Difficulty:

Easy

Time Spent:

100 or More Hours

The Bottom Line:

"All it's cracked up to be"

How to write an Elder Scrolls review…? Where to start? Dear Gods how!? …. Is there no potion? No spell? Surely if I level up, there'll be a perk to at least assist me in this colossal task? No. No help. Just time… And lots of it… in a metaphor to most characters you will create within the Elder scrolls universe. Time to understand the rules, the physics, the lore, the very elements of the universe your creation will be a part of. … Time is one commodity, you will never be short of within the titanic experience that is an Elder Scrolls game (what it does to the clock in the real world while your playing it however, I'm sure even the late Albert Einstein would have puzzled over!).

So here we are. Almost Three months after its release. Our social lives are in tatters. Our appearance is scruffy and un-kept. We have a list of chores that we've kept putting-off at home, and our superiors (either work, school, college) are already wagging their fingers and tapping **** "when we finally decide to turn up"… SHUDDUPP!!!! (Dragon shout!!!! … if only… )

Bethesda, have once again clamped the vice of their most powerfully immersive franchise, tightly around the loyal fan-base's lives. The Sequel of 2006's enigma "Oblivion", has been unleashed. With a brand new engine. A HHHHHHUGE new map. Hundreds of stories within a story. Just as many unique beasts, creatures, demons, gods, tribesmen, soldiers, villagers to battle / recruit / serve / trade and interact with… More spells, skills, perks and pursuits than a guy can list! … A whole economy balanced by a comprehensive political landscape, which is both geographically AND historically sound. Crafting, smithing, enchanting … working for a living…! * pant… gasp… *

All of this… and dragons?! … DRAGONS!!!!! And there is NO hiding from these beasts ANYWHERE… in the land they call Skyrim

Fans familiar to the series (or at least it's older brother "Oblivion"), will already be well versed (>>VERY