Every summer, an influx of new video games are released in order to pique the interest of the numerous gamers in the Westlake area. However, this summer, it seems that older games are releasing new content in order to shy gamers away from investing in the newest products with an effort to force gamers to renew their interest in their original games.
One example of this phenomenon would be Bethesda releasing downloadable content for their award-winning game, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. On June 26th, 2012, Skyrim’s first downloadable content named: Dawnguard will be released for the Xbox 360 for approximately 20 dollars (Playstation 3 and PC versions are coming at a later time in July). Dawnguard pits the player against a group of vampires who desire to “blacken the sun” in order to spread their power throughout the region of Tamriel, but the dawnguard has been specifically created to combat and thwart the vampire’s plans. The player is able to choose between the two factions, with each faction having several distinct differences in the style of play. For example, the player choosing the vampire faction gain the ability to became a “Vampire Lord”, which gives the player several abilities similar to that of the vampire in Bethesda’s previous game, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, but at this time, details of major differences have not been revealed. The Dawnguard faction gives the player a greater variety of man-made weaponry such as: crossbows and dragon bone weaponry, but also at this time, details are scarce on major additions. All of this, coupled with Bethesda’s stellar track record for releasing compelling content makes Dawnguard the first blockbuster downloadable content of the summer. Just released on Tuesday, June 26th, Dawnguard promises not to disappoint.
