The Elder Scrolls V:Skyrim Review/Performance Test

[jim]

Review: www.techspot.com/review/469-skyrim-review/

The fifth installment in Bethesda's long-running Elder Scrolls series took the industry by storm last Friday, earning an impressive aggregated review score of 95/100.

Based on early estimates, Skyrim has shipped seven million copies worldwide across all platforms, including digital stores such as Steam. During a peak hour last Monday, Valve's platform alone recorded some 287,000 Skyrim players -- greater than the combined peak activity of MW3, Counter-Strike, Football Manger 2012 and Team Fortress 2.

We usually don't open our performance reviews with sales figures, but we felt compelled to illustrate the magnitude of Skyrim's launch because role-playing games rarely garner this type of attention. Although its popularity is undoubtedly aided by the cult-like status of the Elder Scrolls franchise, Skyrim isn't just a clone of its predecessors (we're looking at you MW3). Bethesda has made many gameplay refinements, especially to the graphics and animations -- our area of interest.

Performance test: www.techspot.com/review/467-skyrim-performance/

[Jaxs]

OK cool. GForce 470. I am good to go. Going to start SWToR first.

[DarkkHero]

Great game.

Played it through once already as a "good" guy.

Looking forward to trying it as an evil character soon.

It's huge! So much content.

On a side note, I got a tremendous FPS increase by playing it in windowed mode vs full screen.

[markfromindy]

Best game I've played in a very long time.This the best Bethesda's done yet.

[patt]

Even though I'm playing it on the 360 (don't boo me!) I am loving Skyrim. Problem is, I'm loving SW:tor. Now what the heck am I supposed to do. I gotta eat and sleep sometime (whether I like it or not). I get so hungry playing ...I need someone to come wait on me. I think i'm really a Hutt.

I was called Oblivion Queen by some friends over on 2old2play then I got Skyrim at launch. What will drive me really, totally insane, is that in March, out comes Mass Effect 3.

What's a girl to do? I still haven't done everything in Oblivion yet!