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PC Version: Made for screen shot marketing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 17
Date: March 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Pretty graphics, no art. Looks nice but playability sucks. Terrible keyboard controls, requires multiple clicks from scrolling lists to do simple things like cast a spell. Quests confusing, sometimes screen pixel hunt and click required. Very limited, laughable, quick key assignment. Can't even bring up the area map with a single click/key!!! No personal journaling or marking maps on this huge game area. Wait for it on the $9.99 rack, or maybe user content will make something of it. Seems like a great graphics engine with little RPG behind it. Seems very much designed by committee with features removed when anyone didn't like it. Get NeverWinter Nights 1 instead.

Update after about 50 hours into it: The inside caves, it seems, are made of a very limited tile set. There is a narrow tunnel, an open cave, and open cave with upper shelves on each side, or a cave with an above cross-over. Textures are cut stone, some are rough stone, but the shapes are the same. Very boring, you now know where to look for the monsters. Guess console players are less demanding. Too much money went into the cut scenes, not enough into the RPG engine.

It's true, hard core gamers will have no life.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This title, I purchased the day it came out. Since them, I have created character after character. . I'm not sure when it will end.
The graphics are quite simply some of the best we will ever see *point to note here, that with the other two add on games with dx10 capability the game is even better*.

The character generation is the most comprehensive I have ever seen. You can either go simple, or spend half an hour designing your character.

I give it five for addiction and good looks and the length of time you get for exploration and interration which is a seriously long time. It loses a star overall because of the other characters. They are *ok* but sometimes the voice acting is just uninspiring.

Half Life 2, whilst not comparing, had very good character interractions. Oblivion seems to have spent the money on everything else and left the people out. It's ok, I forgive, I'm about to create another character ;)

Good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: September 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

the game is solid, runs great, looks outstanding. the only reason this game isnt marked 5 stars is that I am nto a fan of RPG's and this game didnt hold my interest for more than an hour at a time.

Good but shorter than expected

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: August 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Before I got this game I was heavily addicted to Morrowind. Once I finally got this game and played for a while I was disapointed somewhat. After about 9 hours of gameplay I was already the Grey Fox(Grandmaster of the Thieves Guild) and there were very little missions to complete. In Morrowind after at least 20 hours of gameplay I am probably half done with thieves guild missions. I have noticed on walkthrough websites that the number of quests in the game for each section of it(including Main quest) is between 10-15 quests. The graphics are great but It is just not as long as Morrowind.

Fun, but gets a little boring after awhile.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: September 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A lot of fun, but I'm getting burned out on it, and I haven't finished it. And I also have the expansion which I haven't even started. I may take a break from the game before I do. Again, it's fun, I just don't think it has the lasting power that some other games do. I've been playing with some of the mod files that people post on the internet which has made it a little more interesting.
If you get it, hold off on the expansion to make sure you still want to play it by the time you finish the original. You may find yourself like me, burned out on it, and not sure you really want to start the expansion....

No action... nothing but a bunch of running and empty space

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 19
Date: October 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Man, did this game not deliver or what?!?!?

I was extremely excited to get this game and after a good hour, was out of the first dungeon and off to explore...well... nothing but endless landscape of bore. It takes 30 minutes to find anything to do, mind you, 29 of those minutes is checking doors, buildings, and rooms with nothing of interest what so ever. I understand "finding the action" is part of the experience of being in a fantasy world but this game takes it way too far. I played the game for a good 4 hours, encountering a total of 27 monsters (18 of which are annoying rats) but more importantly, only 16 minutes of that was action, 19 minutes was searching for loot (the fun kind of searching), and the other 3 hours and 25 minutes was RUNNING AROUND DOING NOTHING!!!!

Geez. What a stupid game.

Excellent Single Player Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is very immersive, offers scores of hours' worth of quests, has dozens of caves/mines/ancient ruins to explore, and is gorgeous. My 4 year old daughter likes to watch my character either run or ride a horse throughout the game world because it looks so good! (No fighting, of course, just sight seeing.) This is a superb role-playing game for the single player. Games like World of Warcraft, Everquest, Guild Wars, etc. get a lot of attention but Oblivion is an excellent game as well.

The player can decide what to do: follow the main story line, explore the land, or join a guild (or multiple guilds). The game is very open, similar to GTA, but with stonger consequences for attacking people.

You cannot go wrong with this game.

Tech support

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 20
Date: September 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is great, reinstalling video card drivers over and over, talking to tech support over and over, searching the net for clues to what's wrong with the game - like why is the world completely white? or why is it completely black? or why does my computer crash every time I get to Weynon Priory?

They tried to make the most graphically intensive game of all time and what they made was one of the most unstable.

You can't return it after you buy it, so don't buy it.

Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion (DVD-ROM)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 13
Date: February 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

IT IS ONE OF THE BEETER 1 ON 1 PLAYER GAMES I HAVE PLAYED

MasterWork

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best computer games ever. It is a MasterWork, a game the fulfills the vision of a company that knew where it was going, but just now has the horse power to get there. The character creation, the ability to choose to do or not do anything. I once was so lost in this game that I thought after finishing a quest I felt as if I had been at sea, it took me a few seconds to realize I was just sitting in front of a computer screen, the immersion is that deep. Try a Redguard Barbarian and enjoy this game!

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