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 Free-roaming, goblin-slaying genius December 11, 2007
R. J. Hobson (London)
35 out of 36 found this review helpful
The problem that plagues so many games: a linear nature. You move from one pre-defined objective to another. You tick a series of boxes and, after 8-12 hours of gameplay, it's all over.
Oblivion blows any preconception you may have about linear gameplay out of the water. Quite simply - if it's possible to be "simple" about this wonderful, complex, absorbing beast of a game - your character is given a plot to follow in the game's opening sequence. Ten minutes later, after you've finished your initial challenge, you can completely ignore the story and just wander around slaying, spellcasting, thieving, selling stuff... and so on, and so on, ad inifinitum. Quests abound, and you can leave them halfway through and come back whenever you want. You can be nasty. You can be nice. You can be both, if you want. Oh yes, plus it looks stunning, sounds incredible, plays like a charm and will surgically remove any social life you thought you had for as long as you own it. I've just donated my copy to a friend, and as a result, I have my girlfriend back. Just about. Buy it, and be prepared to lose touch with your friends, family, and possibly your job as well. Utterly, utterly brilliant.
Brilliant beyond imagination! January 27, 2008
mjstr1986 (Birmingham, England.)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Usually when a game has a story, you expect that the game will have limited playability, you will be forced to stick to specific tasks and have limited abilities.
This, however, is a game that will let you stray just as far as you like from the story and do your own thing! And it's not so GTA in it's approach either (limited side stories, things to do), but in actual fact you could spend hours running from (and slaying) city guards having committed a bunch of crimes. You could master the guilds of theivery, mages, fighters, and others. You could wander into the woods risking life and limb against the wierd and wonderful array from creatures to collect ingredients to mix your own potions which you can then sell on or use to manipulate your abiltities to whatever end you choose!!! It really is that open!
I have clocked up 140 hours of play since I bought this game, and I still can't say the end is in sight. And the thing is, i'm still as addicted now as when I first started. At the 40 I paid for it, I couldn't say any other game i've played on could offer such good value for money.
You begin the game by choosing your race and modifying your look, which is great. The map on first glance is large, but as you explore more, you begin to realise that the map is, infact, huge, due to the abundance of 'other worlds' such as the forts, caves and oblivion gates.
For anyone with a PS3 (not as grand on other machines), this may have been one of the first games to be released, but this could well be the best game on this console for a long time to come.
leave reality behind December 6, 2007
Alex Jevremovic
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Brilliant, if you have any liking at all for RPG's then this game will not disappoint in any way. 100's of hours of gameplay, and really satisfying, especially when your character becomes more advanced and you become really hard, summon daemons to fight for you, create your own magic weapons and armour. battle against skeletons, zombies, vampires etc, dungeons and lands to explore and plunder! the riches, oh the sweet sweet riches, everything that you expect from a RPG is all in this game. i could happily play this until fallout 2 comes out in 1 years time.
They may be milking it, but why not? November 11, 2007
Linda Fairweather (Essex, England)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
Yeah sure, they may be 'milking' this game a little bit but only the great games are able to do this. I've played Oblivion on the PC many times but the PC was too slow to add the following expansions. Now the PS3 has come around i have waited patiently for this and believe it will be a great success. With this games there is no end to the fun that can be had, definitely one of the most expansive games ever and this theoretically 'Box Set' of the Oblivion series it'll make a great sticking filler at the least. Sure to keep you occupied for hundreds of hours on end.
Pleasure in Oblivion November 16, 2007
Sean Whittle (cornwall)
15 out of 20 found this review helpful
dont listen to the 1st viewer because i doubt he had a 2grand pc specific 2 gaming and wiv liqued cooling. confused? the 2nd reviewer has got it spot on, the pc i described is the closest comparison 2 the ps3, utillising bluray for fantastic gaming experience. as for Oblivion, yes theres alot of loading screens, as there are in gears of war, heavnly sword, halo3 and many
other next gen games. the difference being these games last max 10hrs in the hands of even a novice, oblivion can last
hundreds, alongside hundreds of missions,characters, enemys, places and thousands of items. oblivion may not be as flash
and stylish as alot of new games but its still fantastic, it converted me 2 the genre and you can end up spending alot of your
time in the game. i highly recommend oblivion for ps3
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