Now if you're an older game who experienced gaming firsthand in the early 90s, you might remember the first two in a series of open world RPGs known as The Elder Scrolls. The games were some of the biggest available at the time and offered you all sorts of tasks to do in the medieval based kingdom. Elder Scrolls III followed on the Xbox in 2003 but the releases of Halo 1 and 2 helped to keep the game masked from the public at large. Elder Scrolls IV finally got a well deserved release in 2006 on the 360 and PC and followed soon afterwards. This is the Game of The Year edition for the PS3 which includes the expansion packs Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles in all ...  Read the complete review

The Emperor of Tamriel has had a dream about you, and instead of chronicling it in his dream journal greets you via a secret passage to your prison and helps you escape. Once he dies, the bloodline of the Emperors will end, causing gates of Oblivion to open and spawning demons into the world, so it is up to you to find the heir to the throne. After a fairly detailed tutorial which allows you to pick your chosen abilities (your race and class etc.) you escape from the sewers to witness a beautiful view of a hillside and a lake. Deer will most probably be seen. Though the game is a couple of years old and there are better graphics out there now, that doesn't take ...  Read the complete review

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is an excellent example of a top of the list RPG. The variety in classes and how your character is shaped by skills increase is amazing. Choosing classes from Orcs to Wood Elves presents you with so many options in how you want to play, choosing from heavy or light armour, ranged weapon or close combat or even no weapons, purely using your "magicka" to wipe out opponents. Throughout the game, each level-up presents a new opportunity to increase the level of the character's attributes, such as stealth, agility etc. As for me, i have chosen a wood elf, and using light armor combined with bows and arrows and high levels of stealth ...  Read the complete review

'The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion' is without a doubt the best RPG I've ever played. For those of you who aren't familiar with the Elder Scrolls series, it is a fantasy game series, of which 'Oblivion' is the fourth installment - but don't worry if you haven't played the others, 'Oblivion' is a game in itself and no prior knowledge is needed. PLOT The game is a single player RPG: players engage in a quest - at their own pace - in the vast, make-believe province of Cyrodil in Tamriel, a world at threat by a fanatical cult who threaten to open the gates of 'Oblivion', the equivalent of hell in Tamriel. CHARACTER + ...  Read the complete review

The switch in platform always brings about it an element of surprise. When I switched from Mega-Drive to PS2, Grand Theft Auto 3 blew me away. The same occurred on the PS3 with Oblivion. I struggled somewhat with the tutorial mission (it is set in a dungeon / cave network / sewer system); I only really delved into the 'pound-enemy-with-sword' method of play. It was too dark, my torch kept running out and disappearing when I whipped my weapon out. I kept getting lost (map? What map?). There were some very complicated leveling decisions, which I didn't get and worried that I made the wrong decision for the rest of my game. I wasn't enjoying it as much as I ...  Read the complete review