The New Dawn of Gamimg is Oblivion!
You begin in a dungeon, besiegied by the emporer to find his hier to the throne. Just your lukc, he dies and the gates to oblivion are opened, causing a wave of detruction on the world. You are the one forseen to save the world, you alone must make the journey.
In oblivion, your job is to close the 7 gates to oblivion and find the heir to the throne and restore order. You pick a race, class (or build your own class) and you start out on your quest. From the first step you take, you will be amazed. Oblivion might not be picture perfect, but its darn close. CHaracters move with poise, style and animation. Dungeon walls are crusty and old. Grout and moss thrive between the stone bricks. It is detailed, it is believeable, its near perfect. The draw distance is nearly 100% maximum view. You can see as far as you can in real life (with the exception of shrubs)/ Thick bushes, trees and grasses load into view, but it doesnt hamper the game and it only happens in open areas for a split second. The game is so jampacked with scenerey and beautiful content that it will make you wonder why you ever put up with the sparse environments games like World of Warcraft have to offer.
From the get-go, Oblivion makes it obvious that it is more then your average game. There are so many tiny tweaks and mini features (even in simple character customization) that it can take you hours to really get started (a good thing). The combat is a 3 button game of blocks, strikes (melee) and casting. Casting seems to be the most useful of the lot, but melee users are not left out to dry. Any class or race you choose will be useful and benefitial. There is no chance that you wont have fun. The combat is easy to pick up, but often requires more advanced techniques later on, often catoring to the attack patterns of select enemies. For example, casting enemies tend to cast with breif pauses where you can open up and attack. Simple enough. Blocking actually works in this game and you can block almost any attack to your hearts content and you wont feel like you have been cheated out of a move like so many people felt in morrowind.
Oblivion is jampacked with a Campaign that lasts a good 25-30 hours, and alot more if you like to roam around. It offers over 200 hundred dungeons and about 20 towns/cities. Between guilds, side quests, main quests and roaming around, the game has no end in sight for most people. The end of the games main quest is just a way to explain the end of the plot, but the game goes on. You wont be done with oblivion until Elder Scrolls 5, if not later.
Without any spoilers, when all is said and done, Oblivion is a masterpiece that you wont be able to stay away from, and now I am going to play some more, goodbye.