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- Platform: Xbox 360
- BBFC Rating:
Suitable for 15 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 15. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 15 years of age or over. - Media: Video Game
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Product Description
- Live Another Life in Another World. Create and play any character you can imagine, from the noble warrior to the sinister assassin to the wizened sorcerer.
- Next Generation Graphics. Pixel-shader effects and high-definition televisions are fully supported to create unprecedented visuals, including lifelike towns, dungeons, and the most realistic forests ever created in a game.
- First Person Melee and Magic. An all-new combat and magic system brings first person role-playing to a new level of intensity where you feel every blow.
- Radiant AI. This groundbreaking AI system gives Oblivion's characters full 24/7 schedules and the ability to make their own choices based on the world around them. Non-player characters eat, sleep, and complete goals all on their own.
- Realistic Characters. Oblivion's features over 1,000 non-player characters who come to life like never before with facial animations, lip-synching, and full speech. They even engage in unscripted conversations with each other and you.
- Open-Ended Gameplay, Short Challenges. The enormous world of Oblivion is open for you to explore at your own pace, and shorter challenges such as fighting bandits, mixing potions, creating magic items and persuading friends keep the challenges coming.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
This game took me ages to get into and I found it way too difficult to begin with. However, once I turned the difficulty level down I found it much more enjoyable. It's a good game, there is lots to do and loads of quests but after a while they tend to get a bit too similar.
Almost every quest you receive leads you to a cave where you have to go and find someone who disappears and it ALWAYS turns out that they're dead or that they're betrayers. It does get a little repetative.
I enjoyed the character depth and development and talking to different people and exploring but the combat is quite poor and I think they could have varied the individual tasks more.
Overall, it's a good game, but not as good as I expected it to be.
Almost every quest you receive leads you to a cave where you have to go and find someone who disappears and it ALWAYS turns out that they're dead or that they're betrayers. It does get a little repetative.
I enjoyed the character depth and development and talking to different people and exploring but the combat is quite poor and I think they could have varied the individual tasks more.
Overall, it's a good game, but not as good as I expected it to be.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
Personally I really enjoyed playing Oblivion. It's the first game I ever really got into.
The storyline is good, if not wonderful, and there are plenty of things to keep you entertained - hundreds of places to discover and explore across the large and beautifully crafted landscape (although after a while these can get rather repetitive), and a similar number of sidequests. I got 100 hours out of this game in a single runthrough, but you could easily squeeze out more or choose to start again.
To get the most out of Oblivion I would recommend exploring early on in the game. Don't make the mistake of just thundering through the main storyline straight away (even though you can play on afterwards). Find as many places as you can and investigate EVERYTHING - you never know where you will find a quest or something interesting. This way you are likely to have levelled up enough to get good rewards from quests and enough money to buy a house so that in future you can hold onto as much stuff as you want.
Another reviewer said the levelling up system is the "worst ever" as enemies level up with you. While this is a valid opinion, I would argue that this keeps the game interesting, and means that as you progress you have the chance to aquire new weapons and armour.
There is oppurtunity to choose the way you play the game - you can choose to play through the game steathily or with brute force, good or evil and this adds a nice dimension. This is added to by the fact you can create YOUR character - with a choice of races with different upsides and downsides and which skills your character is best at.
The combat system, it has to be said, is pretty poor. There isn't any variation - it's pretty much just stand and swipe.
A lot of the quests involve pretty much the same sequence - go and talk to him, go and talk to her, find it in a cave and this can get pretty boring but because you can choose what you do at any given time this wasn't too much of a problem for me.
Other issues with the game include the fact that the NPCs aren't brilliantly done - their dialogue gets boring and they tend to be quite glitchy, and the 3rd person system doesn't really work. It's virtually impossible to control you character in a fight or know if you're committing a crime. Really it's only good for admiring your character.
All in all this is a good game that you will get plenty of fun out of. It's quite clear that Bethesda channelled most of their efforts into making the world as fantastic as it is, and it seems a shame that some other aspects of the game are compromised. The game could have been made a lot better with just a little more thought.
The storyline is good, if not wonderful, and there are plenty of things to keep you entertained - hundreds of places to discover and explore across the large and beautifully crafted landscape (although after a while these can get rather repetitive), and a similar number of sidequests. I got 100 hours out of this game in a single runthrough, but you could easily squeeze out more or choose to start again.
