During Bethesda's behind-closed-doors showing of the game, Va'ruun'kai was shown to be a planet distinct from the rest of the explorable galaxy. Its capital city has been rent asunder by a tear in the fabric of space-time, a place described as somewhere humanity's search for knowledge-that otherwise drives the overarching narrative of Starfield-has "gone too far." Whatever its scientists were up to, and it was something to do with "grav-drive technology," it's had devastating effects, and you're now exploring the remains as various factions fight for control in the void of leadership.
The Shattered Space demo footage shown at this week's Gamescom began with a brutal scene of floating dead bodies in dank, metallic corridors, a vibe that immediately spoke far more of horror than Starfield's more familiar science fiction cleanliness. This is a planet with a more alien feel, its landscape much more peculiar, featuring gravitational anomalies among the many things going wrong for the locals.
What followed in the demo was a lengthy series of events taking place in the aftermath of the Va'ruun people's recent disaster, which is so much worse when you learn those rifts in space are now letting in some gruesome monsters from another reality. The immediate vibe was FEAR- it very strikingly reminded me of Monolith's classic spook-shooters, as the player character crept around abandoned sci-fi corridors, plagued by the grim beasts incessantly leaping at them.
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