There's a hard vein of sci-fi mined by Fort Solis' opening hour. Set on Mars it takes the same route as The Expanse to the stars; with industrial settings and hard working, get-the job-done-type people thoroughly unimpressed by space. It makes the mystery of the first hour I played all the more interesting, with a far more grounded and weary, 'I don't have time for this shit' vibe instead of anyone throwing their hands in the air and announcing, 'ALIENS'.
I mean… it might be aliens. Again, I've only played the first hour, but if it is then engineer Jack Leary – played by Red Dead Redemption 2's Roger Clark – is going to be really pissed off about it. He's meant to be on vacation tomorrow and is investigating the nearby Fort Solis' distress call with all the enthusiasm of a parent who, having said 'don't make me come up there', has indeed been made to come up there.
