Brilliant graphics, hours of game play, hundreds of mods and great value for money -- you'll find it hard to beat.
You’ll have a hard time trying to find a game with graphics that rival Oblivions. Hundreds of hours of game play, hundreds of quests and there are two expansions available. Its great value for money; £17.99 (game disk), the expansion packs add an entire new landmass to the game or a new quest line (both including more weapons, characters, etc).
Also I must mention the mods. Oblivion is great out of the box, but with mods it is brilliant. Enhanced graphics, new guilds, new buildings, houses etc.
But under the games first impression of brilliance, as you really think about it, it does have flaws. I would love to see more people walking around the roads and wilderness – instead of the occasional Imperial Ranger and Black Horse Currier. The voices; there are less then 10 unique voices, probably less, meaning eventually everyone sounds the same – and the voice can change while you’re listening to them. The most annoying fact may be that it does get boring after a while, with mods etc you can delay it. But once you’ve become Champion of the Arena, The Grey Fox, and the Listener for the Dark Brotherhood and all the other guild leaders etc it gets quite meaningless and boring. (Warning: Dark Brotherhood plot exposed) For example: once you’re the Listener of the Dark Brotherhood you’d expect a secret group of murders to get up to something, and that you’d get in on the best action. No, you collect weekly sums from a statue.
Overall the graphics and the game play (nearer the start) made me give it the score I did. I still recommend it, but lets hope the next expansion makes it more like a real world, and generally more interesting and fun.