The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Xbox 360)

...criteria are different, obviously, but the main convention is to look at the following aspects: Longetivity: How long the game lasts. Playability: How fun the game is to actually play Graphics: How nice the game looks and how well it takes advantage of the machine it is running on Sound: How nice the music is and how well the sound effects are implemented. Obviously, there are more than this usually and some are more important to people than ...
...Longevity: In recent times the length of your average game would teeter around the 12-15hour mark, and yet have the cheek to ask for your hard earned 40-50 pounds. In this respect, Oblivion is like your over-generous best friend, on Prozac, at Disneyland and who just won the lottery. The playtime on this, at the maximum, is 300 hours. 300 hours to do EVERYTHING in the game. Now, while 300 hours on a computer game is the stuff of divorce/break-ups, ...

petebrolly 02.02.2007 (07.02.2007) · Read full review
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...she first acquainted herself with the province of Cyrodiil. She noticed me playing something new, and postponed her bath by twenty minutes to "give it a try". As far as games go, for her that's some commitment. "Well... what now?" She fiddled with the first-person controls and started the usual ritual of involuntarily staring at the floor. The sky would be next. I paused to formulate an explanation… In a nutshell, what do you do in Oblivion? In most ...
...this, jump that, drive round the other; all it takes is a grasp of the basic controls and you're proficient whilst employing minimal grey matter. Not so here. "Well, erm, in a way you have to go and find what to do. It's kind of your choice." That really fried her noggin. It needed some context. "OK. Picture yourself as the main protagonist in a Lord of the Rings setting, only with more moonlighting and less homoeroticism. Beards are optional". ...

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is the fourth in the series of Elder Scrolls games. Its predecessor Morrowind was a huge hit in western markets and it had a huge cult following throughout the world with many fans of all ages. I was not one of these fans. I could never get into Morrowind no matter how hard I tried. ( And I've tried various times over the years). This gave me doubts when it came to the release of The ...
...would it just sit on the shelf next to Morrowind? After a few days of uncertainty I decided to give in a buy myself a copy of it on launch day. Here are my thoughts and feelings towards The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. From the moment the game beings you are dropped into the world of The Elder Scrolls. A medieval world of fantasy and magic. You start the game in jail. An unusual start to a game I have got to admit. Your are left to walk around your ...

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For the uninitiated, the Elder Scrolls games are massive, freeform, first person dungeon crawlers. The basic premise, in every game, is to create your character and then wander the land doing... well, whatever the hell you want, really. There's a story to follow of course, if you want to. More on that later though because, true to form, MORE work has gone into everything outside of the main story, and the quests involved in the arc itself account ...
...the game. There are various guilds you can join, with varying goals and differing ethos. You have a plethora of NPCs you can talk to, kill, or rob. You have a throng of dungeons that you'll no doubt want to explore, killing the inhabitants and taking their (randomly generated) treasures. And there's a whole range of cities, towns, villages and farms with their own looks, styles and atmospheres. Oblivion accomplishes all of these things very well, ...

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, or more simply Oblivion, is a single player fantasy-themed action-oriented computer role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks and the Take-Two Interactive subsidiary 2K Games. It is the next game in the Elder Scroll Series after Morrowind and was released on Xbox 360 and PC, later followed by PS3. Oblivion is a hard game to genre as it touches on so many aspects and types ...
...have to say, stick to the first person as it makes the game much more atmospheric. I'd say Oblivion is a RPG at core, you create your character at the beginning of the game and you increase and learn skills as you fight the enemies of the game. Oblivions story is a deep and vast one, so I'm not going to ruin it for anyone as it is brilliant in a word. The game begins with the arrival of Emperor Uriel Septim VII, accompanied by a troupe of Blade bodyguards, ...

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...decided I had to get the game for myself. Obviously I didn't want to get a 360 to play it so I gave the PC version a try and I was so disappointed - the controls are so complicated that I just couldn't play it and the decision was made to buy an Xbox 360, (PS3s are too expensive still); that should give you an idea of how good the game is. ~ Oblivion is the 4th game in the popular "The Elder Scrolls" series; ( Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind and Oblivion). ...
...admit that I haven't played the other games in the series but as ever wikipedia has loads of information about them and there are bound to be reviews of them about too. ~ You start the game in a prison cell, and the storyline takes you through the tutorial and lets you create your character. This is the least boring tutorial on any game I have ever played. You jump right into the plot and the game is never dull from start to finish, (if indeed ...

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...it a try. (Didn't like the look of Ghost Recon)... And since then I haven't stopped playing it... I haven't completed the game but as of yet the main storyline is about the investigation of the assasination of an Emperor who rules a place called Cyrodil. Since his death, many 'Gates of Oblivion' (some red portal) have been activated outside of Towns/villages... due to evil forces!!! I guess my role is to investigate into this matter. The setting ...
...either an Orc (looks like the guy from Shrek hehe...) , Elf (high, dark or wood), different classes of humans (Nord etc), Khajiit (lion guy) or an Argonian (lizard guy). Each having their own special features (e.g resist disease for an Argonian). You are able to customise the facial features to a certain extent but you never really get to see your own face anyhow as it is in first person. You however, cannot change the body build (e.g height) which ...

