STACK #164 June 2018

GAMES FEATURE

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Changing the course of history

The Summerset Isles are coming to Elder Scrolls Online !We posed a few questions to Richard Lambert, Creative Director at Zenimax Online Studios, to see what Elder Scrolls fans can expect from the game’s latest drop of content, Summerset . Words Alesha Kolbe E lder Scrolls Online is a massively-multiplayer online role playing not make it out of the prototype stage though, as we were not happy with This is the first time Elder Scrolls fans will be able to visit the Summerset Isles in the series’ history. Eventually, the team hopes to populate the map of ESO with the entire land of Tamriel.

how the story was shaping up and how the visuals of the zone fitted into the world of Tamriel.” The team were also unaware of how they would go about implementing the High Elves’ – or Altmer’s – ‘high magic’ to the world. “We switched gears and focused on something else instead. With this latest chapter, this version of Summerset is dramatically different from that original prototype. We have learned so much over the years in terms of how we tell stories and build worlds. I think the team has really knocked it out of the park with Summerset .”

game (MMORPG) set in the Elder Scrolls universe. First released only on PC four years ago, the game has

“It is a huge world and at launch, we only utilised a portion of it," explains Lambert. "In addition to trying to fill out the map, another thing we try to keep in mind is the stories

come a long way since, with an ever-expanding player base and a host of new locations to explore. According to Richard Lambert, creative director at Zenimax Online Studios, Summerset has been an area the team has wanted to implement as part of the map from the very beginning. “In the early days of ESO, one of the first zones we prototyped was Summerset. It did

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I think the team have knocked it out of the park with Summerset

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