To get the most out of Oblivion I would recommend exploring early on in the game. Don't make the mistake of just thundering through the main storyline straight away (even though you can play on afterwards). Find as many places as you can and investigate EVERYTHING - you never know where you will find a quest or something interesting. This way you are likely to have levelled up enough to get good rewards from quests and enough money to buy a house so that in future you can hold onto as much stuff as you want.
Another reviewer said the levelling up system is the "worst ever" as enemies level up with you. While this is a valid opinion, I would argue that this keeps the game interesting, and means that as you progress you have the chance to aquire new weapons and armour.
There is oppurtunity to choose the way you play the game - you can choose to play through the game steathily or with brute force, good or evil and this adds a nice dimension. This is added to by the fact you can create YOUR character - with a choice of races with different upsides and downsides and which skills your character is best at.
The combat system, it has to be said, is pretty poor. There isn't any variation - it's pretty much just stand and swipe.
A lot of the quests involve pretty much the same sequence - go and talk to him, go and talk to her, find it in a cave and this can get pretty boring but because you can choose what you do at any given time this wasn't too much of a problem for me.
Other issues with the game include the fact that the NPCs aren't brilliantly done - their dialogue gets boring and they tend to be quite glitchy, and the 3rd person system doesn't really work. It's virtually impossible to control you character in a fight or know if you're committing a crime. Really it's only good for admiring your character.
All in all this is a good game that you will get plenty of fun out of. It's quite clear that Bethesda channelled most of their efforts into making the world as fantastic as it is, and it seems a shame that some other aspects of the game are compromised. The game could have been made a lot better with just a little more thought.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
As my title of this review says, I did really want to enjoy this game more than I have been. I know it was a flagship title and is bound to show it's age by now, (although other games like GoW are still outstanding by today's standards), but the constant loading times really interrupt the whole experience. It looks good, but every time you open a door it can take up to 15 seconds to load, and there are a lot of doors to open! Also, when moving around the game world, particularly on horseback, the constantly recycled landscape has to load about every 30 seconds. It is very frustrating. The actual gameplay is very open ended, and you could play for 100 hours without even doing the main quest, but locating a new cave or fort/ruin every couple of hundred yards soon gets tiresome as they begin to all look the same. The only thing that changes is the enemies as you level-up. I may be being harsh, and perhaps at the time it deserved the high scores it got, but I cannot rate this game that highly compared to the current quality of other releases. Too many techincal issues do unfortunately spoil this. I'm not sure if installing it on the HD would make a difference to load times, but having bought the 4gb HD model I do not have the room for it, so cannot say...maybe someone else could clarify that?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
was really disappointed
People have raved about this game in amazon reviews so, against the negitive comments of my friends i decided i would buy it. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Aaron
Oblivion is a great game, it's a shame about the disc...
Is there a recycling trend going on at the moment, that involves using your old xb360 games as freaking coasters, before you sell them on second hand?!?! Read more
Published 4 months ago by P. Palser
A masterclass of killing time
As I type this, I've devoted roughly 300 hours to Oblivion, to say that this game has lots of missions/ quests would be an understatement, with a main story that will take you at... Read more
Published 9 months ago by G Leahy
Suitable Name
I would certainly NOT recommend this for first time Xbox 360 or RPG players. Heres what i think:
Pros:
Freedom to roam (eventually)
Cons:
Graphics not good for... Read more
Pros:
Freedom to roam (eventually)
Cons:
Graphics not good for... Read more
Published 9 months ago by jimjamyaha99
Value defined
When I first got my 360 in 2006, I spent my last pennies on Oblivion. It was a gamble but paid off. I must have put around 200 hours into this now; seen it, heard it and finished... Read more
Published 10 months ago by whitestrat
One of the best rp... games ever!
At first i had never heard of the elder scrolls untill i borrowed it off my nephew. Oddly, i had to borrow it a few times before i truely started liking it, in fact i thing that... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Bob
Great game...but I miss Morrowind : (
Oblivion is great- huge map, freedom, decent graphics, lots of choice and adventure, masses of hours to be had in its word. Read more
Published 14 months ago by oneleggedpig
Epic yet unrefined
as the title says, this is an extremely large game with so much to see and do, that you can easily be entertained for hours upon end. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Wilson SP
Levelling System...
Some brilliant gameplay and missions, but ruined by an awful levelling system where the world and items level around you. This affects the send of immersion. Read more
Published 16 months ago by R. Orriel
Had it for years... still coming back to it!
Ive 'completed' this game countless numbers of times - done the main story and done all the guild quests. Read more
Published 17 months ago by M Hamer
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