This game met and exceeded my expectations for the game, providing a rich and excellent story as well as a well defined and beautiful world with rich backstory

Great open world RPG.

The books inside this game go from anything to recipe books, to story books, to historical books that list the historical events that have beset the worlds of Skyrim, Cyrodill, Elswyr, and other realms of equal importance

But the story is great, it's a truly open ended and consistent world, beautifully rendered and truly atmospheric so it more than compensates

Skyrim is a beautiful and vibrant world and it gives the player complete freedom

Great action, great adventure, great atmosphere, great audio/music, great open world, great rewarding of exploration, great sense of "building a character" and control, great quests, great variety of abilities and specializations with interesting gameplay effects

That is just my take on the game, it's really a believable world, and of course everything is always as good as you make it.

The world and stories are entertaining, so in the end its fun to play.

but the world, animations and spell effects all look really good

Skyrim takes place in a magical world known as Tamriel

Stunning visuals, a great storyline that you can branch off of whenever and a very immersive, expansive world.

And in speaking about the graphics, yes there might be a bit more detail here than in oblivion.....but Oblivion was a much "prettier" world to explore

The world is gorgeous, shadows and environmental graphics are of the finest quality

Even randomly exploring the world proved more entertaining than I expected

The MASSIVE world is unreal, and will keep you busy for hours.

Skyrim is set in a well written and vivid fantasy world

The Elder Scrolls series and Bethesda are renowned for games featuring a large, expansive world, plenty of opportunity for exploration, and a non-linear plot

Great graphics, great gameplay, HUGE world, etc

Bottom line the game is a beautiful world in which to explore, and the combat is solid, and the amount of quests is more than enough

Interesting world, great premise

Skyrim is an incredible, beautiful world that can really take your breath away in some areas(even without high end hardware)

Everything about Skyrim's world really catches your attention and sucks you

For those without access to Steam or the internet, drag your computer to your nearest neighbors house with broadband and get it done!As a note, although I love the game and game world, the only issue I have is with what I can only imagine is my hardware.

Design your character and run around an open world fighting, monsters, zombies, dragons, opposing soldiers (depending on your alliance), vampires and more

Where Skyrim falls down is the typical Bethesda problem of providing an immense world packed with things to do, but no real emotional reason to do them

The world in Skyrim is breathtaking

Excellent wide open free world.

The world is so gorgeously rendered I rarely Fast-Travel, preferring to ride my horse to gawk at the landscape and various creatures inhabiting it, and casually discover new map locations for further exploration

It is so enjoyable getting lost this incredibly huge and fascinating world, even after 60 hours of game-play i still have much explore

a must have they have fixed a great many things that where wrong with the older games in this one which makes it that much better and its open world remember must kill all humans

There's a nice big world to explore, and to some degree I feel like the developers really tried to expand from the quest grinding of "retrieve X, or kill Y"

This magical world is filled with adventure, danger, love and above all a beautiful story

Yes, Skyrim has a great world

world is grittier and more realistic

Skyrim's world is rough, raw and gritty, just like its inhabitants

In fairness to the Bethesda, in today's world not everyone has a top of the line gaming rig.

Skyrim's world is rough, raw and gritty, just like its inhabitants

I found this game's storyline very immersive, the world beautifully created, and the game mechanics fun to play

While it has a core storyline of epic proportions, like its predecessors it is an open world you are encouraged to explore at your leisure

This summer I figured since I have it, I might as well jump right into gaming with a big-budget, critically-acclaimed game, and I had heard of Skyrim as one of the best open world titles

When exiting the tutorial beginning, the player is immediately presented the most realistic game world to date

Compared to the previous installment, Skyrim is streamlined in some ways (simpler character advancement, more plain menus, fewer mechanics like repair and so on), but in exchange for these trimmed items, the developers have served up a more detailed, more believable, more varied world to explore, plunder and linger in.

