Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | 
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Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 567
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Nt, Windows 2000, Windows Xp
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1.3
MPN: 31008
Model: 21896
UPC: 710425310089
EAN: 0710425310089
ASIN: B000G6XH1W
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Has map, booklet and dvd, box is a bit worn.All books are shipped the next business day and carefully packaged.
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| Features:
| • | Live another life in a whole new world -- gamers can create and play any character they can imagine, from the noble warrior to the sinister assassin to the wizened sorcerer | | • | First-person melee and magic systems bring first person role-playing to a new level of intensity | | • | The groundbreaking new Radiant AI system gives Oblivion's characters full 24/7 schedules and the ability to make their own choices based on the world around them | | • | Features over 1,000 non-player characters who come to life like never before -- facial animations, lip-synching, full speech, even unscripted conversations with each other | | • | The enormous world of Oblivion is open, giving you short challenges and open-ended gameplay -- everything from fighting bandits to mixing potions |
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Product Description
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created. This new chapter uses next-generation technologies to create a fully immersive gaming adventure. The Emperor of Tamriel has been assassinated and the killer still runs loose; meanwhile, no heir sits on the throne. With no Emperor upon the throne, the gates of Oblivion open wide and demons invade. Your quest is to find the lost heir and place him on the throne, before demons destroy the land. Next-generation graphics with pixel-shader effects for high-definition TVs, creating lifelike towns & dungeons and the most realistic forests
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| Customer Reviews: Read 29 more reviews...
 Best RPG anywhere. August 7, 2008
I originally got Oblivion for the 360 and I was shocked. I've never had so much fun. The AI, visuals, story lines, all of it was superb. I'd find myself wandering through the woods just to see all the visual beauty. On more than one occasion I recall simply saying, "this is just beautiful". The game tweaks the quality based on what your hardware will support, so the game will run on hardware less than the best, which is really nice of Bethesda to do. The non-player characters (NPCs) live their own lives making the game so enjoyable. Unlike so many games where the NPC walks back and forth waiting for you to interact with it, Oblivion NPCs carry on about their own business. Depending on the time of day, they may be eating dinner at the local pub and not interested in selling anything to you. I started playing it two years ago. I am still enjoying it, and there are still things to discover in all the ruins I haven't come across yet. This game defines the standard, and all others come up short. I've tried other games hoping to find one as enjoyable, but they just do not add up. Bethesda put so much effort into the smallest and most insignificant parts of the game, that actually make the realism and experience the best. I've even had my horse run off chasing and getting into a fight with a deer buck. Incredible. I fell in the floor laughing (horses and deer do actually get into scuffles). I
later bought the PC version in order to discover the vast world of Mods. Amazing. The only thing missing is more primary content from Bethesda. I can't wait.
One word of caution... you can waste a LOT of time with this game. But with the ability to play for only ten minutes, save and stop, it can be precisely whatever time you want to be wasted.
AWESOME June 25, 2008
I have never played and RPG game on computer before. I used to make fun of people who did. They look boring and slow and really pathetic. After trying to play Oblivion, Ive been hooked from the start and everything about it is just amazing. I would want everyone I know to try it even knowing im being a hypocrit.
 Not quite an action game, not quite an RPG June 3, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I tried very hard to enjoy this game. I put a lot of thought into character building, would come up with something, but ultimately, no matter how excited I would get about the character build I would come up with, all in all the game is just not satisfying to play.
-The Good-
The graphics are simply gorgeous. Walking around, especially outdoors, is a thing to behold. The sound is equally brilliant although there are a limited number of voice actors. Making your own class and spells adds some customization. Unfortunately, that is about it for the good.
-The Bad-
The gameplay itself is lacking. This game tries very hard to do everything, and in doing so, the gameplay suffers. The combat is just not very satisfying. The melee combat is its strongest suit, but only because of some good physics as it is pretty much block, counter-attack, repeat. Sure, you can mix it up and add some magic in there to make combat more interesting, and the game encourages that in some ways. No matter what your main skills, you will have a magicka bar, for example. However, there will always be a weakness in your character that will be exploited by certain foes due to the fact that even though the game encourages a multi-skilled character, thanks to the leveling system with its attribute modifiers it is quite tedious to grind out skills to achieve it. If you are a tank character (heavy armor and melee oriented) you will be frustrated by chasing down fleeing enemies and summoners as their creatures beat on you and they deftly pepper you with spells and arrows. Also, in general the character movement is very rigid and mechanical, and enemies lead you with inhuman precision with their ranged attacks.
