The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an Action RPG, Open World game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks in 2011 for the Xbox 360.

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Overall 9.7    Graphics 9.3    Sound 8.6    Addictive 8.8    Story 8.4    Depth 9.8    Difficulty 6


Why should every player who likes adventure get "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim"?   Seishiro Leonha..
Probably many of you have heard about the game "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim", but let's talk to those who saw this game before somewhere and was wondering if it is a good choice.In here I'll try to expose each detail used here on Vizzed, or "ways to review" this game, those ways are: Graphics, Sounds, Addictiveness, Story, Depth and difficulty. Each of those details will be rated from 0 to 10, being 0 the worst, and 10 the best, except for Difficulty, which 0 being extremely easy and 10 extremely hard.I am not a good reviewer, but I'll put some good effort into making this review.Let's talk firstly about the game itself, we should start with the info about the game, right?The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a RPG made by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. This game is the fifth of the series, being The Elder Scrolls Arena the first, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall the second, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowing the third and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion the forth, this masterpiece was released for the PS3, Xbox360 and PC on November 11th of 2011 and on June 4th of 2013 the Legendary edition which includes the game, and the DLCs (Downloadable content) Dawnguard, Hearthfire and Dragonborn; The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was the first game ever on the Occident to get the maximum grade (40 out of 40) on the magazine Famitsu. And the game also got 3 prizes on VGA 2011, including best game of year, probably with this you can already have the idea of how good this game is, BUT! Make sure you are okay playing a M (Mature +17) game, while the game deserves every second of you play it, you should also be careful with the game ratings.Let's check the graphics for this game, I could describe all of this in 2 words: "Almost flawless", yes, this game seriously impressed me with such beautiful and outstanding graphics, the details of simply and absolutely almost EVERYTHING is perfectly made, the appearances of all the characters, monsters even the smallest bee, really do look like what they are and what's better is that you feel like you are in the game. I seriously have no words to express how excellent the graphics are, it's something you must see for yourself, if graphics call your attention, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is certainly the game for you.I've just reminded I've said "Almost flawless", but why that? So far in 39 hours of play, I've only spotted 2 fails of the graphics, 1 extremely hard to FIND and 1 you will eventually find. The extremely hard to find flaw is that in a mountain somewhere Skyrim, the rocks of the mountain is "floating a little" from the mountain, and I believe that is no magical effect, but like I said, you only find it in extreme luck. The  one you will eventually find, is when riding the horse through the mountains or unstable terrain, the horse keep moving strangely, it should move strangely because of the kind of terrain, but it's a little more strange than it should be.Perfectly made graphics with the slightest flaws gets a 9.9, but you can round it to 10.Sounds, one thing very important for the game, another masterpiece just like graphics, the sound effects are really realistic, the sheathing and unsheathing of the sword, the walking, the cutting, the birds singing, absolutely everything, it quite feels like they actually did those things to make the sounds for the game XD.Let's talk about the tunes and songs of Skyrim, the tunes fits perfectly in each situation you are, if you are in the open-world simply walking around, you will be granted the sounds of the forest and some very calm song, when engaging into a battle, you will get an excellent tune of medieval battle, and when you meet a bard or someone who sings, they may sing for you and play an instrument, if you ever find someone who plays an instrument and/or sings, try making a request for them, you will find yourself