDelay">{{Cite web|last=Romano|first=Sal|title=Redfall and Starfield delayed to first half of 2023|url=https://www.gematsu.com/2022/05/redfall-and-starfield-delayed-to-first-half-of-2023|website=Gematsu|date=May 12, 2022|access-date=May 12, 2022}}</ref>
At Bethesda's [[E3 2018]] press conference, Howard presented a short teaser trailer for the game.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Phillips |first=Tom |date=June 13, 2018 |title=Bethesda announces Starfield |language=en |work=[[Eurogamer]] |url=https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-06-11-bethesda-announces-starfield-its-next-generation-rpg |access-date=April 10, 2019}}</ref> An in-game teaser trailer was presented at the [[E3 2021]] conference during the combined Microsoft-Bethesda press event, and a release date of November 11, 2022 on [[Microsoft Windows]] and [[Xbox Series X and Series S]] as a [[console exclusive]] was announced.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McWhertor |first=Michael |date=June 13, 2021 |title=Bethesda's Starfield is Xbox exclusive, coming November 2022 |url=https://www.polygon.com/e3/22532074/starfield-release-date-bethesda-softworks-xbox-pc-e3-2021 |website=[[Polygon (website)|Polygon]] |accessdate=June 27, 2021}}</ref> In May 2022, Bethesda announced that the game's release would be delayed until the first quarter of 2023.<ref name="StarfieldDelay">{{Cite web|last=Romano|first=Sal|title=Redfall and Starfield delayed to first half of 2023|url=https://www.gematsu.com/2022/05/redfall-and-starfield-delayed-to-first-half-of-2023|website=Gematsu|date=May 12, 2022|access-date=May 12, 2022}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 14:31, 13 June 2022

Starfield
Developer(s)Bethesda Game Studios
Publisher(s)Bethesda Softworks
Director(s)Todd Howard
Designer(s)Emil Pagliarulo[2]
Artist(s)
Composer(s)Inon Zur[3]
EngineCreation Engine 2
Platform(s)
ReleaseQ1/Q2 2023[1]
Genre(s)Action role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Starfield is an upcoming action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.[4] The game was formally announced during Bethesda's E3 Press Conference in 2018.[4] The game is set in a space-themed world, and will be the first new intellectual property developed by Bethesda in over twenty-five years. The game is scheduled to be released in the first half of 2023 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox Series X/S.

Setting

Starfield is set in an area that extends outward from the Solar System for approximately 50 light-years called The Settled Systems.[5] Around the year 2310, the two largest factions in the game, the United Colonies and Freestar Collective, engaged in a conflict called the Colony War. The game takes place 20 years after the war in which the major factions enjoy an uneasy peace. The player assumes the role of a customizable character who is a member of Constellation, an organization of space explorers.[6] The game can be played in either first- or third-person perspectives.[7]

Development

Starfield represents the first new intellectual property (IP) by Bethesda Game Studios in over twenty-five years, and has been described by director Todd Howard as "Skyrim in space."[8][6] The studio had been delving into space-themed games since as early as 1994, according to Howard: they had gotten the rights to make a game based on the Traveller role-playing system, but shortly lost those; their Delta V game in 1994 had been part of this Traveller license but had not been fully realized.[6] Their The 10th Planet was a cancelled space combat game to be published in October 1997, from which the atmosphere of Starfield was derived.[9] Howard stated they had rights to Star Trek in the 2000s and he pitched an idea for a role-playing game in that setting, but this failed to go forward.[6]

While Bethesda had wanted to do a science fiction game for some time and had strong ideas for its gameplay style, it took a while to cement the ideas behind what Starfield would be about as to distinguish the game from other science fiction games already released. They came onto a theme which lead artist Istvan Pely dubbed as "NASA punk," that although set in humanity's future, the technology can be traced to origins in various NASA space missions.[6] Bethesda's team began crafting a fictional narrative of events by decade of the 300 years to the game's present, in order to ask "And now man is living amongst the stars: what does that mean?", according to Howard.[6]

Starfield’s concept had been in the studio's mind for some time prior to the trademarking of the name in 2013, according to Howard. "There were no other names [we considered]. It had to be ‘Starfield'."[6] Howard said active development of the game had been ongoing since the release of Fallout 4 in late 2015.[10] By mid-2018, the game had moved out of pre-production, and was in a playable state.[10][11]

Marketing and release

At Bethesda's E3 2018 press conference, Howard presented a short teaser trailer for the game.[12] An in-game teaser trailer was presented at the E3 2021 conference during the combined Microsoft-Bethesda press event, and a release date of November 11, 2022 on Microsoft Windows and Xbox Series X and Series S as a console exclusive was announced.[13] In May 2022, Bethesda announced that the game's release would be delayed until the first quarter of 2023.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Romano, Sal (May 12, 2022). "Redfall and Starfield delayed to first half of 2023". Gematsu. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
  2. ^ Brown, Andy (October 21, 2021). "'Starfield' developer reveals the factions you'll be sharing the cosmos with". NME. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
  3. ^ Gardner, Matt. "'Starfield' Soundtrack Handed To Legendary 'Fallout' Composer". Forbes.
  4. ^ a b Weber, Rachel. "Starfield is Bethesda's next big RPG series and here's everything you need to know". GamesRadar+. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  5. ^ Starfield – The Settled Systems, retrieved 2021-10-21
  6. ^ a b c d e f g Goldberg, Harold (June 13, 2021). "'Starfield': Todd Howard discusses Bethesda's new space-based RPG". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
  7. ^ Kim, Matt T.M. (June 17, 2021). "Starfield: 6 New Details, Including 1st and 3rd Person Viewpoints". IGN. Retrieved 2021-06-30.
  8. ^ Livingston, Christopher; Senior, Tom (2021-06-15). "Starfield: everything we know about Bethesda's next RPG". PC Gamer. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  9. ^ Lee, Helen (May 22, 1997). "Bethesda's E3 Lineup". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on June 11, 2000. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
  10. ^ a b Macdonald, Keza (18 July 2018). "Todd Howard and Pete Hines interviewed on Starfield and Elder Scrolls". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
  11. ^ Fenlon, Wes (2018-06-11). "Bethesda's Starfield 'is playable,' Elder Scrolls 6 is in 'pre-production' says Todd Howard". PC Gamer. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
  12. ^ Phillips, Tom (June 13, 2018). "Bethesda announces Starfield". Eurogamer. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
  13. ^ McWhertor, Michael (June 13, 2021). "Bethesda's Starfield is Xbox exclusive, coming November 2022". Polygon. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
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