Starfield’s big Shattered Space expansion isn’t weird enough

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It's been a long time coming for Starfield players. Bethesda's sci-fi take on Skyrim originally launched last summer, and while there have been some updates and improvements since then, it's taken more than a year for the game to get its first major expansion. This lead-up means there's a lot riding on Shattered Space - which is a perfectly fine addition to the game that also feels incredibly underwhelming. After a promising setup, it ends up mostly being more of the same.

Things start, as they so often do in expansions, with a distress call. This one leads you to a derelict space station that is brimming with ghostly apparitions and which eventually whisks you away to the home planet of the House Va'ruun, a religious sect that worships...

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