{"id":14584,"date":"2011-10-10T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"skyrim-map-looks-less-boring-than-cyrodiil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14584-skyrim-map-looks-less-boring-than-cyrodiil","title":{"rendered":"Skyrim Map looks less boring than Cyrodiil"},"content":{"rendered":"

In June we reported on Skyrim pre-orders coming with a “premium map”<\/a> packed in.<\/p>\n

While the map looked all pretty, like someone tripped and spilled all their watercolour paints all over it, it was a bit scant on detail.
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Now, it seems, the “proper” full map for the game, detail and all, has been leaked onto the internet through Russian fan-site, elderscrolls.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When we say “detail” of course, we mean roads, paths, and a bunch of logos and symbols that have no real context, but likely indicate the locations of major towns and areas.<\/p>\n

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Sure, it’s an unofficial release – and we know how those go – but it seems pretty legit, following the same style and shape as the map above, as well as sharing similarities with Oblivion’s map (i.e. it’s aged and brown and stuff.)<\/p>\n

Bethesda’s Todd Howard has been quoted saying that Skyrim is “too big”<\/a>, with the landmass being roughly the same size as Oblivion’s Cyrodiil.<\/p>\n

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Looking at the two maps, it’s tough to picture the congruency there, but it certainly looks as if Skyrim is going to be massive – and much more varied than its predecessor, which was pretty much hugely full of…nothing.<\/p>\n

Personally, I was never one for trekking massive distances between the rather bland areas of Cyrodiil, rather opting to use quick-travel and bypassing carbon-copy dungeons.<\/p>\n

My hope is that there’s an actual point to such a huge landscape this time, with Howard mentioning “120 real caves, and more than 100 common points of interest outside.”<\/p>\n

Whether these are 120 copy-and-pastes of the same cave with a different layout, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

Get your horse armour ready; The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is due out the 11th of next month.<\/p>\n

Skyrim map hits the internet, is brown<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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