8 Minute "The Elder Scrolls Online" Trailer Released

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Can The Elder Scrolls Online be as good as this 8 minute CG trailer?

Bethesda has released a lavish new CG trailer, Arrival, for upcoming The Elder Scrolls Online, continuing the industry trend of giving big-budget MMOs incredible trailers.

The 8 minute trailer (honestly, how much must this have cost to make?) continues the story of the game's last CG trailer, with our trio of cover heroes fighting it out until their attention is diverted to a demonic new threat.

As the trailer continues we get to see the action taken closer to Tamriel's capital city, Cyrodiil, which Oblivion players will already be intimately familiar with.

Bethesda also announced the Imperial Edition of The Elder Scrolls Online, which will be sold both physically and digitally. The boxed version will retail for $99.99/€99.99/£89.99/AU$139.95, and the digital version will be sold for $79.99/€79.99/£69.99/AU$119.95.

The physical edition comes with a 30.5cm status of daedric prince Molag Bal, a 224-page illustrated guide to Tamriel, and a 53.3cm x 66cm map of the continent. You'll also get the game in a fancy steelbook.

As for in-game content--which you'll also find in the digital The Elder Scrolls Online Imperial Edition--players will recieve the ability to play as an Imperial, including an exclusive white horse mount, alongside a Mudcrab pet and the Rings of Mara, which gives you an experience bonus when playing alongside a friend.

The Elder Scrolls Online will be released for PC and Mac on April 4. The game comes with a 30-day subscription to the MMO, but players must then spend $14.99 (€12.99/£8.99) a month to continue playing.

Producer Matt Firor said yesterday that the game would not require PlayStation Plus when it reaches PS4 later in the year.

Looks incredible, but like the article states, this must've been incredibly expensive to produce. Granted, the game will more than likely be a smash success but games' marketing campaigns seem to get more and more expensive and this alone sometimes results in a game struggling to make back it's money (I'm looking at you Tomb Raider).

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Yeah the TES trailers have been plain ridiculous lately. If they keep going like this then they pwn WoW. Tempted to say LoL too, but LoL has the DotA format going for it.

Also...dat elf.