Madshrimps Forum Madness - review : Morrowind (eng.)

Morrowind: The Elder Scrolls III

Charmed:

From the moment I had the game, I was enchanted. The first time I started the game, I was impressed by the very nice soundtrack, witch you can hear when you’re configuring your game. Because the lay-out is really nice, it’s easy to do this. The menu, the lay-out, the music, the intros, everything supports the magic of the game.

The magic begins:

When everything is configured, you can press the ‘new game’ button to start your adventures in Morrowind. This is the name of the island where you’ll live for the long time. The game starts when you set foot on Morrowind.

Here you got to choose what character you want to be during the game. This isn’t a hard choice but you got to use your head because it’s quite important.

When you have made your choice you'll be released in a wonderfull world. As far as the eye can see I saw lovely houses and freaky and funny humans and creatures. They might look friendly but they aren’t very happy when you, an outlander, start a conversation with them. They also will attack you/ignore you when they really hate you.

From the first second you have to do a quest for your ‘master’. But, if you don’t want to do this quest, just don’t do it. That’s a great thing about Morrowind, you can do whatever you want to do. When you want to do it. That’s one of the many reasons why I was so addicted to this game. It’s never boring.
If you want too, you can go freelance the whole game. But you’re going to need lots of money to buy clothes, spells and weapons. That’s why you better join a guild. You can chose from the Fighters guild, The Mage guild, The Thieves or The Blades. You can join some other clans to, but these are the most important. When you finally have chosen a guild, you’ll got to do some quest to earn your money. With the gould you have earned you can go to the weapon store, book store, tailor, smith and many more. You choose something, pay for it and leave. Or you can kill the store owner and rob the place.

During the game, your character will evolve into a lean, mean fightin’ machine. The skills you train the most will raise and you’ll become better in this skill. When you’re done training it, you can choose another one.

Some extra information:
Offical website of the game : www.morrowind.com
Website of the developers : http://www.bethsoft.com

System requirements:

* Windows ME/98 128 MB RAM
* Windows XP/2000 256 MB RAM
* 500 MHz Intel Pentium III, Celeron, or AMD Athlon processor
* 8x CD/DVD-ROM Drive
* 1 GB free hard disk space
* Windows swapfile
* DirectX 8.1 (included)
* 32MB Direct3D compatible video card with 32-bit color support and
* DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
* Keyboard, Mouse

Conclusion:

Morrowind: The Elder Scrolls III is a beautiful game. This was the first RPG that I’ve played and I loved it! The developers of Morrowind really did a great job.

Pro’s :

- beautiful graphs
- good sound and lovely soundtrack
- [Bravehartstyle] FREEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! [/Bravehartstyle]
- its an addicting game

Con’s :

- When you replay the game, every important item is still on the same place. (thnx to RB ;) )

Graphs: 23/25
Game play: 22/25
Sound: 19/25
Fun Factor: 23/25

Total of: 87/100

Go and buy this game!

B|oweFish

Thnx to Roswell for correcting my suckie englisch in the original review :super: