It’s years since I first woke up in the port town of Seyda Neen but I remember it well, the rough shacks, shoddy lighthouse, and rotten planking. Bethesda’s opening for Morrowind sticks in the mind because they were making a different sort of RPG from everyone else at the time.
The latest trailer for Skywind, a remake of Morrowind in the Skyrim engine, shows team of volunteers know their stuff. The locations between Seyda Neen and Balmora, the game’s first quest, are captured perfectly.
If you’ve played Morrowind you’ll no doubt recognise much of the scenery on show in the trailer. It’s been lovingly recreated. It’s a testament to the volunteers’ work that the mod both looks excellent and little like Skyrim. There are few signs that this is a mod in another game’s engine, not a new game in its own right.