With years of development behind the laborious project, Bethesda Softworks released their premier title for distinct MMORPG audiences with The Elder Scrolls Online as it debuted across multiple consoles earlier this morning. Those of us that did not receive early access via pre-order, or weren’t particularly available for in-game Beta phase of the game will be able to enter Tamriel and commence exploration. However, the long-awaited addition of the Elder Scrolls franchise wouldn’t be complete without a proper introduction from the collaborators at Zenimax Online Studios and Bethesda. As players prepared themselves for the “big day” in April; both studios were hard at work preparing the first impression that the gaming community would receive for The Elder Scrolls Online.
Seen below is “The Siege” cinematic trailer that was posted on Game Informer’s official channel about three hours ago.
“The Siege” went live in order to further promote the newest addition to the Elder Scrolls series, but that didn’t necessarily undermine the content nor the atmospheric ambiance that encompassed the entire five minute reel of footage. Meant to depict the ominous situation beginning to accumulate across the continent of Tamriel, the trailer itself seems to indulge the player with an arrangement of NPC characters that’ll be likely to reoccur during the actual gameplay of The Elder Scrolls Online. Or at least maintain a continuous appearance in future installments of the games development (as well as in-game lore) since “The Siege” is more-or-less a continuation of “The Arrival” which was accessible on Bethesda’s channel almost three months prior.
Encountering surreal forces at the beginning of the game tends to be reoccurring theme within the Elder Scrolls franchise; and the confrontation that the cinematic establishes is given relatively minor explanation. In retrospect, the scene of itself seems far more reminiscent of something you’d be expecting from the Shadows of Mordor trailer then an MMORPG introduction. It doesn’t show us how the game actually plays out, or what influence a customized character will have amongst the throes of Tamriel’s colorful citizenry– but it does give us something rather interesting to talk about in the meantime. Perhaps the former is an idea that the player must acquire for themselves.
The Elder Scrolls Online is currently available for purchase on PC and Mac OS X, as well as Xbox One and PlayStation 4.