Magic just looks better on screen than those boring old payloads of shrapnel and lead. (Personally, I’m a fan of the crackling, lightning-blue whip we can use to pull enemies in close for a shotgun blast of pure energy.) But by shifting the basics ever so slightly, Aveum has discovered a compelling new way to be a shooter. Like its contemporaries in Doom and Wolfenstein, solving Aveum requires players to identify the exact cocktail of magical munitions that will sunder the armor of the demons and goblins in our midst. This is an FPS where we’re sat behind the eyes of a young, devil-may-care warlock, who expels destructive magical beams from his fingertips at a machine-gun clip.
Immortals of Aveum, then, offers us a much more imaginative suite of options. I’ve never fired a gun in my life, but through pure osmosis, I do know the difference between an M16 and an AK-47. I often find myself thinking about how familiar I’ve become with firearm nomenclature after too many hours playing first-person shooters like Call of Duty and Counter-Strike. The magic still works, and that’s why Bethesda keeps going back to the well. And yet, just like before, I slowly found myself sucked into the limitless reaches of its galaxy touching down on moons and planets, forever curious to see what I might find. It’s a conservative design initially, I was a little miffed that Bethesda didn’t spend those eight years focused on some of the more basic infrastructural issues in its philosophy. But this time, instead of the post-apocalyptic wastelands of Fallout or the high-fantasy realm of the Elder Scrolls, Starfield takes place in the outer reaches of the Milky Way. You will be completing a myriad of side quests, exploring a ton of dungeons, interfacing with a vaguely uncanny cast of characters, and facing the occasional game-breaking bug.
This is a Bethesda–style open-world RPG through and through - the studio has not enacted any major reforms in its game design principles. Despite being in development for eight years, Starfield is a bit of a throwback.
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