Product Description

Following Morrowind, Bethesda Softworks has a new addition to the heroic fantasy series The Elder Scrolls on PS3, the game series known to give players total freedom of movement. This role-playing game takes you the province of Cyrodiil in search of the heir to the throne after the mysterious assassination of the Emperor. Ever since this event, the Doors of Oblivion have been wide open to the world of Tamriel, leaving way to hoards of demons to pour forth upon Cyrodiil and its peaceful inhabitants. The fate of the known world depends upon you and your quest!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2252 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2007-04-27
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Manufacturer's Description:
Oblivion is the quintessential role-playing game for the next generation and another leap forward in gaming. Step inside the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created. Oblivion is the latest chapter in the epic and highly successful Elder Scrolls saga and utilizes next-generation video game hardware to fully immerse you into the experience. With a powerful combination of freeform gameplay and unprecedented graphics, you can unravel the main quest at your own pace or explore the vast world and find your own challenges.

Introduction
The goal here was to create a game that offered unlimited possibilities. A game where you could be whoever you wanted and do whatever you wanted. "Live another life, in another world" was the Oblivion team’s motto; this is exactly what they have created. If you love games that allow you to explore, wander amongst the beauty of the landscape and engage in combat with weapons or magic then this is truly the game for you. With lots of industry awards won and huge critical acclaim achieved, role playing adventure games don’t get any better than this!

Storyline
You live within the stunning capital province of Tamriel, called Cyrodiil. As a brave and noble warrior you set on a dangerous adventure, to find the hidden heir to a throne that sits empty, the previous emperor having been killed by an unknown assassin. With no true Emperor in place and no guidance for the people of Cyrodiil, the gates of Oblivion open, bringing only death and destruction upon the humble towns and villages.

It's up to you to find the lost heir to the throne and unravel the sinister plot that threatens to destroy all of Tamriel. Turn the tide of darkness before it’s too late.

New on PS3
All the updated patches and downloads for Xbox360 and PC are available in the PS3 version. More excitingly, The Nights of The Nine faction has been added and integrated into the storyline here so you won’t need to buy it as an ‘add-on’ package. Also, blending and shading effects are much more seamless on PS3 so the game looks even more stunning than ever before.

Main Features
Live Another Life in Another World: Fully personalize the world of Oblivion by creating your own unique character from an endless variety of races, attributes, skills and mastery levels.

True Next Generation: Unprecedented visuals combined with stunning special effects deliver an awe inspiring 3rd or 1st person adventure. Visit lifelike towns, far away monuments of beauty, dark and eerie dungeons and walk amongst most realistic forests ever created in a game.

First Person Melee and Magic: To defend yourself against the numerous monsters and marauders that live in Tamriel, you must master the arts of combat and magic. As you progress your character’s skill set you will learn new movers and how to mix ingredients such as plants, vegetables, beverages and herbs to create your very own spells, to prepare you for any given situation.

Realistic Characters: Oblivion features thousands of individual characters and character traits. Each have a unique personality and type of lifestyle within Tamriel, part of the fun of playing Oblivion is knowing its populace and how each individual can help you find your way and achieve your goals. Talk to them, find out what is happening in their lives, but you will need to master the art of conversation to fully succeed!

Open-Ended Game Play: The enormous world of Oblivion is open for you to explore at your own pace and there are multiple ways of achieving your main goal. There is also an endless variety of small tasks that take the longevity of gameplay into the unknown – find missing people, fight thieves and return valuable goods, solve conspiracies for example.

Customer Reviews

RPG of the highest order
Bethesda Game Studios achieved something that is to-date, unrivaled on any next-gen console in my opinion.

Oblivion is both beautiful and harrowing, vast but at the same time very intriquit, it has immense depth whilst giving the option to explore only if you desire.

Your character is customizable in nearly all aspects from the race, type of player you wish to be and exactly how you wish your character to appear in game. Depending on what race you choose depends on what attributes you will be assigned like how intelligent you will be or how good you are at bartering to how you fair with different kind of weaponry. Will all these aspects, the game has such longevity and replayability it is untrue. I have owned this game on 2 separate occasions now as the first time I traded it in. Then I came across the "Game of the Year Edition" which I didn't previously have. My Oh My, the game is EPIC in every which way what with the additional expansions (Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine). I must have played this game well over 60 hours with much more to play and I was not once bored. Okay so some caves, castes etc are identikit in that they look identical but I could see past that. Missions are plenty and varied, like the following guilds you can join (all at the same time if you like):-

The Fighters Guild - you are there as an army for hire.
The Mages Guild - You are there for the good of the mages, you will learn magic etc
The Thieves Guild - You are hired to steal many items for the guild
The Dark Brotherhood - You are sent on assassination plots, here you get to act like a hitman & "whack" people.

Then you have the expansion packs, they add easily an additional 20 hours (minimum) to the overall game. They really are the cherry on the icing and blew me completely away. Where you actually can become a god or get a team of knights together - FANTASTIC stuff, the stuff of boyhood dreams!

The graphics are great and the sound is really good with voice acting from such people as Patrick Steward (Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek and Sean Bean (Silent Hill movie or the TV series Sharp). Although these two legends are just a couple of the voice actors, the dialogue can become overused and many of the characters have the same voice but nevertheless, this doesn't distract from the brilliance of the game too much). There are a few bugs and glitches that I came across but for the size of this game, I simply didn't care. There has been so much effort poured into this game you really do appreciate what has been done.

I cannot do this game justice and put into words how wonderful this game is and just how engrossing I personally found it to be.

I'm actually thinking about buying it for a third time!

Welcome to Oblivion....where glitches roam the land
Now, i'm going to start off by saying i LOVE Oblivion, its freedom, its land, its combat, its characters.
And by almost all respects it's a masterpiece beyond what any other dev could even IMAGINE.
So...what keeps it fropm a five star?
One word: GLITCHES!
Within the first hour the game froze up, forcing me to reboot.
Pop-up is constant and frame rate drops are more than comman.
This is the PS3 FOR CHRISSAKE!
But, enough of that.
The gameplay and freedom is stunning, allowing you to be whoever you want in this huge, free world.
I have yet to start playing the main quest, or the Knights of the Nine secvondery main quest, all i have done is roamed around enjoying myselff and messing about.
That's where the joy lies

boring
I bought this and wish I hadn't. I treid to get into it but found it very annoying. The attacks/fighting are rubbish. I played it for a week but still got bored. dont buy it unless you really really like RPG's.