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SERIES OVERVIEW

See Also: Development history of The Elder Scrolls series


The '' in 1994 for DOS PC systems. The game began a tradition of games based on the principles of " who you want and [doing what you want"1 that have persisted throughout the series' history.

The next ''Elder Scrolls'' series game—''-intensive. In the opinion of one commentator, despite ''Daggerfall'''s commercial success, "the game still bears the mark of bad code".2

Following ''Daggerfall'''s release, Bethesda ceased any development on any numbered series title until in 1999 , did Bethesda return to the fore.

With ''''.

Work began on ''''. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion got a 9.5/10 on average out of many different gaming site's reviews, with or without the expansions.


GAME MECHANICS

See Also: Gameplay of The Elder Scrolls series


The Elder Scrolls games can be safely categorised as role-playing games, although they do include elements taken from action and adventure games. However, in contrast to other games of the genre, The Elder Scrolls maintains a unique, skill-based approach to character advancement. A multitude of skills can be raised through use, and once a character's skills have increased sufficiently, their level increases in reflection of those skills. Because of this, players are allowed immense flexibility and choice in character advancement. This is perceived as both a strength and a weakness in the series by gamers, although the flexibility of the games' engines has facilitated the release of game extensions (or Mods ) through The Elder Scrolls Construction Set that change the skill and level mechanics.

  url http://wwwelderscrollscom/tenth_anniv/tenth_anniv-arenahtm
  title Arena, Behind the Scenes
  work The Elder Scrolls Tenth Anniversary
  publisher Bethesda Softworks


  url http://wwwelderscrollscom/tenth_anniv/tenth_anniv-morrowindhtm
  title Morrowind, Behind the Scenes
  work The Elder Scrolls Tenth Anniversary
  publisher Bethesda Softworks


  url http://tilgamingsourcenet/intros/morrowind_introshtml
  title Into to Morrowind
  work Game Introductions
  publisher Bethesda Softworks The Imperial Library