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Awsome, Unbelivible Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

To put this game into one word, it would have to be, awsome. I know you have probably heard this already, but the graphics are better than anything. It is unreal how people who make rpgs do it. The NPCs are good (well, most of them are not evil), and you get to do anything. Get this game!

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.

Really Good Game For the High-End PC User

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game since the first time I saw it on TV. This was one of the first RPG's I really GOT into, though I had to buy a new PC to Play, it was very worth it. This game does have bugs, no game this SIZE wouldn't, but I find them completely negligible to the game-play. Also to avoid getting lost in this HUGE world I invested in a good, Strategy Guide. This is one of the best PC's games I have ever played and I will be playing it for a long time to come.

It keeps getting better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Morrowind gives you a sense of relief from reality, you will be totally sucked into this world. I do agree , at the beginning it is a bit awkward to fight with the enemies due to the new combat systems and controls where you have to learn them and get use to it, after that everything will be straight forward.
Once you bought this game, like Neverwinter Nights you can download tons of mods from the websites, where you can add infinte features, lands, cities, islands,NPCs, Guilds.........lists goes on. Expand this game in the way you want it to.There are also people making some great projects based on this game! Plus it has professional standard music, graphics (excellent), special effects, it really worth its price. Morrowind also comes with Tribunal and Bloodmoon, worth to check them out, too.

Best 3-D RPG ever!...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind is truly a masterpeice in every catagory you could think of; graphics, sound, background story, game-play, controls, etc. It wins in every catagory. Where to begin...Where to begin? What can I say? Morrowind is the ultimate 3-D RPG. I guess I'll start in the graphics catagory:

Incredible!... Beatiful scenery. Even on low or medium details, there really isn't much of a difference. Really, the 3-D graphics are absoluteley super-pretty in morrowind.
Here are some specific graphics moments to pay attention to in Morrowind:

#1: Dynamic spectacular lightning system. It isn't perfect, but I've never seen an RPG released before or at Spring 2002 that has produced such fast lightning system graphics. When someone goes near a light source that emitts light, IT ACTUALLY EFFECTS THEM. When it's any weather type at any type of day, there's actually a emitt of the weather/time of day light/fogg cast all around all objects and textures in morrowind. Splendid. There's actually a volumetric sun. It looks awesome. It casts bright light & shadow on all objects & textures in morrowind. So good! When someone pulls out a torch, the flashing lightning actually really looks realistic how it effects all objects and textures near it + the character using the torch. When you go near any light source it effects you. Fogg is amazing. Truly realistic. Amazing ash-storms. Awesome! And more.Unique dynamic lightning indeed.

#2: Shadows. WOW! Any object or textures casts a real-time shadow that casts onto any object or surface and changes size and acuratelley mimics the character's outline. Amazing.

#3: Water! INCREDIBLE!... THIS is the true star of morrowind. If you don't have pixel-shader enabled card, the water looks ok, but not great. Now let's talk about the opposite. WOW! The water actually has active ripples activated by wind swaying! And the reflection quality within the angle's view is amazing. Truly realistic. When it rained, I looked down at the water and my jaw dropped down. EVERY SINGLE DROP OF WATER ACTUALLY cReATED A RIPPLE + REALISTIC DROP EFFECT TO THE WATER! AMAZING!! And the realistic transparent view is amazing.

#3: Super-High polygon counts. WOW! Every object ha very high polygon count making their design realistic. The world truly nearly resembles real life quality design. Incredible.

#3: High-Resolution realistic textures and objects. Holy [cow], look at the resolution of textures. WOW! Everything is almost real quality texture resolution! And the objects realisim is amazing. I can't even explain it.

#4: Weather system. OH MY GOD, random changing weather, from rain to ash-storms, to foggy days, to dark days, from afternoon to night to morning time, to sunny days, etc. It's all awesome.

Those were basically all the major graphics notes. All else does not apply.

Sound? Great. Awesome. I'll start with the musical score:

Music:

WOW! Incredible classical music score. Suits the game perfectly, is very relaxing, is dynamic, but can be repetetive.

Sound:

Nice. 3-D hardware audio support is nice. Realistic reverb + voice + sound effects(except foot fall and weapon attack harm effects)and more. It is truly great.

That was sound, here is game-play:

Game-play:

Game-play??? Amazing. YOU CAN LITERALLY DO ANYTHING YOU WANT OR GO ANYTHING YOU WANT!!It's so incredible...here are some special notes:

#1: LIVE ANOTHER LIFE!... Play as any character you can imagine, from the heroic warrior to a secret assassin!
#2: Explore another world. The enormous game world is open, and free to discover. You can literally go anywhere you want and do anything you want!
#3: CHOOSE YOUR FRIENDS:

You can involve yourself in a guild politics and a huge variety of quests. Thousands of characters remember you and your actions.

