THE GOOD: Adding loads of new quests, creatures, items and locations, Tribunal does nothing but enhance the already superb Morrowind experience. Its a patch on the original, literally.THE BAD: It really won't help convert you if you didn't enjoy the game in the first place - its essentially more of the same. Not reccomended with those that have low level characters (under level 10). SUMMARY: Morrowind broke new ground in a massive way on its release - it proved to be the ultimate single-player experience - and letting the user live a second life on the island of Morrowind, doing whatever he or she wanted.
Due to this, it was an instant hit, and it soon became clear that a sequal was needed to make the experience an even greater one, and so it was done - Tribunal was no cash-in - it offered barely anything new, but just gave so much more of what we loved about Morrowind, to a consistantly high quality.
It provides you with two massive new locations - Mournhold, the capital city of Morrowind, and a clockwork city, which is an amusing place to be in at all times.
It has an all-new storyline - concerning tyrannic Kings and crazed Gods, but I won't go into it - not only do you want to find out for yourself, but the main quest generally isn't a concern for the Morrowind player.
As before, and perhpas even more so, the expansion is filled with quests, ranging from plunging into the unknown and battling a hoard of undead legions, or just organising a date for two lonely people. You can even act in a play (remember your lines or you're in trouble).
It adresses many problems that the original held - you can now see how much damage an enemy has sustained, and the previously diabolic layout of the journal has been organised, although still not up to the genius of the one in 'Baldurs Gate'.
Sadly, if you never enjoyed the original game, then this won't help in any way, it provides more of the same, and for those who hate the game, then that will not suffice. However its a massive advantage for those that enjoyed the original, tacked onto this main quest, it gives a massive improvement to an already tremendous game - the best just got better. |