Best Game i Played
To start, the story in Oblivion is completely dull. Its so cliche its almost distracting. Basically, the world is about to end and its your job to stop it. The game is played from either a first or third person perspective and the game is easy to control. Basically, one button is jump, one is attack, one is magic, one is block and one opens your journal. Pretty standard stuff. Combat basically falls into the mundane category. You attack, block and repeat until your enemy is dead. Archers or mages merely walk backwards while firing until the enemy is dead. This is still an improvement over Morrowind, but other action RPG's have proved that combat can be a lot more fun than this. The combat though isn't really the point of Oblivion. The game is all about leveling and becoming the most powerful person in the empire. Through the course of the game you can become the leader of four different guilds, save the world and become arena champion, as well as completely dozens of things to do What's truly amazing is how you can play this game in so many different ways. You can focus on stealth, magic or combat, but even these can be separated into various subcategories. On top of that, you can spend 200 hours with the game and still not see something that someone else who has spent 20 hours with the game has. That's how truly incredible this game is. Its deep and expansive. You can literally spend hundreds of hours in this game and still not be done.
The main flaws of Oblivion are technical. First off, the framerate is terrible. This is the next generation folks, developers have to be able to stabilize framerates. Also the loading times when riding or running through the open areas are a real pain. Its terribly upsetting when you are in the middle of an epic battle only to be interrupted by a load screen. When riding a horse the load screens are so constant that you spend almost as much time loading as you do playing. Very annoying. Pop-in is also a real distraction. I truly hate when a tree appears two feet in front of me. That just wrecks the realism for me. Also the backgrounds look horrible. On a brighter note, the artistic style is great, and the alteration of the sky around oblivion gates is really neat. Also the interior of the gates are very eye catching. The game looks much better in high definition.
Voice acting in the game is effective and the music is epic if not that memorable. After hearing the work that the composer did with Guild Wars it is pretty upsetting to hear the second rate music in Oblivion.
Overall this is a long and deep game which will keep you immersed for hours. Truly an impressive achievement, Oblivion is only held back by some serious bugs. The game freezes during some loads, enemies can get stuck on the environment, and I have even witnessed a player glitching out of a level. These are rare and minor things but the poor technical performance really hinders the gameplay experience buy this game and you kiss my feet.