Performance:

Great. Ran fine on my computer, Dell Dimension 8200, P4 2GHZ 512MB of RDRAM, GeForce 4 Ti4600, Windows XP, and so on. Performance was VERY satisfying. The frame rate rareley dropped to an kind of slow state, and when it did, it was hardly noticeable with all that's going on in the world.

Story-line:

Nice. Cinematics and chats + omens and more represent the story well, and the story is graceful and interesting.

Morrowind is the ultimate RPG. No, rephrase that: The ultimate game. It truly is. If you've saved up about around 30$, and your looking for a game to spend on the market, THIS IS THE ONE YOU WANT. Even for a First Person Shooter lover, this game is what YOU WANT. If you can buy morrowind, the money you saved that you spent is worth it!

All mine!...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have played many games but I absolutely love this game! What games let you do what you want? I myself enjoy going around stealing and killing unsuspecting victims. All in the game of course! My brother got this game and I have been playing it ever since. It has great graphics and music. I like how you can talk to anyone and that you can try to become friends or enemies with them. You can also create your own human. Each one being better at different things. A few flaws it contains are that there is times when you have to wait for the game to load up, even on my brothers Alienware Computer the game seemed to have trouble loading or at times in the middle of the game it may even shut down. For the easily angered or impatient people this would not be the game for you. But consider how much fun you will have doing what you want!

Beautiful!

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

If you have a minute to spare while you're running around doing missions, stop and look up. The graphics in this game are beautiful. The sky is fantastic and you can sit and watch it change from night to day. I was also impressed with the variables that the game allows for. You can do anything. You can follow quests given by certain people or make a name for youself. It is paradise for any ex-Thief players. You can steel everything. I would recommend this game to anyone.

Great opened-ended RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Now, ive played a LOT of RPG's... Daggerfall, Fallout, Arcanum, NWN, even some older DOS ones... and Morrowind is one of my favorites.

It comes with a guide that lets you edit and make mods for the game yourself. Its the exact same program they used to make the game!

Even with my lower ended graphics card, the graphics were spectacular. The spells were amazing to look at, and I loved the way my glass armor glowed when I had it enchanted!

And its open ended, and you can be evil, good, or neutral. If you make your own character right, you can join almost every guild as well.

One of the only problems is that after you reach level 45+, the monsters are really easy... but Bloodmoon and Tribunal did put harder creatures in the game, so its all good.

Large world to explore

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the best and most flexible RPG games I've seen. It is extremely customizable, letting you play the game you want to play. I'm not just talking about a world-builder option, but the game itself is extremely open. Starting with selecting your character, you don't ever have to look at the stats to get exactly the avatar that suits your playing style... with lots of races, classes, subclasses, guilds, and even astrological sign. Once out in the world, every time you do something you would normally do, you get more experienced in that, making your character fine-tuned to do what you like to do. I spent a day swimming off the coast, gathering pearls, exploring a wrecked ship and undersea caves. At the end of the day, my athletics skill was up, I could run farther, swim better, (and fight those nasty pirannah-like fishies better). To broaden your horizons, low level skills are pretty easy to buy advancement in from trainers, but to get those high proficiencies in your favorite skills you gotta use them again and again. I love seeing the message flash by on the bottom of the screen "Your longsword skill has increased", right in the middle of winning a tough battle. Around every corner is someplace to explore from raiding egg mines to political intrigue in the high nobles courts. Be a theif, secret agent, apprentice mage, and accolyte of the local Imperial Cult, all at the same time.

Morrowind: Elder Scrolls III

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

After playing this game for nearly a year now, it is clear to me that this is the best game that has come out for the PC in the past five years. Bethesda has once again set a new benchmark for First-Person RPGs. All of that being said, here is a wish list and perhaps a critcism or two. If Morrowind was multiplayer it might actually be the game of the decade.

The only real detractors of this game is that it does demand a pretty powerful computer (ram, and video card in particular) to run it smoothly. I am using a 64 MB video card, and 512 MB of Ram. A second problem is that there are some leveling issues with the game, straight out of the box. The game evenually becomes too easy. I found myself changing the stats on certain items to tone them down a bit, making the game a bit more challenging. For those that are able to, the Construction Kit, allows for even more modifications and difficulty adjustments.

Overall, I still gave this game a 5-rating because it is absolutely incredible graphically. It has one of the best sound tracks I've heard in an RPG. Finally, the Construction Kit is very easy to use and equally useful as well.

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