Massive open ended world to explore, leaving you on the edge of your seat along the way.
User Rating: 9.5 | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion PC
The main point in mind is, is this game worth purchasing? The answer to that question, on so many levels is simply "yes". This game offers elusive depth of gameplay, and also offers an intriguing storyline, Landscapes and factions. What really puts this game in-front of the eight-ball is the fact that there's always something to do, whether your exploring forbidden caves for new types of loot, travelling through the country side watching the sunrise to sunset, or even assassinating someone for the Dark Brotherhood faction, this game leaves an open ended world for you to explore. When you start your game you can create your own character, and i mean you can really create him, from eye colour to cheek-jaw ratio, you can actually make your character to be what you want him/her to look like. You start the game off in a prison cell, where you get caught up in this plot to assassinate the emperor and it proceeds from there on leaving you at the end of your chair. The other great thing about this game is that even though the main story line has twists and depth, the factions you can join go for just as long and are no let down either, they offer great missions, exciting twists and unique loot on the way. This game is so big and has no many quest within it, that you could just walk up to a Dark Elf and a Orc having conversation and they could end up talking about some treasure, and all of a sudden a quest log pops up and you have another quest on your hands. The fact that there's so much to do is great because if you get stuck on one thing you can just finish off a different quest, and you will never run out of things to do because if you finish all the quests in your quest log, just go talk to a few people and i guarantee you will find a interesting quest to do. There is also a first-person option aswell as the RPG mode, may i recommend doing the first-person mode just simply because it gives you a better feel and sight for the game. The skill options are quite fantastic itself, no matter what your doing it's putting your skills up whether it's running, swimming or fighting your working your way up another level. The way this game works in leveling is you have your majour skills and your minor skills, your majour skills make up what type of profession your character is and the minor skills are just the skills your character doesn't really require to full-fill his/her profession. When your majour skills go up a level it contributes to your main level, if you get your minor skills up it has no effect on your main level, however it is still handy to have all levels boosted up, just because it's simply useful. However every exception comes with it's price, if your looking for the minor downfalls in Oblivion is probably the combat does tend to lack depth, point and click is pretty much what to expect here, you can click the mouse for a normal attack or you can hold it for a power attack. The bow and arrow actually has a pretty good combat system, where you click and hold for how much power you want in the shot, and your arrow will slowly fall closer to the ground over longer distances, so it requires some skill in getting use to where your arrow will land. This also depends on how advanced your marksmen skill is, obviously the higher the skill the more power and damage you can get into the shot therefore it will last longer through the air, this makes it easier to hit enemies from a longer distance. The magic however does lack detail, most of the time it's a fireball or an electric blast, there's thousands of spells to acquire, but the imagery just isn't that great, good but nothing special. Also i found with the game and know that allot of other people found this is aswell, is that the game is so big you tend to feel really lonely at times, there's heaps of people in the cities but outside the cities there isn't a lot of NPC's, and where there are quests where you have to kill someone, (which there are alot of those quests by the way), it kind of makes you annoyed because your making the number of NPC's even smaller now, and once there dead they don't come back, unless you want to look up cheats on the internet of course to get them back. But if you're a fan of RPG's i defiantly recommend buying Oblivion, trust me, you won't be disappointed.
