It's called Skyrim and it's a game for the PS3, the XBOX 360, and the PC.
Who wouldn't like a world where you can roam the lands hours
on end as a hunter/gatherer, choose who to kill and what flesh to eat upon, if
you are the subject of good or evil, an imperial or Stormcloack, use magic,
blades or bows, and still haven’t even begun to play the main story line?
Me. That is my kind of game. I spend hours of my life
mastering as many arts as the game will allow me, becoming the top of every
guild I can find, and doing all the quests the game can throw at me, but the
one thing I haven’t even begun to work on is the story line.
You start out, like any good Elder Scroll game, with being
locked away and heading to your execution. Now it looks pretty grim as you are
being pulled out of the wagon next to Ulfric Stormcloack, the man who used his
voice to destroy the King. So at this point you know it’s not looking good for
your future. You spend the next several minutes picking what race you are, what
you look like, and your name. Next thing you know it’s your turn to get your
head removed.
Oh the joy in walking up to the executioner and putting your
head down waiting for the blade to come down and the game to be over, but you
only started playing. After a few minutes of a Dragon with oh so perfect timing
you can make a mad dash for it.
Along the way you can choose between following the imperial
who was going to kill you or the a stormcloak man who had been pervious talking
to. No matter who you follow you end up in the same sarting city later
listening to two different stories about what is happening.
you can follow behind the stormclocks and what they are
trying to represent or follow the imperials and what they are trying to do,
either way have fun. I always play an imperial.
Now, when I say I play an imperial I mean each of my three
characters are imperials. My leading lady is a Khajit, it’s a cat person
basically. You can also be a Nord, Red cliff, high elf, Wood elf, and others.
Take your pick; each race has a different ability than the others, like my girl
can see in the dark. It’s a handy trick when traveling through dark mines and
dungeons.
Now there are guilds you can join and get a kick out of
playing their main quest lines, such as, the Thieves Guild (it’s more about
stealing then killing), the Dark Brotherhood (which is all about killing), the
Mages Guild, and my favorite, The Companions.
Now with each Guilds comes their secrets and as much as I
would love to reveal all I won’t.
The game itself is quite beautiful and large. Some people
might not like how vaste it is and that’s okay. There are always people that
aren’t going to be interested to put the long hours of work into doing just one
quest and I understand.
There’s not a set path you have to take and I still haven’t
done the main storyline because I just want to do EVERYTHING, but if you play
it and love it, good for you and even if you don’t, there are other games out
there.
All I’m saying is that I love this overly addicted game more
than most things. It finishes a close thrid behind my husband and writing.
-Brenda Franklin
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