Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is a sprawling, first person, open-ended fantasy role-playing game. It's a direct port of the PC version, and truly shows off the power of the Xbox.
Morrowind can be described with a single word: mind-numbingly-massive (okay, I cheated). You can do virtually anything you want. There is a main quest, but there are also hundreds of side quests (over 350 of them), and the game is completely nonlinear. You can be a hero, a villain, a pilgrim, a saint, or even a vampire. You name it, and chances are you can be it. There are also no geographical constraints; you can wander where you want, when you want.
The amount of control you have in Morrowind is stunning. When you create a character, you can either choose from premade classes, have one assigned to you depending on how you answer a questionnaire, or create your own class. You can also choose one of 13 signs under which your character is born, which will give you bonuses, handicaps, or both. There are so many stats and skills to accumulate, you can easily spend hours experimenting with character types before you even start the game.
Morrowind's magic system brings a tear to my eye--not only do you have seven schools of magic (Conjuration, Illusion, Destruction, Restoration, Mysticism, Alteration, Enchant), but you also have an alchemy system, from which you can create potions from ingredients you can either buy or find in the wild. In addition, you can trap the souls of enemies you kill and bind them into items to create magic artifacts. Very cool. And of course, there are all the scrolls, magical items, etc., that you find in your travels.
Another boon is the thieving system. You can pick locks, disarm traps, pick pockets, and learn acrobatics. You can taunt, insult, or intimidate others as well as haggle for better deals in the market. And since you can steal (or try to steal) almost every item you see, business is good! This game was designed with a thief's eye.
The game itself is gorgeous. The graphics, sound, frame rate... all smooth as silk. You can spend hours just looking at the outlandish scenery and picking the flowers (literally). The musical score is rousing, and never gets old. The different creatures and people have their own voices and sounds. This is a game that makes anything but high-end computers cry, and it works on the Xbox without a hitch.
Okay, so Bethesda's Morrowind sounds like the greatest thing since... well... Bethesda's Elder Scrolls II, but does it have any flaws? Well, Morrowind is definitely geared toward magic users and thieves, but it is lacking when it comes to fighting. There are many battles in Morrowind, but they boil down to clicking your button and hitting your foe with either a melee or missile weapon. That's it. Combat gets old fast. In addition, the travel journal is purely elementary. It lists all the quests you undertake, but there is no way to sort them, or erase quests that you have finished. After a while, it takes a long time to find information. This is probably the biggest flaw in the game.
Bottom line: Morrowind is a PC-style RPG for a PC-style console. This game is reason enough to buy an Xbox, and will have hard-core RPG fans singing its praises for years to come. --Bryan Karsh
Pros:
- Thief and magic-user heaven
- Do whatever you want
- Beautiful graphics and sound
- Simplistic battle system
- Can't sort/edit quests in travel journal
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- AmazonMaximumAge: 204
- AmazonMinimumAge: 156
- Brand: Jack Of All Games
- EAN: 0093155116702
- ESRBAgeRating: Teen
- Genre: role_playing_games
- Label: Bethesda
- Manufacturer: Bethesda
- MPN: 100730
- NumberOfItems: 1
- PackageQuantity: 1
- Platform: Xbox
- ReleaseDate: 2005-03-15
- SKU: 210060
- UPC: 093155116702
- Item Dimensions: 0.50 lb
- Package Dimensions: 7.50 in x 5.40 in x 0.60 in; 0.45 lb
Customer Reviews
Amazing game with only one important flaw and one rule.
You an RPGer that only wants a game that has you in total control of your character, what you do, where you go and who you serve? If you've answered "YES", Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is the game for you.
Even at the beginning, you have total control over your character. Your name, your race (including gender and hair) and if you want to fulfill combat, magic or stealth.
Your ability to chose your different skills is great to with three methods. One where you chose from sets of classes (three sets for combat, magic and stealth, total being 21 classes), answering a series of questions that generates a class for you or custom class allowing you to make your own and mix different skills to be exactly who you want to be.
The ability with magic and thief is absolutely amazing as well. With magic, you're capable to trap souls into soul gems, create potions using ingredients bought or found on the road or to enchant certain objects to make you invincible. With thief, you can steal, pickpocket people, pick lock doors and endless fun.
