The Guildmasters

With Oblivion there are two ways to write this review, your either going to compare it to Morrowind or write it as a  totally seperate game, on it’s own.

To compare it to Morrowind could be disappointing and also unfair to both games so i’m just going to write this review as if I had never played another game, just Oblivion.

After being freed from my cell one of the first things that really grabbed my attention was the first encounter I had with an enemy, it was a rat, that’s not so unusual but the graphics and reality of how that rat behaved were unbelievable, so lifelike.

When you eventually work your wait out in to the actual world of Oblivion it’s astounding, the scenery, the grass, the trees, yes this sounds like i’m making a big deal out of something which should appear ordinary, but it’s not ordinary, this is the first game which actually had grass that moved in the wind, trees that dropped autumn leaves, like something more out of a movie than a game.

Without trying to make this review an epic, as I could write about it all day and still not get it all down, you have to play this game even if it’s just to experience what can now be  achieved with these new gaming systems.  For graphics and the way they work I have to give 10 out of 10, the trouble is I think the play has suffered a little probably because of the graphics, you can complete the main quest fairly quickly but again as with a few others the side quests are far and wide and are many which can give you a lot of hours of play time, this is certainly another game I will keep hold of as I will undoubtedly play it over and over again.

If your looking for a follow on to Morrowind you could be disappointed so treat it like a completely unassociated game and you’ll be fine, it’s definitely worth the money especially now as it’s a lot cheaper, I mean even Oblivion must be a couple of years old now.

My overall score for Oblivion would be around 8 out of 10 but that’s simply because I was expecting a Morrowind like game with added extra’s and in fact they took things away which I really liked in Morrowind, I know I said I wouldn’t compare the two games but it’s really hard for me not to when I spent more than two years playing Morrowind so even though I was amazed by the graphics, personally I would have preferred slightly less focus on graphics if it meant sacrificing what could have been a 10 out of 10 game,  I mean lets  face it, it was great to see moving grass and falling leaves but it’s not essential in a game, grass is grass and plays no relevance in the story so why spend so much extra time and resources making it sway in the wind, my guess is this was an experiment to show what really could be achieved with the latest technology and I can’t blame the makers for that, it’s nice to see, I just think ultimately something was taken away from the gameplay itself, still a great game to play though, go get it if you haven’t yet.

Tony

Hi all,

I know this review has been a long time coming but with a game like morrowind it’s going to take time to write a decent review, I know the game is a good few years old now but i’ve actually been playing it off and on for over two years and I never get bored with it.

First of all i’d like to say playing this the first time around was like the same feeling I had when I played my first Final Fantasy game back on the ps1, it was something unique, something I had never experienced before in terms of playing console  games.

It was so open ended, you could go anywhere, do anything, stay to the main quest or just play for days just completing side quests for the various guilds, it was and still is an amazing game, even after two years I still can’t honestly say i’ve completed every side quest.

I did complete the main quest about 3 times, each time with a different character and different attributes and have attempted to complete all side quests but never did get them all. This game was so involving it made me go and buy the walkthrough, a huge book with detailed information on every quest as I really wanted to be able to complete everything, I will eventually get everything done in morrowind and it will definitely go down in my history books as a classic, I don’t think I will ever let this game go, if you haven’t played it yet I really can’t think of a reason why, forget how quickly people say you can complete this game because they are talking about the main quest only, there is literally thousands of hours of game play with morrowind, it’s not something you could get bored with.

My overall rating for morrowind is 10 out of 10, you can’t really expect any more from a game, especially if your an RPG fan, this game is for everyone and you get to have a lot of fun with it, steal houses, decorate them with your spoils,  take on the quests of the televanni or one of the other houses and get your own fortress, an excellent all rounder, it will be a long time before this type of game becomes outdated.

Tony

Yes after all this time i’m still playing fallout 3 , i’ve got about half the trophies ( ps3 ) and i’m still having fun, the reason I decided to write a post is last night was the first time in ages a game made me jump, no i’m not a scaredy cat, it actually takes a lot to surprise me but I was looking for the white house, as you would in a game like this because you just know there is going to be stuff worth finding in the white house, a bobblehead maybe, obama’s skeleton with a pack of ciggy’s in his pocket, you know the type of thing.

Anyway i’ve killed all the enemies in the area and it’s pretty quiet, it’s also late at night in the real world and i’m tired which is probably why it was easier to make me jump, ( it was 2am ) anyway, I here this noise and go to investigate, as I get closer I realize it’s a baby crying , wierd I thought, i’ve not come across a single baby in this game apart from when I killed my mum, when I was born, that was probably not really my fault as the radiation in the food my mum ate probably effected me adversely in some way and gave me a huge head which in turn ruptured something on my way out which in turn killed my mum so don’t hold that against me ok?

And what’s with that? the first thing I see coming into the world is a huge bright light and someone talking to me with no mouth and nose ( my dad’s face covered with a surgical mask, come on do I have to explain everything? ), it’s enough to start anyone out on the “bad karma” road,  so anyway I round this corner and sure enough there is a baby carriage with a baby in it crying, I go investigate, thinking i’m going to pick this baby up and it’s going to be some kind of quest where I have to find it’s mother and “wham!” it explodes in my face, wow, now i’m awake, better check my stats and my heads nearly gone so have to use most of my stinpacks and now the explosion brings a couple of super mutants to see yours truly and try to decapitate me.

All I can say is you guys at Bethesda are definitely original, oh yeah and sick too, I love this game and i’m looking forward to many more games being created using this engine, thanks for the fright you animals.

Anyway keep an eye out for my review which i’ll be writing soon.

Tony