![]() I’d suggest watching Prospect on one of our picks for the best OLED TVs to get a real feel for the color palette of the movie that can reveal some of its details.We are a community dedicated to Starfield, the upcoming role-playing space game being developed by Bethesda Game Studios. There are more than enough games with vast maps to uncover, the challenge is to make them compelling enough to sink 100-plus hours into. But I’m crossing my fingers and toes that Bethesda makes sure the characters, quests and feel of Starfield are engrossing and detailed, rather than simply give players a big ‘open world’ to explore. Sure, the game may have a few more CGI bells and whistles. Outlook: Let's hope Starfield is as compellingĪll of that is exactly what I’m hoping for from Starfield. Ultimately, the overall story isn’t anything incredible, but the way it invokes a Wild West frontier feeling in a hard sci-fi setting is great and lingers on my mind. While I had to rewind a few scenes to put together bits of dialogue, I found Prospect’s whole approach to character and world building to be very compelling. I felt Pascal was having a great time here, sporting an accent that’s a few more steps into the Deep South than his portrayal of Texan Joel in The Last of Us, with verboseness that’s rather scene-stealing. Similarly, Damon has a good dose of lost soul energy mixed in with a slight whiff of failed ambitions, but we soon see that he’s got a more determined streak with a dose of mercenary when called upon.Īn image of Pedro Pascal as Ezra in Prospect, with someone pointing a gun to his helmeted-headĬurrent darling of the acting world, Pedro Pascal also has a starring role as Ezra, a enigmatic character who is both antagonist and savior at the same time. But as the plot unfolds, we see that Cee is a far more capable and tough person than first meets the eye. Thatcher’s Cee at first seems like a slightly detached and callow teenager without much choice but to accompany her father on his prospecting. And this also means the acting and character building can shine through as well. ![]() Less is moreīy eschewing a lot of CGI - likely as much due to budget restraints as stylistic choice - the small details of Prospect bubble to the surface, letting viewers get a sense of the place Cee and Damon occupy. Even the wireless headphones Cee uses are pretty similar to those you can get today, perhaps with a little more of an analogue art-deco feel (anyone who’s played Prey might be familiar with that aesthetic). ![]() You could easily see this type of tech being used on a present-day NASA rocket, if it was transported to a different solar system/galaxy where longhaul space travel is a realistic prospect. We are introduced to them on their small ship connected to a bigger long-haul station/ship that’s doing one final loop of the planet before the “slingback” - from my sci-fi knowledge I take that to mean using a planet's gravitational pull to help the ship gather speed on a return journey. In broad strokes, Prospect’s plot centers around harvesting alien gems from a green planet where the air appears to be choked with toxic “dust.” We join the perspective of father and daughter duo, Damon and Cee (played by Jay Duplass and Sophie Thatcher respectively). That’s because Prospect is a master of understated world building, something I hope Starfield nails as a wholly new IP from Bethesda. But I do hope it has drawn upon the same vein as Prospect, a low-budget but excellent sci-fi movie. While it looks like Starfield will lean more into the hard sci-fi style of The Expanse, rather than the more high science fiction of Star Trek, I’m still left speculating at how the ‘world’ of Starfield will take shape. The Starfield showcase this Sunday (June 11) promises to give us a big look at the “NASA-punk” sci-fi game for Xbox Series X, Series S and Windows PCs.Īt the moment, we don’t know a vast amount about Starfield, other than some core elements like planet exploration, base building, space combat and a story based around various factions and the discovery of alien artifacts. Promotional image for Prospect of someone with a helmet on standing in front of the camera looking forward at a planet that’s quite close
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