The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon Goes Gold

 

Hunt Werewolves - or Become One - in Expansion to Award-Winning Morrowind

 

May 23, 2003 (Rockville, MD) - Bethesda Softworks® announced today that The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon(tm) - the expansion pack for its critically acclaimed RPG, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® for PC - has gone to gold master and will ship to stores the first week of June. In Bloodmoon, you'll help build a mining colony and face the threat of werewolves, or decide to become a werewolf and indulge your thirst for the hunt. Either way, Bloodmoon offers a completely different experience from anything you've seen in Morrowind.

 

Bloodmoon takes you to the frozen Island of Solstheim where the Empire is establishing a new mining colony - a venture being threatened by the prophecy of the Bloodmoon and rumors of werewolves. Your journey north from Vvardenfell by ship will bring you to a whole new world, where the ashlands and rainy coasts of Morrowind give way to forests and hills covered with snow and ice. In the huge wilderness of Solstheim you'll experience snow, blizzards, and new creatures, including frost trolls, ice minions, and wolves...just to name a few.

 

You'll have a choice of stories to follow and have the opportunity to defend the colony, take control over how the colony is built up, and eliminate the werewolves. Or, you can decide to join the werewolves and become one of them, opening up a whole new style of gameplay. Bloodmoon can be played by any character at any time, whether you are just starting, in the middle of, or have already finished the main quest of Morrowind and/or the Tribunal(tm) expansion.

 

In addition, all of the content from Bloodmoon will be available in the recently announced Morrowind GotY edition, allowing Morrowind Xbox gamers to experience all of the content of the two PC expansions, Tribunal and Bloodmoon, with their existing save games and characters from Morrowind. For more information on Bloodmoon or the Morrowind GotY edition, visit the official web site at www.elderscrolls.com.

 

About Morrowind®

Winner of more than 60 awards, including Game of the Year, PC RPG-of-the-Year, Xbox RPG-of-the-Year, and Xbox Game of the Year, Morrowind has broken new ground for the role-playing genre. An epic, open-ended single-player RPG, Morrowind allows you to create and play any kind of character imaginable. You can choose to follow the main storyline and find the source of the evil blight that plagues the land, or set off on your own to explore strange locations and develop your character based on their actions throughout the game. Featuring stunning 3D graphics, open-ended gameplay, and an incredible level of detail and interactivity, Morrowind offers a gameplay experience like no other

 

About Bethesda Softworks®

Headquartered in Rockville, MD, Bethesda Softworks (http://www.bethsoft.com) is a developer and publisher of entertainment software. Bethesda is the entertainment software division of ZeniMax Media Inc., and has published numerous award-winning titles, including the Elder Scrolls® series, the Terminator series, and will publish the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean game for Xbox and PC. Bethesda Softworks' full product line spans the sports, racing, RPG, strategy and action genres.