Customer Reviews:
Get This Game!
This game is vast with a huge array of characters to interact with and quests to undertake. I bought it for my husband as a birthday present but we try to share it equally in order to to maintain a stable marriage! I love this game, the detail is remarkable - in the variety of buildings, the scenery outdoors, the plants and the people/creatures along the way. My husband, who has been a Dungeon Master in D&D, is more interested in the stats than I am, I’m just in it for the ride and find it very entertaining and hugely enjoyable - I strongly recommend this game!

I guess I’m one of the only ones who doesn’t get it
I know that I will be disagreed with from the start but i felt the need to do this review after rushing out to get this game from these 5 star Amazon reviews & being left disappointed. Here is why:

I need to start by saying that I am not an avid gamer who plays his ps3 all the time and hooks up to the internet. I just want a game I can play after i get home from work - that type of thing.

Oblivion seems to be anything but that. It is SO full of details and subplots that to even attempt to solve this game w/out having a FAQ or guide by you is a total joke. You have an overwhelming amount of mini-battles and other quests that the game prompts you to do as you stroll along but here is my question: how would you know what to accept or where to go with all this side stuff popping up and giving you the option to divert you? You are given so many options like pop-ups that you have a general idea of where to walk and who to talk to but once you get in that vicinity-good luck! I hope you plan on lots of trial and error and just plain being stuck. i abandoned this game when I got to point where it told me to get somewhere but when you bring up the map and scrolled over the city name it would not zap me there. Great, now a bug?

Just like when you are in the Oblivion relam and there are quests you can do inside depending on which door you choose. You have no idea how to solve this game w/out outside help.

And then there are the times you have to waste 15 min watching someones face change as you tell them jokes or lies just in hopes to barter (gee how fun) which may not work out anyways. Way too many options, way too many diferent outcomes. Those two things would be superb if you had any guidance as to how to solve the initial quest. Plus this GOTY edition is supposed to come with two bonus games. Guess what? You gotta play Oblivion anways just to try and access those games - one of which i never even got prompted to begin playing!

I personally enjoyed Assassins creed and Uncharted alot better than this game. Maybe die hard D&D fans or people who play online w/ others for guidance & help would enjoy this more than I did. I see no possible way to solve this on your own in any efficient matter of time and not too far into the game I needed to print out step by step FAQ just to figure out who to talk to, what door to walk thru, etc. Where is the fun in that? Even after playing around w/ the game for a while and getting familiar w/ it I was still just left confused.

Ps - I don’t want to sound like a big whiner. The graphics are awesome, you can build your charcater however you want but that is another thing - if you have no idea what you are doing (like me) the way you build it from the start could severly limit what you can do during the game causing you to have to start over after a while due to your limitations w/ that build of charcter.

Many different voices which sound like pros and you can do things like wait-out time (you can ’sleep’ within a 24 hr frame), change what your character is wearing or holding . Once again - if you have a game where you need to “sleep” till another time just to wait and interact with them…..this game is VERY detail oriented and time consuming with every little detail needing to be attended to.

The bottom line is that I had fun exploring for a bit but you need more than a compass to point you in the right direction. Having options is great and needed but if you are given too many and it decides how your game will end …I just can’t see how you would ever know that you stayed on a correct path w/out a Strategy guide or FAQ.

i really wish I rented this game before purchaing it. You even need a FAQ just to guide you how to initially build your own charcter! UUGGHH!

Give me Prince of Persia or God of War anyday!

bugs galore
THis game is truly fantastic, but once you get quite far on in the game, there are constant bugs - on certain side quests and even in the main one itself. It drove me crazy in the end, constantly saving because I never knew when the next bug would arrive and have now just stopped playing altogether. I wish there was this type of review around when I bought it.

I have scoured the net and have seen that a lot of gamers are having this problem. However, it was a great game before the bugs.

Oblivion reigns supreme
RPG’s will no doubt soar to new heights in the future but right now there is none better than Bethesda’s amazing ‘Oblivion’.

There are so many standout features to this game but at the top of my list are visuals, scope, atmosphere, playability and storytelling.

If you are a reader of epic fantasy novels or ever played tabletop RPG’s in your youth, then this could very well be what you saw in your mind’s eye. Countless dank, darkly lit tunnels, caves, forts and castles, menacing enemies. The spell casting system has a visceral physicality that makes it very satisfying throughout. The fighting system is clever and versatile - a more powerful combat experience than say World of Warcraft. Combat actually suits the console interface and the remainder of the game is surprisingly easy to play on a console given the amount of story and character interaction.

I could write a book length review of this game because the game world is absolutely massive even before the expansions (included in this version) come into play. The imaginative plotting in this game puts it above many other peers - I’ve played 40 game days and, amongst many other adventures, I’ve executed a quest for half a day inside a painter’s painting, I’ve followed a mad man through his paranoid belief that a number of NPC’s are out to kill him and so on and so on. The beauty of the writing is the moral dilemmas that are sometimes posed by a quest’s conclusion. You might discover that you rescued an item for a character who does not rightfully own it or you are unsure which of two characters to support.

I’ve played, I estimate 40 or so hours of ‘Oblivion’ and I suspect I’ve not tapped 5% of the game world. It’s always engaging and often exciting attempting to overcome the myriad of clever quests or daunting enemies put in your way in this game world.

Last and not least, this game looks simply magnificent, it’s an adult fantasy world, more convincing than the partial manga style of many of the MMORGs. It certainly has the scope and grandeur that rivals any of them.

If you are partial to Tolkien style RPG entertainment - you really must experience ‘Oblivion’.

best RPG ever made
All I can say is the only that could make it better is if it were a MMORPG