Skyrim’s great look on the Xbox 360 gets explained

Anyone with a pair of eyes can see that Bethesda’s up coming title, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, looks amazing. It’s safe to say from previously released gameplay footage and trailers that visually, this is Bethesda’s most visually impressive title yet.
In a recent interview, Skyrim director Todd Howard detailed what the development team did to make the 360 version of the game look so good.  In the interview, Howard put much of the improvement down to a complete overturn of development processs:

“We’ve  rewritten all the graphics and the gameplay system, as well as used a new face system, a new interface”
He then went on to explain what drove the teams change in development direction:

“And we knew coming off of Fallout 3 on the Xbox 360, that there was a lot we could still do to really harness the power of it. There is just this unlimited amount of detail we put into the world, from little things like forks and berries to mountains and dragons. We wanted all of that scale on the screen at once and the trickiest thing but we’ve managed to pull it off”
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim launches November 11th for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.