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I rather enjoyed the game when I played it.  Excellent exploration with fun side missions in between main mission storylines.  I played as a dual wielding, Wood Elf Nightblade with a bow as my secondry skill.  I enjoyed battles and the skills I unlocked as I levelled were good also.  Skills going up is similar to Skyrim; you use it, you get better at it.  The voice acting is quite good and they were able to sync up the audio to the mouth movements as far as I could tell, even the side missions.  I also enjoyed the dialogue with the NPCs, Khajiit were especially entertaining, and I was more interested in watching the voice cutscenes in this game than GW2.  Combat isn't quite like it is in Skyrim, you can't visibly stagger enemies with power attacks (or at least I couldn't at level 5), and the contact of weapons isn't there.  However, they nailed first person view as far as I am concerned and I was very pleased mid-combat with the AI.  When I was melee they would spread out and get behind me to attack and when I would range attack they would close distance quickly. Overall I did end up pre-ordering at the $48 level and I hope to spend the 30 days that I get playing and seeing if I feel like I'm grinding more than getting caught up in the story.  What drove me crazy in SWTOR was the amount of downtime there was between story mission.  I play Bioware games for the story: plain and simple.  So those are my impressions of the game as far as I played.  I have no alliance mission experience or PvP experience because I played this like I played Skyrim: singleplayer.