Oblivion is the best Role Playing game I have ever played. I considered it as just another game in the beginning, it was something more than that. I finished the game and played it even after finishing the game with a total of about 200 hours and more than 2000 save games. With the official plug-in Knights of the Nine and official expansion of the game Shivering Isles make the huge game even bigger. The Game of the year edition has been released including all these, but even without the expansion, Oblivion is a very big world. MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Microsoft Windows XP/2000 512 MB of System RAM 2.0 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent ...  Read the complete review

Released simultaneously across various platforms in 2006, The Elder Scrolls (TES) IV: Oblivion was one of the most hotly anticipated games of the year, if not the decade. TES III: Morrowind was a very well constructed game, so Oblivion had quite a lot to live up to. Perhaps it may be construed as unfair to use Morrowind as a touchstone for this game, but as it is its immediate successor, it is hard to take Oblivion as a standalone game. The Plot: Set in the Arthurian/Tolkienesque style world of Tamriel, the player is thrust into the role of an unknown prisoner. Choosing your race from a number of possibilities, and your gender from a possibility of, err, ...  Read the complete review

Let me first of all set the mood for the review, this game is brilliant. Now we have that out of the way, lets move onto the different versions and the add-ons, as at this time of writing, many will have either bought them separately, or inclusively in the game of the year edition. For some reason Bethesda like releasing a standard version like shown above, then charging an extortionate amount for add-on packs that last several hours, then release a very reasonably priced game of the year (GoTY) edition with almost all of the major add-ons included. The above standard version is the main bulk, you will spend hours enjoying yourself in the game world ...  Read the complete review

You are nothing. Nothing but a lowly prisoner in a cage, alone with nothing to do. Maybe toss a few bones around, maybe rattle those hanging chains. Contemplate the best way to kill the jerk in the cell across the hall, perhaps. Your life is at an absolute low, and shows no signs of improving any time soon. And then, disaster strikes. ~*~*~*~*~*~ T H E - S T O R Y ~*~*~*~*~*~ The Elder Scrolls series never lacks in story. In this latest installment, as always, you start off as a nameless prisoner - you're locked up in a cell in the Imperial City Prison. After you create your character, choosing from one of ten unique races ...  Read the complete review

Traditional RPG games tend to bore me after 5 minutes of intense class selection topped off with far to many choices. Oblivion is not a traditional RPG, this game takes things such as stats and game altering choices and throws in a 1st person view. Giving the game an Fps style helps immersion into the game world making everything seem so much more real, characters appear to talk to you as a person, even looking you in the eye. Side quests add length to the game, Guilds are often the best source of gripping missions with rewards that will benefit you significantly. After joining each guild to see what suited my taste I found the Dark Brotherhood to ...  Read the complete review