Lets start with the great. And that is basically the whole game. From my understanding of the research I have done and the game-play I have indulged in It would seem that Skyrim is a game that literaly cannot be finished. You heard right folks, I'm unsure if it is a massive amount of side-quests on offer or if they just keep appearing out of thin air. Nevertheless it offers the ability to immerse yourself for countless hours no matter what time of the day it is or how much of the main storyline you have completed. This combined with the ability to just piss off into the wild and go on your own little adventure. I always found myself walking to the quests, even if they were on the other side of the world, just to go through the experiences along the way and revel at how fast a situation can excel. I would be sneaking through the bushes with my bow drawn about to get me a meal for the night from a friendly elk when suddenly I get attacked by a pack of wolves. Upon destroying their faces a random gang of bandits would try their luck only to be interrupted by a passing dragon that is also looking for a meal for the night, and all of this within the space of a minute. As far as pointless exploration goes, Skyrim has shot to the top of my list of day burners.

As far as the graphical detail goes, bring a spare pair of undies and prepare to make a mess in your shorts! On the first day I was pretty impressed at the detail of the landscapes. Anything from the shrub right next to me to the mountain on the horizon, everything has had an immense amount of detail put into it and that is worth a mention in my books. But that's only the cake of it, the real icing comes in when the sun goes down. I've never sat in front of the TV with a game on with my mouth wide open in awe, that was until I saw the dancing lights in the sky similar to that of the northern lights but with a few more planets in the background. I literally sat there for a good 10 minutes just watching the lights, that alone is reason enough to get Skyrim running in your respective gaming console. Unfortunately though they only come in every once in a while, it is all dependant on the weather and the location you are in, for instance if its overcast, raining or snowing you wouldn't expect to see much up there. My only disappointment with the graphics was how the main character (You) seems to be pasted over the awesome landscape, the detail on the character is awesome but it just doesn't seem to work into the environmental graphics. That is my personal opinion though.

The not so great points that need to be mentioned are only a few but I feel you need to know them. The main story, while still an awesome story, I found to be rather short for the actual size of Skyrim. I expected to be sinking days into it but it just turned out to be a few hours, I feel that in a replay I could do it within 10 hours easily, Luckily we have all these side-quests on offer though. Another thing is the selection of characters. I hate games that only offer say 3 different style of characters to play but that's not the case with Skyrim. I found myself on my first partial play-through as a High Elf due to the fact I enjoy playing the mage in most games. This was not the case with Skyrim however, I couldn't get my head around learning new spells even though I would presume it would be extremely easy and I was always getting killed by almost every mob that I came across. I played this till about 40% of the main quest was completed before I threw my controller in the air, at this point I thought Skyrim was the worst game on the planet and I couldn't figure out why so many people were addicted to it. A few days past and I was preparing the most negative review I've ever done when I thought I should give it another go. So many people talk about how it was the best game they've played and I knew I was missing something here. I did a restart on a different character and chose to be a Wood Elf as shooting bows and arrows has always been a speciality of mine. This was the character I was ment to play. I shot my first chicken and I couldn't put the controller down after that, I had to finish the storyline and get the best bow and arrow combination known to Skyrim! In saying this, if you've played Skyrim and hated it, you've obviously played the wrong character.

With many updates promised there's no telling how much Skyrim will change and grow, while nothing is being leaked at the moment I feel there could be a few things that can be added and tweaked up a bit. Arrow crafting would definitely be one of those things. Another thing that could make this game more legendary that it currently is would be a multiplayer drop in drop out feature similar to that of Fable III. Where the story and side-quests are all the same it just lets you venture with an online random or gaming companion. This would be excellent but as Bethesda has stated in past interviews, Multiplayer isn't completely off the table but it isn't something they are looking at as they feel it would take away the main purpose of Skyrim or something like that. My feelings are that games of today should all have a coop feature and some that come with a coop feature require more slots for more friends. Who knows, in one of the upcoming patches they may succumb to the voice of the people and release a multiplayer feature. Who knows.

Skyrim is a game that caters for all type of gamers. From Tanks to Mages, Rouges to Merchants. It hosts the ability to increase the difficulty of monsters and quests as you gain levels yourself, So say the difficulty you had killing giant at lvl 5 will still pose a challenge at lvl 20 provided your difficulty isn't set to easy. It grants you the ability to basically create your own storyline and go about everything your own way and in your own time. That map size is huge and it allows you to fast travel to destinations you have previously discovered, take a carriage, buy a horse or just walk the distance. Either way you will basically never get tired of playing as their is always a new challenge around the corner. This along with the large amount of playable classes you can try out means that the amount of gaming hours you can get out of this is astronomical. And who doesn't love a game with magic and dragons ?

All in all Skyrim is a game that reaches out to the inner you. You need to trial out a few different character types but once you find the class that best suits your needs and requirements prepare to sink countless hours into it.