It is finally here, the game we have been waiting for forever: Skyrim. The game is made by the creators of

the video game masterpieces of Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas. Skyrim uses the same game format as the Fallout games, choosing to be bad or good, letting your actions decide your fate in the magical world of Skyrim Unlike Fallout, Skyrim has more di-verse battle tactics. It incorporates close combat with various melee weapons, long range archery combat, and varia-tions of magic. Different variations of the uses of magic are applied in the game, and not all the magic spells are for combat. Destruction and conjuration are the two magic powers used to help in battle in Skyrim. Conjuration lets players sum-mon weapons or followers to help fight against enemies. Destruction spells use elemental powers like electricity, ice, and fire to fight. Eight different magic powers can be used: alteration, conjuration, destruction, illusion, restoration, and enchanting. Be-sides conjuration and destruction, other spells are used for causing distractions, upgrading weapons, or healing. The added element of shouts is a special weapon created for the game of Skyrim. The shout is a special power that the dragonborn has. The voice becomes a weapon with many different shouts a player can use to change the tide of a fight. The first shout learned in the story is unrelenting force, a special shout that releases a large amount of energy that throws back anyone in the path of the shout. The magic part of the game play is really fun, but the many weapons and armours players can use to customize are the other half of the fun. The weapons are all intricately de-signed and get better as you keep play-ing, each with specific powers. The great part of this game is that players can choose to focus only on a certain fighting style or can choose to use all the styles of fighting. The game deserves a perfect ten out of ten.

Fight Like a Dragonborn

by Seth Miles