Fantastic game! Yes, believe the hype! If there are any games worth upgrading your PC for, this is one. But you will
User Rating: 9.1 | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion PC
have to put in quite a lot of time. The game starts a bit slow, and you'll find that there is a lot of work to be done before you can actually enjoy the benefits of full armor, spell-making, enchanting and the rest of the options available to you. The game is huge in every sense, from world exploration to side-quests. You can join several guilds and factions that offer quests and rewards, become an arena champion, and well, save the world. That old thing. The list of things to do seems almost limitless, and that's not taking into account the mods available, which aren't few. During gameplay I would get the feeling that there is just too much stuff to do and that there is no way I could ever finish, but stick with it and after roughly 100 hours you'll begin to see the finish-line. Dungeon exploration becomes a bit repetitive at times and closing oblvion gates also, but doesn't take away from the overall quality of the game. I am a bit skeptic as to how many people can really play this game full blast, you need a monster PC to get it running at half-decent quality. The controls are incredible, maybe I would have liked to see more combo options and moves during battles though. And through the game you do get the sense of being detached emotionally from what's going on, the feeling that hl2 gives off putting you in GF's shoes was amazing. But this is about Oblivion, and emotional detachment aside, it does a great job of entertaining. The sound is fantastic, graphics also, the story is very complex and when you begin to see how many factions and races are involved you head does tend to spin. The number of books to read, people to speak with, heists, murders, battles, etc is too high to count and there is much to do, anyway too much to account for in 100 words, more or less. But if you are an rpg afficionado and have a gaming pc, DO NOT MISS THIS GAME!!! 
