

None of the mods available are huge, mostly retextures and recolors of existing assets, but they exist. The creation kit isn’t the only tool available to mod games with – it just makes everything a heck of a lot easier. PC gamers are nothing if not resourceful. That’s not to say there aren’t already mods. According to Pete Hines, a Bethesda employee via Twitter: “Still some work left to do on both the Creation Kit and the wiki that goes with it. Skyrim’s Creation Kit has not yet been released.

Pretty much anything you can imagine can be modded into the game with a sufficient amount of talent, hard work, and graphical ability.

With the creation kit you can do just about anything: retexture the roads, paint the horses, give all the players wings, build a skyscraper underground, add entire new islands complete with plot and quests, add new weapons, enchantments, and Shouts. With freely available, easy to use development kits, Skyrim will follow Oblivion and Morrowind as a haven for mods. This is made even easier with many Bethesda games, when they release things like the Elder Scrolls Construction Kit or Fallout’s Garden of Eden Creation Kit. One benefit that PC gamers have over Console gamers is the ability to easily mod their games.
