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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Game of the Year Edition 01-11-19 11:50 PM
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The Best Elder Scrolls Game?
Everybody has heard of The Elder Scrolls as a series at this point. With the success of Skyrim in 2011 onward, in impossible to not have heard it at least once. However, Skyrim isn't the game we're going to be talking about today. In 2002, Bethesda made an amazing game. The next installment in the Elder Scrolls franchise: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
Morrowind, graphically, has not aged well. The graphics would be considered abysmal to some now a days. However, keep in mind this game was the first Elder Scrolls game to include 3D models and environments, it was mind blowing for Elder Scrolls fans at release. They had never seen the world in such a state. You have the art-style direction of the Dunmer in the Third Era. The stylized graphic choice of showing how the people in Morrowind lived makes you feel like you're actually there. They have houses made from mud, you have light houses lit with fire, sprawling oceans filled with slaughterfish, giant flea-like creatures called Silt Striders used as transportation, amazing orange hues to compliment Morrowind's plant life of tree sized mushrooms and poison purple flowers. This game does an amazing job at making you connect with the people living in it. It's full of life and you can still feel that all these years later despite the graphics being dated. Being compared to the games that came out on the PC around the same time (Age of Mythology, Dungeon Siege, Neverwinter Nights) Morrowind was about on par with those. If not maybe a little behind,
It gets a 7. The art direction gives it a boost from a 6 as it provides the feel and aesthetic needed for the world its presenting.
When talking about Morrowind the first thing that everyone will always bring up, the music. Jeremy Soule, the man behind great works of music for many of the games we know, provided that soundtrack for this game. You cannot deny that the music in Morrowind is probably some of if not objectively the best music i... Read the rest of this Review
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