The Technology Behind The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Gamer Inforumer has just posted an article on the New Skyrim Engine It can be founded "Here". Also, it came with the first HD screenshot of Skyrim

Fallout New Vegas Review

Since Fallout New Vegas was announced fallout fans a like have been growing they way to play it, but has the wait been it worth it? fallout new Vegas is set in a world that has been destroyed by nuclear war.
unlike its predictors Fallout 3 witch was completely destroyed by the war New Vegas was not hit as much for some unknown reason witch you uncover in the story mission.

Story

You start of as a courier on a job to deliver a package to the New Vegas "the strip" when you get ambushed, shot in the shot and left for dead, you wake up hours later in the care of doctor, and that where your story begins as you set out to kill your would be killer. You are set on a wild goose chase around the new Vegas area, but all ways lead to Vegas, From there on you get tide in with a on going war agais the NCR and Caesar's legion.

Gameplay

The gameplay of New Vegas is nearly identical fallout new Vegas wandering around for hours in the Wasts discovering location and the same old "VATs", However unlike fallout 3 there are a huge amount of side quest there on offer with tons of different outcomes and depending on the outcomes you choose it depends a away of fraction appeal to you this is where the new feature "Reputation" comes in reputation is how a other fractions thinks about you. a other new feature which has been added to New Vegas is "Hardcore Mode" which is basicaly for the more experience player, because you have to sleep, eat, drink to stay alive. Hardcore more adds a whole new way to play the game your in a gun fight and you will need to take cover for the stimpak  to take effect. 




Verdict: 9.5/10

Skyrim Info

Leveling: Totally revamped, no more class selection at the start of the game, every skill you level contributes to your overall level. And each time you level you get extra health plus the ability to get either more health, magicka or stamina. Each level also brings you perks. Cool abilities I guess like in Fallout 3. Also, the leveling was moved from 1-25 or something like that to 1-50, but 50 is soft-capped, you just advance really slow after that.

Skills: Mysticism is gone. 18 skills, down from 21 on Oblivion, and 27 on Morrowind. Tries to accomodate players who want to specialize in a certain proffesion (like mage or thief), while at the same time giving room for players who like to do plenty of everything. They want to keep a special care so that this feels good, not prone to cheating and organic.

Story and lore: 200 years after Oblivion. Set in Skyrim, a region north of the imperial city, where the Nords live. The dragons are returning, as it was prophetized. You are gonna be trying to stop the wicked dragon god. You are a dragonborn, a dragon hunter. Your mentor is one of the last blade, voiced by some old dude from Shutter Island and Minority Report. Also, there is a civil war, since the king is dead. Enemies include were-yeti's, giant spider, dragons and other cool creatures.

Combat: They want to make it more dynamic and tactical. You have to assign each hand with a function I think, either magic, 2 weapons, a weapon and a shield, etc. You can also waste stamina by sprinting, allowing you to get access to tactical postitions. Emphasis on really improving the combat this time around. They are also putting care on how each weapon feel on your hand.

Other: Third person view has been improved 5 massive cities, more variation in caves and underground stuff.

On quests: Quests are much more dynamic now. The quests are now more determined by how you build your chracter, individual actions and overall much more dynamic. Examples provided: If you are more of a magic user, some other mage may approach you who may not have had if you were just a melee character. Or if you killed some dude who owned a store that was gonna give you a quest, his sister would inherit the store, but she may resent you before giving you the quest. Also, if you drop a weapon in the street instead of selling it, it may just dissapear, some kid may get it and give it back to you, which would lead to a series of stuff, or some dudes may fight over who gets it. Also, it said that the quests you are given would be modified by how you have played (I guess like scaling the quests). For example, the location of a rescue mission would be determined by which location you have visited (it will try to give you a dungeon you haven't been in) and I guess also giving you appropiate enemies to your level.

Conversations: Conversations aren't done in a zoomed in static shot anymore. Start a conversation with some and they will act like someone would in real life, looking at you occasionally and walking around a bit and also continue doing a task if they were doing one while talking.

Weapon smithing: Go to a forge and carve a new weapon out of red hot metal.

Also Werewolves and vampires are back,Ebbron one of the last reamin Blades is your mentor he is voiced by Max von sydow the Narrator in the trailer. Also the player character is A Novakilin A dragonborn dragon hunter and one of the last ones in fact just like the blade's also it is revealed that not just Imperial can be dragon born any race can if bestowed the power by the nine divines. Pules there is be no HUD

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