This is without doubt my favourite video game. I know it's dated now, and there are larger, more immersive games out there to rival this, but it will always remain my absolute favourite. The ability to go anywhere and do anything was something I had not experienced in a video game until playing this 9 years ago (I never played Morrowind until after this was released).

I had been waiting for a true, open-world, explore-everything game since I first played Starflight on my Mega Drive II as a child; GTA, Battlefield, Zelda and the other sandbox-style games that came about just didn't fill that space enough.



I never got the opportunity to own the collector's edition originally; in fact I didn't know it existed. To be quite honest, I bought this for the Pocket Guide to the Empire book and the "Making Of..." DVD, as I am a huge fan of the series - just to own this edition is a delight.