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Never really "got" Morrowind, but this is AMAZING.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm one of those people that just never really "got" Morrowind. My friends played it, and raved about the open ended gameplay, the immersive world, etc. etc. I watched a few people play it for an hour or so, but never really had a desire to pick it up.

Fast forward a bit, to the release day of Oblivion. I'm strolling through the store and see a copy of the Collector's edition sitting on the shelf. I've finished most of the games I picked up for the 360 when I bought it, so I grabbed it on an impulse. I am so glad I did.

After the first few minutes, I was hooked. The graphics are fantastic, the gameplay is interesting. This is probably the closest I've ever felt to being dropped into a real functioning world through a video game.

I'm not really sure what else to say. There's enough game here to keep anyone busy for a long, long time.

awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Let me start off by saying that this is deffinatly a conteder for game of the year. The graphics are more than what i expected when i bought this game. The gameplay has graphics most x box games couldn't hope to reach in a cut scene. the gameplay is addictive, open ended, and the controls flow easily. The character detail is so minute in detail, if I could have scanned a picture of my face onto the characters head, it wouldn't be much closer than it already is. all conversations are voiced over, which adds another layer to the gameplay. The NPCs add a layer of reality that I have yet to see in any game, because usually, if your not in contact with the NPC, they stand around in a set place and usually just stand there until you go up to them and talk. That is out the window, where NPCs move around, not in a set pattern, and go to the market, or to a bar, or the arena. they get in fights, they have conversations, which you can gain quests by overhearing someone talk about it. The music varies depending on what you are doing. The combat is straight forward, one button attacks while the other blocks, though ranged weapons and magic are a bit clumsy if not in first person mode.
this is one of the best games i have ever played and is well worth the price.

Best Game EVER!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am not a huge game player so this is a very big statement. This is an amazing game. I just can't seem to put it down. You want to follow the missions they are awesome. You want to kill a bunch of people middle age style you can do that. If you want to be a hero you can do that as well. I just love the game play on this game and it is truly a remarkable game. The best thing since the Xbox 360 has come out.

Best RPG Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The character customization is simplified from Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, which can be good or bad, depending on how much customization you want to do. The journal and inventory sections are improved tremendously. Sixteen square miles of area to run around in with no loading at all? How do you beat that? Not to mention that there is no stupid fog keeping you from seeing for miles...

Best RPG for the 360 thus far

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First, let me start by stating that if anyone is having framerate problems, slow-downs, etc...contact MS because it is a sign that your console is overheating, even if you are using the intercooler. MS has begun replacing many of the older internal components with: quieter fan, new chipset (not new GPUs, but new components to alleviate the overheating problem with the 3 cores), and a few others that are unimportant. Point is, if you are having problems, get it back to MS. They are offereing free repairs to all 2005 Xbox Console owners. I myself just got my console back from repair and I cannot express how drastic the changes are. Think about two things: framerate usually has to do with programming (which was falsely alluded to in another post) and with a three core system, most programmers that made game of the initial release of the 360 did not utilize its potential. Only now are we seeing games coming out that actually use all three cores in an efficient manner. NOw for the game:

As stated, once I got my console repaired, I never experienced another freeze, slow-down, framerate problems, etc. It was like playing the game for the first time. Anyone that has played it knows how when you enter a new "area" of Cyrodill, there is usually a brief pause while the console loads the environment. Well, once I got my box repaired, it doesn't do that anymore. It flows from one area to another without any hesitation. Now as for gameplay, its a great RPG. YOu can easily spend the rest of your teenage/adult life playing this game without having to complete the last mission. I only hope that Bethesda decides to come out with some more sizeable downloadable content. All in all, this is a great game and a must have for RPG fans alike. Enjoy!

i almost get divorced for playin this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this is true guys i have problems whit my wife for playin this game to many hours ,, but this game is the best ever,,,, you most play this game ,
5 stars

Biggest Disappointment Ever

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 25
Date: June 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Where to start.....
1.) This has been the most unstable, glitchy-est, game ever produced. To date, i have had over 300 crashes and freezes from this game. i have had only 1 with every other title in my library, and that was an online error.
2.) Horrendous graphics. Everyone is saying that these are mind-blowing better than sex visuals, but everything is just well... shiny. And after the 13th tree that suddenly appeared in my path, i realized that this game has a serious rendering issue. the distant backgrounds consist of 2D 'landscapes' consisting of 3 or maybe even 4 colors. and the draw distance is atrocious, like i said, trees, bushes, people, rocks, monsters, shrubs, all seem to pop out of nowhere. and i love the fact that when you move next to water, the water ripple effects stop and freeze. all of that combined with the sheer ugliness and cartoony visages of every character make this game downright unpleasing to look at.
3.) any game that passes itself off as a sequel, should at least have some shred of continuity. this game goes of on several tangents in several areas and leaves many issues set in Morrowind contradicted in Oblivion. for example, the helm of Oreyn Bearclaw, Deadric Quests, Etc.
4.) THE LEVELING SYSTEM! The worst idea ever in an RPG. You spend a lot of time and energy fighting monsters to get better, so that you can kill said monsters more efficiently. Well guess what, when you level up, SO DO YOUR ENEMIES! So the game only gets HARDER as you level up, and not in a good way. For example, at level 1 when a rat bites you it does approxamitely 5% damage. at level 20, that same rat, still does 5% damage. WTF? so what ever happened to being a god in an RPG, this game forces you to be a cowardly like squelcher that has to run from a damn mudcrab at level 15, because the crab can still eat YOU.

Bad design, nice concept, horrible execution, good combat system, horrible experience system = bad sequel. my advice if you loved Morrowind is to leave this on the shelf and remember the good times, because this game ruins good memories of the entire series.

This game does NOT work outside of the US

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 18
Date: November 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

We could not get this game to work so we obviously did not have much fun with this game. I bought this game for my sister's boys in Sweden and I brought it there myself as birthday present. They have an Xbox 360. Unfortunately they could never use the game because of some idiotic limitation built by Microsoft in not allowing US Xbox 360 games to work on European Xbox 360 machines and vice versa. Amazon site and product info there does not make that clear at all. I had no idea. There is no way of knowing this. I think this stinks. My sister's boys were really dissappointed in not being able to play this game and the game sits now and collects dust. They and I are very upset.

Excellent

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: April 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is nearly perfect rpging' this is an excellent game that pushes the xbox 360 to the greats.

Seems like a good game... but just not my style.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: October 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because it has a lot of good reviews. But after playing it for a couple of hours, I got tired of it. It does not have a lot of action and RPG is not really my style. Only buy this game if you truly like Role Playing Games.
The Collector's Edition comes with some cool stuff. If your mind is set in purchasing this game, definately get the Collector's Edition, the extras are worth it!

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