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No Man's Sky's cultural influences, from Dune to post-rock

Written By Unknown on Thursday, August 11, 2016 | 8:13 AM

Hello Games’ title is one of the most visually interesting games of the past decade. But where does its approach to sci-fi come from?

From the very beginning, No Man’s Sky has not looked like many other modern science-fiction video games. With its bizarre creatures, hallucinogenic skylines and polychrome environments, it eschews the gritty, steel-grey aesthetics of Mass Effect, Halo and Gears of War.

The themes of the game, too, hark back to a different form of sci-fi literature, less interested in galactic wars and more concerned with the philosophical and psychology elements of space exploration.

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