Game Play: This title is a first/third person game, what I mean by that is
you can play in either first person mode or third. But for the most part
I would say you would be using first-person. The world you are in is open world
with free questing, so you can go where ever you want and do what ever you want.
The only part that I have found so far that is linier, is the start of the
game. But once you get to the first village after character creation you can do
what ever.
Leveling: This is the only sour point to the game that I have found so far,
there is only one way to level up in this game and it aint through EXP… Well
thats not 100% true. *NOTE: IF YOU WANT TO DISCOVER THE LEVEL PROCESS ON YOUR
OWN DON'T READ THE NEXT PART – Here's how the level system seems to work to
me. You have quite a few skills that you can learn such as; Smithing,
Lockpicking, Pickpocket, Destruction Spells, Restoration Spells, One Handed
(this also includes Duel Weld), Heavy Armor etc etc etc, trust me theres a lot
of them. Each successful use/attack/block and incomming damage adds points to
that skill, as that skill levels you gain points to your character level until
you gain a level… So thats level up skills to gain points on your main level.
Its an interesting system but if you want to grind on giants, mammoths and
dragons to level… Play something else. OK each time you gain a level you are
given 1 skill point but before you can use it you need to make a choice
“Magika Health Stamina” picking one will increase the bace amount of the
choice you made. After you choose you can use or save you skill point. Now
before you say “Cool I can level and skill up everything”...... NO! Each
skill has a level cap system on it – so lets say your first skill you want to
upgrade is One Handed Weapons, the first tier might need that skill to be level
20 before you can add a point to it and the next tier might need say level
40 in that skill before you can add a second point. So in short you need to
level your skills to level your character so no EXP sort of.
Crafting: There are four crafting skills to the game: Smithing, Cooking
Alchemy, Enchanting. Of the four cooking is the only one that is not a real
skill you can cook but it dosen't help in the leveling process that I could
see, you can gather mats for both cooking and alchemy from many sorces
throughout the world of Skyrim from animals to bugs. Smithing mats can be found
all over the world and in caves and Enchanting is a bit strange you need to get
an enchanted items then disasemble it to learn how it works (this distroys the
item) then you can use that enchant as many times as you need, other items can
be found from looting or from vendors (same for all).
Weapons: Ranged – Bows One Hand/Duel Weld – Daggers, Swords, Axes,
Maces, Shields, Staffs, Magic Two Handed – Greatswords, Battleaxes,
Warhammers, Magic (If I missed any “My bad :P”) Yip I know I put magic
for both one and two handed thats because you can use magic on either one or two
hands and yes you can mix and match you magic so attack in one and heals in the
other. (*HINT – If you want a nuke mage keep the same spells in both hands
its stronger)
Armor: Theres a few types of armor ranging from rags through to dragon bone.
As a *HINT – Level smithing as high as soon as pos you need lvl100 smithing
to make dragon bone armor.
Well theres a lot more that I could tell you and a lot more I need to cover
but I aint gonna tell ya :P lol. Lets see as a ending note I will tell you
this; MOBS: Dragons, Bears, Undead, Vampires, Wolfs, Giants, Ghosts AND A WHOLE
LOT MORE...... I would have given this an excellent rating but I really don't
like the level system to much… Other than that well worth the purchace I've
been playing for well over 80hrs and I still aint even half way through yet (To
much fun kiling giants and dragons lol). So in short BUY THE GAME KILL LOTS OF
STUFF AND HAVE A LOT OF FUN DOIN IT :D