Gaming News - January 2007
Rockville, MD (January 18, 2007) - Bethesda Softworks today
announced The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles, an expansion for The Elder
Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Shivering Isles will be released for Xbox 360 and Windows
this Spring.
From Bethesda Softworks:
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.”
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