Customer Rating : 
List Price : £44.99 Price : £19.21
List Price : £44.99 Price : £19.21
- .
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PC DVD) Deals
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PC DVD) Reviews
| 210 of 224 people found the following review helpful  Enthralling, By = Fun:  This review is from: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PC DVD) (DVD-ROM) If you're reading this, you must have at least some idea of what to expect, but these are my feelings after ~20 hours of play (only just scratching the surface really).The good: Beautiful - Even on my 4-year old Quad core XP PC with a Nvidia 8800GT, the game still looks pretty damn good, and plays well enough to not notice any serious framerate issues. Quality settings are mostly medium (although the autodetect wanted to set low) Immersive - Skyrim feels much more of a functioning world than Oblivion or Morrowind. There are plenty of background incidents going on all over town (and out in the country). I've even seen a pack of wolves chasing a deer that I had startled. Music - Perfect. Background music that doesn't annoy, but subtly warns of impending danger. Crafting - Nicely done. The opportunity to mine several different ores, smelt them into even more varieties of metal; and then turn them into armour and weapons. You can improve existing gear... Read more 69 of 75 people found the following review helpful Single-player RPGs are not dead., By = Fun: This review is from: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PC DVD) (DVD-ROM) In a time when even giants of single-player RPGs like Bioware try to cash in on the MMO market, it's nice to see Bethesda stick to their guns. And right they were, because Skyrim turns out to be a fantastic game. If you have played previous Bethesda titles such as Morrowind, Oblivion or Fallout 3, you will know what to expect and need read no further. Skyrim is as good if not better than those games, so if you liked them, make sure to pick up Skyrim as well.For those readers who have not experienced those games however, some introduction may be in order. The game setting is a world called Tamriel, populated by different human races, elves and orcs as well as the humanoid cats named Khajit and the reptilian Argonians. But wait, don't take this to mean that the world is generic fantasy to the point of being boring, because it's not. I could not hope to give even a summary of the extremely detailed history of Tamriel, but in-game books will keep you occupied for hours on the... Read more 87 of 101 people found the following review helpful A masterpiece, = Fun: This review is from: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PC DVD) (DVD-ROM) Bethesda have produced their finest work with Skyrim, and in the process possibly set the bar too high for themselves to ever hope to match in future Elder Scrolls episodes.I'm using Windows Vista 64 with an nVidia GeForce 280GTX which is hardly top end nowadays and has had its problems when running games such as Rift and Battlefield 3. Thus far it has coped with Skyrim while providing a breathtaking view of the landscape and environments within which the game takes place. There are enough reviews out there about specifics without me needing to rehash what's been said before, but here are this gamer's personal views: I am someone who has been gaming on pc and consoles since i began as a child in the mid 80s with a commodore 64, and with a background mostly in FPS games and MMOs in the last decade, hardly ever playing single player games in the last few years. In my opinion Skyrim is the closest any game has got to perfection regarding gameplay, combat, graphics,... Read more |
› See all 272 customer reviews...
