The game is not as advertised in any way shape or form. Let us start with this opener: >In No Man's Sky, every star is the light of a distant sun, each orbited by planets filled with life, and you can go to any of them you choose. This is false several ways but let's take the most easy to match to what one might expect. Q: Can you select every single star on the Galactic Map and choose to go there? A: No. You cannot go to every star. The stars at the very outer edge of each galaxy cannot be selected while on the Galactic Map (as someone who has been to the outer edge as far as 289849.7 LY from Euclid galactic Center I can attest to this). Overall, everything about this game's advertising is just like the above quote, overblown falsehoods and exaggerations. I knocked 2 stars off the top for that. The unique life is built of such a small sample of parts that other than slight color variation you will begin to see the same life forms over and over quite often. This is improved some with mods that increase the odds of variety and introduce some less than complete game parts. Even so you'll still notice a large amount of 'the same'. The plant life and even the planets all suffer the sameness as the creatures due to the same lack of variety at the base level. Now please understand I am not saying there is no variety. I am saying the variety is subpar for the exploration intent of the game. With mods the game can be a somewhat enjoyable casual time-killing screenshot collecting thing. I would not recommend this title for more than $10-$15 USD, AND that the person understands what their getting is not what is advertised on the store page. Comes close, but didn't finish the race. This is such a hard one to rate, on the one hand if it was advertised for what the game is, and sold for $15 I'd give it 3 stars. However, the price is $60, the advertising being what it is and was, the differences there-in and compounded by various performance issues, networking issues, that the local save data is limited (hence offline SP no real reason to rename anything but systems and planets). It just falls too short in so many areas.
