Let's talk landscape first, since this is one of the game's best points. Gorgeous and twice as big as the first, strolling around the rolling landscape, glancing at the setting sun glint around the wooded glades, carping askew thy swamps and clifftops - it really brings out the William Wordsworth in me. (William Shatner, more like - Ed.) Your initial quest sees you foraging with no reason to go beyond a relatively small area - still huge, mind - so you'll often find yourself impressed when you take a wander off the beaten track. A little strolling before typing this, for instance, and I came across a whacking great temple in a valley I'd never seen before. All praise must go to the map designers who've managed to come up with a world that feels natural and varied enough not to become repetitive. And it's all been done without the intermittent immersion-breaking loading times of Morrowind.