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In A World Of Ugly People...You Can Be King!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 32 / 36
Date: April 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok so the characters in this game leave a little something to be desired in the asthetics area. But that is where my complaining ends. That's it. That is the only thing I could find to complain about in this game. And trust me I know how to complain, I'm a librarian. I could sit and play this game for hours at a time completely immersed in the details. I never found it tedious or repetitve. The controls are spot on and the menus are easy to work after an initial test run. The combination of role playing and adventure elements was perfect. I even found it scary at times especially during the beginning when your character is new and even the rats threaten you meager existence. Becoming a "homeowner" of sorts is a great deal of fun and an interesting element. I just hope they intend to make another game like this in the future. I hope this was helpful.

Simply Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 30 / 32
Date: March 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

One warning slash complaint: DO NOT BUY THIS GAME IF YOU HAVE A LIFE. It is best if your a loser like me who doesn't do anything except play his xbox. The reason I say this is because the game seriously starts taking over your life because you can't stop playing it.

Okay with that cleared up, here's the skinny.

Your a bum who just got realsed from prison and was brought to the land of Morrowind. Your on a continent sized island called Vanderfall. You pick your name, your class, your race and the sign you were born under. Choose well! What you pick will determine the way the game will unfold for you. Once you finish your business, your a free man...that means free...as in there are no set guide lines about what you should do... AS IN YOU CAN DO WHATEVER THE HECK YOU WANT. The thought of it kinds of goes to my head.......

Seriously though, there is a main quest, which is to...never mind, I won't spoil it. Okay a short list of stuff you can do. Join guilds. Guilds like fighters, thieves or mages. You can become members of factions like certain temples or healing groups. You can join people's houses. Pick a side in multiple types of feuds. You may choose to become a free ranging hero, helping people in need. Or you may fall to the lure of the
"dark side" (I'm a big star wars fan) and turn to theivery. Whatever you want, the game lets you do it.

The exploring aspect is big. Like I said, the island is about the size of Australlia, and lots of times you'll have to travel in the beast ridled wilderness to get to places. Sometimes, if you're along the coast, you can ride in a boat, which is instintaneous transportation to a new location. If your not along the coast, you can ride huge bugs called silt striders. Same concept of boats, except across land.

People complain about the loading times, but there not really that bad. When you first load your game, it will take a while. But once you get going and are on your way, the loading never takes more than a couple seconds. And when you leave a building, you automatically can leave it with NO loading time what so ever.

The level of customization is amazing. There is no limit on the types of armor you will find. (from iron plated to troll bone) The weapons are awesome, especially the magic ones. Oh yeah, you can find people (or do it yourself) that will actually create new spells from old ones. You choose all of the features about it, even its name! I myself have a "super big fireball" spell in my arsenal. You can also enchant your armor, weapons, rings and amulets using souls you've captured in soul gems.

Along the lines of weapons is the magic. Magic is an aspect where many games seem to stumble. Either the magic is too strong, too week, too corny, not enough, too hard to regain, too easy to regain........The list goes on. Morrowind is the first game I've seen that gets it just right. The spells that hurt others are not all powerful, but they are not wimpy, either. There are plenty of spells that enhance your abilities, as well as spells that unlock doors, paralyze, make you invisible, and a host of others. Magic is one of my favorite parts of Morrowind.

Interaction with the environment is virtually limitless. The world boasts and entire ecosytem of vegetation, all which you can pick and use in potions. You can pick up ANYTHING you find lying about, even in peoples homes. They lock a chest on you? No problem. Just bust out the old lock pick out and (if you have a high enough security skill) you can break into a wide variety of different locked things.

The cities are breath taking. No, not the junky little town you start in, but the bigger ones like Balmoro are sweet. And Vivec is amazing. It is the capital of the island. It is divided into nine sections, each one floating on enormous platoons on the water. Very realistic and cool.