Also, your chosen way to speak with people. Although you don't have total control over what your character says, you can how. If someone is not giving you information that you need, you can always compliment them, bring a gift, bribe with money or threaten them. Whichever way works.
The land area for you to play around in is almost as big, if not bigger, then GTA: San Andreas. It took me a day to travel the entire continent of Vvandernfall, from Vivec all the way to the island of Bloodmoon, the last point of land in the game (Game of the Year edition). There are so many places to go and so many people to talk to.
The main storyline too is both fun and creative. And besides the main storyline, you have side-quests that will help build your skills like in the Fighters Guild, Mages Guild and the Thiefs Club (forget official name).
The only flaw in this game is the fighting, which proves to be costly. The game is more of smashing the buttons and doing PRESISE aiming. Although the aiming is a very good key in fighting, the smashing is slapstick and fighting is not creative, making it a turn-off for a lot of action type players.
And now down to the rule, which you should really consider: time consuming. This game, if you get addicted to it, will consume a big chunk of your social life. It has over 200 hours of game play, making in an extremely large game to conquer and you'll need full attention on this game if you hope to succeed in Morrowind.
Say what you want - but if you look at the cover, it won over 50 Best RPG Game of the Year awards and was the game of the year in 2002. Consider that, and Morrowind is the #1 RPG on PC and Xbox. Enjoy.
AMAZING
I LOVE IT!!! I haven't been playing games long, but this one is awesome. I've found that other games end way too quickly and easily, then I get bored with them and have to buy another one. This one has kept me busy for a couple months now and I'm nowhere near finished, which is cool. It's true that the fighting is not very good, but using your imagination to stay out of fights makes it very interesting. Yes, there are fights you can't avoid but a few are fine. I always find so many games are centered on brawn with a bit intelligence and magic skills on the side, but this one can be played however you want. If you are an unconventional player and like to do your own thing this is the game to get!!!
One of the best games of all time...
I bought this game about two years ago(around when it came out) and I still play it all of the time. In fact ive used almost half of my xbox's harddrive playin this thing! It's that good. It's too bad that this game didn't get the amount of attention that groundbreaking games like DOOM or QUAKE got because it sure as hell deserves it.
REASONS YOU SHOULD BUY:
-This game is HUGE! You'll almost never runs out of things to do.
-Graphics and detail is amazing.
-Vvardenfal, the fantasy island the game takes place on, is almost a lifesize continent. It would take you days to cover all of it.
- The amount of creatures and people to find, kill, rob or have a good chat with is neverending.
- Completing quests (main or side) and treasure hunting can keep you occupied for days or even months (it's that addicting).
- And the most important reason of all, YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT! In fact you don't even have to do the main quest if you don't want to(although you should because it's a good storyline and you get a bunch of skills, cash, and good items along the way).
Now you want to know the bad parts right? Well i can only think of one which is the fighting. The action in this game is pretty damn limited which turns alot of gamers off. But id still recommend this game to you action fans (like myself) who have never been a fan of rpg's because by the time your through with this game you will be.
time consumption
I bought this game without ever playing it or even seeing a screen shot. A purchase made totaly out of faith in how it was to be the best RPG ever, I was a fool. Many praise this game for its enorimity and depth but i say that the attempt at a non-linear approach to this videogame did not work. Too many of the quests are nothing but mindless "bitchwork" and with all the side quests the main quests become much too easy since your character has infinite opperitunity to level up before every important encounter. This game is nothing but a time consumption program for video gamers with absolutly no self-respect who enjoy running virtual errands for their digital Dungeon Masters. Frankly I'd rather watch the clock tick
Good But difficult
I bought this game a couple of months ago and when I got it It was awesome ! Really Awesome! But it was a little difficult for me to accomplish all my tasks. I'm still working for Caius Casades on my first mission in the game as a matter of fact. I saw the review on a show called Toonami but the robot guy really underappreciated it. But that's not the point. Anyway, Like I said before it's a little hard for you to accomplish all your tasks. But it's got beautiful graphics, great music, awesome selection of characters, and a good fighting system. The only reason I gave it 4 stars was because of the difficult tasks. But Then again it makes it more challenging. But I like things at a good challenge and not one that takes 10 months to accomplish.
this review refers to the Platnium Hits edition.