The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

For the RPG fan it's a can't miss, for those that aren't fans yet, you soon will be.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim hit hard and so effectively that we lost our minds over it. Is Bethesda's new product a sure candidate for the title of game of the year? We answer this question in the review.

I’ve always considered The Elder Scrolls series to have a great soundtrack, but Skyrim’s thundering music is probably my favorite of the series. The feeling you get when you walk into a town to pick up something from the blacksmith, hear the roar of a dragon and the panic of the villagers, then pull out your mace (any other weapon is for babies, except maybe warhammers) as the dragon fighting music starts playing is one I’ll never get tired of. Bethesda did bump up the quality of their voice actors by hiring more than triple the amount they had in Oblivion (pretty sure they had less than 20 gu...

Skyrim is easily one of the strongest and best examples of the Western RPG, and it further establishes Bethesda's reputation as one of the most talented and creative forces in the gaming industry.

Outside of the aforementioned talking points, there isn’t much else to review.  It’s Skyrim. It’s been around for years and if you love it you’ll love it on the Switch.  If you don’t like it, you probably won’t like it on the switch.  To me, this might very well be the way I play Skyrim from now on because it’s so easy to put down when my daughter or wife need me and pick it right back up once my free time starts rolling in again.  So yes, if you’re a Nintendo Switch owner...

Skyrim is a majestic and magical place where it feels just about anything is possible. So many changing scenes and various missions give the player a reason to play for hours on end. There’s always something to do, whether it’s sticking to the main mission of trying to find out why so many dragons have come back to destroy Skyrim, or any other objective that leads you to some cavern to locate a lost artifact. The simplest of tasks can change into something you would never have expected. Like playing a simple drinking game in a cavern and ending being the guinea pig of some ancient demon. A tas...

As you can see, I can’t complain about Skyrim for too long without starting to compliment it again. It’s an excited, engaging, epic tale with you at the centre. There are a number of complaints, a few bugs and the odd crash, but nothing that can’t be fixed with a couple of patches and a legion of obsessed modders. The menu system may not be designed with the PC in mind but the superior graphics and community easily makes the PC version of Skyrim the version to get. I may have hated Obli...

Before I’d even put pen to paper, or finger to keyboard, should I say, for our The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim review, I’d clocked up an incredible 117 hours and 12 minutes, completed 118 quests, notched up 121 miscellaneous objectives, finished 5 questlines, discovered 219 locations, cleared 71 dungeons, had 526 skill increases, learnt 45 words of power, plucked 30 wings off various creepy crawlies, nabbed 37 dragon souls, contracted 8 diseases and slaughtered 2 bunnies – we'd have killed ...