in quite a very peaceful moment, listening to Ragnar the Red, The Dragonborn Comes, and who knows what else? ;3Trust me, you will feel yourself even more into the game with the tunes from this game; You like good music and sound effects? You found it.Absolute 10 for sounds.I'll tell you the beginning of the story only, because the story is seriously HUGE but well made, note you can learn more about the story of this game by reading books around Skyrim or also asking around for the history of each town you are in.You begin the game awakening in a carriage, and there are 3 people next to you, all of you are suspected on being rebels, when you arrive the town of Helgen, you have the opportunity to give your character "a face", you can customize your character in any way you want, the race, colors and even the position of the cheeks, mouth, etc. After you are finished customizing your character, you are sent to be executed, your killer is there, watching you and lifting the axe which will take your life away when suddenly by either extreme luck or DESTINY, a huge DRAGON appears, you are safe from being executed, but you must still escape! And what makes things even better, is that dragons were believed to be extinct a long time ago. After escaping, the Dragonborn (you, the player) have the choice to be and do anything he wants, you can be a strong and fearless warrior, maybe a powerful spell caster mage, or make a quick and sneaky thief, it's all completely up to you!Excellent story get 10.How addictive can this game be? Simple, once you get it, and play for the first time, you will want to play it more and more, do I really have to say how addictive this game is after all I've said to this moment?Addictive game is VERY addictive for a good 10.Depth, simply put, you will spend over 200 hours in this game, a huge open world, with many different towns to discover, and many secrets to encounter, don't expect this to be a short or medium game, and this game is literally IMPOSSIBLE to speedrun, even if you skipped over everything you probably wouldn't be able to complete this game. In a positive but very simple review on Steam, I've found a user who played this game for over 600 HOURS, that would be exactly a whole 25 days playing, almost a whole month!And something I almost forgot to mention, is that with the DLCs Dawnguard, Hearthfire and Dragonborn, you have EVEN MORE things to do.With the DLC Dawnguard, you get a new campaign with new achievements everything around Dawnguard, the clan of vampire slayers, yes, with this DLC you will have the chance to be a vampire slayer (Like the Belmont family! Except you won't actually use a whip to do so XD), or be the Vampire Lord yourself! A new long campaign for a long game.With the Dragonborn DLC, you will have the chance to meet the FIRST DRAGONBORN, apparently ruling over the island of Solstheim with his power, threatning all of those who lives there, and much more! This DLC will certainly be a challenge! Can you defeat the first Dragonborn?Lastly, but not least, the Hearthfire DLC, differently from the other DLCs, this won't really add anything to the history at all, really, nothing, BUT will still add content to the game! With this DLC, the Dragonborn will be able to build a house, from a total 0, you will lift your own house from the ground, and make it the best house ever! Giving more use for the Materials you find (such as Iron, Steel, etc), and you will also be able to ADOPT children and MARRY, yes, you will also have a wife here!I certainly recommend you to try to get the Legendary edition on Steam during a Steam sale, you may be lucky enough to find it on a 75% discount!I don't think I need to say more about this, Depth, Absolute 10.And now it's time for the last detail for this review, how hard can be this game? I can safely say, perfectly fitted for every single player, from the most first-timers to the most tough Hardcore players, you can change the difficulty of the time with only a few CLICKS, if you aren't too used to Skyrim, you could decrease the difficulty, and once you start getting more used, or you want a challenge, you can increase difficulty, EVEN IF YOU ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BATTLE.Difficulty 4 - 10.General rating: 10I'll describe this game with 2 words: Respect And Masterpiece.
  Graphics 10   Sound 10   Addictive 10   Story 10   Depth 10   Difficulty 4
      Review Rating: 3/5     Submitted: 07-01-14     Review Replies: 2