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...a free roamer game. Being the fourth, it has a great standard to live up to. You can basically do whatever you want to do.In Oblivion you make your own "class" (no not like in school and choose who sits where). The game begins with the several hour long process of creating your character. Take you time here, there are lots and lots of options, and you do not want to have a caveman rescuing the princesses and if you do, I hope it looks like the one ...
...eyes if you like. By the time you are finally done making the character look better than yourself yet mildly recognisable as the same to save the world, you are ready to start getting brutal. You start in a very well contained and linear tutorial dungeon, that runs you through the basic controls, fighting etc. The game does a fine job of teaching you what you need to know to survive and not much else really. The finer points of the game are for you ...

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...this) but never really played the first 2 games in the Elder Scrolls series. I knew from the hype that it was either going to be massively impressive or a great flop. Luckily, it was the former. The game starts out with you in a prison cell, not knowing what you have done or in fact who you are, with some idiot in the cell opposite you taunting you. After a few minutes, the king and his guards approach your cell. The leave through a secret exit, ...
...you are. You get the usual choice in theory, Brute, Magic or Stealth. But you can ideally combine these to make your own custom classes. For instance you can be a Brute who uses healing magic. Or a stealthy little sneak that appear from the shadows in a ball of blazing magic. Of course, sneaking takes a penalty if you wear a full set of heavy armour, so you have to take that in to consideration. It really is up to you. On top of that you can customise ...

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When i purchased The Elder Scrolls Oblivion, i thought it was just going to be a standard role-playing/Adventure game which is like every other. But as you insert this game into your console for the first time, you know this is going to be an instant classic. I will now tell you how this game fairs in each catagory. Story: At the start of The Elder Scrolls Oblivion, you are in a prison cell. This is where the customisation of your character begins. ...
...Your character will then follow the main quest. You will have the main quest to complete along with hundreds of other side quests. These include quests for other NPC's (People) and Faction Quests. The factions you can join are The Dark Brotherhood, The Theives Guild, The Fighters Guild, The Mages Guild and The Arena. Each of these factions have there own unique storyline. All this added to the endless places to explore make this game have quality ...

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...played most of them since the days of the SNES and Mega Drive (Genesis), and as such, Oblivion was a quick addition to my collection. However, most RPG's that become classics, tend to come from Japan, I can't think of many Western RPG's that are much good at all, but on that part Oblivion is a real achievement. As far as Western RPG's go, most people probably haven't heard of any beyond the RPG elements of GTA and the many pseudo RTS/RPG PC games, ...
...is where the rest fail. Oblivion feels distinctively fresh, and the game world is fantastically realised, really immersing you into it, and it's free roaming nature is simply unrivalled as an RPG. In fact, it can be compared to Grand Theft Auto in a way, as you're free to wonder about, even steal horses and break into people's homes, and that's the greatness of Oblivion; you can do pretty much what you like. You can earn money in a number of ways, ...

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...has to be one of the best games made or the Xbox 360 - and in my opinion it challenges the Final Fantasy series for the greatest Role Playing Game ever made. You begin as a lowly peasant, stuck in jail and learning the basics in sewers. I quickly noticed how easy it is to adapt to the controls and they make fantastic use of all buttons on the Xobox 360 controller. After around 20 minutes of playing you take your first steps into the huge world ...
...I have regularly stood at the top of one of the mountains or hills in the game and just stopped in awe of the environment around me. It is quite literally the best looking game i have ever seen. A message pops up once entering the vast world telling you that you can pretty much do waht you want now - and you really can. Whether you like finding rare artefacts, killing monsters, exploring the scenery or talking to the many characters in town, these ...

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...Bethesda Software's fourth game in the Elder Scrolls series, following on from the highly successful Arena, Daggerfall and Morrowind. All of the games so far have given users incomparable freedom, dropping the chosen character into a world where their decisions come first. Unlike some games which have attempted this formula, notably Fable, the entire world doesn't revolve around you. There are people living their own lives, having their own conversations ...
...build fame by fighting in the Arena, joining one of the game's four guilds, or even getting the wrong kind of name for yourself by being arrested. You see, there is so much to talk about in Oblivion, there is no way I can possibly sum up all my experiences in this review. To be honest, Oblivion is like life itself. You can talk to your real, alive friends, and share each other's inevitably different experiences. You can brag about becoming the arena ...

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The world of oblivion is amazingly huge and yet still beautiful right the way through, the sheer size of the game makes for some hefty load up times every now and again which can spoil the atmosphere but I would say that this is the only downside to this game. The gameleaves you to your own devices so you can do hundreds of things within it, there are multiple races each with their advantages and disadvantages and hundreds of skills to learn and ...
...a medieval type world. The game doesn't just offer you a single linear route to success in the game, sure their is a main storyline but then what would you do if there wasn't. The storyline is a very interesting one which explains the history of the 9 different planes in the universe each controlled by a different demon, the expansion shivering isles further continues this history, but the main stroyline is about how a the king of the empire known ...

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Having bought an X-Box 360, The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion was always on my to-rent list. I'd enjoyed playing the prequel, Morrowind, for a whiles, so I was originally going to buy it right off the bat. But having heard rumours of the gaming having been dumbed down compared to its prequel, I decided to rent rather than a buy it. And you know what? It has indeed been dumbed down. But the strange thing, that actually makes it a better game than its predecessor. ...
...bought my own copy. The game takes place in the land of Tamriel, your typical elves and monsters style fantasy world, and begins with you hooking up with the emperor's private guards has he tries to escape from a gang of assassins. This dungeon-based opening level serves as a tutorial to get you into the game, and ends with you emerging from the catacombs into the open air, with the now deceased emperor's warning that only you can help save the ...

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