The Elder Scrolls Travels

The Elder Scrolls Travels is a series of portable role-playing video games in the Elder Scrolls series, primarily developed and published by Vir2L Studios. The series consists of Stormhold (2003), Dawnstar (2004) and Shadowkey (2004).

Stormhold

The Elder Scrolls Travels: Stormhold is a role-playing video game developed exclusively for J2ME and BREW devices, in the style of the games from the main The Elder Scrolls series. Like the other two titles in the Elder Scrolls Travels series, it was developed and published by Vir2L Studios. The game was released on August 1, 2003.

Dawnstar

The Elder Scrolls Travels: Dawnstar is a role-playing video game developed exclusively for J2ME and BREW devices, in the style of the games from the main The Elder Scrolls series. Like the other two titles in The Elder Scrolls Travels series, it was developed and published by Vir2L Studios. The game was released on August 26, 2004.

Shadowkey

The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey is a role-playing video game developed exclusively for N-Gage devices, in the style of the games from the main The Elder Scrolls series. Like the other two titles in The Elder Scrolls Travels series, it was developed and published by Vir2L Studios, this time with additional work by TKO Software on the game's mutiplayer features and additional publishing by Nokia. The game was released on November 11, 2004.

Gameplay

Gameplay is handled with the numeric touchpad on the right side of the N-Gage as well as the normal game action keys. Additionally, this game allowed (via Bluetooth) 1-4 player co-operative gameplay. The player or players could create or use characters from the Argonian, Breton, Dark Elf, High Elf, Khajiit, Imperial, Nord, Redguard, and Wood Elf races in game (These are the names used in the game manual itself). The classes available are Assassin, Barbarian, Battlemage, Knight, Nightblade, Rogue, Spellsword, Sorcerer, and Thief.

Reception

The reviews it received were mostly mediocre. Notable concerns from reviewers included a weak draw distance, constant pop up due to the draw distance, overall graphical quality, and clumsy combat. Still, reviewers generally praised the game for its large world, great sound and the large amount of content.

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