Difficulty:

Just Right

Time Spent:

100 or More Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Ambitious"

Skyrim puts you in a world after the death of a king. You roam around doing as you please helping or killing whoever you want. Except for importanat characters of course, they never die.

For starters you have 1st and 3rd person view points. Combated is evolved from the previous ES game. Now you have casting and fighting abilities with both hands. Fighting can be rewarding and some times cheap. (running from a giant while shooting arrows). Dragon combat lacks a certain epic scale. It lands you slash it. Nothing more. I would have preferred some sort of combat change for the dragon battles. PS Giants are great for block leveling.

Leveling is fun and easy. It also caps at lvl 80. Currently I'm level 36. You can level up Spell casting, blocking, one handed swords, two handed and so on. It's pretty large in scale.

NPC characters have great voices but lack the body movement to really believe them. Honestly, the game needs more emotions, more nudity for my taste to be realistic. You can't expect me to slay dozens of dragons and not expect me to not want to bath with topless women. (Kratos thank you)

Quest assigning is easy and the world maps helps you on where to go. Be careful if you are wanting a quick play through then don't bother with MISC quests. They can hold you for days of game play. Literally.

At the end of the day this was bought as a gift for me and I love it. But I wish I had the PC version for its bountiful community of mods.