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The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, Collector's Edition

The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, Collector's Edition

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A True Virtual World
Review: The Elder Scrolls 3 continues the Elder Scrolls tradition of providing a true fantasy virtual world for you to create an alternate life in. Set in the exotic island of Vvarvendell, the developers have truly defined an entire culture, with such nuances as clothing, housing styles, food, and architecture being unique to each game region. You can do anything you want, from running a mercantile business to being a mass murderer. Be a powerful mage living high in your own tower, or be a shadowy thief jumping across rooftops at night. Create your own spells from scratch, concoct mysterious potions, enchant your own weapons. It's totally up to you. In addition to all this, Morrowind ships with the easiest-to-use game editor to date, allowing you to create your own game content such as quests, characters, items, spells, and sharing them over the net with your friends. You can't go wrong with Morrowind!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A True RPG
Review: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, continues in the Bethesda Softworks campaign for games that are 'true to concept.' After a long drought of releases, they've put a game in the market that simply blows away the traditional concepts of what was possible in a true RPG today. For those that play online RPG's, beware... Morrowind provides for a very in depth system of character play, but the typical online strategy of "kill, level, kill, level" has no place here (unless you play a brutal warrior of chaos who does nothing but murder...It's possible). A -very- rich graphic world eventually plays background to the focus of the game, which is a complex system of quests that cross factions, sometimes meeting paths other character styles you might choose to play, but based on different RP background and reasons. Choices are made that can affect your chacter at every turn, wheter it be your persuasive manner towards a single merchant, or your honorable standing amongst the members of the fighter's guild. The choice is yours, and you alone can decide to live with those decisions or go back to a previous save point and play it differently.

Expect to do a lot of searching around and testing...this games is not for the casual gamer, though the in game journal helps to keep you up to date when you forget what it was you were doing (easy to do, as the game world is huge for a 1CD game). Overall, it is a must have for gamers who really enjoy playing a character as they see fit and dealing with the consequences...just as a true RPG should be.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Versatile -- Beautiful -- Slow -- Buggy
Review: The following things distinguish this game for me:

- Character Building: Combination of Race, Profession and Birth sign. 10 Races to choose from, 30 professions (divided into categories of Magic, Warrior and Sneak), and 12 birth signs that tweak characters abilities (adding speed, invisibility etc.)

- Leveling System: Very much like Asheron's Call. 6 major abilities, 6 minor abilities, and the rest misc. Using an ability advances it. Major abilities advance the fastest.

- Graphics & Character Interface: A lot like Gothic (or Everquest). On my small screen sometimes gave a headache. Despite 3 maps, I sometimes lost my sense of direction, especially in town buildings. Characters tend to say the same thing, and often waste time with unhelpful dialogue.

- Mouse Keyboard Control: A little bit primitive. Often need 2 or 3 keystroke/clicks where in some games you would need 1 to put items in inventory etc.

- Journal: Has chronological log and separate alphabetical index for acquired information.

- Atmosphere: A little less polite and uplifting than some games.

- Versatile: Separate disk devoted to construction of different things like character, scenarios etc. Can still have fun without following main plot/quest line of game. Easy to explore freely without being killed too much.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This Is Why I Play Games
Review: The sheer fact of how much freedom you have in this game blows my mind! You can literally do anything you want! This reminds me of what a game truly is! I give this game A VERY WELL DESERVED 5 out of 5!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A MUST BUY!!
Review: This game is exciting, and you'll never get bored of it. This is definitely the best RPG of the year.

The grafics are amazing, and the action is too. It has a great selection of weapons and spells.

You can do endless amounts of things in this game too, join the temple, join the legion, be a theif, a mudderor of the innocent and much much more.

you have to get this game!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Fun for about a Week or Two...
Review: This game is sooo awesome for about 2 weeks then the game gets very repetative and boring, Once you visit most all the cities the game turns into job instead of a game. I mean it is a great game but it just gets boring after a while. But if you have some extra money to throw around go for it, but if you know a friend that has it, borrow it, Or just play it as his/her house! Over all a great game!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Definition of Epic
Review: This game is worth $100, if not more. It is treasure. To extrapolate...

Graphics: Amazing. Jaw dropping. Best I've ever seen. The downside of this is that this game is DEMANDING, and will lag on all but supercomputers. However, that should be fixed in an upcoming patch.

Sound: Very good. The music is wonderful, but somewhat repetitive. The enviromental sounds and the voice acting, however, are top notch.

Gameplay: Simply addictive. Completely non linear. Hundreds and hundreds of quests, huge world. I've logged over 250 hours in this game with one charecter and am still not nearly done exploring this world. From the beaces of the Ascadian Isles to the blighted Ashlands, this game has diverse landscapes, creatures, caverns, villages, towns, and people.

Extras: Definitly buy the collector's editon. For an extra $15 above the regular edition, you get the soundtrack, which is great to listen to in the car or anywhere, the Orinator figure(My personal favorite part. It is very nicely sculpted down to every link in his chainmail. The mace is even sharp!), the Art of Morrowind book(Which is great when you first read it but even better after you've played the game a while and see where ideas came from and such) and the paper map which comes with both versions(The most detailed game map I've ever seen).

This is THE best game I've ever played, and I game 50 hours a week. Buy it. Now. Unless you want something akin to a life. In that case, stay far away from this game, as it will draw you in and not let go.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best single player RPG you can buy!
Review: This is a truely awesome game that has endless hours of playability. People are still making scores of plugin mods for the PC version that add new quests, houses, furniture, armor and just about anything you can think of to add with the Morrowind editor. This game is definately a must buy for any serious RPG lover. Oh Yeah... and the Graphics are simply stunning... =)

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Booooooring
Review: This is one of the most boring games I have ever played in my life all you do is run around and do boring quest
I been playing it for 3 days now trying to get the hang of it but it's just too boring.
There's no action in the game what so ever you'll find yourself running around for hours and hours without any adventure what so ever if you're the type that likes long boring games with no action this is the game for you.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Superior RPG/Action Game
Review: This is the best RPG to date. I've played Scott Adam's Adventure, the Wizardry series, Bard's Tale, Might and Magic, Final Fantasy and Baldur's Gate; The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind is the best of the bunch.

It does have some problems. It is hardware demanding. You need audio and video cards that support Windows DirectX 8.1. With a slow processor, under 500MHz and with less than 256MB of RAM, play can be full of fits and starts.

On the positive side, there is everything else!

Graphic images are simply beautiful.

If you have a newer audio card and a 5.1 sound system, the monsters creeping up behind you will raise the hair on the back of your neck!

There are so many different types of characters you can create and so many different ways of playing that is boggles the mind. That complexity makes it difficult for someone used to a console gaming system to play, because there are just so many choices.

There is no "right" way to play the game. Most other RPG's have a story line that you follow, going from place to place, solving problems and eventually getting to the end of the game and fighting the final boss monster. You can do that with The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. Or you can do something else!

Like to collect "items", ala Diablo/Diablo 2? You can collect tableware and put them on the table the way you want! Want to see what you're wearing? You can! Changed armor? Changed pants? Check yourself out in the third person view.

Want to be a good guy? Bad guy? Mad murderer? Saintly healer? No problem. Wanna be a Thief and try to steal everything in the game? No problem!

My lament is the lack of multiplayer support. There is stuff I'd like to show my friends and places I'd like to share. Especially Muzgonk gro-Borbog, the Orc, guarding the entrance at Ashurnibibi, Shrine, Northwest of Hla Old, in a full suit of Orcish armor! ;)


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