AbstractAn epic, open-ended single-player RPG set in a gigantic 3D world where you create and play any kind of character you can imagine.
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Full descriptionMorrowind continues Bethesda's award-winning Elder Scrolls role-playing series that began in 1994. The first two games built a following by offering players the freedom to do whatever they wanted to instead of venturing down a specific path. Released six years after the second chapter in the series, Morrowind serves as a gateway to an epic fantasy world featuring distinct races, political factions, monsters, and a diverse geography with variable weather.
Played primarily from a first-person perspective, the game begins on a ship sailing toward the mysterious island of Vvardenfell. The Emperor has, for reasons unknown, decided to free the lead character from imprisonment. With nothing but a man's name and a location to guide them, players are free to explore their surroundings, earn some money to purchase equipment, or converse with townsfolk, asking for advice or the latest rumor. The player's race, reputation, personality, and affiliation with various factions will determine how others respond.
Ten races are available for new characters, from the cat-like Kahjit and reptilian Argonians to more "traditional" orcs and elves. Each race offers distinct skill bonuses and special abilities. Nords are immune to frost, for example, while fleet-footed Redguards are resistant to poison and disease. Skills are broken down into three arts: combat, magic, and stealth, with certain classes gravitating toward a specific area. Developing these skills through combat, spell casting, or lock picking, to name but a few, will help increase the character's proficiency and overall experience.
As in previous games in the series, combat is handled in real time. One's skills in specific weapon types as well as fatigue rating and luck will influence whether the weapon hits the desired target. Adventurers will also be able to carry numerous foodstuffs, potions, scrolls, and items to sell or to use in combat. While there is a main storyline to the game, players can join up with multiple guilds and rise through the ranks by doing various tasks. Realize that certain actions may result in fines or imprisonment, and noted thieves or murderers may carry a bounty on their heads from town to town.
Also included as a PC exclusive is The Elder Scrolls Construction Set, a flexible design tool used by players to modify and add to the existing world in a number of ways. Players can alter character and monster attributes or skills, create new dungeons or islands, design new weapon types, and more. Each file created by the Construction Set can be added or deleted from the game without disrupting the existing universe. Players can also download or swap files with each other to experience new adventures on continuous basis.
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Game of the Year Edition includes the original version of its award-winning RPG The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, along with content from the two Morrowind expansions: Tribunal and Bloodmoon.
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AmazonThe Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is an epic, open-ended single-player game where you create and play any kind of character you can imagine. Be the hero embarking on an epic quest or a thief rising to leadership of his guild. Be a sorcerer developing the ultimate spell of destruction or a healer searching for the cure to a plague. Your actions define your character, and your gameplay changes and evolves in response to your actions. Confront the assassins' guild, and they take out a contract on you; impress them, and they try to recruit you instead. No two sagas are the same in the world of Morrowind.
Players can choose to follow the intriguing main story line or set off to explore the province of Morrowind and the many interesting people and exotic locations it contains. Vast cities and remote villages dot the landscape, each with its own unique look and feel. Hundreds of quests and adventures await as you interact with characters and learn more. Regardless of whether you play a murdering assassin or a noble knight, the game holds endless possibilities and allows you to revisit the main story line at any time.
With Morrowind, the Elder Scrolls character system is coupled with an increase in the world's richness of detail. Utilizing advanced 3-D technology, Morrowind features hyperrealistic textures and polygon counts, real-time shadows, vast landscapes, skeletal-based animation, and a complete weather system. Gameplay is further extended with the inclusion of The Elder Scrolls Construction Set, which allows players to modify and add to Morrowind in any way they see fit. Change character or creature attributes and skills, introduce new weapons or dungeons into the game, or create entire new worlds to explore.
Open-ended adventure through enormous fantasy land
Rich graphics bring the game world to life
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