You there! How would you like to transform into a vampire lord? You get this
fine set of flightless leathery wings, you can throw balls of red magic at
people to leech some of their life, and you can summon a pet gargoyle! All for
the low low price of I bite you in the neck and it gets kinda weird for a while
but then I stop again
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The alternative, in Dawnguard, is to join the Dawnguard, who hunt vampires
with crossbows and tame trolls. The vampiric option is a bit more exotic, but
both sides seem pretty exciting, don’t they? And it’s Skyrim! It’s already
amazing! About the only way this could be a let down is if both questlines
steered you awkwardly into the same brain-numbingly dry prophecy guff and it
crashed constantly!
So, er, the bad news first: that. Despite being presented with a choice
between two factions with literally opposite objectives, both routes end up
sending you on mostly the same errands, to achieve the same thing, and stop the
same enemy. Which wouldn’t be so disappointing if it was a twisty, juicy,
interesting plot. When it’s visiting a series of shrines to fill an urn with
sacred water – as a floating genocidal vampire lord – it’s tough to enjoy
It’s also unbelievably shoddy. The very first quest marker you get is
completely wrong, leading to tedious minutes trying to climb a mountain that
has nothing at the top. Half the characters keep repeating their greetings on a
maddening loop, then cut their plot-critical lines short after a few words,
omitting essential information. When I first got the ability to turn into a
vampire lord, actually doing so caused every vampire in the vampire mansion to
attack me for being a vampire. The worst kind of racists.
Vampire Lord mode, while an excellent phrase, is generally problematic.
Entering it disables essential functions like the map, first-person mode, the
ability to interact with quest-critical objects, and even the ability to bring
up the magic menu to select the ‘turn back into a human’ option. Instead you
have to fumble around to discover your favourites menu has secretly been
replaced with a new one, and it’s one of the skills on there.
I’m playing with no mods installed, and Dawnguard regularly crashes to
desktop. On one PC that runs Skyrimperfectly, it crashes consistently at the
same point in Dawnguard, rendering it uncompletable. Even after a patch, it’s
still buggy.
It’s tough, because Dawnguard takes you to some beautiful places. They have
all the visual drama of Skyrim’s most spectacular views: a lonely rope bridge
over a heart-stopping ice chasm, a secret glade filled with amber light, a
winding path leading out of an underground mushroom forest and into the
blinding white cloud of a mountaintop. Exploring these has a real sense of
adventure, and that’s Dawnguard’s biggest strength.
But because they’re sprinkled across disconnected islands, caves and
alternate realms, you never get the sense of a whole new land to explore. The
Elder Scrolls community is already churning out gorgeous new places like this,
not to mention new abilities.
The things Bethesda can potentially do better are story and quality
assurance, both of which they bungle spectacularly here. There’s fun stuff in
Dawnguard, but £14 ought to buy you something a hell of a lot more polished.
Minimum System Requirement:
Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
Processor: Dual Core 2.0 GHz or equivalent
processor
2 GB System RAM
6 GB free HDD Space
Direct X 9 compliant video card with 512 MB of
RAM
DirectX compatible sound card
Install
Notes:
Mount or Burn image
Run Installer.exe
(when it ask for SID file you have to select it on your
dvd drive)
Copy the whole
content from crack dir to your install folder
Start the game with
SkyrimLauncher.exe
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