Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3643 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2007-12-14
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Manufacturer's Description

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition presents one of the best RPGs of all time like never before. Step inside the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created. With a powerful combination of freeform game play and unprecedented graphics, you can unravel the main quest at your own pace or explore the vast world and find your own challenges.

Also included in the Game of the Year Edition are Knights of the Nine and the Shivering Isles expansion, adding new and unique quests and content to the already massive world of Oblivion. See why critics called Oblivion the Best Game of 2006.

Customer Reviews

Free-roaming, goblin-slaying genius
The problem that plagues so many games: a linear nature. You move from one pre-defined objective to another. You tick a series of boxes and, after 8-12 hours of gameplay, it's all over.

Oblivion blows any preconception you may have about linear gameplay out of the water. Quite simply - if it's possible to be "simple" about this wonderful, complex, absorbing beast of a game - your character is given a plot to follow in the game's opening sequence. Ten minutes later, after you've finished your initial challenge, you can completely ignore the story and just wander around slaying, spellcasting, thieving, selling stuff... and so on, and so on, ad inifinitum. Quests abound, and you can leave them halfway through and come back whenever you want. You can be nasty. You can be nice. You can be both, if you want. Oh yes, plus it looks stunning, sounds incredible, plays like a charm and will surgically remove any social life you thought you had for as long as you own it. I've just donated my copy to a friend, and as a result, I have my girlfriend back. Just about. Buy it, and be prepared to lose touch with your friends, family, and possibly your job as well. Utterly, utterly brilliant.

Brilliant beyond imagination!
Usually when a game has a story, you expect that the game will have limited playability, you will be forced to stick to specific tasks and have limited abilities.

This, however, is a game that will let you stray just as far as you like from the story and do your own thing! And it's not so GTA in it's approach either (limited side stories, things to do), but in actual fact you could spend hours running from (and slaying) city guards having committed a bunch of crimes. You could master the guilds of theivery, mages, fighters, and others. You could wander into the woods risking life and limb against the wierd and wonderful array from creatures to collect ingredients to mix your own potions which you can then sell on or use to manipulate your abiltities to whatever end you choose!!! It really is that open!

I have clocked up 140 hours of play since I bought this game, and I still can't say the end is in sight. And the thing is, i'm still as addicted now as when I first started. At the £40 I paid for it, I couldn't say any other game i've played on could offer such good value for money.

You begin the game by choosing your race and modifying your look, which is great. The map on first glance is large, but as you explore more, you begin to realise that the map is, infact, huge, due to the abundance of 'other worlds' such as the forts, caves and oblivion gates.

For anyone with a PS3 (not as grand on other machines), this may have been one of the first games to be released, but this could well be the best game on this console for a long time to come.

I would say this is the best game I've ever played but...
First of all I would like to say the comments posted above me are all completely correct and acurate. The game is highly adictive I have over fifty hours of gameplay on it at the moment and still haven't completed it. The freedom to do what you want nearly made this the best game I ever played however there is one terrible fault.
When doing the vampire hunting quest you are likely to get infected with a afflication known as vampirism. There are upsides and downsides to this you get more powers and abilities and you can carry more stuff however you cannot go outside during the day unless you have feasted which makes some quests undoable
There is however a cure for vampirism which brings me to the problem.
In order to cure vampirism you must collect a large amount of difficulty found ingredients. Once you have done this you go back to the witch and ask her to make her the potion but she refuses one of your ingredient and consequently it is impossible to be cured of vampirism
I have currently emailed the manufacturer Bethesda studios and I suspect my reply will be the same as everybody elses
"In order to fix this you will need to buy the non game of the year edition of Oblivion"
Okay so suppose you have money to burn so buying a inferior product to the one you already own isn't a problem to you. If you have already completed the shivering isles expansion pack you will lose all of your items unless stored elsewhere from that expansion pack and you will lose all of your powers (some of them MAY be recoverable by talking to Haskin in the shivering isles)
so overall if you do want this game which I reccomend in all fairness either be prepared to buy the non game of the year edition as well and remember to complete the main quest before you enter the shivering isles or which i reccomend buy it on Xbox 360 or PC. The graphics aren't as good on xbox as it is on ps3 and the content is lesser the PC version is better anyway but only if you have a high-spec PC (please check before buying the game)
So overall I would say that the vampirism bug has ruined the game for me so my favoutite game of all time still is the original metal gear solid
hope this helps