Well, the article I linked seems to claim that the Xbox 360 version has been torrented. So my guess is that someone who got the game early (store or reviewer) simply torrented it.
I went onto the Skyrim torrent on Pirate Bay (I'm not going to link to it for obvious reasons) and this is what someone who played it had said:
"The game works fine people. I burnt it with ImgBurn following the standard instructions for XGD3 ISOS..
But I'm really sad to say that Graphic-wise, this is a BIG disappointment..! (at least this xbox version). It's a step back from Oblivion. The character's faces are grainy, dark and ugly with almost no expressions and stiff animations. The overall world textures look blurry and low-res. The animations of character movements look stiff. The Physx engine seems cut down (there is no more rag-doll effect on dead characters). You cant pick up and move objects and dead bodies in realtime like in Oblivion (although you can examine objects in the inventory). Overall it's a huge disappointment for me. A game released 5+ years ago looks better then this..
What the hell is going on? Lately there seems to be a tendency of new games looking worse than their older counterparts! (Rage, Crysis 2 anyone?) I really really hope the PC version fares better."
Nothing on gameplay but it only confirms what I saw in the leaked footage (which you can also probably find on Pirate Bay).
IMO, I couldn't care if graphics are bad or not, Skyrim looks okay in this department but about the stiff animations, well that's one of the reasons why I hated Oblivion. You can't get immersed when fighting a character who doesn't look or "feel" natural.
The guy who wrote the comment I posted above obviously isn't aware of this new article:
http://www.computerandvideogames.co...when-playing-on-pc-and-console-bethesda/
