Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3186 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2007-12-14
• 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

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!

Undisputed Greatest Game Of All Time
Oblivion is a must for anyone who enjoys the freedom of 'free roaming games'. I have spent all my gaming time for the last 2 months playing this and still have only completed around a third of the game.

The graphics are some of the best currently available, the game play some of the best available. You can interact with ALL characters in the game, some more than others, but the feature is available to ANY character in the game. This allows for you to find out information on current quests and also to begin new ones. You have the choice of moving from one quest to another at will, also the whole world is still open to you even when you are on a quest.

One major feature of this game is the fact that you can choosed to be ANY character that you wish. There are several pre-defined characters for you to choose from all with their own skills and attributes or you can make up your own.There are also a choice of several races for your character, all of which should help you choose the type of character that you wish to be. Another feature of the game is the fact that you are constantly improving and upgrading your character's skills.

The people who made this game also made Fallout 3, fans of this should play Oblivion as it is a lot, lot better. I know to ardent fans of Fallout 3 this sounds impossible but believe me I was one of them!

BUY! DONT THINK BUY!
Basically u are a prisoner and u get out cause of the king escaping. He gets assassinated and u have to find the heir to the throne. The GREAT thing is. U DONT HAVE TO DO THAT. u can just go off on ure own killing ppl (not so fun actually) or u can join a faction. Thieves guild, fighters guild, mages guild and the dark brother hood(basically assassins) All of which are fun. Id say start off with the dark brother hood U get the most money.

There's also the arena which is fun. Just like the Romans. kill ppl. For any1 who doesn't know u have to complete the quest "A Door In Nibien Bay" to go to the shivering isles.

All in all a fun game that will take u about 70hrs to complete (probably more). Sireously DONT THINK BUY!!!!!!