The Elder Scrolls v: Skyim

The Elder Scrolls v: Skyim

By: Thomas Hyde

I have been playing video games since I was a young lad of three. This gave me a lot of time to see the gaming industry through its more prominent endeavors and years of immense progress. Ive experienced the excitement of many games in their pre-release stages. One of the most interesting things about the gaming community is that everyone has differing opinions on games before and after release. All of that being said I have never seen any game so universally anticipated and even praised before release as Bethesda Studios epic fantasy RPG, Skyrim.

Skyrim is a game so vast that it seems impossible to actually pick a place to begin. The game begins with you taking a ride on the back of an imperial prison wagon. After some plot build up you are taken to the small settlement of Helgen where you and the other prisoners are to be executed. Thanks to the convenient fact that the imperials dont have any information on you, you get to customize your characters skills and appearance. Upon finishing character creation youre taken over to the chopping block to be executed. The hooded executioner raises his axe, about to end the game before it even starts, when all of a sudden a dragon crashes down on top of a nearby building and starts destroying the village.

All the calamity that ensues from the dragons arrival allows you to escape the city, and after a brief tutorial dungeon you are set free to do whatever you want in the world of Skyrim. When I say whatever you want I truly mean anything at all, nothing is off limits. See that mountain way over there in the distance? Just keep walking and eventually youll get there. Do you want to explore that cave over there? Jump on in.

With the combination of stunning high resolution graphics and the freedom to do whatever you please Skyrim throws into your hands an entire world to explore and enjoy and easily earns 5/5 stars in my books.