Howard talks Skyrim dragons, weapons

Todd Howard, the game director of Bethesda Softwork’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, has revealed some new details of the RPG such as its dragons, as well as a new weapon feature.

Revealing the news to GTTV, Howard said:

There is a point in the game where you earn the allegiance of one of these other dragons, who is named. When you have the allegiance of this dragon you can shout and call his name to the sky, and then where he is in the world he will fly and come and help you. You can do this wherever you want – in town, or in a massive fight outside.

He also revealed:

We have a cool one called ‘Ice Form’ where you shout it and you can encase your enemies in ice. What’s cool about this is you can either paralyse them and leave them there and they’ll be taking damage, or you can run up and shatter the ice and hurt them yourself. So it’s a reallly cool way of dealing with different combat scenarios.

Another one we have is called ‘Elemental Fury’. This is one where you can actually shout at your weapons, and air forms around them and you can swing them faster. So if you have a really good sword you like, you can use that shout and do damage at a faster rate.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is due for a worldwide launch on November 11th.