

Why not pop down to the Eurogamer Expo next month and check it out? The rabidly-anticipated The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is due out this November on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Rumors circulated last year that it does indeed have an Elder Scrolls MMO in the works. While Howard himself seems uninterested in the MMO format, publisher Bethesda might not be quite so circumspect. So there was no pressure from anybody above me to say 'Hey, you need to change this.'" We can just do our thing, and it's kind of grown with each game. "The audience we have for our kind of thing is big enough that we don't have to tone it down. A community aspect to it, I recognise a lot of people would want that in a game like this, but it changes the flavor for me. It feels more real to me when I'm the hero and it's crafted for that.

I respect them, I look at them, but I don't play them. "You know, it's what most of us are into. "I like this kind of game better," he admitted. When questioned by Joystiq as to why, director Todd Howard explained that he thinks the action RPG experience works better when its tailored around a single central protagonist. While The Elder Scrolls' enormous universe might seem a perfect fit for an MMO, its developers have so far resisted the urge to take the RPG behemoth online. See his Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online review for more. Expect that some time in the next few months.Ĭapcom's tweaked 1999 arcade classic launched on PSN and Xbox Live Arcade last week, picking up a 9/10 from Eurogamer's Simon Parkin. Expect over an hour of content in each, including commentary from Street Fighter veteran James Chen.įinally, a set of Music Packs will include classic character themes from Street Fighter III: New Generation and Street Fighter III: Second Impact. One pack focuses on the tournament top eight, while the other is a "best bouts" compilation. Slightly more appealing are two Match Packs planned for later this year, featuring footage from the recent "Fight for the Future" tournament which saw 16 high level SF3 players from around the world converge on Capcom HQ to duke it out.
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