Week 13 - Skyrim

Skyrim (XBOX 360)

Story

• Medieval, high fantasy
• The world is "Tamirel" and this country in the northern part of the world is "Skyrim"
• You play as the dragonborn, a hero who must stop the return of Alduin the world eater and the dragons that have come back after being away for so long that the people believed them to be a myth.
• Skyrim is a harsh place with many aggressive creatures,  people and places.
• There are many different guilds, quests, and tasks for the player to go on. Many of these are expertly written, voice acted and very interesting

Mechanics

• Excellent levelling system that allows players to chose what they want to specialise in, never punishing them for choosing one set of abilities against another (unless that quest prefers it like in the guild quests)
• Natural progression of learn the more you do therefore any player can focus on any skill and make it very effective. 
• Excellent perk system where almost all perks feel like they change the ability and are more than just a statical boost.
• Average combat where the ranged (bows and magic) benefit from a good first person perspective, it is and always will be a bit difficult to use melee weapons in first and third person.
• Great crafting and creation however sometimes players find it too difficult to level these up so they exploit by making multiple of the same item over and over again  
• Although the new interface is good due to the visual and simple approach with this style there is no way to effectively and quickly compare the statistics of large number of items.
• There is also no junk option so the player must carefully only sell or get rid of what they do not wish to carry any more.

Aesthetics

• Great character customization

• Great Graphical Style
• Excellent Draw Distance (If you can see it you can go there)
• Beautiful landscapes

• Much greater variety of voice actors but because there are so many npcs they must reuse the same voices and they eventually become repetitive
• Excellent dragon language
• Excellent music
• Great User interface menu allows players to easily navigate 
• Excellent finsher moves that make the player feel awesome because of how they amplify the players actions.

Technology

• Much better graphical style
• Still struggles in some intense fights
• Prone to many bugs due to the complex nature and combinations that players do things