Hello everyone and welcome to the IGN UK podcast. I am Matt Perslow and today I am joined

by Emma Matthews. Hello. Hello and Jesse Gomez. Hello. It's the the usual host is out today

Mr Simon Cardi is off doing some work so you've got the pleasure of this trio to discuss

the biggest release of the week. Again, it's Starfield. We've got all three of us have been

playing some Starfield so that is obviously a major release. We've not got the the pre-release

expertise that Cardi had but we're here to tell you what we think of it since we've been playing

since it came out in its little like pre-release access. So we've had it for a few days. It's not

like we've only just had it since the six. We're also revisit the old favourite Baldur's Gate

since that is coming out on PS5 this week. We've also got a little bit of chat from our resident

Counter Strike expert. Emma, you're going to discuss a little bit about the the sequel that's not

really the sequel that's like what five games in now but Counter Strike 2. And then finally, after

not speaking about it for a few weeks, we're going to chat Armored Core 6. Yes, please. But we are

going to start with the biggest game. Starfield, as many people will know, are official rating from

our reviews, from our director reviews Dan Stapleton was a seven. And Cardi and Jen quite kindly

gave some relatively kind of up and down opinions. I think Cardi kind of like reasonably likes it.

But there's definitely some issues there. Prior warning, there are at least a couple of people

on this week's episode that haven't had a particularly good time with Starfield. So there's

going to be a little bit more of the negative side of opinions this week. So just to let you know

that's what's coming. But yeah. Jesse. Yes. Let's go. I'm not going to say full bore with the

cannons. We're not on a witch hunt here. But Jesse, I know that you've played the most out of

all of the three this year. You've put in over 20 hours at this point. And I know that as someone

that I know you're a big fan of Oblivion, that's a part of your your background. But I get the

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