The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the next installment in the award-winning Elder Scrolls series. Skyrim is the follow up to the 2006 Game of the Year, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and the next game from Bethesda Game Studios, creators of the 2008 Game of the Year, Fallout 3.
You play as a Dragonborn (a dragon hunter) and you are mentored by the last living Blade member. There is also a civil war going on after the death of the king.
Name | The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Developer | Bethesda Softworks
Publisher | Bethesda Softworks
Genre | Role-Playing
Release Date | 11/11/2011
Website | Click here
Reviews | N/A
- No level cap
- Choose all perks with one character
- Technically speaking, Skyrim is an evolution within The Elder Scrolls, not a revolution
- Different properties for all weapons, take advantage of them by choosing the right perks
- Maces ignore a percentage of armor
- Axes have bleed damage over time
- Quickly revisit locations you have previously visited
- Game is as big as Oblivion
- 5 big cities
- Over 130 dungeons
- Low-Fantasy (game does not look as vibrant, vivid as Morrowind, more like Oblivion)
- The overarching narrative of the Dragons is less prominent than the Oblivion Gates were in Oblivion, which does not give you the feeling that you are doing useless quests when you lay aside the Main Quest.
- Dragons arent rare
- Dungeons will be locked at their level once you have been there
- In a dungeon, it will remain lvl 5 when you entered it on lvl 5
- Dungeons don’t change difficulties throughout a game save after youve entered one
- Read in-game books in 3D
- 3D-preview in the Flash-based inventory for all items
- Twist, turn, rotate the items
- Will sometimes need to figure out puzzles by analyzing 3D previews
- Armor, weapons, small rings and herbs can be explored in great deal and viewed in 3D
- All items can be previewed in the inventory screen
- The Dark Brotherhood is back
- More traps and puzzles
- Around 20 hours for the main story
- Hundreds of additional hours for more quests
- Get stronger as you kill dragons
- A piece of a dragons soul will be transferred to yours
- Special animations for sneak kills with daggers
- Team is looking at how they can improve facial expressions and animations
- No Kinect support
- Dyamic Shadows
- Overhauled Combat-system
- Improved Faces/Improved Models Example: Faces have been dramatically overhauled. Characters now exhibit more emotion show of distinctions between different races and just plain looks better
- Radiant AI
- Updated Engine Snow falls dynamically (not as a basic texture on the ground)
Trees and branches move independently with the wind
Water flows
- Randomly generated quests
- Beards
- You can't run backwards as fast as you do forward.
- 10 races to choose from (Holy crap thats a lot of races)
-confirmed creatures: zombies, skeletons, trolls, giants, ice wraiths, giant spiders, dragons, wolves, horses Elk, mammoth, saber-toothed cats
- Presumably open cities (as dragons can attack)
- Hud-free first-person view and improved third-person perspective
- Very unique landscapes! Also unique dungeons! In other words, lots of uniqueness!
- Character creation improved, body features customizable
- 2-handed weapons and duel wielding confirmed.
- Finishing moves, unique to each weapon and enemy you fight.
- Kids
- The game takes place 2 centuries after Oblivion
- Sprint is added
- Dialog will pop up when you approach an enemy
- Cooking/farming/mining/woodcutting/blacksmithing
- 18 skills.
- Perk picking at every level-up
- 5 Magic Schools Destruction Alteration Conjuration Restoration Illusion.
Source & thanks to Dennisk4 for compiling the list!
Menu system overhaul
The sounds of Skyrim
The art of Skyrim
Game Informer Info
Todd Howard Interview
Behind the scenes
NEW ENGINE!!
TES V will be officially moddable
Teaser Trailer
First screenshots
Skyrim map (Big Pic)
