Star Citizen: Fascinating trailer shows zooming out from a person into space

Star Citizen is an extremely ambitious game. This is demonstrated repeatedly – also by a new trailer that is simply captivating.

The trailer starts with a close-up of a person. You can see how detailed the faces are as the camera zooms out further. The character becomes smaller and stands in a large hangar. The action continues to zoom out from there until you can see the building from outside, perched on the cliff of a rocky planet. But it goes even further. The camera keeps zooming out, showing the rugged planet, until you finally land in space and view the world as a whole. The planet shown has a diameter of 1,000 kilometers.

Seamless transition between space and planets

The video provides some explanations. The displayed graphics are said to be actual gameplay graphics and there will be seamless transitions from space to the planets. You will be able to penetrate the atmosphere of a planet with your spaceship and zoom over it until you find a landing platform where you can land, disembark, and explore the base on foot. The planets are supposed to be procedurally generated since such a world could never fit into the storage of a PC.

The developers even take care to ensure that the light is represented correctly and bends differently in the various layers of the atmosphere. This should make landings and take-offs also visually spectacular. Planets should look very detailed even from a great distance.

Star Citizen fascinates anew each time. Considering what is contained in this game, it is not surprising that there are delays with Star Citizen. The recently released Alpha 2.0 shows how extensive Star Citizen already is in this early version. Fans can look forward to what awaits them at release.