Unfortunately as good as the graphics are and how heroic the sound is, the game is sadly let down by its control system. Melee in the Elder Scrolls has typically been slow and heavy and archery has usually been a little bit hit and miss. Using spells is actually one of the better attacking systems but even then you\u2019ll have to scroll through numerous pages of magic spells and powers to find the one you\u2019re after and that\u2019s just not entertaining. Numerous times\u00a0I’ve\u00a0stopped combat to look for a potion to use or re-enchant my weapon. Yes you can favourite items in a little list that\u2019s easily accessible through the d-pad but you\u2019ll rarely have a weapon, spell or piece of armour long enough to take advantage of this. The map is clunky and as the game progresses somewhat rather complex to follow. There are simply too many lists and menu pages in the game, and searching through them to find the smallest of quest items starts to feel more like a chore as you rack up the hours. All of these are small flaws but after 50 or so hours these miniature flaws become a real distraction.<\/p>\n
Fans of the Elder Scrolls series will feel right at home here when it comes to what quests are available. There are the typical side quests and miscellaneous quests as well as the main story line quest. However fans can expect the usual separate quest lines from the likes of the Dark Brotherhood and the Thieves Guild as well as new lines from the Companies and the College of Winterhold. These quest lines on the whole are not too long and are reasonably interesting, although some like the Thieves Guild contain lots of small pointless actions that shamefully increase the amount of time you\u2019ll spend with that faction. Most have no influence on the main game and will not affect your progress but they do cross paths with other faction quests and side quests, By far the most interesting of the available quest lines is the Deadric line which is a series of quests that reward you with extremely powerful weapons and armour. Fans of the series will know that Deadra are powerful God like beings and are usually evil so you can imagine what their quests are probably like.<\/p>\n
Along with these quests you\u2019ll be able to take your time and unwind by doing little things around the world like buying a house in whatever capital city you fancy. Settling down with the love of your life, mining ore and cooking food, modest things that just let you remember that in the open world exploration genre Skyrim is unmatched.<\/p>\n
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You may just prefer to go dungeon crawling and with over 350 locations on the map you\u2019ll have plenty of places to see and clear. These range from your simple abandoned house or shack, the typical subversive dungeon or mine, to the rather expansive underground burial crypts which contain deadly adversaries and wallet busting loot.<\/p>\n
However\u00a0I’m\u00a0playing this Skyrim on the PS3 which means that I\u2019m suffering the notorious lag or slowdown. Whatever you want to call it its totally game destroying and unacceptable in this era. My save data at last check was 13 MB\u00a0which is 7\u00a0MB\u00a0over the predicted lag threshold and can safely say I cannot play for more than fifteen minutes without the game becoming unplayable for periods of time. It may take me 5 minutes to walk from my house to the exit gate in Whiterun. Add the fact that the game crashes on me at least 3-4 times a day and I\u2019m wondering why I bothered to continue. Bethesda makes brilliant games and their developers and designers are simply top of the table but their testers are right down at the bottom, rock bottom. How they could miss this game breaking effect is mind boggling and totally unforgivable. I understand that a game this size can have glitches and accepted it in Fallout 3 and New Vegas in fact some of them tended to be slightly humorous, Dragons flying backwards or the rotating head guy in New Vegas. Sadly though it\u2019s about time Bethesda hired some more testers as it wasn\u2019t funny in 2008 when Fallout 3 froze endless times and it\u00a0wasn’t\u00a0comical in 2010 and it certainly isn\u2019t amusing now.Bethesda will be releasing patch 1.4 shortly which promises to fix the issue but until then it can\u2019t get a 10 from me.<\/p>\n
So why did I bother? Well because if you can tolerate those issues you\u2019ll be rewarded with the deepest, richest and most rewarding experience you\u2019ll have in gaming for at least the foreseeable future. No\u00a0play-through\u00a0will be the same as the last and the possibilities in the game are never-ending. The game looks astounding, it sounds even better and will reward you no end of times. You\u2019ll be hooked, levelling up your character, telling your partner that you\u2019ll come to bed after one more quest and then 3 hours have flown by. You\u2019ll want to find all the special weapons and armour and complete every quest thrown at you. And the best part is that you\u2019ll complete it once and go back again just to see what you can do different the next time round. Happy adventuring you\u2019ll be here for a while.<\/p>\n
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