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A 'real' world.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is not just role playing, but role _living_.

If you just want some random hack'n'slash there might be better titles for you, because the world of Morrowind is so complete, that you start having concerns, obligations and delights in this computer world.

The thrill when sneaking through an old tomb with a crossbow ready is excelent, but playing Morrowind is also about the joy of the sunset seen from a rock on the coast and a relaxing beer in your favorit pub in Balmora. No other game will in the same way take your thoughts away from the 'official missions' and into single player roleplaying.

The manual with the game is small, why? Because if you want some information about the game world you should look in the bookstore _inside_ the game world. :) :) :)

Very dyanimc, expansive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Morrowind is one of the most dynamic and expansive game worlds around. While there is a centeral series of missions in Morrowind, the game branches out with a seemingly infinite array of options. The map is expansive, and the scenery is gorgeous. At every turn, you'll find new oppurtunities, dungeons, quests, shipwrecks, and other perils (but not without rewards). The game has a high replay value. You can't simply follow a straight line through the map to complete the main story quests unlike many games of this age. Its akin to Dungeons and Dragons, without having to meet up with your friends to play. The game also has the TES Construction Set, enabling anyone to create "plugins" which modify the main game world in some way. People have already added new dungeons, continents, as well as useful items such as homes and banks. Morrowind is a good investment for those who can appreciate fantasy games.

Genius

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is wonderful. I bought it several months ago and still play it. There are just so many different "lifestyles" that beating the main quest once means your only about 1% done with the game. The map is HUUUUUUUGGEEEE and you'll often stop your travels to admire the landscapes. There are a huge variety of races in Morrowind each with different advantages. When you create your character, you can choose the race, the class (sort of like your "specilaty" you can also make your own class) and your birthsign. These all effect which path you will take in Morrowind. The Main quest assigns you as a member of the Blades, an elite orginazation of adventurers that do the Emperor's dirty work. Throughout your journey you'll find hundreds of pieces of armor, thousands of weapons, and millions of spells (you can also hire a spellmaker to make a spell for you). Two things that really add to the game are enchanting and alchemy. There are several varieties of "ingredients" in morrowind that you can combine to make potions. These ingredients can be anything from rat meat to mold to bonedust to Daedric hearts to diamonds. If your skilled in alchemy, you can make very effective potions that sell for quite a pretty penny. Enchanting is great also. You can enchant a weapon wiht a spell (for example) so the spell is automatically cast when the weapon strikes an enemy. you can enchant an article of clothing with constant effect chameleon for an invisibility advantage. Simply put, there are so many things to do in this game, I cannot describe them in one review. Every character in the game is interactive, you can talk to them, or kill them. Its up to you. There is a law system too. You will be punished for stealing (you can steal annnnnnything except furniture.) or killing or attacking or any other threat to the public just like in real life. You dont even have to follow the main story line. I dont. You can join a guild and do their jobs (there are several guilds including fighters guild, theives guild, mages guild, house hllau, house televanni, house rederan, the Morag Tong, etc) You can do freelance work and just tour the island for people who need help. You can make decisions too. For example, you find a women who says she will give you the boots of blinding speed, a pair of boots that increase your speed by 200 points if you escort her to a far away town. Do you live the life of honor and escort her or do you live the life of greed and kill her and loot her body of the boots? Its up to you. The game never ends. There are regular creatures like rats and bugs, there are evil spirits called Daedra. There are ghosts there are cult worshipers there are greedy theives. There is everything. This game is fantastic with astronomical replay value.

Great add on to Vvardenfell

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

To begin, Bloodmoon ads a new Large Island named Solstheim to the North West of the main continent Vvardenfell. To get to this island you need to take a boat from the docks in Khuul or swim there. Once reaching Solstheim you start off at a fort where there are two factions you can start working for. The local captain has a some missions as well as the leader of the local mining colony which you have a part in designing.

To the north of the island is where the tribal Nords live. The island is patched with snow in the south and covered in the north with very nice blizzards happening now and then.

Bloodmoon's story is suppose to allow you to become a werewolf which is a new experience in and of its self and I recommend each player try it out at least once. The quests well take you all over the island and eventually you well have discovered everything about the island. This expansion is better then Tribunal in my opinion and well make a great addition to anyones adventure. Thanks Amanda.

I Love This Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have played CRPGs for close to 15 years now. Like most gamers out there, I have been very jaded with the selection of games lately. They just seem like cookie cutter standard [stuff]. Morrowind, however, reaffirms my faith in gaming. If you enjoy RPGs, and are looking for something totally original, get this game! You won't regret it!

