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the game is loads of fun. it has some oddball quirks that can be annoying. You have to be very careful not to steal something when you try to talk to someone. Also, if you stay at an inn, and sit at a table, the food in front of you is not for you, i found that out the hard way. you also have to be careful during combat. It is too easy to switch into sneak mode, which slows you down if you try to move to a more advantageous spot and it is too easy to switch to close perspective and you can lose control of where your opponents are. the rest of the game is fun. The graphics are great. The stroyine right now is deep and I have a ton of things to do in it that I can do any way I choose. There seems to be an unlimited number of ways you can run a character, some who specialize in fighting, some can specialize in trading, and they all have a rank and can go up as you gain experience. there are over 20 different stats that can go up or down as you start off on your adventure. Overall, I'd give it an A-Read full review
This was my first experience playing the Elder Scrolls series and for the most part it was an extremely enjoyable game. This game is like a first person shooter without guns...but you do get a bow and arrow if you choose. I will explain some of the good and some of the bad points about it. The strongest point of Oblivion is the sheer magnitude of the landscape and the ability to search and do anything you want. In all honesty if you explore every cave and every fort and complete every quest on the map it can take you near or past 200 or more hours!! I loved this part of the game as it kept me wanting to find new things for days. Also of note in the Game of the Year Edition (GOTY) you get an additional map AND quests that can add nearly 20 more hours of game play! So if you are wondering which edition to buy (standard or GOTY) go for the GOTY because you get everything in the standard edition plus the extras. There is a great deal of customization from the way you do quests to the character you create and you will spend hours doing anything and everything you want. However as you play for a few hours you will notice that things seem to get rather boring...Which brings me to the bad part of the world of Oblivion. Yes you can spend days and months playing and doing everything out there but you will soon notice that every time you explore a cave or start killing bandits in all of the forts...they all start to look the same and the bad guys rarely change as well. Let’s say you're wandering around and you stumble upon a cave you havn't seen before...you go in, loot the treasure and head out again...you then find another cave several miles away and you're saying "ALRIGHT!! I FOUND ANOTHER ONE" you go inside and loot the treasure and think to yourself "was I just in here?" All caves and all forts while different in the way their set up (meaning in one cave you'll have to cross a river or something and the next cave you'll have to go through a maze) offer you little difference in the way they look. So yes there are hundreds of places to explore but if you do look in all of them, it gets extremely dull after awhile. Another bad point is the bugs and glitches. Some are small little things that look out of place while others are darn right nasty. It happened to me several times where I was doing an entire quest and in the end a glitch prevented me from completing it. This is probably my main gripe so heed my words...SAVE and save often in this game because I can almost guarantee you that at some point you'll be playing for hours and a bug will hit and you'll want to go back and restart but can't do it. The glitch/bug problem along with sometimes monotonous gameplay prevents me from giving Oblivion GOTY an absolutely perfect score (I don’t give a perfect score unless it is a perfect game). But hear me out, this game is a must have or at the very least a must play. It is massive and absolutely gorgeous in graphics and is one of the greatest games I own.Read full review
The game plays much like many titles from this same company. The expansive world, the free roaming non-linear gameplay all add to the feel of something big. The game has so many aspects and ways to play, that hardly any two people, playing their tendencies in such RPG's will end up the same way. The progression of growth makes sense, in how that the more skills are used, the more they gain, much like how practice makes perfect. There are a few ways that this system can be easily exploited to keep the game easy for the player. So far, I'm fond of the game and don't mind devoting an hour of time to accomplish a grandiose quest.
All in all this is a excellent game! I had this game on 360 and sold my system. I now have it for PS3. Graphics are excellent, looks the same as the 360. Gameplay is the same as well. The difference is the 360 version, as well as PC version, has some extra downloadable things that the PS3 doesn't. Examples are the Wizard's Tower. Not included in the PS3. As well as Tomes, a few other items, the pirates cove and a couple of quests. If you never played the 360 or PC versions with the downloads, then you won't even know what I'm talking about and it is still a great game. Also, the PS version does not have trophies for this game and the 360 version had achievements. Again, all in all a great game and I still recommend this game. Has hours upon hours of great gameplay. If you beat it as a straight up warrior, then try it again as a thief or magician or customize your own character. Great replay value!Read full review
First off, I am buying this game in 2011. I have previously played the PC version and really enjoyed it. I'll start off with a couple categories. Graphics wise the game is starting to show its age, yet it is still beautiful to look across its huge world. Lots of great characters, castles, and forests round out the visuals. Game play wise the game is huge and varied. Sometimes it feels a little outdated, the game is not quite as story driven as it could be. The only real complaint I could give is that the oblivion world gets old after the first couple times you enter their portals and close them. The sound, music and voice, is a couple notches above anything else, at least back in 2007; it is still fantastic. This game has pushed the boundary of what a video game is. Overall this is a great game and playing this might help you better understand what will happen in The Elderscrolls 5.Read full review
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