I'm playing Starfeild now, my uncle works at Nintendo so I got it for free or at least that's the story I am sticking with for legal reasons.

Anyway. It's basically what you would expect, if a little bit worse but still in that range.

It's not true open world instead everything is broken up into zones which means that traversing the game world is annoying as you are constantly going through menus to travel from one spot to another. Well I guess that was going to happen anyway given it's a space game but even some of the cities are spit into multiple zones.

Plane exploration is, again what you expect. You have set points of interest like cities and research bases or outposts that you can travel too or you can click on a random part of the planet and travel there and it will create a procedurally generated area which is just wilderness with points of interests spread through it like mines or abandoned research stations, these stations and such are the same and you will find them on multiple planets if you explore them in this way.
The vistas are not that impressive, I liked the environments in Space Engineers much more, they felt much realer and looked better.

These planets have dumb alien life that looks stupid as well.

The gunplay is fine, I did not like it in the beginning but as my weapons got better and I was able to kill enemies faster it became more bearable, it's nothing special though.

Art style is hit or miss, mostly miss. Some of the weapons are rendered quite well with a lot of detail at least but they look generic and not that interesting as do all of the clothes and armour in the game.

The story is terrible, the characters are bland, the factions are boring and the writing is incredibly corny and generic.

The skill tree is usable but I prefer the old style. In Starfeild you earn a point every level which you can spend on a perk tree, once you unlock a perk you then have a challenge to complete to unlock the higher level of that perk(you still need to spend a point to unlock that level though). So it's quite specialised, you don't really work towards multiple skills at one time and instead you fixate on one or two.

Ohh yeah, and also the game has some real weapons, so far I have found an M1911, an AK, some Shotgun and a VSS Vintorez, they call the VSS Vintorez an 'Old earth hunting rifle' for some reason. That's probably the least accurate description of a rifle ever. It's not a hunting rifle and Russia isn't part of Earth.

Ohh and one more thing, speaking of Russia, there is a black Russian in this game, it's funny(not intentionally though, nothing they do intentionally is funny).