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If you like RPGs, this is your game!

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

While not your average JRPG(Japanese RPG), this Western take on role-playing puts you in charge of your role. You can customize every attribute of your character class, and can even create your own if you wish. This game is heavy on customization, sometimes to the point where you'll spend more time leveling than you just spent on a quest. That is a positive point.

Oblivion has hundreds of hours of gameplay compounded into one disc. You may not play any other game for weeks after buying it.

By far the best thing out for PS3 so far

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When I got a PS3 I needed a game so I looked into what PS3 had out, nothing really stood out in a great deal of critical acclaim except Elder Scrolls. I had never heard of it but found out it's actually made two buildings over from where I work in Rockville, Md.

I can't express enough how incredible this game is. I've played a lot of role-playing games, typically the linear Japanese sort, so I know what I'm talking about in this arena. The things you can do in this game, the flexibility, the level of customization is just like nothing I've ever experienced before. The 1080p beauty of this game is also something to behold and pushes even the PS3 to its limits. If you have a PS3, this game is a must buy, and I guarantee that if this game was exclusive to the PS3, more units would be flying off the shelves.

Tip Hole

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Awesome graphics. Disturbingly free to roam this huge hinterland. How many levels of warrior? OMG I'm now a level 23 dude and am able to waste anything without any damage almost. Great storyline. Direction is self made. Enjoy

Exellent Game will suck up your life.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is so good it is somewhat dangerous. After playing this game for over an hour I saw how much it really has to offer. After getting some of the initial introductions out of the way the game begins to bombard you with things to do and you soon find yourself with no shortage of quests to complete or places to visit. The graphics in this game are awesome, as is the storyline. The controls are a little unorthodox, but shouldn't be too hard to get used to. I highly recommend this game for anyone who even slightly enjoys RPGs or wants to see what the PS3 is really capable of.

Not quite my cup of tea

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Let me get this out of the way, I prefer JRPG's. Thats what I grew up on and thats what I like. Not a knock, just a preference. So Oblivion wasn't as much fun( but still good) for me as it was for some others. That being said, if you are a fan of big open ended rpgs, you are not going to find a better game than Oblivion. Its got gorgeous graphics, well done voice work and plenty of stuff to do. It can be a little bit too D and D for my taste, but if you want a massive world in which the fun is more in the exploring than in the story, Elder Scrolls IV is perfect for you.

Horribly Addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you've read any of my previous reviews (and I have no idea why you would have) you know that I traded in my 360 to get a PS3 due to the lack of time I was playing games.
I bough Oblivion about a year ago for my 360, and just couldn't get into it. I thought it was "lame". I was probably just overwhelmed, but I digress. So about a week ago I decided to give it a go on the PS3, I don't know why, I just did. And I must say, this is the best game I've ever played (not counting NHL 94).
The world is HUGE, the game is completely interactive, and the depth is beyond anything I've ever experienced in a game.
So, with just over a week of owning the game, I've logged about 40 hours of game play. This game makes me want to play games again. My only fear now is that every game I play in the future will be unfairly compared to this masterpiece.

Pros:
Beautiful graphics
Huge, Open-ended game play
Hours of game play

Cons:
Sometimes there are slow loads (if someone knows how to clear the cache on the PS3 like the 360, please inform)
Horribly addictive

Great RPG

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As a fan of RPG's, Oblivion has a wide variety of character types that meets my desires. If you're not happy with the default settings they give you, you can customize your character's abilities. Deep storyline that lets you "choose your destiny" and has many side-quests should the main quests become overwhelming for you.

Freakin' Awsome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: April 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game I have played in a really long time. I could spent all of my days and nights just sitting in front of my TV playing this game. Too bad i have a life. There is so much to do, so many possibilities i don't even know where to start. I still can't get my character to look normal though, he looks like a weird mongoloid or something. Anyways if you have PS3 get this MOFo it is awsome, there is something for any type of action gamer. Right now I'm sneaking around some cave like Solid Snake or Sam Fisher, too bad i can't break necks! I'm not joking, If you shelled out the dough for the PS3 then you better get this, it is the only game worth getting right now for PS3. Oh and get God of War II, if you don't you are a flamer, or under 17.

Oblinion 4... one of the few awesome games out there

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you gave a PS3, and have played Motorstorm and Resistance a million times? You should get oblivion. It will drain all of your free time until the better games like Ninja Gaiden and GRAW 2 come out.

This game does it right.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'll admit, after the run of boring, glitchy and defective games the PS3 had after launch game Resistance: Fall of Man, I was just waiting for disappointment when I slid this baby into the Blu-ray drive. Fortunately, no such thing was to come. I was hooked by that very first cinematic and monologue. This was how PS3 games were supposed to be. Past the absurd graphics and visual detail you get a highly customizable character and a game world that is, quite simply, immense.
As for crashes, I've clocked just over 115 hours on this game and have had it crash on me only twice. While those crashes were annoying they certainly weren't game-limiting, as it automatically saves every time one enters or exits a room/building/town/cave/sewer/anywhere there is a door. In fact, the one problem I would say I had was that the game saved TOO much. I don't see why one would need all of those manual save spaces, I have three games saved under my account for a total of 5 taken saves. That there are so many available saves seems more than a little superfluous to me, and it's probably the same for any average gamer. If one does have a problem with it, one could simply plug in a flash drive and store outdated files for later use.

The game features virtually countless smaller plots and side-quests so there is always something to do. plus, many of the enemies against whom one comes up have weighted stats, that is, if your character is at level 3 he will be meeting adversaries customized to his skill level during quests rather than going up against the same bad guys a level 25 character would meet. This ensures that gamers looking for a quick run through don't have to bother leveling up as much, while also keeping it so that battles don't become laughably easy for higher-level characters.

Visually, and I don't think I can stress this enough, this game is stunning. Whether it's the clouds passing overhead or a hillside view of the Imperial City there is always something worth looking at. The audio isn't bad either. The music is pretty stock and bears a little resemblance to the Pirates of the Caribbean score. The folks you meet along the way all have voices and convey their messages both verbally and in the text along the bottom of the screen. Some of this gets repetitive and a little glitchy but the cast of voices more than makes up for it. They've got Patrick Stuart, Sean Bean (Best known as Boromir in LOTR), Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman), and Terrance Stamp (Jor-El from WB/CW's Smallville) playing main characters and voicing smaller, standard parts as well.

Trust me, when Patrick Stewart tells you that he's seen your destiny, you believe him.

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