The music of Skyrim certainly does its part, and is the number one reason of why the game will go down into video game history as not only a truly enveloping game, but as one of the greatest RPGs ever made. It is a huge improvement on the previous Elder Scrolls titles, which had rather redundant music, and is accompanied by other great sound enhancements, including the voice acting and ambient noises. There’s only so much fear, joy, or 'tense-ness' one can feel within a video game, but Skyrim does its best, and succeeds, in forging a great atmosphere for the player to experience. There aren’t many games in which I’ll actually sit down on a virtual chair and watch a bard play for a couple of minutes.
All the emotions that you go through are propelled by the songs that play, from the grand theme during dragon encounters to bards playing on lutes. The music of Skyrim is the key to it being one of the most immersive games of all time.
