It’s getting a mixed reception so far
- by Ben Kerry
Starfield Shattered Space has been out for a few days now, which means a small selection of early reviews have started to trickle out online. Heading on over to aggregate platforms like Metacritic and OpenCritic, early impressions seem quite mixed, and we’re wondering if this has put you off from buying the expansion at all.
Here at Pure Xbox, we went with a 5/10 score in the end, after ultimately being quite disappointed with the new Bethesda DLC. It looks pretty, sure, but Shattered Space introduces no significant new characters, we felt the story lacked substance, and it was quite buggy when we played through it as well.
Heading back over to those review summary sites, the expansion currently has a Metacritic score of 54 and an OpenCritic rating of 52 – both of which are far lower numbers than the base game pulled in last year. There aren’t loads of reviews out there yet, which is worth noting, but these scores do signal a bit of a damp launch for Starfield’s first major DLC pack.
So, is all of this putting you off buying Shattered Space? Will you wait for more reviews to drop, or on the flip side, were you never going to pick this one up anyway? Head on over to our polls down below and tell us your thoughts.
Feel free to tell us more down in the comments section below!
Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin’ in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he’s not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that’s far too old for him, watching football on the telly and probably eating somewhere.