The game is supposed to be like living someone's life. And it is. Things like fewer people on the streets at night, prices that vary depending on how much the people like you and small stuff like that really make the game. The one thing I was very impressed with was the legal system. The dudes who made the game came up with a very original (if simple) system of law and order. If your crime is reported, you must pay a fine or go to jail and serve some hard labor. If you steel something, the stolen goods are returned and the fine is small. If you kill someone, the fine is huge. There are guards a plenty to uphold the law. The bigger the town, the more there are, and the powerful they are. The guards in Balmoro where this totally awesome armor and have spiked swords and shields. Small towns and villages only will have the basic guards, who look wimpy but are really strong. And the largest towns have dementors, who are probably some of the toughest fighters in the game.

That's all I'll say. The rest is up to you to find out. So get out of here and onto the road.

Good adventuring!!!

This is the best...for now

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 25 / 35
Date: September 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Seriously, the only thing I found negative about Morrowind was the fact that the graphics weren't all that magical. But everything else is fantastic! The amount of freedom in this game gives me wood. It is a great feeling to immerse oneself into an entirely different world. I haven't even finished 1/3 of the game and I've done so much. I really like the fact that I got my own house built for me. I can arrange all my cool weapons there and lock precious stuff in chests. Its the best. And now there is going to be an extra 80 hours or so added to this amazing game!! And this is my first time round!! I haven't even become a vampire yet. Now they are giving the option of becoming a werewolf. This game will last me until Fable comes out, and even then I will still be playing it. Guaranteed. And I do have a girlfriend. And she is hot. Hotter than you.

A Dream Come True

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 16
Date: February 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

A Dream Come True.

This game is, to me, one of the single best games I have ever experienced. It is without a doubt a masterpiece, and I would like to meet each and every one of the game designers and thank them from the bottom of my heart. What a beauty. What a concept. What an experience.

First and foremost I guess you could say that the game is very relaxing and calming. It's not like most of the other games out there these days that can only be handled in small doses at a time simply because of their graphical overload to the senses. With Halo for example ( a great game by all means ), the game gets so intense that your eyes sometimes get dry and irritated from not blinking! Morrowind GOTY Edition is not this type of game. Instead, Morrowind encourages you to pull up a chair, turn the lights down, crank the volume up and get ready to lose yourself in a completely immersive world.

For me, after a hard day at work, there's nothing like crashing on my couch, gathering some pillows together and securing some refreshments to get ready for a solid couple hours of great, relaxing gameplay. If I can only get the TV for an hour or so, because my girlfriend wants to watch TV or something, for example, then I won't play Morrowind because it's simply not worth it to tease myself for such a small period of time. I'd suggest at least 2-3 hours of playing at a time, and you will be completely blown away. This may be a negative to some people, but it is one of those games that is totally time consuming.

The reason that this game is so consuming is because it is very rewarding to the player. For example: I know that some gamers have written about the frame-rate problem in the game, and I must say that at the beginning, I thought the game was a little slow. But these people must not have played it for very long because as soon as you build up your speed levels, the game is almost as fast as you can react to. By this I mean that you can only react and turn a corner in a house so fast. Any faster and you'd run into the wall in front of you before you could react to the turn. Sure, when you're out in the wilderness, walking around the vast landscapes in Morrowind (which of course is completely optional), I can see how some people would call this area of the game slow. But you're out in the wilderness, and there should be a lot of walking and roaming. You DO have the option of taking a faster method of travel. This game is very realistic in so many ways, it's hard to describe.

It's also very rewarding because as you level up, learn new skills, earn money and spend your money, you can achieve some really great gameplay elements that you couldn't do when you were a little `wetter behind the earsE Your character does become very strong and it does take some work to get that awesome blade and armor. But that's the point of the whole thing, the game is so huge, that you have to put in the time to get better. But that time, as I've said, is very relaxing and a helluva lot of fun.

Two more things I really like about this game is one, there's only one character: you. You can really customize this character, but as opposed to many of the other RPG games out there, there's no `teamEto control and deal with. This is something that I have missed since the days of Dragon Warrior for the NES. No more having to deal with his or her weapons and etc., only my own. I go out in the world of Morrowind and spend 5 hours (of real time) to get MY character some good stuff, not some other schmuck. Now some people in the `Square Enix can do no wrongEhouse of thinking will argue that more characters make an epic RPG, but let me just say that this game is as big of an epic as you'll want to get. Nothing compares to it.