I use those two games as both content and "in game options" like having your own house to store/hoard your crap(UO)and a vast detailed world to explore and level (WOW).

What's insulting is that Assassin's Creed: Revelations was released the same week and received comparably mediocre reviews despite taking place in a far more interesting and more vivid world

Big, open world devoid of anything really interesting, and filled with NPC's who got lost crossing the uncanny valley

the ...21GB Rage takes up for a much, much more small and visually limited world to realize what was accomplished with SKYRIM

Skyrim Delivers but nothing is perfect, especially on PC.Pros: Huge beautiful world, beautifully designed dungeons, openended play with a good underlying storyline, huge crafting options, all voice acted, sound tracks are greatNegatives: A bit glitchy (freezes very occasionally, dont alt-tab on pc), Poor menues on PC, dated texturesIt is just staggering the amount of hours that must have gone into designing this

Skyrim has always had beautiful world for the Dragon Born to explorer and conquer, but in the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim there is much more

The world feels like an actual place, with different places

The world is huge and begs to be discovered, and beautiful vistas abound.

The myriad paths to gameplay is what has me hooked alongside of the gorgeous world vistas which thankfully I have a great PC to see the details

I am awed by the richness of the immersion that just plunges you into a believable world

That means you create a good enough game, a world where people wanna live and they will make it BETTER

I'm stunned at how great this game is, the huge open world that is so alive with hundreds of things and places to explore

I don't even know where to begin, if you like RPG style games, you'll probably love this large, totally open and explorable world they've created

If you want a truly amazing that will pull you out of everyday life and immerse you in a vibrant and beautiful world with unlimited potential, this purchase is a no brainer and you should have bought this sooner

ESV beats TWE and DAO.I love vast, open worlds, so here I praise ESV tremendously.

I felt like I was changing the world- the same feelings I got while doing almost -anything- in Oblivion.

The overabundance of items and the ease of making money make it difficult to feel like this is a real, believable, consistent world

The world can just suck you in.

The world gives you the illusion that it is real, that the people, animals and monsters are real, and you feel like you are not alone (especially when you have a follower with you).

I love the open world in which you just do what you want to do

If you have a computer that can run this game at maximum capability, it is one of the most beautiful worlds that I've ever seen

The open world can be distracting if you let it, but even then you will stumble into interesting and fun things to do

I recommend this game for anyone who likes huge worlds, awesome graphics, and fun plots.

The world is amazing to look at, and incredible in its breadth and depth

The world really is very nice indeed, and the people aren't disturbingly oddly-faced.

The open world is praiseworthy, but leaves me lost and confused

awsome game.huge world.

It's a dangerous world out there completely unlike most MMO's out there!

The story, the graphics, the NPCS, the seamless open world sandbox, the beauty

Yessir this game is splediferous - strong graphics, huge world, great characters, compelling quests

The worlds felt too devoid of life for me, and I was never able to develop any sense of attachment to the game world, which made all the freedom and

-Huge, beautiful open world of European mythical style, Vikings

Its a bit buggy though, so I suggest playing on the PC where console commands are handy as a last resort.- beautiful world and visuals, a genuine step up in graphics quality over Oblivion- huge world to explore- the creatures you encounter are challenging... lots of them will defeat you quickly when you are at lover skill

The world is stunning, but populated by thinly-drawn characters who lack motivation or depth (though this is still better than Oblivion's world of disconcerting mannequins), and provide you with no real reason to help them beyond financial rewards or greater power

The world is stunningly gorgeous

Skyrim has taken this open world or sandbox style of game play and made a rich immersive world where what your character decides to do is up to you.

The world is beautiful, varied, and deep, and they put a ton of work into creating towns, cities, and unique dungeons full of unique NPC's.

It is a huge game and has an incredibly beautiful world, offering so many hours and hours of fun and exploration!

I personally would suggest avoiding the main plot lines and enjoying the world as long as you can before you hit the main quest line