The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition Reviews
It’s the kind of game that’s perfect to shut your brain off to and lose a couple of hours in. Its sense of place and intelligent content drip-feeding makes it addictive even in the face of its glaring flaws.
The total package can rightly be called impressive. The sheer amount of content can be overwhelming for those who have yet to get started on Skyrim.
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Much like a real anniversary, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition is less about embarking on something new and more about happily re-living some wonderful, past moments. It was a great game then, and, even 10 years later, it’s still a great game—made even better by the bundle of Creation Club DLCs thrown into the mix. Skyrim‘s been around for a long time, now, and, whether you like it or not, the Anniversary Edition shows that Skyrim has still got the ability to stick around for at least a little while longer (I’m sure we’ll get TESVI eventually, though!).
The mere existence of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition might be a joke to some, but the bigger joke would be saying this isn’t still one hell of an immersive RPG. Sure, the addition of mods doesn’t exactly make this version an absolute must-have and its pricing and pre-release marketing campaigns haven’t helped it at all, but it’s still Skyrim. It’s still a great game, with a handful of quality of life improvements.
The technical issues do detract from the experience somewhat, especially when considering that many of the bugs are more than a decade old at this point, but they are not enough to keep Skyrim: Anniversary Edition from being the definitive way to experience the classic title.
After ten years and two generations of video games, Skyrim still remains one of the best games of all time and the new features are implemented very well but it is also starting to show its age. All in all, this is a nice reason to start another adventure as the Dragonborn and wait for the next big experience that Bethesda Game Studios is cooking for us.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Our beloved Skyrim certainly deserved better with the launch of the Anniversary Edition, the new re-release got some tech issues and close to no graphical improvement and sadly missed the change to update the game engine and make the project a full-fleshed remake, there's plenty of new content no doubt but unless you are highly interested in Creation Club content and don't mind it's not voice acted and feels like free mods, you may want to skip this one and hope for better treatment next time
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