Well I finally got my hands on Oblivion tonight.  No I'm still too poor for a 360, but I have friends who will pay for one so I dont have too.  After playing for a couple hours I must say I really wish I had the money for a 360 now.

Since I only got a couple hours of playtime I havent played nearly enough to write a full review so I'll just give you a few of my first thoughts.  First off oh my god does that game look sexy, we plugged it into my buddys 60 something inch hd tv and it looks amazing.  I rarely get to play games in HD so I was definatly lovin it. 

It felt a lot like Morrowind with a few nice tweeks that make life easier to me.  I love the fact that you no longer have to be on an item to pick it up, just close enough.  That always drove me nuts in Morrowind, trying to pick up rings and other tiny items.  Now I just need to play and get used to the feel of the game and the menus and everything and it will be perfect.  Dont ya hate that though, every new game in a series always feels a bit odd cause youre so used to the menus and such from the old ones.

My only real complaint so far is I dont like the new lockpicking system, it just seems a bit to randomly complicated to me.  Maybe its just that I'm not good at it but I busted a ton of lockpicks very fast, and the auto try really seemed to be worse than me.  Hopefully the auto try will get great at it once I get my security skill up high enough so it wont be a problem though, then the game will be just about perfect.

I just cant wait to go over to my buddys again and play like mad, I've wanted Oblivion since I first heard about it and so far it has definatly lived up to my expectations.  I just wish I had the money for a 360 or a new comp so I could pick it up myself.