The Elder Scrolls: Arena is Freeware

[Jorpho]

I never played this game myself, but it was pretty big smoke when it was first released, as I recall. And now it has been made freely available to celebrate its tenth anniversary, it seems.

http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/downloads_games.htm

[calthaer]

I loaded up Morrowind, and it's OK. It's a static adventure, though...not a whole lot changes unless you make it happen. JEFFK's interview with the Morrowind guys was pretty hilarious, though.

[mezrabad]

DAMMIT, HOW COM I CANT PLAY A CYCLOPS IN ARENA?

JEFFK RULZE!!!!

Wow, talk about making a wish and it coming true. I couldn't find my Arena disks like, two days ago and was trying to find a place to download it. And here it is!

[YoshiM]

For those of you who never played this game and like Morrowind, definitely get this. Personally I like the combat controls of Arena and Daggerfall a lot better (you hold the mouse button down and move the mouse left and right for a slash, forward for a stab and back for a vertical slice) as opposed to the Morrowind model. The leveling is old school style rather than the "use a skill often enough it increases" model of Daggerfall and Morrowind.

Originally I bought this game at a Softeach program in Illinois about 8 years ago for $5 on a bargain table. If I waited until the end of the show, I would have gotten it for free. Still, well worth the price of admission.

One really odd thing in Arena if you decided to be a thief and broke into homes: many times MONSTERS would enter the home you broke into and would ATTACK you! Either I would encounter them inside the house already (how they got there I don't know) or I would use the house to rest and then I'd get interrupted.