Secondly, I really enjoy the fact that you can do anything and go anywhere you want at any time during the game. This game offers the gamer total freedom over what to do in the game and how to play it. Been a bit long winded here, gotta go. Oh yes, the weather effects in the game are also very effective. What a wonder.

Basically, this game is the quintessential RPG of this console generation, in my opinion. Get the Game of the Year Edition, it is much better than the original, I've heard (never played the original). And what is with Gamespot.com giving the original game an 8.5 and then giving the newer version a lower score? Does this mean that I should go out and buy the first one? Ridiculousness. Also, what is up with the Gamespot people criticizing Star Wars games for their `same `olEmusic style? Star Wars games get bad reviews because of having Star Wars music? We're not all in the reviewing industry here people and someone who's playing a Star Wars game for the first time would probably love the music. Start thinking like the players guys, not video game gods! Something to think about anyway.

But yeah, as for Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, it is a complete RPGer's dream come true Ein every way. Don't pass this up. Josh aka Squish.

greatest rpg of all time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: August 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Every once in a while I think about this game and I feel look an absolute loser playing a game with dark elves, wood elves, argonians (giant lizards), and other such folk. But then I put the game in and all my doubts are erased. Simply put this is the greatest rpg of all time and one of my favorite games ever. I am more of a fan of the old school rpg's like final fantasy but this game blew me away.

You ask why this is such a great game? It's the FREEDOM you have throughout the game. You can do absolutely anything you want. ANYTHING... you can be told to go kill some rats for a poor village girl, and you can walk to her house and kill all her rats then kill her if you want to. You can enchant rings to make yourself constantly invisible, you can wipe out every single orc in the game. And you can do all of this outside of the main storyline. I have even played through the entire main storyline and I've logged in well over 200 hours on this game only counting the main island. In this new version with 2 new expansions the possibilities have become endless.

The game itself is easy to get used to and the graphics of the enviroment are unbelievable. The graphics of the people in the game are a little rough and stiff but you will soon forget about that. I dont think I have even scratched the surface of this game and that is saying alot considering I have maxed out my level and have over 1 million gold pieces not to mention my numerous possessions.

Another thing is the leveling up in this game. It is not a traditional rpg experience points system. How you level up and grow your character is totally up to you, not just when you level up, but everything you do contributes to how you level up. You have 5 major and 5 minor abilities ranging from marksman and athletics to destruction magic and alchemy. If you run around and jump everywhere you go you will slowly gain points for your acrobatics skill. Once any combination of major or minor skills has been raised a total of 10 times then you can fall asleep and level up. Once you level up you can choose which stats (endurance, strength, intelligence, etc.) to raise. You can raise a total of 3 stats and you can raise some stats more than others depending on which skills you raised while in between 'level ups'. (i.e. you raise your heavy armor skill up 10 times then you can raise your endurance stat by 5 instead of 1 since heavy armor governs endurance).

I've told you all I can about this game, now all you can do is go out and play it for yourself because you won't truly appreciate the greatness of this game until you experience it for yourself. Do yourself a favor and go out and buy this game immediately.

So much to do, so many choices. An explorer's dream.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 25 / 26
Date: March 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a long game, and therefore a long review. I glow about it and all its possibilities for a while, but skip a few paragraphs if you just want the straight pros and cons.

I'll get right to the point of how massive this game is by giving you a brief hypothetical scenario. First, you choose your character and decide on his or her face and hairstyle. Then let's say you begin the game by robbing everything from the first house that you begin the game in. But the guards spot you, so you run. Once outside, another guard gets in your way so you take a swing at him, accidentally knocking out an innocent townsperson in the process. You rush into the local pawnbroker to buy a weapon, but your criminal activity makes the owner hostile towards you. So instead you just grab the spear sitting against the wall and kill him with it, looting his body of all its goods and throwing on some armor along the way. You then jump back outside and stab the guard a few times, but he has friends so you need to run. You make it to the local silt strider transportation, and catch a ride to the next town over where you join the thieves' guild and pay the cost of clearing your name under the table. Interested in what they tell you, you decide to stay with them for awhile and hlep out their organization until the day comes when you kill them all and join the fighter's guild instead.

