It's obviously part of the Elder Scrolls series which has had a few successful hits, most notably Morrowind. The game takes places in Cyrodiil, the capital province of Tamriel; which has become vulnerable to attack from demons, your mission is to kill them, seal the gates which are allowing the demons to flow in from Oblivion and to find the heir to the throne of the kingdom.
That, however; is just a part of it. The game has a groundbreaking new A.I. system (dubbed the Radiant A.I. System), which completely brings to life every NPC of the kingdom at an amazing level, here's a few stories (taken from posts at TeamXbox):
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I was in a weapons shop. Decided to pull out my sword and start hitting stuff off the table. The tip of the sword hit the shopkeeper. She pulls out a mace and charges. I run outside, she follows. When we get outside there is a guard about 20ft away. As we are running she swings at me, hits him. He pulls out his bow and starts chasing her. Soon 4 other bow guards join in.
They get a couple of shots in and she really starts running trying to get away. She's running, 5 guards are trailing her in a single file line, with me trying to watch. Eventually they corner her at the side of a building and form a circle and start UNLOADING on her. Pulling their bows back really far and just nailing the crap out of her. This goes on for a good 20 seconds. All you hear is "thwack" dozens of times. She gives a final yell and down goes down. She looks like porcipine with all the arrows sticking out of her. As I start to loot the body, one of the guards puts away his bow, calmly looks at me, and says "Good day"
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In the Imperial City, go to the docks, and you will see a pirate ship docked. If you get close to the ship and the first mate sees you, she will approach you and warn you not to get close to her ship, or she will run you through. Naturally, I took this as a challenge.
So I walked back until I was in the shadows and she quit paying attention to me. After a minute or so, her and one of the crew members got into an argument about getting some food. It was settled when one of the crew members finally said something like "Fine, I'll go get some food!" (Not exact words)
That seemed to make everyone happy, and the one that said it walked off. I stayed in the shadows waiting, and sure enough, after a couple more minutes the crew member came back. When he came back, all the other crew members and the first mate gathered around the one with the food. So I took the opportunity to sneak by them and get onto their ship. Went through the whole thing and looted what was decent (surprisingly little, although the Captain's chest had a few decent gems).
The whole looting process didn't take too long, so I figured they were still busy eating, and snuck back out. Of course, they had finished eating, and were just as surprised to see me coming out of their hold as I was to see them standing on the deck of the ship. Being that there were 5 of them and only one of me, I immediately summoned a headless zombie to keep them busy and ran like hell.
The zombie distracted 3 of them, but 2 were still chasing me. I ran towards the center of the city, where I knew there were guards. The guards saw the pirates chasing me, and started shooting the pirates with arrows, who imediately started attacking the guards in return. With me helping, the guards wasted no time in slaughtering the pirates, who I promptly looted.
The guards were a bit ticked off about the attack, and talked to each other about going on patrol. I followed them on their route, and they went right to the pirate ship. The 3 pirates who had been distracted by my zombie earlier saw me, and started attacking me. The two guards saw this, and started attacking the pirates. After the fight was over, only one guard and myself were left. So I got to loot the other 3 pirate boides, and one guard.
So I walked back until I was in the shadows and she quit paying attention to me. After a minute or so, her and one of the crew members got into an argument about getting some food. It was settled when one of the crew members finally said something like "Fine, I'll go get some food!" (Not exact words)
That seemed to make everyone happy, and the one that said it walked off. I stayed in the shadows waiting, and sure enough, after a couple more minutes the crew member came back. When he came back, all the other crew members and the first mate gathered around the one with the food. So I took the opportunity to sneak by them and get onto their ship. Went through the whole thing and looted what was decent (surprisingly little, although the Captain's chest had a few decent gems).
The whole looting process didn't take too long, so I figured they were still busy eating, and snuck back out. Of course, they had finished eating, and were just as surprised to see me coming out of their hold as I was to see them standing on the deck of the ship. Being that there were 5 of them and only one of me, I immediately summoned a headless zombie to keep them busy and ran like hell.
The zombie distracted 3 of them, but 2 were still chasing me. I ran towards the center of the city, where I knew there were guards. The guards saw the pirates chasing me, and started shooting the pirates with arrows, who imediately started attacking the guards in return. With me helping, the guards wasted no time in slaughtering the pirates, who I promptly looted.
The guards were a bit ticked off about the attack, and talked to each other about going on patrol. I followed them on their route, and they went right to the pirate ship. The 3 pirates who had been distracted by my zombie earlier saw me, and started attacking me. The two guards saw this, and started attacking the pirates. After the fight was over, only one guard and myself were left. So I got to loot the other 3 pirate boides, and one guard.
There are many different variations apart from the A.I. behaviour, aswell. Each time you create a new game file, the world around you will be randomly generated, meaning every player will have a unique environment to explore. There's also a full weather system, one minute it might be nice and sunny, then all of a sudden you'll see a streak of lightning, hear a slow rumble of thunder in the distance and the rain will begin to pour.
You also have lots of different guilds to join, depending on how you act in the game, you might decide to go on a murderous rampage every now and then, where you will be invited to the Dark Brotherhood guild, or if you're a thief you will be invited to the Thieves guild (as long as you're careful enough to not get caught by the guards, in which case you'll be attacked and thrown in to jail).
So; has anyone got this game yet?
.... by the way.... level 16 (or 17) now 
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