Skyrim pc game review upgrade#
Unlike Special Edition, the Anniversary Edition is not offered as a free upgrade to any existing players. The Anniversary Edition also includes 74 Creation Club mods, all 48 currently available ones plus 26 new, unreleased ones, adding up to a total of around 500 new gameplay elements for Skyrim. The Anniversary Edition contains a copy of the Special Edition, as well as the expansions Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn. There isn’t much to say about this game that hasn’t been rehashed over and over again, but with the Anniversary Edition, we do get the benefits of it running on current generation hardware. The game is similar for those not familiar with Elder Scrolls to Fallout but instead of guns and machines, you have magic and swords. The game continues the open-world tradition of its predecessors by allowing the player to travel anywhere in the game world at any time, and to ignore or postpone the main storyline indefinitely. Throughout the game, the player completes quests and develops the character by improving skills. The game is set 200 years after the events of Oblivion and takes place in Skyrim, the northernmost province of Tamriel. The game’s main story revolves around the player’s character, the Dragonborn, on their quest to defeat Alduin the World-Eater, a dragon who is prophesied to destroy the world. Skyrim first launched 10 years ago, so it feels rather odd to be reviewing it now on its third generation of consoles at this point, but here we are….