Stealth can be fun, especially mixed with alchemy and illusion. You will most likely be using a bow and not be wearing heavy armors though, which will make you very vulnerable to warrior-type enemies, and makes fighting multiple melee enemies a huge chore. Aim, shoot, run away, aim, shoot. Its not much fun.
The magic system has a lot of potential, and making your own spells is extremely fun! However, the one thing that completely killed the magic-using experience in this game was the interface, which is obviously very console-oriented. 8 quick slots. That is all you get. And you blindly select the item by pressing the corresponding keys on the keyboard... how fun. Otherwise you will be pausing to bring up the menu, navigating to a spell, selecting it and unpausing, casting and repeating. It completely kills the immersive flow of the game. Also, compared to the beauty of the rest of the game, the spell effects (sound and graphics) were just plain bland and not at all impressive.
Another thing that this game lacks is direction and purpose. There are a relatively limited number of quests available, and the main quest is so brief it is almost shocking. When it ended, that was it. There was nothing left to do but wander around aimlessly, going through random dungeons for no reason besides hoping to find some interesting or useful loot, and thanks to the utterly ridiculous level scaling, bandits will be in full deadric armors, and you will not feel much of a sense of becoming more powerful within the game world.
Overall, there is just a certain tacked on shallowness to the feeling of all the elements - magic, stealth and combat. Fans of RPGs will likely find it shallow and pointless, action fans will likely find it boring and simply not much fun to play. Oblivion sits in the grey neutral area, trying to lure you with its beauty.
I'm Finally Back May 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
After months of playing I'm finally back from the world of Oblivion. A good title for a game since after starting I became oblivious to everything around me. The graphics were amazing. I loved standing in a field watching the wind blowing across fields of grain. Several interesting story lines and many side actitives kept me engrossed longer than any other game I've played. My family welcomed me back after my quests, not fully understanding where I had been, but it was worth the trip.
 Severely Overhyped May 10, 2008
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I really wouldn't call TES 4 Obivion an RPG. Hardly. It's more like an FPS that caters to the desires of 1337 n00b pwned hax0rs. This is a massive slash at the rep of Bethesda for me.
First on the agenda is the main storyline. It is ungodly easy, and can be completed in under 30 hours if you want to. Remember Final Fantasy 7? Even so, the storyline isn't that good, and is so trite and predictable it's not even funny.
The side quests are just as bad,or even worse. These are definitely even more trite, being so unbelievably cliche. They're unoriginal, even sinking as low as to take the Lovecraftian story "Shadow over Insmouth," copy and paste it into the game.
The world in oblivion is minature, yet they have fast travel. Literally, I could travel from the southernmost city to the northernmost city in a few minutes. But who wants to do THAT? Nooooo. We can FAST TRAVEL! I just can't see it in the Oblivion world. it's way too small. But of course, people complained over and over about in Morrowind you had to run everywhere. I can see fast travel in Daggerfall, but the world in Daggerfall was mega-massive. MEGA-MASSIVE.
Periodically, over the small map, you'll see "Imperial Forts" and "Caves." For God's sake, every fort is the same as the next, and same with the caves. In Morrowind, you could enjoy yourself exploring caves, but they were different. In Oblivion,I've seen one cool cave. Thats it.
Everybody remember how there was one set of Daedric armor in Morrowind? NOT IN OBIVION!! Since theres LEVELED MONSTERS...you can get DAEDRIC ARMOR off of a MARAUDER! Come on. Seriously. Daedric weapons? Armor? That stuff should be rare, or at least mega expensive. And if you gant Glass armor(Alien Green UFO suit.) All you have to do is kill a few bandits. It really makes me sick.
I could ramble on and on about this.
It's way overrated.
So if you enjoy actual storyline instead of hack n' slash, avoid this.
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