The Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion - Game Review
When you wake up in the imperial prison not knowing what crime you committed and get send on a quest you don't give a crap about you're either high or playing Oblivion. Oblivion is the creation of Take 2 games and Bethesda softworks and was released 20 march 2006.
Don't let that date fool you, it's still one of the best looking games around, it has great anti-aliasing (up to and including 16 times), supports high resolution (max 1920 x 1200) and has blooming options. The scenery however is a bit repetitive, it's like they took 500 square feet from the English countryside, added a few wolves and copy pasted it a few times until it was roughly the size of New York
The character you walk these woods with is fully customizable, so you can make him look like you, but we all know what twat you are so that's not going to happen. Once you picked an appearance, race, zodiac and class you're set free in the epic world of exploring, quests and horrible creatures. Said horrible creatures are defeated by using a sword, magic or bow and arrow.
It is fairly easy to switch between those three mid-battle, when you open your backpack the game pauses so you have all the time in the world to pick a weapon of choice and vanquish your enemies with it. When you defeat enemies you gain experience, when you get enough experience you gain a level. With this level come certain points for you to distribute in certain skills and abilities, to increase the effectiveness of it. This is fairly easy earlier on in the game but when you advance it becomes more and more difficult to do.
You also have different set of skills that you can train by using them, like swinging a sword, casting spells and performing alchemy. These skills are fairly easy trained and are maxed out quickly, but that doesn't mean it's over for the game. The story missions rune out after 4 - 5 hours of playing. However there are side missions all over the place that'll take a couple hours to finish them all. The total game play time about 20 - 25 hours for completing all quests, but after that there are still dungeons and regions to explore which would take another 10 - 15 hours.
Oblivion is advisable for people who like RPG's and have the time to play them. For people who don't it'll be a bit of a drag to play it more then a couple hours before uninstalling it and go play Gears of War 2 for the 20th time.
Overall review
- Game play
Standard controls, mouse to attack, ctrl to crouch, feels familiar. - Story
Not necessary to follow, and when you do it's hardly there. - Graphics
The graphics are truly stunning, to watch the beauty you need a good graphics card, though.
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