Back ذا إيلدر سكرولز: أرينا Arabic ذا ايلدر سكرولز: ارينا ARZ The Elder Scrolls: Arena Czech The Elder Scrolls: Arena German The Elder Scrolls: Arena Spanish الدر اسکورولز: آرینا Persian The Elder Scrolls: Arena Finnish The Elder Scrolls: Arena French The Elder Scrolls: Arena Croatian The Elder Scrolls: Arena Italian
| The Elder Scrolls: Arena | |
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| Developer(s) | Bethesda Softworks |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Director(s) | Vijay Lakshman |
| Producer(s) | Vijay Lakshman |
| Designer(s) | Vijay Lakshman Ted Peterson |
| Programmer(s) | Julian Lefay Jennifer Pratt Foroozan Soltani |
| Artist(s) | Bryan Bossart Kenneth Lee Mayfield Jeff Perryman |
| Composer(s) | Eric Heberling |
| Series | The Elder Scrolls |
| Platform(s) | MS-DOS |
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| Genre(s) | Action role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
The Elder Scrolls: Arena is an open-world action role-playing video game developed and published by Bethesda Softworks. The first game in the Elder Scrolls series, it was released for MS-DOS on March 25, 1994. The game follows the player trying to uncover a conspiracy against Emperor Uriel Septim VII.
Arena takes place on the entire continent of Tamriel, complete with wilderness, towns and dungeons which are procedurally generated. The game features a day/night cycle and includes a spell creation system that allows players to mix various spell effects. Development for Arena was initially planned to have the player travel in towns across Tamriel, fighting other teams in their arenas until the player became "grand champion".[4] As development on the game progressed, side quests took more importance, and the tournament aspect of the game took a back seat.[5] Role-playing elements were added to the game, and the game expanded to include towns outside the arenas and dungeons beyond the cities.[4]
Arena would spawn later sequels that created a series which has gone on to become one of the biggest western RPGs of all time. The game received praise from critics and would go on to win several awards such as Computer Gaming World's 1994 "Role-Playing Game of the Year". The game set a new standard for this type of CRPG and demonstrated just how much room was left for innovation. Although not as popular as the later games, Arena generated a cult following and sold 120,000 units.[6] The game was followed by Daggerfall in 1996. In 2004, a downloadable version of the game was made available free of charge as part of the tenth anniversary of the series.[7]
- ^ "Celebrate 25 Years Of The Elder scrolls". bethesda.net. March 25, 2019. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
- ^ "20 Years of Elder Scrolls". bethblog.com. March 25, 2014. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
- ^ "Night bird's game". Wales on Sunday. March 27, 1994. p. 36. Archived from the original on March 24, 2024. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
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