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Skyrim - Review @ True PC Gaming

by Myrthos, 2011-11-28 12:45:42

True PC Gamer has made their review of Skyrim available. There is no score but they are very positive:

Skyrim, like its predecessors, is a celebration of gratuity: there’s simply an overabundance of everything. You’ll never get to know the thousands of individually named NPCs long enough to actually remember their names. You’ll never be able to read the ~300 dense, lore-heavy books deeply enough to actually remember what they say. There’s 15 square miles of outdoorsy Skyrim scenery to explore with 70 deep, long-lasting dungeons waiting to be cleared (they actually mark cleared dungeons on the map this time!) It’s enough to keep dedicated players playing for way more than any reasonable amount of time.

Although they do have some negative things to say as well:

Speaking of leveling up, this is actually the most whittled-down RPG experience Bethesda has offered so far. There are no classes, instead you grow into a custom class over time. Weapon degradation is gone, so is underwater combat, you can’t fail at crafting attempts and the (admittedly pretty overpowered) magic-making system has been omitted entirely. There are also fewer skills than in previous Elder Scrolls games, and the omission of an acrobatics skill really limits the options for sneaky characters. The blatantly robotic followers were not just bland, but unsettling too

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Skyrim

SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC, Xbox 360, PS3
Release: Released


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