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Wasn't all that....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: May 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This certainly is a great game for many, however it just wasn't all that for me. Maybe it just wasn't my type of game. The graphics were pretty good, though it isn't top notch where everything looks realistic. The gameplay was a little tough, one thing that was discouraging was how fast your life bar dies out battling some enemies. Sometimes, if you die you have to restart from where you last saved or auto saved. The bad thing is that if you save at a bad time or with low life, then you're in trouble.

The good thing is that you're able to explore the vast lands and find interesting things, it just sucks that enemies keep popping up, and worst of all if you steal anything and you meet a guard, you have to pay gold coins, go to jail, or get killed by the guards so you better have a horse to run away fast! That was the most annoying part, meeting those guards and having to reload. Another bad thing is the loading, though it doesn't take too long it gets annoying at the loading screen.

Overall, this is an okay game, I wasn't that impressed with it like most people were. This game seems just like Fable and I did enjoy Fable, so hopefully when Fable 2 arrives it'll be a great game to play.

Atleast Rent it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: June 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is AMAZING. I really hope some of you look into it.

I guess I'm old school....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 36
Date: May 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

why level up on this game? I'm a 18 level half Orc Warrior. I'm attempting to finish a mission where I need to kill from goblins. Well I would have been better off doing trying to complete this game at level 1. As you level up, so do all the ememies!!! So leveling up is POINTLESS!!! You level up and the bosses get even tougher. This game had such promise, but this really screws with the fun.

repetitive console actioner, not a great RPG

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: September 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Oblivion is a good action game, but it not a great role-playing game. Definately not as good as the Morrowind trilogy, but still a decent game to play. One of the problems is that pretty much all the Oblivion Planes are exactly the same, with the exact same route to take, and the exact same enemies to kill. I do like the house I bought in Bruma though, a nice town to settle down in.

KOTOR & FABLE did it better.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: July 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

So far this game seems pretty good but not amazing like some people are saying. I mean to me it's all about the main quest and the story probably isn't all that interesting. Your actions can't change the outcome of the story like you could in Knights of the old Republic. Also one of the main things that makes those games cool is that the decisions you make also change the way you look. So far I haven't found that to be true in Oblivion. First off, you can't see yourself because it's from first person view unless you switch to third person but you'd be loosing out on how the game was really made to be played. Second you can change your armor and clothes but I personally found it hard to make a character that looks cool or represents how evil or good you want to be.

Most of your allies in this game are annoying as hell, trust me. There's no story to it or anything that would make you want to help anyone. The AI isn't as good as people say, I thought it was stupid how you steal something and they yell at you but if you approach them they talk to you like nothing happend. Also you can attack allies as much as you want and you just need to block and talk to them and they forgive you like nothing ever happend. I mean when I get bored and do this like 10 times it feels very artificial.

Yes the world is huge but try walking around in first person view and crashing into rocks and uneven ground textures and walking side ways on steep mountains it feels very clunky, the combat is poor when there is allies helping because usually they just get in your way and you end up hitting them.

Storywise the game seems to be very basic evil VS good story as you try to save the world from hell. Like I said you can't change the outcome and the good guys win. I just got the feeling playing this game that this kind of engine has been used on PC games for a long time. I can't agree with people who say this game is amazing I think games like Star Wars: Knights of the old republic and Fable were better and more modern.

Unecessarily gorey

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 30
Date: April 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

We bought our 360 specifically to play this game. There is absolutely no denying that the graphics in this game are the most astounding for any game to date. The ultra "customizability" of your character is unbelievable. You can almost get your character to look like you! (if that's what you want).

It was also very clever that the opening sequence of the game serves as a tutorial for people who have never played (without being tedious for people who already know how to play). It was also a really bright idea to add a second chance to completely change your character before exiting the sewers into the main game.

There is no end to the praise I could heap upon the graphics in this game. I also really liked that, unlike the old morrowind, the plants, animals, etc. were real world items now, as opposed to being made up plants like "hackle-lo leaf" or "kanet flowers". Now you pick things like mugwort, st. john's wort, lavendar, morning glories, etc. The animals I have seen so far are butterflies, deer, sheep, wolves, and horses. I even heard meadowlarks in the meadows.

