Shows What The Next-Gen Has In Store...
Basically, it's you against an entire army of demons and monsters trying to save a nation. This description does not do the game justice. The game has an entrancing storyline, and you'll want to find out how the game's main story ends. Even then, there is an INSANE amount of other stuff for you to do to keep Oblivion from becoming a coffee coaster. You can pick out of about eight different races, each with strengths and weaknesses, and $5 says you'll restart the game several times in the first day of play trying out all the different creatures. The game's NPC's are brilliant, and each have a set of things to do for the day, and this is a big part of the game, as you need to do a lot of following missions. The missions are fun, and even though a lot of them seem the same, the story behind the missions differ greatly. There are guilds all over which offer missions, and access to different abilities, armour, weapons, clothes, potions, ingriedients, spells, everything. This will also keep you playing to get the best of everything. Your character is not upgraded by you, but if you do enough of something, it goes up automatically out of the blue, and you can go up a level and make these upgrades effective simply by finding a bed and having a sleep. There are plenty of enemies, and you don't even have to be doing a mission to get into a squabble. you can go out into the wilderness and find bandit camps, caves, tombs, and ruins to be explored, all with cool weapons, armour, and items, and loads of magical and non-magical enemies to fight. As per PRG standards, you can have ranged attacks, melee, and magic, all which have their strengths and weaknesses.
The graphics are stunning, and if you can see a mountain in the distance while in the wilderness, you can get there almost all of the time. The whole game reaks of greatness, with a hint of immersiveness and a dash of reality. The characters move a bit like robots, but you'll be having so much fun, you won't notice. The music is great, though the battle theme may become a little repetitive, as well as the voices, as many of the voice actors do about 1000000000 people due to the sheer size of Tamriel. Also, you can play in either third or first person, but the game really shines in first person.
Oblivion is a game which you must get if you have a PC, a PS3, or a 360.