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If you get this game, forget about friends and family.....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Becasue you will never see them. I have watched my roommate play this game non-stop for 20 hours. he didn't even get up to go to the bathroom or eat. This game is dangerously addictive. Five of my friends each made a charater and thier fates were all different from mine. You pick your own destiny. This just proves how wide open this game really is. The graphics aren't what you would really expect from a next-gen game but they are good enough. You really arent playing it for the visuals anyway(At least you shouldn't be.). The weapons are great. Beat people down with an enchanted warhammer or kill them from far away with the bow and arrow. This game is the GTA of the middle ages. Buyers beware!!!

The Best RPG Ever Made!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is amazing you can lose 8 hours like 8 minutes. I have spent about 40 hours on this game and barely scratched the surface. If you like RPG's then this game will shake your foundation. It has sucked me in and I dont see me getting out anytime soon. Just note I am not a gamer. I have barely even played Video games in the past ten years but I recently bought a xbox 360 and this game I am addicted! Buy it you wont regret it.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When i first bought this game i thought it would be ok. The beginning of the game is kind of boring but as you keep playing the game it gets insanely fun. The game is so big it will take you months to beat it so don't worry about buying others games while you play this. This game has so many quests you will never get bored. The main story really gets you into the game and makes you feel like you are part of a movie and the graphics is really good. While you play the game you can play from 1st person camera ( you see from your characters eye ) or 3rd person camera ( you see your character running around ) so it makes it really fun plus you get to choose your race , color , face from different fantasy races we've seen on TVs and read about in books. I highly recommend this game. Go get it !

Wow

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Like the title says, Wow. This game is amazing, graphically, and gameplay wise. Yes, graphics don't make the game, but they can help, as in this game.

First off, I'll talk about the graphics. The graphics are amazing, absolutely beautiful. Everytime I walk out of the Imperial City at about noon, I'm amazed by how beautiful everything is. The creators lavished all their skills upon the graphical creation of this game.

Now onto the gameplay. The gameplay is just as excellent. You can choose from many different races, and classes, and you can also create your own class if none of the ones you see fit your liking. Now, I'll admit the level system is a bit off, every time you get ten levels in your major skills, you have to sleep, and then you'll get to choose what skills you wish to put extra points into. Now, there are many guilds you can join, and if you join the Dark Brotherhood, the Assasians guild in the game, and complete enough quests for them, you can become a vampire, which I havn't done yet, but have heard it's awesome. Weapons, there're hundreds of them, from the everyday ordinary ones, to ones that are different, but powerful.

Basically, they've taken Morrowind, and given it a massive makeover and boost to make this absolutely amazing game.

BEST GAME EVER

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The first time I saw this game I thought that it looks all right and when it came out for the X360 I wasn't really interested and then when I came around. I thought I could never get an Xbox 360 before summer is over I got it with a month to spare before school started and from the starter dungeon to as far as i'm in now I loved it. the graphics are GREAT and if you have a HDTV it looks even better.The gameplay is superb the combat is fun there are over one hundred ways to approach a battle and you can fight however way you want you can sneak up on them or just run up and fight them face-to-face.sound, is good the music can get annoying to some people but voice overs are good the actual peoples voices can be the same one ,over and over but rarely and while we're on the topic of NPC's [non playable character]the AI is great the people have schedules. and if you don't want the game because it's mostly a first person game you dont notice most of the time and if you really cant get over that there is a third person mode all im all even if you haven't fully decided yet get this game and I forgot to mention you create your own character from facial details to youre race

WOW

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: July 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Let me start by saying that I'm usually not an adventure/RPG kind of gamer. I enjoy my shooters and action games. But this game looked so amazing that I simply couldn't pass it up (well, that and a lack of any other good XBox 360 games). But I was amazed when I popped it into my 360 and started playing.

Compared to Morrowind, this game is soooo much better. It's not as big, but then again, I thought that Morrowind was too big. There's still a good number of towns and plenty of places that have yet to be found, so it leaves the player with lots and lots of space to explore. The quests are also much better than in Morrowind. I felt that they were more...managable. Not quite as long, but much more fun. But the real place were this game excels was fighting. I remember being so frusterated playing Morrowind because I wasn't able to hit people with a sword. In this game, the fighting has been improved dramatically.

This game is also a piece of eye candy. The graffics are beautiful. And one of my favorite features of the game is the addition of horses. They allow you to traverse the country side in a much more timely manner.

Pick this game up today. You won't be disappointed. I've been playing for months now and still am nowhere close to being done. It's one of the best games I've ever played.

Wow. This game is amazing.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: June 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is absolutely amazing. I got it after playing through Call of Duty 2 and Ghost Recon and have been playing it during most of my free time. I now have played a little over 50 hours, but still have not even come close to completing the main quest. There are over thousands of NPC's and hundreds of side quests. You can be everything from an alchemist exploring the wilderness for new ingredients, a warrior skilled with a blade, or even a mage trained in destruction magic. You can buy a house in the city and invest in shops, or join murderous guilds, or simply enjoy the amazing landscapes. The quests are far from expected, there are the standard explore dungeons quests, to the unexpected quests such as joining The Dark Brotherhood and swapping a powerful warlord's medicine with poison, or to faking an elf's death in order to save him. Whatever you choose there are endless options of things to do. I highly recommend this game, although it does require some thinking and is not for someone who doesn't want to spend a lot of time.

