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This is one of the most beautiful games I have ever seen. Right up until you slice a guard's throat and crush him in a doorway (every low-leveled medium-difficulty-or-above player's dream). Modifications, which add new items, races, etc, are lots of fun and, except for the official ones, can only be downloaded with te PC version. Not only can you download them, however, you can also create them with the Elder Scrolls Contruction Set, a free download that can be found at The Elder Scrolls website. I have this for the 360 as well, and I asked my 7 YEAR OLD SISTER what her favorite Xbox game was and she replied: "I LOVE OBLIVION!" Now, on to the downside. The animation is good, but the ragdoll bodies are not very lifelike, as they tend to fall in akward positions that look like something out of a ballet recital. Another thing is that the voices are very limited. It seemed to me that The Emperor was the only one with a unique voice. It sounded like they had made one voice per race per gender and then, on very certain occasions, swiched them around, like a Nord with an Orc's voice. they could of at least recorded 2-3 voices per race per gender, having one for evil NPC's and one for good NPC's. Or something like that. All in all, Oblivion is well worth the $49.99 the stores are asking for, and VERY, VERY well worth the $20.50 I payed for it. Peace out, y'all.Read full review
Elder scrolls has been and still is the BEST available. Complete freedom to do what you want when you want. So many hours of gameplay(well over 100)that you get your moneys worth and more! It is even my 4 year old daughters favorite game. As for it on PC... You need more than the minimum listed on the box to be able to really appreciate. check to make sure your graphics card is supported. I have a newer system built for gaming and it is not quite as clean as I am used to on xbox. I lowered visuals and it is still has issues.
While there are certian characteristics of MOrrowind that I liked better (mainly creating very potent weapons),Oblivion is a vey good successor to it. The graphics are superb - as long as you have enough machine to run them. That is my primary complaint. Bethesda released Oblivion with nothing but tiny print showing that you needed a high level graphocs car. The addition of horses is a nice twist, but I still like the telporters in Morrowind. The lack of ability to name your saves is a definite minus, as is the inability to mark the maps with your own notes or your own journal responses. It seems that very little would have been needed to address those flaws. Still, all-in-all Oblivion is a fun game with enough quirks to keep you interested. Now if we could just get a cross between Oblivion and Bard's Tale or the like in which your character develops specific personality characteristics based on active choices.Read full review
This is my favorite game. Sometimes I just wander around in the woods of this game. It's that pretty, that entertaining. It's what's known as a "sandbox" game, meaning you are free to do as you wish, go where you wish. Oblivion is also an rpg, set in a distant past of low tech days. Your character is a regular person (m or f) who somehow earns the trust of the soon dead emperor, and is asked to take an amulet to the emperor's remaining son, secretly kept away from harm for just this possibility: you are to find him so he can keep the land of Tamriel from disintegrating into a bloody fiery mass of monsters and mayhem. You start with nothing, find weapons and armor along the way, and from the time you get free of the prison in which you start the game, you are at your own pleasure. If you can see it, you can probably get to it. The land you explore in the game seems as big as texas, as varied in terrain, and dotted with interesting shrines, caves, huts, caverns and yes dungeons (no dragons as yet). You can be good or bad, murderous, even, and so long as you don't get caught red-handed, you can get away with it. You can rescue the helpless or frisk and rob them blind. You can use swords, clubs, axes, bows, spears, magic, whatever. There are few limits to what you can do. Or how you look. Setting up your character can take an hour, easily, if you change everything you can, from eyebrows to cheekbones to hair length... And that's just your looks... You can follow the main plot, finding the Emperor's son and closing shut the gates of (yep) Oblivion which are beginning to pop up everywhere, or you can ignore that plot (and the city in which it starts) and just explore. You can join various guilds, you have a plethora of quests that range from FedEx type (bring me x number of y things) to appointments (meet me behind the big church at 1 am to [fill in the sinister blank]. You can even buy and furnish houses in every city once you get enough cash together. And once you "finish" the game (hard to do, since it's so open-ended), you can download any of a number of "mods" created by others. The game editor and supporting files come with the game, and material created by players is free. Bethesda has also created additional "episodes" which can be downloaded or bought at retail outlets for $20 or less. Of course, there's a catch, a price to pay for the freedom. It's a hard game for computers. Even with a lower medium range gaming rig like my own (2ghz cpu, 2gig RAM, 7900GT card, winXT), Oblivion played poorly until I tweaked the settings (found an article how online). For older less powerful computers, there's even a version called "Oldblivion" which takes graphics demands down substantially while still leaving the game somewhat attractive and playable. This game is good enough, imho, to warrant upgrading your graphics card if you haven't in the past, say, 2 years. Even an older 6800GT or a pair of them (less than $100) will make a huge difference over integrated graphics. I'd suggest trying to find a 7x00 card (7800 gt, 7900 gs, 7900xt) if you have pci-e, two for sli, if you can. If you've got $500ish for graphics alone, then you can really make Oblivion look good. The rest of us tweak it a lot. There are few games like Oblivion. It's a total immersion blast. Sure, it's got some flaws, but none that can't be corrected by a mod found online. All the Elder Scrolls games are excellent, and Oblivion is the best of them all. Enjoy.Read full review
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion is an absolutely gorgeous 1st-person P.O.V. fantasy roleplaying game. Those familiar with Morrowind and other past Elder Scrolls games need no review to be sold on this game. For the rest, Oblivion is the absolute peak when it comes to the fantasy RPG. The player has the freedom to construct a unique character and explore a lush, massive world. The graphics often border on the photo-real. One can spend hours just hiking the forests and searching for ancient ruins and caves. But most likely, he or she will be engaged in the main storyline and hundreds of other quests. All dialog is done with voice over (including some by Patrick Stewart), which makes for a rich experience, and the computer characters have their own agendas as well. Bethesda, the developers, call this the Radiant AI. A townsperson goes to find dinner at the appropriate time and goes home to sleep as you might expect real people to behave. Adding to the rich atmosphere is an incredible soundtrack, laden with lilting, mystical melodies, heroic themes, and eerie ambience when called for. Overall, this is an unbelievably good game which will easily engage the player for 150 hours with potential for much more. In addition, it comes with the construction tool used to make the game so that players can build their own content as well. This is the kind of quality all video games should aspire to, expecially those in the fantasy RPG genre.Read full review
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