The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Xbox
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Image
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87 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 34 Critics What's this?

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9.0 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 79 Ratings

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  • Summary: The third chapter of the Elder Scrolls series lets you 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'll 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.… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 34
  3. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. Armchair Empire
    100
    After "finishing" Morrowind, I'm left wordless to describe the experience...This game is about as linear as a bowl of spaghetti.
  2. GamePro
    100
    An ungodly huge, ambitious, daunting, free time–consuming vortex of RPG goodness.
  3. RPG Fan
    86
    There were moments where I was swept up in its brilliance and the open-ended design. Then there were moments where I was so sick of doing yet another variation of one of the game's three standard fetch quests that I wanted to cry. In the end, the positives outweighed the negatives.
  4. Gamestyle
    70
    The soundtrack and the effects (towns are deadly quiet) are a missed opportunity, with the occasional repetitive dialogue heightening the failure to grasp what could have been achieved.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 40 out of 44
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 44
  3. Negative: 3 out of 44
  1. JMAN51
    9
    Myst with gameplay? This game is NOTHING like Myst. Myst: Linear Puzzle solving game without characters. Morrowind: Massive open ended RPG with thousands of characters, quests to complete, tombs to raid, and muc much more. Gabor you obviously gave this game no time. things wrong with Morrowind are an iffy framerate, jaggy character models (KOTOR did as well although not AS bad), and a combat system that could use some tweaking. Definitely a must have if you have enough patients and give the game enough time to pull you in.… Expand
  2. JayF.
    8
    This game is so frustratingly awesome. Embarking on one quest to find treasure or to solve a murder is quite interesting. The graphics lack inspiration because of the PC users slow graphics. The game plays like a novel only you choose the path to take.… Expand
  3. [j]The
    7
    Good fun. takes a while to cover large distances within the map but has enough variation to keep playing.
  4. JimH
    3
    I really didn

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