Customer Reviews:
 Oblivion January 20, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Great graphics, though you need a pretty hi-end computer to use the graphics to the maximum. Mulitple plot lines, long game play - which is great, I hate paying $50 for a game that I can finish in a couple days.
Is Too Much Ever Enough? January 15, 2008
41 out of 42 found this review helpful
Oblivion is EXACTLY how I imagined an RPG should be like back in the 80's, while playing Ultimas on Commodore 64s and Atari STs.
Oblivion has weather. While there is no wind other than a constant, gentle breeze, you do get rain/thunderstorms, fog, snow (no blizzards though, because there's not much wind). You don't slip and fall on ice but the sound of your steps is different whether you walk on the road, on grass, on snow or on ice.
The world of Cyrodill is not exactly continent-size, maybe some 20-30 miles in any direction from downtown Imperial City but... what a world this is. Cities, settlements, camps, estates, roadside inns, ruins, caves, dungeons, mines, shrines. The landscape is made up of plains, hard-to-climb mountains, rivers, swamps, waterfalls, seas. You can travel on foot or you can ride a horse. You can fight your way into fame and fortune while doing good or you can sneak into other people's houses or pickpocket the unsuspecting. The guards will chase you and throw you in jail if you do illegal things but, if they like you enough, maybe they will look the other way sometimes. Powerful gods or humble people will ask you do 'little things' for them and, if you can make them happy, they will reward you according to their abilities. You can raise to the top of your profession, as a fighter, as a mage, as a thief or as an assassin or you can assemble your own little gang of dreamy crusaders so that you can fight evil and recover the relics of a legendary knight. Or you can do them all and become all, in sequence or make progress in all paths more or less simultaneously while moonlighting as a gladiator as well and, if still bored, how about helping a lady take care of the rats in her basement (that's NOT what you think) or some drunk guy at the inn get rid of the Trolls that took over his daddy's country estate? Oh and, I forgot, there's a world to save or... wait... there's TWO worlds, thanks to the Shivering Isles extension.
This game is so huge, I can't see how you could really 'finish' it. After more than 2 months of almost daily playing, I am maybe 75-80% into the main quest, half a way through the Knights of the Nine, only started the Shivering Isles adventures. I did become the realm's Chief Mage (and the titles earns me no respect from the scholar mages) and the grand master at the Fighters league, got myself 350,000 gold coins in my pocket, 2 comfortable houses and 2 nice offices, completed close to 100 quests, slaughtered 2000 creatures and hundreds of humans, murdered 4 or 5 and all but one by mistake (friendly fire), didn't even come close to the Thieves guild and, foolishly, made it impossible for me to ever join the Dark Brotherhood (these are the assassins). Also, I've never been a vampire and didn't yet start my career as a professional gladiator. I did massacre the peaceful dwellers of a small village but I did that under the influence of some drugs that made them look to me like bloody Orcs - that was the price to pay for infiltrating and destroying the source of that scourge. Oh, and while briefly in the land of Dementia - or was it Mania? - I did, willingly, push buttons that caused a few careless adventurers to go insane and I watched as they were becoming so. I humiliated a lovely princess - or was it a duchess? - and I killed so many fearsome monsters, I lost count myself but the game does keep a count so it's easy to know. In fact, the game keeps track of so many things... I could easily find out how many jokes I told, how many potions I made, how many horses I've stolen (one), how many hours I slept or how many books I read.
Well...? What do you think?
On the 'not so good' side, the game does slow down when you are fighting 4-5 monsters at the same time or when there are other things that keep the PS3 busy while you are fighting the baddies - like a fire burning. Loading/saving times are a bit too long but, while this is happening, you do get to read some randomly selected good advice on the screen.
The other thing that saddens me is that I don't believe the good people at Bethesda are working on the next chapter yet. I do hope that, as soon as they are done with Fallout-3, they are going to get busy with another adventure in Cyrodill or thereabouts.
My other problem is that I am now fighting with my kids over time on the PS3. We have a bunch of other games but, since Oblivion came into our house, I would say that 95%+ of our PS3 time was on Oblivion.
 Absolute Addiction - Great Game January 10, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Finally a RPG game that meets and exceeds all expectations I have ever had for RPG's. You are free to roam the world and do as you please. The graphics are mind blowing as is the gameplay itself. But I have to admit, nothing is perfect. As my characters speed increased, I find it hard to run all out through the world as the graphics pauses and does not seem to be able to keep up. (My only legit complaint.) After weeks and weeks of daily play (I'm telling you it IS addictive!) I am finding it a bit overwhelming. There are so many quests and side quests that I get confused and find myself thinking where do I go and what do I do. With that said, that is a good thing because that means this is a game that there is no way you can get and just run through and complete in a few weeks. I'm suspecting YEARS of game play with this one. I have the game of the year addition for PS3 and love it. If you are into single player RPG's this version is a MUST OWN! Buy it, enjoy it for years! It is a good investment for your gaming collection.
Man, this game's addictive December 27, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't know whether to be completely psyched that I own this game or stressed that it just consumes so much free time. Whatever the case may be, after playing this game all other RPGs just seem kinda lame. Here, there's so much to do it can be overwhelming, but it's all up to the gamer where to go, what to do, who to be, even how hard the enemies are to kill, it's all completely customizable. It's just an amazing experience, just don't let it suck out your social life. Look at it this way, if played just for bits and pieces at a time there will still be new things to discover in Oblivion well over a year from now. That's just amazing. This is a must-own, even for non-RPG junkies.
An awesome game in a vast and detailed world. Strongly recommended! December 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read the reviews and bought this game as my first one for the PS3. I am amazed at how well done and fun this is.Its a HUGE detailed world with hours and hours and hours to play and explore. Very addicting! If you have PS3 and an HDTV, you will not be sorry. Get the game of the year version in order to get the expansion packs. Well worth the 60 bucks.
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