All these changes are magnificent. My complaints concern the Plane of Oblivion found through the Oblivion Gates. I understand that these places are the domain of dark lords of destruction and chaos, but there is absolutely nothing left to the imagination in the depiction of these realms. The landscape is a melange of broken, tormented, structures surrounded by boiling lava with a crimson smoke sky overhead. This isn't so bad, but everywhere you look there are spikes on everything; the buildings, bridges, turrets, monuments...I didn't even necessarily have a problem with that. But the end of each spike is covered in red...not only does this not really make sense, but it makes everything looking like it is dripping blood...absolutely everywhere. What really made me ill, however, is the dungeons themselves. The oblivion gate I went through was outside the city of Kvetch. The rooms had names like "Blood Feast", "Corridors of Dark Salvation", "Rending Rooms", etc. There were these utterly macabre things called Blood Fountains (pretty self-explanatory). In the towers there were naked corpses suspended from the ceilings. Their bodies were flayed and mutilated (including mutilated genitals); worse, you can search the corpses and take their bones and any gold they had on them (begging the question of where exactly a corpse hides gold?). Given that the graphics in this game are highly detailed, the corpses didn't leave much to the imagination. In those same towers, there was a lift with spikes located at the bottom of the tower and a metalwork grate at the top of the tower. This life is for smashing the suspended corpses into the grate at the top of the tower. I didn't actually see this happen, fortunately, because the lift switch was too damaged to operate. But of the 15 other Oblivion gates you have to go into in this game, chances are one of those lifts is working and it will show the corpses being mashed...

In the untainted world of Tamriel, your character often searches barrels and crates for any treasure that may be inside. On the planes of Oblivion, their version of crates are called "The Punished". They are these odd tripod structures with what looks like a huge pulsating, flayed, heart hanging in the center of the tripod.

I found the extreme level of gore on the Plane of Oblivion to be intolerable. I don't care what anyone says, but immersing yourself in such macabre surroundings can NOT be healthy, most especially for young people (Game is rated for teens). Why why why did they have to do this? The original morrowind was bad enough with "corpus meat", etc. but this makes the old morrowind look friendly.

Now I am hard pressed to justify spending hours playing this and I am super disappointed. I hope some parents/people will take notice of this review and perhaps consider renting this game before shelling out 70 bucks for it.

This game is incredible!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have basically been watching my husband play this game night and day ever since I bought him the Xbox 360 for Christmas. This is an awesome game from what I've seen.

Anyone into the RPG type games will absolutely love this game, no doubt about it.

Quality RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is an extremely deep game that can be enjoyed on many levels ranging from meticulously developing your characters skills to simply slaughtering goblins in mines. HUGELY ADDICTIVE.

Idiot-proof fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I picked up this game and started playing seamlessly. If you're a fan of RPGs, you'll absolutely fall in love with this game. It's just amazing. I picked up the controller and actively started playing with no problems at all; learning on-the-fly how to control your character, how to access menus, how to equip and use items, it's just seamless. Everything is exactly as it should be. It's just breathtaking to play. Fun, beautiful, exciting, engrossing, it's all there. Best game I've ever played!

Dangerously addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have never played an Elder Scrolls game before this one. Now I think I understand what I have been missing. The amount of work and detail that have gone into Oblivion is staggering. The sheer number of quests, characters, weapons and places, all set in a gorgeous "real" secondary world is just amazing.

Since the first week of March I have been held hostage by this game. The scope of the story is vast and the game world is enormous. The main quest ranges all over the game world, and follows the assassination of the Emperor, the search for his lost heir and the recovery of the Amulet of Kings. The goal is to stave off an invasion from an alternate plain of existence, Oblivion. I am still only half-way through this quest, as I have enjoyed all of the alternate quests scattered throughout the world.

Everywhere you travel there are cities, towns, dungeons, forts and caves, along with shrines, ruins and every type of terrain you can imagine.

For me, the greatest thing about the game is choice. You can choose to follow the main quest, or follow countless alternate quests and return to the main quest only when you wish. Wander the countryside exploring the sights and getting into scrapes. Join and advance through different guilds, namely the Fighters Guild, the Mages Guild, the Thieves Guild, or the assassin's guild called the Dark Brotherhood. You can join orders of chivalry and become a knight, fight in the Arena in Imperial City city to become Grand Champion, or join a secret society of Vampire hunters (or become a Vampire yourself). There is just too much in this game to list everything and it has been expanded by downloaded content. I haven't even started The Shivering Isles expansion pack, although I have enjoyed the relatively brief quests associated with the Knights Of The Nine expansion.

I haven't enjoyed a game so much in years, and the only other RPG I have enjoyed as much in the past was Knights Of The Old Republic.

Oblivion is an instant classic and an excellent game.

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