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This game isn't out!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 21 / 44
Date: December 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game isn't out, no you don't own it, you didn't win it in a contest. You are a complete tool for writing a review for a game that hasn't been released yet. Oh and by the way you cousin's friend's uncle doesn't work for the company and that didn't give you the game before it came out. you are an idiot!

Unecessarily gorey...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 32
Date: April 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

We bought our 360 specifically to play this game. There is absolutely no denying that the graphics in this game are the most astounding for any game to date. The ultra "customizability" of your character is unbelievable. You can almost get your character to look like you! (if that's what you want).

It was also very clever that the opening sequence of the game serves as a tutorial for people who have never played (without being tedious for people who already know how to play). It was also a really bright idea to add a second chance to completely change your character before exiting the sewers into the main game.

There is no end to the praise I could heap upon the graphics in this game. I also really liked that, unlike the old morrowind, the plants, animals, etc. were real world items now, as opposed to being made up plants like "hackle-lo leaf" or "kanet flowers". Now you pick things like mugwort, st. john's wort, lavendar, morning glories, etc. The animals I have seen so far are butterflies, deer, sheep, wolves, and horses. I even heard meadowlarks in the meadows.

All these changes are magnificent. My complaints concern the Plane of Oblivion found through the Oblivion Gates. I understand that these places are the domain of dark lords of destruction and chaos, but there is absolutely nothing left to the imagination in the depiction of these realms. The landscape is a melange of broken, tormented, structures surrounded by boiling lava with a crimson smoke sky overhead. This isn't so bad, but everywhere you look there are spikes on everything; the buildings, bridges, turrets, monuments...I didn't even necessarily have a problem with that. But the end of each spike is covered in red...not only does this not really make sense, but it makes everything looking like it is dripping blood...absolutely everywhere. What really made me ill, however, is the dungeons themselves. The oblivion gate I went through was outside the city of Kvetch. The rooms had names like "Blood Feast", "Corridors of Dark Salvation", "Rending Rooms", etc. There were these utterly macabre things called Blood Fountains (pretty self-explanatory). In the towers there were naked corpses suspended from the ceilings. Their bodies were flayed and mutilated (including mutilated genitals); worse, you can search the corpses and take their bones and any gold they had on them (begging the question of where exactly a corpse hides gold?). Given that the graphics in this game are highly detailed, the corpses didn't leave much to the imagination. In those same towers, there was a lift with spikes located at the bottom of the tower and a metalwork grate at the top of the tower. This life is for smashing the suspended corpses into the grate at the top of the tower. I didn't actually see this happen, fortunately, because the lift switch was too damaged to operate. But of the 15 other Oblivion gates you have to go into in this game, chances are one of those lifts is working and it will show the corpses being mashed...

In the untainted world of Tamriel, your character often searches barrels and crates for any treasure that may be inside. On the planes of Oblivion, their version of crates are called "The Punished". They are these odd tripod structures with what looks like a huge pulsating, flayed, heart hanging in the center of the tripod.

I found the extreme level of gore on the Plane of Oblivion to be intolerable. I don't care what anyone says, but immersing yourself in such macabre surroundings can NOT be healthy, most especially for young people (Game is rated for teens). Why why why did they have to do this? The original morrowind was bad enough with "corpus meat", etc. but this makes the old morrowind look friendly.

Now I am hard pressed to justify spending hours playing this and I am super disappointed. I hope some parents/people will take notice of this review and perhaps consider renting this game before shelling out 70 bucks for it.

Its not even out you people are liers!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 29
Date: March 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

What do you people think we are 3?how can you have played the game when it hasn't even been released and as for the idiot that said he won it in a contest i doubt betheda would do such a thing...

Why would they change the ratings to this?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 21
Date: May 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have been waiting so long for this game to come out. But now I heard they changed the ratings to this game I mean why would they change it from rated T for Teen to M for Mature I mean they should've put this game to Mature rated in the first place if it has anything to do with Nudity, Blood and Gore, ETC. But the one thing I want to say is that the guys need to learn what to do next time alright. I don't have anymore to say.

The fourth coming of a very medicore game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 25
Date: March 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are super pretty, and the talking characters remind of my friends except they are very strange looking. There is a girl in a bar in this game and I want to date her but she isnt really so im super depressed now. I got a sword as an assassin and i got heavey armor adn the graphics are beaute, but i cant help but to think that microsoft really dropped the ball on this game. What a piece of garbage, its so contrived, everything about this game screams "been there, done that!" I hope all of you heed my warnings about this terrible game, however I give it two stars because the graphics are like to die for baby!!!

Coming out March 19, 2006

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 19
Date: February 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

To clear things up, the game doesn't come out until Mar 19, 2006.

HASN'T BEEN RELEASED YET!!!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 15
Date: February 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Seriously you would think that amazon would have the brains to at least disable voting on non released games in order to keep the rampaging fanboys from posting reviews for a game that is currently a month from actual release.

Get a life people.

This game is Ok but after 2 days of having it I sold it on ebay

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 39
Date: April 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm Don't like oblivion i'm not going to go over the top about how I don't like I'm going to just ut it simply with a bullet point for each reson you should not by this game

1. The graphics no matter how many people say they are good are dissipointing I know it's unbelivable but it's true.There good for how much their is to explore but it dosen't make you go thank god i didn't wait for the PS3 to come witch Ghost recon 3 and Fight Night Round 3 did.

2. It takes to long to do anything and is very confussing when you are given missions.

3. You have to put your TV in PAL60 format witch makes all your other games look weird so it'll be trawling through the 360 settings each i time you want to play any of your other game problem free.

4. This is stupid and you can only see how anoying it is when you have the game it's rats that can jump 20ft in the air when their feet are only half an inch long.

5. All the towns are bland boring and have hardly anyone in them.

6. Will I repeat Will turn you from a casual gamer to a Nerd and it's not a nice felling when you fell the nerdilitas creeping up on you. It may be a self-conciouse thing but everyone wonders so bear that in mind.

Please please don't get this game this review is from a mature gamer who just wants anyone else falling into what i call the review trap 'just because games get 9 or 10 out of 10 dosen't mean you should but them. This isn't a situation that your in like ghost recon its many boring situations all in one. You may have heard you can explore the many hills it's true but within 10 minits you'll have been killed this will mean you'll want to stay in the boring empty towns. Yawrrrrrrrrrrrrn thats about all I'v lost ?15 from buying it new and then selling it on ebay. The worst and apparently "The Best" game I have ever bought.

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.

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

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