Starfield
what is Starfield?
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.
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
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