Game Podunk Preview | Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Details

First, and perhaps most importantly, Skyrim will run on a brand new engine. This, according to developers Bethesda, came about as somewhat of an accident. Game director Todd Howard said: "we rewrote the entire renderer, the pathing, the A.I. and quest systems, the interface, the animation, and by the time we were done, we had re-written all the gameplay and graphics in our engine, and we've now branded it as the 'Creation Engine'". The engine, as well as offering vastly improved lighting, animation, character models and lovely picturesque environments will also offer a new snazzy inventory system with multi-tiered floating text and items, some of which can be rotated and used to solve quests.