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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PC DVD) | 
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| From: Take 2 Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  150 reviews
Sales Rank: 904
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: role-playing-games
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 5026555039437
EAN: 5026555039437
ASIN: B0009XH4D4
Release Date: March 24, 2006
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In a nutshell:
One of the most respected Western role-playing games of all time is back with huge improvements in graphics and accessibility, including a completely real-time combat system and the largest, most detailed game world ever seen. Phew.The lowdown:
Although previous Elder Scrolls games have enjoyed something of a like it or loathe it reputation, this latest sequel has the means to appeal to everyone thanks to one simple improvement: its incredible new graphics. Unlike many role-playing games it is viewed from a first person perspective, with a game world portrayed in a staggering amount of detail, and realistic psychics and characters that genuinely seem to be going on about their own separate lives. The game's real appeal though lies in the huge freedom: play it exactly how you want. Most exciting moment:
Using the new combat engine to fight off dozens of enemies, then stealing one of their mounts and riding off into the sunset. Since you ask:
Emperor Uriel Septim VII is voiced by Star Trek and X-Men luminary Patrick Stewart, but all the characters in the game have full spoken voiceovers instead of just onscreen text. This is the next generation, you know. The bottom line:
One of the most realistic and accessible role-playing games ever made.
Harrison Dent
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 A review for the older gamer! October 25, 2008
C. Finan (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am what might be described as a more 'mature' gamer. I'm also female. Now, I don't want to be accused of being ageist or sexist BUT I wanted to write a review specifically for the older person who might pass over this game because they think that it's all about fighting, war, death, destruction etc.
Well, not the way I play it, it isn't...
This is a brilliant, immersive game that has kept me happily engrossed for eighteen months - and I haven't finished it yet! (Well I never said I was a 'hardened' gamer...!!)
The graphics are absolutely brilliant if you have a PC with a good graphics card: if you have a slower PC, then you'll need to tweak with the in-game settings to ensure it doesn't stutter. Even then, playing with the graphics at its lowest level, the graphics are good.
I recommend you turn off everything that runs in the background of your computer before you start the game (you can do this by pressing CTRL/ALT/DELETE and bringing up Task Manager). Also unplug your printer and turn off your screen saver (this is one greedy game!!)
During the first few minutes of the game (or the first few hours, depending on your ability. Or the first few days, in my case...), you go through a kind of tutorial. This takes you out of prison and through a dungeon full of rats and nasties to be killed - finding out along the way how to use various weapons and spells. But - don't let this put you off. Because once you get out of the dungeon you enter the Province of Cyrodiil - a kind of medieval land where magic is common and the gun hasn't been invented, so you must use swords or fists if you want to fight - and thereafter you can wander around and do just as you please. You also design your character: goody or baddy, male or female, human or non-human - the choices are many. You also choose your skills and attributes, and you can spend as long as you like fine-tweaking your characters physical appearance.
By making your way to different towns, you can pick up various quests (missions) along the way. Some of these are simple, some of them are difficult, most of them are good fun - and most earn you money or goodies if you complete them. You might be asked to find out who stole a painting, or re-unite a couple of estranged brothers, or help clear a farm of horrible trolls... There is some thwacking and killing along the way, but mostly of scamps or trolls or wolves, so it's not too gruesome.
(You can play a wholly different game of course - you can be a murderous warrior if you like...)
Overall, this is a really, really great game and can be anything you want it to be. You can become an expert in magic and cast spells, or you can become a thief and an expert at sneaking around. You can be Mr Good Guy or Girl and go around helping everyone so they all like you, and spend your money on new clothes and houses, furnishings and even your own horse. Yes - you can ride around on a horse if you like - cantering through the woods stopping to collect herbs and flowers along the way, before standing by the water's edge to have a glass of wine and a bite of bread... no finer way to spend your leisure hours.....
There are lots of cheats on the Internet as well, so you can have endless health and endless money, for example, and can play a very easy game if you want!
I have now bought myself a Playstation 3 to play Oblivion, and I actually think that the visual aspect of the game was better on the PC (although I'm told this will not be the case once I've got an HD TV). But the game is awesome everywhere - and I just wanted to write a review for people who might pass this game by, thinking that it was merely another violent war game. Well, it CAN be, but it doesn't have to be.
Try it and you'll be enthralled!
 A must get RPG September 24, 2008
W. Kent
This is one of my favorite games and i have played it many times over. So why four stars and not five. Basicly this game is very good but if you look closly at it, it is acctually quite simple, simpler than it predesecor Morrowind which is another must get RPG.
Get this and you wont be dissapointed, but dont excpect a extremily coplexed game that has no fault.
Also MAKE SURE you have the right specs (i had to have my computer updated to get it to run)!
Freedom... miles and miles of beautiful freedom to loot and steal and kill in.... August 6, 2008
D. H. Morgan (uk)
Ok so I'm a fan of Morrowind so a lot of frowning and comparing went on as I played Oblivion... 'this not as good as that... that could be better' I mumbled as I walked over a hill and saw a procession of waterfalls bathed in the light of the setting sun... And never complained or compared again. As with Morrowind you start slow after a while you get over the hump; experience kicks in and you really start to enjoy yourself. While there is a similarity in landscapes that can get a bit dull with a bit of searching there are many places where the views are just incredible. This is a sandbox game that rewards players, theres a huge number of hidden places, hundreds of side quests; and you can also buy houses if your so inclined. The game tailors itself well to your style of playing too... thievery and sniping or hacking and throwing fire.
All in all thoroughly enjoyable... now excuse me... its such a beautiful morning and the lake looks so peaceful.... now to pop this arrow of fiery death into the distant head of a frolicking dear... *twang* Lulz.
 Samey July 27, 2008
Sir Squidshaker (UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Once you've played roughly 3-4 hours of oblivion you've more or less seen everything there is to see, the entire world is just your basic woodland/silven glen with very little differentiation. Patrick Stewart's excellent brief appearance is overshadowed by clunky and badly written dialogue being spoken by about three total voice actors in the entire kingdom. Fighting feels void of any impact or brutality and the sorcery side of things is pretty much laughable.
If you're not afraid of some oldschool 3D RPG action, Wizardry 8 will fill the gap. Failing that you could always just stick with Morrowind or wait for Diablo III.
outstanding! May 26, 2008
S. A. Rutherford
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this game is great it has tuns of things to do it seems endless you could just be wandering around enjoying the beutiful scenery then out of knowere a strange man comes up to you with some weird quest to do like save her daughter its a very good game
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