Universal appeal
We've had open world games before but nothing quite on the scale of No Man's Sky. This ambitious space-sim from Joe Danger developer Hello Games doesn't just limit players to a single digital playground, or even a single world, but let's them explore the star-strewn stretches of a universe containing 18 quintillion digital planets. For some idea of just how mind-boggling a number of planets that is, No Man's Sky's lead developer Sean Murray reckons only 0.01% of those quintillion balls of rock will be explored in our lifetime.
Give the sheer amount of real-estate floating around just waiting to conquered, it's no surprise that exploration is a key part of the game. To hammer this point home, Hello Games have cut together a series of trailers, four in all, highlighting the different gameplay elements that form the cornerstones of the No Man's Sky experience: Exploration, Combat, Trading and Survival.
'Explore', the first trailerin the series, gives us a better idea of what different kinds of terrain gamers will encounter as they whizz around the cosmos. We can see bucolic planets teeming with all manner of strange and wonderful creatures, mysterious alien obelisks, towering machines, and monolithic spacecraft suspended in the cold reaches of space.
Tantalisingly, Hello Games have hinted that as players close in on the centre of the universe the planets and creatures they encounter will become progressively stranger, earth-like vistas giving way to twisted and surreal alien landscapes.
Look out for the next video in the series, which will highlight how the game's combat works, in the next few days.
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