Starfield is one of the biggest and most anticipated video game releases of the year.

It is a massive open world game set in humanity's future when we've settled on star systems throughout

the galaxy.

There's over 1,000 planets to explore, multiple factions to join, enemies to combat, companions

to flirt with,

spaceships to pilot and quests to go on,

but does the game live up to the advance hype?

I'm Glenn Weldon, and today we're talking about Starfield

on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

Joining me today is one of the hosts of a little startup show called NPR's All Things Considered

And they considered this podcast, Wanna Sommer's.

Hey Wanna.

Hey, Glen.

Also with this is swapna Krishna.

She's a freelance space and science writer

and also wrote a great review of Starfield for the NPR website.

Welcome to the show Swapna.

Thank you.

Let's get into it.

So Starfield is an open world, I guess we should say open worlds role-playing game from the

company known for making them.

Bethesda Game Studios, they're the creators of such hugely popular games as

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