The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Image
  • Summary: An epic, open-ended single-player game where you create and play any kind of character you can imagine. Be the noble hero embarking on an epic quest, or an insidious thief rising to leadership of his guild. Be a malevolent sorcerer developing the ultimate spell of destruction, or a reverent healer searching for the cure to a plague. Your actions define your character, and your gameplay changes and evolves in response to your actions. Confront the assassins' guild, and they take out a contract on you. Impress them, and they try to recruit you instead. No two sagas are the same in the world of Morrowind. [Bethesda Softworks] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 30
  2. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. The most engrossing, deepest and open-ended videogame you'll see for a very long time, at times it feels like more then a videogame, something to get completely caught up in and realise that time has no importance when you're playing it.
  2. It is a beautiful, exciting, rich, and well-written game. It is everything that a great CRPG hopes to be.
  3. Subtract the balancing issues and the system requirements and it's not nearly as good as it could be, but I enjoyed my time with it.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 83 out of 92
  2. Negative: 6 out of 92
  1. UlliL.
    10
    In my opinion Morrowind is even better than the better-looking oblivion.
    • 21 of 21 users said yes
  2. RobertB
    6
    The island of Morrowind is a large, well-realized world rich with lore and backstory which ties in well with the lengthy main quest and many optional side quests and guild affiliations. Unfortunately, the actual game-play is boring, one-dimensional, and extremely poorly balanced. Magic is either overpowered, with single spells making entire skills like Acrobatics or Lockpicking trivial, or underpowered. In combat, magic is virtually useless unless you use really cheap tactics. Some things about the game sound good in theory, but in practice just don't work, such as skill advancement through skill use (in order to advance your magic skills to a usable level, you pretty much have to repeatedly cast spells out of combat). Fortunately, the PC version of this game has a host of mods available which patch up a lot of the game's flaws, but some of the underlying problems go unaddressed. The trick to enjoying Morrowind is not to think of it as a fun or exciting game, but more as an interactive storybook. Expand
    • 7 of 20 users said yes
  3. This game has good and bad things about it. Mostly bad. On the large island of Morrowind things are getting interesting. With a large population of bugs and other animals this game is mostly fighting thugs, worms, and other stupid animals. The combat in this game is probably the worst ever. Unless you are a natural at it, prepare to die. A lot. The combat made me so mad, I quit. After about three hours of solid gameplay, I made a good conculsion: This game might have been good in 2002, but now it's a disgrace to Bethesda's name and title. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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