Skyrim is a great game that has lots of amazing content in it, but unfortunately after completing the main storyline, gets repetitive and takes quantity over quality.


Graphics
The graphics in Skyrim are great, though can still under perform in a lot of areas. Things such as trees, rocks, and grass are low-res, while the models on races such as the Argonians and Khajiit are greatly improved, along with the other races. The graphics are great, but can still look mediocre compared to other games on the PC.

Sound
The sound in skyrim however is amazing. During game play, unless you have headphones plugged it, you won't hear the extremely well done sound design of the world around you. The sounds really reach their peak when battling Dragons. The dragon's roars as they fly through the sky are very impressive and sound extremely realistic. However, the weapon sound effects can be lacking in some areas, as some weapons don't sound as brutal as they should be, such as war axes and maces.

Addictiveness
Once you get the game going, you'll immediately be immersed into it, and you'll want to continue playing over and over until you make every possible different choice. However, upon beating the main quest line, most of the other quest lines are seriously lacking. With only short doses of entertainment and the game gets really repetitive, especially with quest lines such as the Civil War quest, which you don't really get to experience the large and land-breaking war you hear all of the NPCs speak about, but never actually see. You only see the results, which is seriously disappointing. Once you beat the all of the guild quest lines, the main story and the civil war, even though there are lots of other quest lines, most of them are repetitive and generic. And most follow the same format, "Hi, I need you to get this for me. Okay, now that you've gotten me this, come with me so we can fight some more Draugr. Now that we've fought more Draugr, lets fight some more. Thanks for you help, here's a handful of gold and an item you'll likely find useless." And the guild quest lines are fun for awhile, but all of them end the same way, with you being the leader of all of them. After completing the 5 or so big quest lines, you'll probably not be doing much in vanilla Skyrim.

Story
The story in this game is great (At least the main questline's story). It fits well within the Elder Scrolls games and serves as a great way to experience fighting dragons in a world that is in huge danger. It's a great way to feel like a powerful dragon slaying powerhouse in an immersive world. There isn't much else to tell about it.

Depth
There is a lot of side quests to do, some that focus more on magic like the College of Winterhold quest lines, or ones that focus on being a warrior and a werewolf, which is what the Companions Quest lines offer. However, all of the other small quests are boring and repetitive, which has you exploring a dungeon to fight some Draugr over and over, and fight some strong Draugr at the end, which then rewards you with some good loot at lower levels, but poor loot for higher levels. Upon hitting level 50+, it was common to see iron armor and leather armor in the game, when the more reasonable armor in the game would be able to obtain things such as Ebony, Daedric, or smith your own Dragon Bone and Dragon Scale armor. There are tons of dungeons to explore with quite a few different plot twists at the end, that give great rewards in terms of gold and other types of loot.

Difficulty
This game is very easy. Simply put. Putting the game on a higher difficulty did not make the A.I any smarter in anyway, just made them take more hits and deal more damage. No smarter tactics are used except with the occasional bosses at the end of a dungeon, that still are very repetitive and easy to beat. Anything lower than the hardest difficulty has enemies getting hit quickly, you quickly racking up mass amounts of gold, and storing a ton of worthless gear in your chests at home or selling it all off. The dragons are very repetitive as they have the same fight pattern, and it's only difficult if you're a knight. If you're a mage, then dragon fights are the easiest battles since your spells that you've likely learned by now are expert level and can deal a lot of damage to the dragons, as all they do is fly around in circles and occasionally land in order to attack you. When NPCs battle the dragons however, the dragon swoops down and breaths fire or ice, or may grab them and fly away with their body. You don't get to experience this nearly as much since the Dragons normally stop moving and breathe fire or ice, and don't really change their A.I. After awhile, you'll start to groan at the thought of fighting yet another dragon, since they don't have a great AI that makes them challenging. And the Draugr, which is basically the main enemies in the game at this point, are the worst offenders of this. You only fight about 4 different Draugr, then 2 different variations of a Draugr boss. All of them have the same AI except for the mages, who follow a slightly altered mage AI. The only difference is the weapons they use, or the amount of hits they can take. The Draugr aren't the only repetitive and easy enemies in the game, most often on the road you'll encounter wolves, who are incredibly easy on every difficulty and I've fought them at least one time every time I've played. They get extremely annoying to fight. Inside caves you'll more than likely fight Frostbite Spiders. These spiders are just as annoying to fight as Draugr, since they're the 2nd most appearing enemies when exploring dungeons or caves. There are only 3 types of spiders. That's it. A small one, a big one, and a wounded big one. They're all easy. The big ones don't have that much more health than the smaller ones. There are still difficult enemies you face however, such as spirits in some levels that seem to at some times have more health than dragons do. The ghosts and spirits are sponges but do have a more difficult AI, and so do the guards in all of the holds, as they will likely block more and interrupt your attacks. Unlike with Dragur which will just swing their sword at you forever until you die and maybe do a shout they pushes you back slightly, but means nothing in the end since you're still able to continue hitting them. All in all, the difficulty in this game is nothing special. Enemy AI is not that great except for bosses.

Overall
Skyrim is a good game, and you should check it out for at least 1 playthrough. Though if you're planning on doing more than that, you might wanna install some external modification to your game unless you want you game to get stale and repetitive after a few hours of your 1st or 2nd playthrough.

Oh wow....this review is amazing....I love the way you described it. And its flawless of the game as well. I've hear a lot about this game and sadly have still not been able to play it till this day....one day I hopefully do when I have my time I'll enjoy the time that I have with it a lot. Until then I'll have to wait a little more longer before that can happen.

Skyrim in my opinion is my 3rd favorite game of all time. The game is amazing despite its game breaking bugs that I still have yet to come across. I never played the game on PC so I was left out on the incredible mods the community has to offer. With that being said I have packed in about 500 hours witch might make me sound crazy but the game is incredible. Once when I build my PC that I am buying this game will definitely be the first game I go out and pick up. But I love your review, you had a lot of points I do agree with. But good job, I wish to read more of your reviews in the future.

This was a great review! I hear a lot about this game, you hit pretty much everything right on the head from what I've seen, heard, and the small bit I've played. You did great! You should review more often.

Excellent review. 
I  agree. It does get very repetitive, very quickly. I dunno if I would even say it takes until the end of the main story before the repetition starts to kick in though.
I felt like that probably a 1/4 of the way through....

This was a great review! I really enjoyed how you described everything so well, and explained all the major points of the game. Reading this makes me want to pick the game up again, which for a game of it's caliber is exactly what a good review should do

Also, now I want to write my own review for it as well lol. 

This was a good review though I find myself disagreeing with you on the quests and I would've liked you to go a bit more into talking about the story. The main narrative was actually one of the weakest points of the game for me, I simply didn't find it that well written even if it did at least keep me playing. I found the various one shot sidequests and the guild quests the most enjoyable. The most repetitive part about the game for me was the dragon encounters, which feel extremely epic at the start of the game. Later on when you have more than enough bones and hides, and can easily slay them though they feel more like a drag when it interrupts you trying to get from point a to point b. Still like I said, great review and I hope you'll do more.

Nice review, I pretty much agree with everything that's being said, even. Very in depth and detailed and all that. Good work, I'll have to look at more of these reviews. You pretty much laid out the entire game.

And while it was repetitive, I still really enjoyed just going around and swinging an axe at anyone, or anything, that just so happened to get in my way in the process of doing so.