That's all possible, right from the start of the game. Morrowind is incredible. Without exaggeration, you can go anywhere, anytime, with the only limitation being your yet-undeveloped physical skills. See that mountain in the distance? Sooner or later, depending on your strength, you can climb it. Notice that underwater cave? Once you have the right spells you can breathe underwater and check it out. Wander day and night, walking where you want to with no pressure to do anything other than play the game in the order you want and at your own pace.

Oh, and you can do what you want too. Don't like the way that shopkeeper talked to you? Kill him. Oh, and he'll stay dead, so you might as well use his shop as your new home where you can drop off all your stuff. What stuff? Well anything you want to pick up. Barring furniture, you can pick up almost anything and use it or drop it where it will always continue to sit. Like those spoons on the dinner table? Take them. Think you can get away with stealing that helmet from the guard? Try it. There are definitely repercussions, such as being attacked or thrown in jail, but this game does not discourage you from doing things your way.

If the honest path is more your thing, then play the game straight or go and join one of the factions that share your interests. There are 3 great clan houses you can join, as well as gangs of fighters, thieves, magicians, assassins, soldier forts, and religious organizations. Spend your time making pilgrimages to various locations around the world, or try to get to the top of your magician's order. Or if you want just skip all this stuff and do the main quest, or skip that and do everything else. It's really your own choice.

And what a world Morrowind is. Composed of fields, mountains, volcanic barrens, islands, grottos, and hundreds of caves and tombs and ruins, it will literally take weeks and even months to cover everything and go everywhere. Just walking from one corner of the map to its opposite would take at least an hour or two of your life, and that's just a straight line without doing anything interesting. There is a lot, I mean, A LOT to do. There's so much variation though, it takes a lot to get sick of what you're doing. Don't worry about getting around though, there are boats, wizard teleporters, spells, and more to get around. Oh and you can walk on water and levitate once you get the right spells, too.

Okay, now for my more objective review. Morrowind, being the third game in the series (you don't have to know the first two at all), is all about open-endedness and exploration. Clearly there are hundreds of choices and dozens of ways to play the game, all presented to you in a first or third person perspective (your choice). You can play as a male or female of 8 different and very unique races who all have their own skills. And this game has dozens of skills to hone: Keep hitting living things with your sword to develop your long blade skill, or do lots of jumping to improve your acrobatics. The point is that your character develops how you want him to, with lots of customization and honing to do as you go up in levels.

The meat of the game is the exploring and questing. And there are hundreds. Any faction, such as clan house or guild, each has its own dozen or so missions, and there are about a dozen of these such factions to join. Each faction has its own specific mission style, too. Join the religious cult, and you'll run around asking for donations. Join the mage's guild and you'll be looking for plants and ingredients to make spells out of. In addition to this, there are also a hundred or so miscellaneous quests to undertake at your discretion, requiring you to just stumble on them. A man in the wilderness may ask you to help him find the thieves who stole his goods, and you can do it or not, and then even decide how you do it (such as getting the goods but then keeping them for yourself). The main quest alone is a good thirty or so missions long, and comprises an interesting tale of legend and deceit. It's all fun stuff.

There are a few gripes about the game. There are lots of things to kill, so one would expect combat to be better. It's very, very basic, with each weapon having three ways to swing and battle being nothing more than repeatedly tapping the attack button. Kind if cheesy and disappointing, but nothing that makes the game terrible. The other gripe I heard was that all the characters say the same basic roster of dialog, which to an extent is true. Conversation is initiated through dialogue windows, and you choose the topics from a list of relevant things. There are a lot of unique and specific dialogue options depending on who you talk to during your quests, but it's true that everyone will say the same thing when you ask about "fines and compensation" for example. It's somewhat boring and disappointing, but you get used to it, and it seems that this gameplay shortcut allowed the rest of the programming to go towards the exploring and questing which is fine with me. You won't feel like the only real person in the game by any means, since there are hundreds of characters in a couple dozen towns and they do all say a lot of different things, it's just that too many of them share a lot of the same topics.

