The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard

The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard

Developer(s) Bethesda Softworks
Publisher(s) Bethesda Softworks
Series The Elder Scrolls
Engine XnGine
Platform(s) MS-DOS
Release date(s)
  • NA October 31, 1998
Genre(s) Action-adventure
Mode(s) Single player
Rating(s) ESRB: Teen (T)
Media/distribution CD-ROM (2)
System requirements

PC

  • An Intel Pentium 166 MHz, 32 MB of RAM, 350 MB of free hard drive space, Windows 95/98, 16-bit sound card, A 3Dfx video card is supported by a separate 3Dfx version, but the game also supports software rendering

The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard is an action-adventure game developed and published by Bethesda Softworks with a third person style, set in the world of The Elder Scrolls. The game takes place in Tamriel in the year 864 of the Second Era, some 400 years prior to the events of Arena and the rest of the series. The story is about Cyrus, a young Redguard, who arrives on the island of Stros M'kai in order to find his missing sister, Iszara, and subsequently finds himself in the middle of political intrigue.

Redguard runs on MS-DOS through the XnGine engine, however the CD-ROM shipped with the Windows-only InstallShield installation program,[1] and features a software renderer as well as a hardware accelerated Glide renderer. The game's manual also included a section called the Pocket Guide to the Empire (often abbreviated as PGE, or PGttE), in which details were given on all the provinces of the Empire during that Era. This guide is written from the point of view of an Imperial, and has several handwritten notices in it written by an anti-imperial. Lastly, in some distributions of the game, the map that was provided in the box was partially burnt to provide an additional level of verisimilitude.[2]

Bethesda Softworks has never released a patch for this game.[3]

Early copies of Redguard also shipped with a comic book depicting the events that led up to Cyrus' adventure on Stros M'kai. This Comic is now available for free download, via the Official website, see link below. The main character Cyrus is referenced in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: in a song sung by the first mate of the ship, the Marie Elena.[4]

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