Oblivion= Electronic Crack.....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: June 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have never played the game yet only because i just got my 360 today but i have watched my roomate play for the past month and a half and i got hooked just watching him play it! This game looked and played SO well it motivated me to get a 360, because before this no game out there really me to want to get it. now the only problems i have with the game is the part wher you become a vampire....i would have improved on that some-
1.While yes it does improve your stats, it is not a drastic increase, but in like all most every movie or game i have seen/played vampires were leagues above everything else when it came to strengh and speed, but i can understand why they didn't if they where trying to balance out the game to prevent the game from being too easy or hard depending on how you played it so i'll let this one slide.
2.You can only feed on sleeping people... come on are you telling me with all of the great stuff you have in the game you can only feed on PEOPLE WHO ARE ASLEEP...that is an insult to vampire lore everywhere. they should have made it where you can feed on anyone if they are awake or sleeping.
3.There is no negitives for not feeding...exept for people won't talk to you, how i would have done it to encourge proper role playing(this is an rpg after all) is the longer you go with out feeding your skills start to diminish and go down for your character is going crazy with hunger, but like number 1 i'll let that slide too because if you can only feed on sleeping people and you really only find them in town then it would be too hard to keep your character in check.
4.You can't create other vampires...which make no since at all because you don't start the game as a vampire but you become one. i just feel you should be able to do this, theyre could be several ways to do this too, i feel if you made them a vampire they belong to your coven and they shuold follow you around like your minions(but to keep a balance in check i'd say the number of minions you can have depends on your level of experence)
5.You can't turn a humen( or what ever race you want for that matter) into a personal servent to handle your business during the day time(no i don't expect him to do quest but you should be able to send him on very minor personal missions, but that could get complicated so i'll let that slide too)

other then the very small reason about the vampire parts i givthis game a 5/5 fun wise and a 4/5 overall, i can't wait to pick it up my self

The best real time RPG

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

When I first loaded this in my 360 i was amazed by the startup movie. This game has every weapon and spell you could think of. It also has great landscapes and amazing NPCs. I have had this game since it came out and since then i've been hooked on it.

Your social life is over

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion- Circa 2006

GOOD:
- This game literally has a huge world (and you can explore every inch of it), it rivals that of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA: SA's entire world not just one city). For Example, if you went into the woods in the game and did not use a map you world get just as lost as you would in a real-world forest with no map.
- Hundreds of quests (really big and really small) to perform you can skip any you want or do them all, plus you deicide the outcome weather it be good or bad.
- Interact with NPC's, there are literally hundreds of them and they are all voiced acted and display emotions on there faces.
- A very life like world in which Police chase thieves, wives nag husbands and wolves prowl the woods looking for prey.
- Do just about anything you can think of like steal (anything), save people form gangs, fight in arena's, hunt animals, sail ships, become a vampire (pretty cool) or just hang back and do almost nothing the choice is yours.

BAD:
- This game may be way to hard for most casual gamers.
- The loading in this game is can get annoying, this game will load often and some loads (not all) take a long time. The hard drive cuts down on some loading, but it's still a pain.
- Some of the character animations especially those of your character are a little sloppy (but in 1st person you cannot see your own animations so it's not so much a problem)
- The Hit Detection (or hit boxes) sometimes doesn't work well.
- While the world is huge it's also mostly wooded forest area, which can be a little bland after a while.
- Morality seem to play little in the game in terms of your characters development, you can do evil/good act but will not really be considered evil/good in the same way that you see in Fable or Jade Empire. In the end it's more realistic but a little underwhelming.

IF IT FITS YOUR TASTE:
- A first person Swords and Sorcery RPG (Click in the left thumb stick to toggle third person mode).
- The games theme is very much close to that of the Lord of the Rings books or movie trilogy, by Peter Jackson, other similarities are found in the tabletop RPG Dungeons and Dragons.
- This is a do as you please type of RPG (like Fable or Jade Empire), this not anything like Final Fantasy, you pick the quest and you choose the outcome, that said there is little to no character identity outside of your deeds and don't expect a party of other characters who tag a long like in most other RPG's (like Final Fantasy).

GAME ITS MOST ASSOCATED TOO:
- Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
- Fable: The Lost Chapters
- Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
- Thief III: Deadly Shadow

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
- There is downloadable content missions/quests and areas for this game out on PC and Xbox-Live. Examples being horse Armor, Spell Tomes, The Wizard's Tower, The Thieves Den, Vile Lair, The Knights of the Nine, and The Shivering Isles just to name a few.
- The Special Limited Edition (Xbox-360) comes with a bonus disc, which has a lengthy behind the scenes documentary, also on the disc you can view concept art work for the game, plus the limited edition comes with a small book on the history and people of the Elder Scrolls world and you get a real-to-life coin from this games world.
- The world in the game if measured in real-world miles would be about 16 miles not including underground areas like caves, crypts, basements, and bunkers, also most areas in the alternate-dimension of Oblivion are immeasurable due to the fact that they are randomly generated and huge.
- All Elder Scrolls games are first Person (the other Elder Scrolls games besides Elder Scrolls III where on the PC).
- In the game (at the main city) you will see a poster for a gladiator type of fighting arena called Arena, the poster is the same picture found on the box art for Elder Scrolls first game called Elder Scrolls: Arena.

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