The graphics are good, with beautiful skies and shimmering water but with some clunkiness such as a generic shadow and somewhat stiff character animation. But the entire game is fully 3d and gives you complete range of vision, which is quite impressive. The music is ambient and quiet, yet more dramatic and tense when the situation calls for it. It doesn't seem to get repetitive even after hours and hours of play because it's not very intrusive.

Basically, though the game has a couple flaws, there's still a genuinely startling amount of things to do, places to go, items to collect, and new things to try. I've had the game for a year and a half now, and there are still caves I haven't visited and items I've never used. There are still quests I haven't undertaken as well, and I've played this game for literally about four or five hundred hours (It can honestly be that involving). I only recently found out that I can kill the owner of a large house and then command people from all over the world to follow me and permanently reside there with me. That alone has been a fun task that's given me another dozen hours of gameplay, and that's just a silly task that I undertook to make my home seem more one of a kind. But that's the whole point of this game- you can do so much, with so few limitations, that this IS literally the first role playing game I've ever played that lets me overtake the home of my choice and force my favorite characters to come live in it with me (then decorate it with red candles and so on). More than anything, this game is meant for some good old fashioned exploring and discovering, with loads of mission variety and your own pace to set. Rent it if you want to just check and see how deep it goes, but I guarantee that if you like what you see, you will have multitudes of free-roaming action at your fingertips. All that's left for you to decide is how deep you want to go.

IMPORTANT: Last thing- you may hear about this game being glitchy. Some people aren't aware that SOME older Xboxes have trouble with this game, as mine did, so don't just assume it's faulty. Once I upgraded my old "Thomson" Xbox drive, It's been smooth sailing.

Game kept crashing, but the problem was xbox, not game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: December 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I wrote a review giving this game two stars a while back since the game kept crashing on me and loaded very slowly. Otherwise I think this game would have won the prize for best RPG or one ot the best games period ever produced. Obviously I was upset. I had similar problems, but with only certain games, like ghost recon (bummer).

Someone recommended getting an xbox with a different kind of DVD drive (not a Thompson). The problem was solved. I have played all my games through from start to end without any problems. (Now I am a happy gamer).

Back to this game:

Pros: 1.If you like Marrowind, and it is hard not to, you will like this game more. A self contained game (you don't need the original Marrowind to play this game) where they take the game Marrowind and throw in two more great inter-related games (Bloodmoon and Tribunal), which basically makes your old Marrowind game that you may have come to love 3 times longer and much better.
2. Better sound effects: especially with the Hungers (they really growl now and add more special effects)
3. Whenever you want, you can switch between games, making the 3 games one great big game. Better to wait, starting with the original Marrowind game until you have a strong player with high stats and weapons.
4. You can keep your old Marrowind character saved on xbox and use it in the "game of the year edition". I really think though it is cleaner to start a new character using the new game.
5.For the price, this is the best new game, in my opinion, on the market today- period.

Cons:

1. No major cons, but it cracks me up when the writing of what people say is completely different from what is actually spoken. For example, you just saved the world, and someone's life, and the writing says something like, "Thanks for being a great hero and for everything we all owe you our lives...", but the voice says, "Annoying Outlander".

2. No other cons

Great game that needs a good xbox console to be appreciated.