If you can run it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I originally gave this game 1 star because when I loaded it, it didn't work (as you may have read from some other people). I'm running a P3-1GHz, 256MB Ram, Windows ME, with a 64Meg GeForce2 Video card and the game crashed everytime after character developement. It would do this even after updating all my drivers as Bethesda recommended as a fix action, nothing worked and I just gave up. Last weekend I upgraded to Windows XP and decided to see if Morrowind would run again. WOW! it did! This is one of the better games I've played. It's fairly easy to control and very open ended. It deserves 5 stars but I had to deduct one for not working on ME when it should have. I recommend this game only if you're running XP.

been playin for a year..love it!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Morrowind brings so much to the PC RPG, I never thought that an RPG could be this good(myself usually playing a FPS or Sports). I enjoyed this game because of the ability to control everything about your character and how you take on abilites and quests. The graphic engine is stellar and the combat is good while not great. THE WORLD IS HUGE, i couldnt tell you this enough, its massive and a little daunting. i think that the overall difficulity is too easy after you get used to the learning curve. also you have to want to play morrowind, i cant see an average gamer playing this, you have to be a hardcore type and really appreciate some things that developers do in morrowind. You need a REALLY GOOD PC, i have a 2.8 ghz w/ 512 and GF4 and play hi-res, but still every once in a while like in Vivic and just walking around it gets slow. i think this can be added to the large amount of bugs. I'll be playing and all of the sudden it will quit the game to desktop(huh?). that kind of stuff happens but i love it for the game not hate it for the bugs.

Wow!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Morrowind is hailed as the best RPG of the year for good reasons. It defines open-endedness. Your character arrives on the island of Vvardenfell, which is populated by 10 interesting races of humans, elves, orcs, and more. The majority of the population are Dark Elves, since they are native to the area, but they have a hugely detailed culture and history, from the powerful Great Houses bickering over things like the drug trade, to the ashlanders living in yurts out in the deserts plotting to overthrow the imperial colonists.
Your character can be one of 21 classes, although I expect most people chose to design their own, picking what type of skills you like and how to use them. Unlike in most RPGs, certain classes like theives aren't useless: your character, if you wish, can become rich by breaking into mansions and cleaning them out.
There is a 'main quest' but in my opinion it's far more interesting to wander around the island hacking up interesting monsters from Alits to Zombies, and everything in between. The land is peppered with towns ranging from Imperial fortresses to camps of huts, to buildings made from giant insect shells, and many more interesting sorts of architecture that I'll leave you to find for yourself. There are also Dwarven ruins about which are left over from the Dwarves who vanished for no apparent reason several hundred years ago. These look very cool, and have these high towers that appear ominously over the horizon. But even cooler are the Daedric shrines here and there, full of cultists that summon nasty monsters, all sorts of zombies and crocodile things, and of course incredible loot.
There are a variety of factions you can join and do quests for, and even advance to the position of their leader. Some of the quests get repepetive, though, mostly consisting of going to get an item, or kill someone/something or both.
The only real downsides to this game are that the AI leaves a lot to be desired, you need a very powerful computer to play it, and there are some rather exploitable bugs that allow your character to become ridiculously rich and powerful at a low level. But the island is so huge that you can just start a new game and take a different path in life. There are two expansion packs that add a lot to the game, and an editor is included which allows you to change a lot of things about the game with no technical knowledge at all, and create vastly different mods if you knwo how to script. For me, the main use of the editor was to get rid of those freakin' cliff racers (a harmless nuisance that attacks you every two and a half seconds in the ashlands). And of course there are a million user-made mods out there that you can install to change the game or uninstall if they're causing problems.
Morrowind is worth the money it cost at its release, easily, and now you can grab it for about 30 dollars which is a real steal. Don't hesitate.

stunning graphics and gameplay

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game has stunning graphics and outstanding gameplay. if your bored, and you start this, you wont be any more. it keeps me glued to the pc for hours on end. dont pass up this chance to order the world's greatest game.

An Addictive Game Worth Playing!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Marrowind is an x-box game that never ends. You have lots of characters to choose from and you can be whatever you want. A thief, scavenger, traveler, merchant, and thats only to name a few occupations you can be. This game's graphics are very good and it's very addictive to play! Me and my friends all love this game, and I'm sure you will too!

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