This Is What Combat in 'No Man's Sky' Looks Like

Sony is doing its part to hype studio Hello Games' upcoming sandbox sci-fi extravaganza No Man's Sky with a series of videos highlighting gameplay pillars like "explore," "fight," "trade" and "survive." The game, which lets players explore a fully generated universe harboring over 18 quintillion planets (most of which you'll never see), arrives on August 9 for PC and PlayStation 4. The video above is the second of four, drilling on combat. It starts in space, where battles look as most space battles do. Energy bolts issue from your vessel into the void as you zip and barrel roll your way through cosmic dogfights. You're incentivized to poke your nose into the game's autonomous economic systems, which include trade ships and freighters and the option to assault these ships and scavenge them for resources.