A MUST-HAVE!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: May 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It is the best game I have played in my life! It's an incredible RPG in so many ways! It may not have the good physics of the KOTOR games, you know with the swinging of the lightsabers and everything. But it's so cool and has so much packed into it! For only $20!!! And trust me, it's not one of those games that are cheap for a reason, because this game is definitely worth $60!
OK, I'm writing a review for the Game of the Year Edition of Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (they didn't put the III), which is the original version. The GOTY (which, commonly, on the web means Game of the Year Edition, remember that) has two expansions from the original version. I recommend you get that. I have had this game for a couple months now, and it's still not old. It's a kind of game that doesn't end after you finish missions or some quests. There are hundreds of quests, hundreds of armors, weapons, and items, and hundreds of hours of play time. It's also not one of those types of games with nearby boundaries, no, it's a whole world where you can levitate up till you can't see the highest mountains or buildings. You can swim, levitate (like I said), walk, run, faint, go to jail, jump, punch, swing, cast offensive spells, cast spells that can increase stats or change the way you do 8 of the things mentioned before this, and you can do all this (and way more) for as long as you want. Oh, gosh! I just can't write everything about it because that would take hours. Trust me, though, this game is very, very good, OK. YOU MUST GET IT!!!!!

Fifteen months of gameplay

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: December 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing this game for over a year and I don't even like RPGs. I specialize in gory frag-fests like Marathon, Doom, Unreal, and of course, Halo. But there's something about Morrowind I keep going back to.

The graphics are like paintings and the equipment, stories, and characters are so imaginative, unique, and fun that I may rank this as the best game I've ever played. (I'll date myself: I've been playing video games since the original Space Invaders in 1978. I even wrote a couple of my own games in BASIC.) The range of characters is great fun, and the different possibilities for attributes has made this game easily my most replayable. I've completed the game a dozen times, each time a different way and with a different character.

It could be a good choice for non-gamer type people because you don't need super-fast reflexes, there's really no gore, and it's really interesting. It seems like a game English majors and artists would love.

Plug for my Morrowind Tips and Hints Website, plus a review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: May 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Morrowind is an amazing game for any rpg-er, better than any ff,
Arc the Lad, D&D or Zelda out there. Now before you stop reading because "you just dissed my favorite game", hear me out.
Morrowind is more than an RPG, Adventure, or pretty much any game you've ever played. It's an experience.

A word of warning: If you have a life, it will be very difficult to play his game all the way through and really be able to enjoy it.

You have an amazing range of character parameters, customizable classes, the ability to change the look and gender of each race, the list goes on.
The weapons are awesome, and if you don't like the enchantment on a particular weapon, all you have to do is sell the weapon, buy a new one, and you can enchant it any way you please.
The same is true for armor. Armor in this game is unlike any other; you can mix & match, switch enchantments, steal or buy armor that will blow your mind, and there is even a very rare, very cool daedric armor that only high-level characters can wear because of the immense wieght of it. There are also summoned armor types called bound armor, and they are basically the daedric armor, but they can be worn by beginner characters because they are so light.

As to the graphics of the game: Wow. You can see for miles, and the buildings and general landscape are so clear that at times you think you're really standing there, right inside the game.

There are weather patterns, it rains and gets foggy, the sun rises and sets, at night there is even a realistic skyscape.

The AI in the game is spectacular, NPC's act and react to you according to the life you've lived in the game. If you were a perfect savior, they seem to all bow and wroship, groveling before you. If you were a murderer and a theif, they all shun you, some will deny you their services, guards will chase you down and try to kill you. If there's a bounty on your head, EVERYBODY knows about it. They make verbal comments like: "I've heard of your crimes. You should watch your step."

On the negative side, while quests are an excellent way to gain loot and experience and learn your way around, quests are fairly often tedious and patience-testing, but are usually, upon completion, very rewarding. Usually either money or enchanted artifacts are awarded for a job well done.

If you can't travel to a place by either Mage Guild Teleporter, Silt Srider, or boat, and you have to walk or swim, why not buy the Levitate spell and fly there? You can also simply increase your speed or cast a Water Breathing spell(Which you can find out how to cast permanently on my website), and still be there in no time.

Thee simply is no end to the scope of this game. There are all kinds of hidden passageways, dungeons and monsters to see and explore.

I give this game a 10/10 rating for simple perfection.

(Tip: If you get lost, there is a map included in the game package that you can use to reference with the in-game map to find your current location.)

E-mail me for my website address please, as I cannot post it here.

Thanks!

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