I tried the demo for this game awhile back and didn't really care for it, but I decided to try and give the full game a go since it's been out a couple years. Well, they haven't fixed jack ****. I mean, deep down there's a great game here - the world is huge, the graphics are fairly nice, and the combat (while mindless) is kind of addictive - but all of this is beat to bloody death by the fact that game was NEVER optimized. Seriously. I can only imagine this game never touched a QA system. Even after several patches and whatnot, the game eats hard drives alive. You're running along in the forest and then all of a sudden the game freezes for one to two minutes while it does...whatever. I mean, yeah the world is huge and it's seamless, but so was Oblivion and Oblivion didn't/doesn't do this crap.

Oh, and there's a condition for the combat system being fairly addictive. That's if you have god mode enabled. Yeah. You want to know why? It's because without god mode enabled, enemies in this game are the cheapest ******* things ever. How cheap? Imagine this: you're walking along and you see a wolf; you go to attack and all of a sudden, the wolf hits you twenty times in the space of two seconds, while you can't retaliate because your character is stuck in the stun animation. THIS IS A KNOWN ******* BUG THAT THE DEVELOPERS HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED BUT HAVE MADE NO ATTEMPT TO FIX.

So yeah. **** this game.