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Bethesda Softworks Announces The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles™ |
January 18 2007 (
Rockville , MD )
— Bethesda Softworks®, a ZeniMax Media company, today confirmed the
upcoming release of The
Elder Scrolls IV®: Shivering Isles™, the official
expansion for the award-winning The Elder Scrolls IV®: Oblivion™. Shivering Isles will
be released for Xbox 360™
video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows
this Spring. Details are presented in the exclusive cover story for Official
Xbox Magazine’s ( US )
February issue, which hits newsstands this week.
Shivering Isles features
more than 30 hours of new gameplay and allows you to explore an entirely new
plane of Oblivion – the realm of Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of
Madness. Shivering Isles
adds to the existing world of Oblivion so you can continue playing with your existing
save game/character, or create an all new character just to explore the new
content.
“We’re thrilled with the response that Oblivion has received
to date and feel that Shivering
Isles will offer a whole new and different experience to anyone
who played and enjoyed Oblivion,”
said Todd Howard , executive producer
for The Elder Scrolls.
Within the Realm of Sheogorath, players can explore the two extreme
sides of the god’s madness – the sublimely creative and the
completely psychotic. Something is happening to the
Shivering Isles and Sheogorath himself looks to you to be his champion and
defend his realm and its inhabitants from destruction. Do you have the strength
to survive his trials, tame a realm fraught with paranoia and despair, and wear
the mantle of a God?
The Shivering
Isles features a bizarre landscape split between the two sides – Mania
and Dementia –filled with vast, twisting dungeons mirroring the roots of
the trees they are buried within. You’ll encounter more than a dozen new
creatures including hideous insects, Flesh Atronachs, skeletal Shambles,
amphibious Grummites. Throughout your adventure, you will discover all new
items, ingredients, spells, and more, and have the talented craftsmen of
Crucible and Bliss forge new armor and weapons just for you.
“The enthusiastic
response we’ve received to our downloadable content has been
overwhelming, and we’re excited to bring Oblivion fans a full expansion,”
said Vlatko Andonov , president of
Bethesda Softworks. “The world we’ve created for Shivering Isles is
unlike anything you’ve seen or played in Oblivion and we can’t wait for
folks to play it.”
Released in March 2006 for Xbox
360™ videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft and
Windows, Oblivion
sold more than three million units in 2006. Among the countless awards and
accolades it has garnered to date are Game of the Year and RPG of the Year
honors from numerous outlets, including Spike TV’s 2006 Video Game
Awards, G4’s G-phoria, the Golden Joystick Awards, GameSpot.com,
ShackNews.com, Voodoo Extreme, FiringSquad.com, and many more. Oblivion received the
#1 ranking on PC Gamer’s ( UK )
list of the top 100 games of all time and is the highest rated Xbox 360 game of
all time according to Gamerankings.com.
The Windows version of Shivering Isles will be available at retail and is
co-published by Bethesda Softworks and 2K Games, while the Xbox 360 version is
currently planned for release through Xbox Live®
online entertainment network by Bethesda Softworks. For more information
on Oblivion,
Shivering Isles,
or The Elder Scrolls, visit the
official web site: www.elderscrolls.com.
About
Bethesda Softworks®
Headquartered in Rockville ,
MD , Bethesda Softworks LLC, a
subsidiary of ZeniMax Media Inc., is a premier developer and publisher of
interactive entertainment software and has produced numerous award-winning
titles, most recently with The Elder
Scrolls® IV: Oblivion™ and the 2002 PC and Xbox®
Game of the Year and RPG of the Year, The
Elder Scrolls III: Morrrowind®. Among
Bethesda ’s more
popular franchises are The Elder
Scrolls® series and Fallout®,
as well as its licensed properties such as Star
Trek®. Its product line spans the sports, racing, RPG, strategy,
and action genres. For more information on Bethesda Softworks’ products,
visit www.bethsoft.com.
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