Eventually, these side-quests became more important than the tournament aspects, so the tournament part of the game was discarded, and Arena became a "full-blown RPG." The player was to take their team of gladiators, and would travel about a fantasy world fighting other teams in their arenas until the player became "grand champion" in the world's capital.Īlong the way, side-quests and various role-playing aspects were added. In 2004, a downloadable version of the game was made available free of charge as part of the 10th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls series, but newer computers past Windows XP require an emulator, such as DOSBox, to run Arena, as it's an MS-DOS-based program.Īrena takes place on the continent of Tamriel, complete with wilderness, dungeons, cities and villages in a 6 million square mile play-space for the player, simulating the experience of a full continent.Īlthough not as popular as the later games, Arena generated a cult following and was successful enough to spawn a popular sequel, Daggerfall.Īrena was originally supposed to be a game of gladiatorial combat, hence its name. Arena is the first installment The Elder Scrolls action/adventure RPG fantasy video game series, taking place during the ten years of the Imperial Simulacrum of the Third Era.Īrena was one of the largest games created at the time of its release, if not the largest.
The Elder Scrolls: Arena is a single-player role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Softworks in March 25, 1994.
3E 389 – 3E 399 For the continent called Arena, see Tamriel.
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