Here it is, skyrim   ender44
Skyrim, just the name itself can make gamers everywhere turn their heads. Skyrim was released by Bethesda Softworks in 2011. Bethesda Softworks has released many popular games like "Fallout 3", "Fallout: New Vegas", and the elder scrolls series. Skyrim is the fifth game in the elder scroll series, and it plays in a similar fashion to the previous games. You control one of many races, each race having different abilities and appearances. This game takes a first person perspective but gives you the option to switch to third person. Skyrim is an adventure game with a huge expansive world filled with enemies and friends. Your weapons for combating enemies will be various swords, axes, and staffs that you find around Skyrim, your character can also use magic, this needing to be leveled up in the skills section. Gameplay: As previously stated, this game takes place in a first person view, but you have the option to switch to a third person view. While your in first person mode, you take control of the two hands of your character. You have the option of carrying a two handed weapon, which do more damage than most weapons, but at the same time you have to use both hands and the weapon swings slower than other weapons. If you use a one handed weapon you can use magic or a shield with your other hand. You control each hand with the right and left triggers. In third person mode, you will see the back of the character. It is more difficult to pick things up and fight in this way, in my opinion at least, but its more useful for walking around the overworld, as its easier to see where your going. And this is a minor complaint, but whose idea was it to make Y the jump button! Its the A key in almost every single game that has jumping, so why confuse everyone! You don't need to have one key only for picking things up and talking to people, just make it the action button! This confused me for the majority of my play time, and its just annoying. And other tedious things are there, B brings up your skill menu, something you should really expect start to do. Otherwise, the gameplay is fluent, but monotonous. See an enemy, right trigger, dead. See another one, right trigger, dead. They could have thrown in some more difficult enemies, or made some other things you can do with your weapons. The only thing you can do with your sword is swing it, and that gets boring for things like dragons, which take a long time to kill, its just swinging and swinging.Graphics: All I can really say is...meh. The game looks great, don't get me wrong, but the graphics don't excite me in any way. They could have done much more with the games overall appearance, and the final product left me a bit unsatisfied. I found them to be bland, and the graphics seriously made me bored. I would say the best looking thing about this game is the various characters. The different races all look fantastic, though most that you will see are just humans. The enemies especially, such as the saber tooth tigers, trolls, and dragons, all look great and made you feel like you were a part of a new world.Sound: Again, not a huge fan here. The music is either as generic as it comes, or just downright boring. Sure, some of the battle tunes were alright, but having some nice tunes cannot be at the expense of the music for the rest of the game. As for overworld music, I can only remember some of it to be honest, I mean to say that it was either nonexistent for the most part, or just so boring I forgot about it. You get different lackluster tunes for different lackluster areas.Addictiveness: This part isn't too high for two reasons, though one of them isn't really the games fault. The first reason I would be too likely to play this game again is the fact that it is the largest and longest game I have ever played. I would elaborate more on that, but I will handle it when I get to depth. The next reason is, its incredibly monotonous for me. You spend an immense amount of time in the lackluster overworld while you mindlessly hit the right trigger to kill enemies. Story: Yet again, its pretty boring. This story is immense, so this is not going to cover everything that goes down. You pick and design our character, then your brought into the story. Your in skyrim, and as you are about to be executed for being mistaken as a rebel, a dragon comes into the city and starts spraying fire like there is no tomorrow. You escape executed and then you make your way to the city of whiterun. There you tell the jarl that dragons have returned to Skyrim. He enlists you and some various soldiers to find and kill the dragon. After doing so, you absorb the soul of the dragon and find out that you are dragon born, a group of people who speak the dragon language naturally. These people can also use various shouts, which you obtain from finding word walls and from absorbing the souls of dragons that are found randomly in skyrim. You meet the graybeards, who teach you various shouts. And there, there is still a lot of story to go through and its pointless for me to write it all out. The point of this game is to rid Skyrim of the dragons once and for all. And the story is great, seriously. Its huge and fun to watch. The monotony of the whole game can bring the story down, but its still great.Depth: You wouldn't believe how long this game is. It took me two years to beat that whole thing, I got it a month after its release date and I didn't beat it until last week. I mean, I played it on and off, but the only game I have clocked more hours on is majoras mask, and I have beaten that game almost nine times!  There are tons of weapons, characters to interact with (and about a third of them took an arrow to the knee), and enemies to fight.Difficulty: Only one thing got me here. It wasn't misleading controls, or dragons, it was getting lost. I got lost in the overworld incredibly often, and its even worse in caves. The compass system is horrible and its so easy to get lost or have no idea where your supposed to go. And that's just bad game design, I don't want to spend hours trying to figure out where I'm supposed to go.So yeah, Skyrim is an innovative and ambitious title, but when you look at the barebones of this game, there isn't much to see. I know plenty of you like the game, but personally I do not, so please don't post about why I should like the game or anything of such nature.See ya
  Graphics 7   Sound 5   Addictive 5   Story 8   Depth 10   Difficulty 4
      Review Rating: 2/5     Submitted: 05-31-13     Updated: 06-01-13     Review Replies: 2


Skyrim: cool   jake9039
SKYRIMSo, I am playing skyrim, and you really got to play it.Graphics:10so, when I play, there are no pixels, it's almost 3-d. I think it's self explanatory thereSound:9I really like the choice of soundtrack and when I hit anything, it sounds like I really hit itAddictiveness:10I had to drag myself over here to write this reviewStory:7very long, too long. But it's funDepth:10if I had a lifetime, I couldn't beat itDifficulty:8strange controls, and hard monstersOverall:9.3 it's fun, addicting, and AWESOME!
  Graphics 10   Sound 10   Addictive 10   Story 7   Depth 10   Difficulty 8
      Review Rating: 1/5     Submitted: 04-04-14     Review Replies: 3

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