Oblivion is the best single player, medi-eval, free roam game to date.You will lose yourself in this addictive game.
Here are the possitive aspects of the game:
Story - This game not only has a massive main story mode, but there are so many story lines! Every guild that you join has its own story to tell, and individual missions. The guilds are the; Assassins guild, Theives guild; Mages guild; Warriors guild and I think I might be forgeting one.
If you are a wise money spender, you will buy the "Game of the Year Edition" which comes packed with more story lines! Which are "The Knights of the Nine" and "The Shivering Isles". These are both big campaigns and will offer hours of extra entertainment.
Map - The map, oh the map. This is the biggest map I have ever seen on any console game. To give you a bit of an idea, if you walk from West to East it will take you up to an hour depending on how many mountains are in your way. And I know what your thinking, with a map that big its just going to get boring traveling around. Well your wrong.
A feature which I found incredibly useful is the fast travel feature. This is like teleporting except it just fast forwards several hours depending on how far you fast travel.
Another feature that makes the map amazing is that if you go out wandering through the vast wilderness ypu'd think it'd just be trees and grass and the odd beast that's hungry. Well, you're right. But there's more than just that, when you go exploring you constantly stumble across ancient ruins or canp sites or even the odd iscolated farm with a mission attatched.
Gameplay - You don't let the CPU players decide what the topic or nature of the descusion is, you can choose the topic and the mood in which it is said (depends on whether you get along with the person or not). It's best to be good friends with as many people as possible, because the higher the diposition (how much they like you) is, the more information they are willing to share with you.
However, this game is not with its minor flaws. When traveling by horse through the dense wilderness you are subject to lag, but this is completely understandable since there is so much nfor the console to load.
Another let down was graphics, although they're not terrible they could have been alot better. The game graphics did not quite meet my expectations of a next generation console. But keep in mind that compared to all the possitives of the game these two flaws can be easily overlooked.
All in all, this is definately a game I would recomend to any one who likes medi-eval games where you can do whatever the hell you want.
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