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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
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IGN
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, as it's likely to engulf whatever tidbits of unoccupied hours permeate your life. It might even start chipping away your daily responsibilities. With over 200 hours of gameplay, Oblivion's depth is nothing short of
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GamePro
With six more months of polish, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion would stand as the greatest RPG ever made. In its current form, it's merely magnificent.
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Gaming Target
This game is overwhelming and overachieving in so many ways that Bethesda needs to take a bow.
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Gaming Age
The game will provide you with more content than you can possibly handle, and is one of the few games on the market today that’s actually worth the full $60 price tag.
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GameZone
I first got a taste of the Elder Scroll games several years ago with Morrowind, but to be completely honest there was just so much to do in the game I came away feeling overwhelmed and not sure exactly what to do, where to go, among many other things.
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1UP
Oblivion is easily the finest open-ended RPG to date. It lacks the out-of-the-box crippling technical issues of every other Elder Scrolls game, looks great, and delivers on every promise Bethesda made during its development.
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Game Revolution
And astoundingly, everyone speaks. Though the voices occasionally repeat, it's pretty impressive that they managed to cram so much voiced dialogue in here, and most of it is high-quality work.
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Worth Playing
Oblivion not only raises the bar in the visual and audio modules but also in the gameplay and presentation department, making it easily one of the most recommendable titles to anyone who has ever enjoyed the thought of truly doing whatever they want in a
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Eurogamer
A staggeringly ambitious game that successfully unites some of the best elements of RPG, adventure and action games and fuses them into a relentlessly immersive and intoxicating whole.
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Yahoo! Games
If you had anything particularly pressing to be doing at any point over the next few months, it's time to cancel it. Bethesda's much-anticipated fantasy action RPG Oblivion is every bit the game it promised to be, with stunning visuals and vast amounts
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Games Radar
Like Homer, once you've begun to consume what this eternity has to offer, you'll have no desire to stop. The fourth Elder Scrolls entry is utterly brilliant and should not be missed by any adventure-spirited gamer.
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Games are Fun
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is the newest installment in the Elder Scrolls series from Bethesda. Don't let that stop you from considering it if you haven't played the earlier games as you don't have to. I know I didn't. The Elder Scrolls series is
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Game Chronicles
One of the ultimate RPG’s of our lifetime. It is an experience you won’t soon forget and possibly one that might never end.
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Gaming Nexus
Oblivion has the audio to match the graphics. Outside of the orchestral score Bethesda Softworks went all out with the voice over talent bringing Patrick Stewart, Sean Bean, and Terrance Stamp to give voices to their characters.
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Gamers Wanted
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is truly an incredible game. The development team wanted to create a brand new world in which you can do anything you like, and they have succeeded by far. Whether only playing the main storyline for a feel of completion,
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Frag Land
The first we noticed when we saw images from Oblivion were the outside locations. In the game these remain of course equally impressive eventhough they have more problems with framedrops than you would like. This is therefore already one of the biggest
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DreamStation.cc
These are the first terms that come to mind for describing Bethesda's new release, Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion . Being the first RPG for the Xbox 360, and probably the most anticipated, Oblivion had A LOT of expectations to try to meet. This game meets a
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Just Adventure
Oblivion is a blast to play, and it's a considerable achievement in the annals of electronic role-playing games.
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Game Over Online
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion takes everything that was great about its predecessors and improves upon it while delivering its own brand of RPG style and substance on a new console with all the power and beauty you would expect.
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Gaming Illustrated
Oblivion took our expectations for the game and sent them ... well ... into oblivion.
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DarkStation
Bethesda fulfills the hopes of fans with this truly epic RPG, laced with genuinely jaw-dropping next-gen visuals and the customary deep and satisfying gameplay.
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Armchair Empire
I already can‘t wait to see what the series has in store next.
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GamingExcellence
As great as "Morrowind" was (and it was difficult to imagine better), Oblivion is a game that does everything ten times better. It also makes playing any other game out there seem trivial.
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Contact Music
The Elder Scrolls series is now over ten years old. It has developed from an old skool 2D adventure game with blocky graphics and annoying music into the best looking role playing adventure game I have ever seen. The world which you inhabit is
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Cyber Gaming Net
More than a decade ago The Elder Scrolls: Arena was released. At the time it was a spectacular achievement of PC gaming, featuring large, randomly-generated areas that, while a tad unforgiving to newer players, was nonetheless an incredible experience to
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Gameplanet
For die-hard RPG fans, the ultimate role playing game is one where you are drawn into another world, your alter-ego living life unconstrained by a linear story line or character class restrictions. Games offering such scope and flexibility are few and
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GameCell UK
Have you ever played through the GTA series and wondered what it’d be like to be a knight rather than a gangland kingpin, slaying orcs and goblins rather than Mafiosi characters and prostitutes? Chances are that if you don’t own a ten-sided dice or a
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Loaded Inc
Keeping with the tradition of earlier Elder Scrolls games, there are quite literally miles of terrain to explore. Thankfully Oblivion has a built in teleport option which allows you to instantly travel to any area you’ve uncovered.
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Just RPG
The sheer size of the game results in so many different options and things to do that I couldn’t possibly cover them all here.
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Console Obsession
Oblivion may very well be the wisest game purchase you’ll ever make, as such is its size, you won’t be needing another game for months to come. With a gargantuan world to explore and a possible final gameplay time of over 100 hours, the
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My Gamer
Many MMORPGs promise to create a world that once you enter, you may want to leave the real world behind; Oblivion brilliantly succeeds in such a promise, and it’s not even an online game.
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Daily Game
Reviewing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is by far the largest undertaking in the young 2006 gaming year. With hundreds of hours of gameplay and just as many different paths to take, no one reviewer can give a definitive opinion of the game, at least not
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PALGN AU
The Elder Scrolls series, then. It’s long been revered for its absolutely gigantic scale and play-at-your-own-pace gameplay. The last outing in the series, Morrowind, was a damn good game, if somewhat flawed. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is different.
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VGPub
If Morrowind defines the non-linear RPG genre, Oblivion adds clarity to that definition.
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Talk Xbox
Its gameplay, graphics, and auditory value are all off the chain. In addition, its replayability will provide hundreds of hours of wholesome fun. My only personal complaint is this: due to the immense worlds, obscene amounts of terrain, and overall
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XGP Gaming
As much as this review has so far been my picking apart Oblivion’s flaws, I’m compelled to get across to you the point that I do love this game and enjoy every minute I’m playing it.
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Gaming Horizon
Rather than a reiteration of the customs, concepts and capabilities we’ve become familiar with in RPGs, Oblivion is something wholly new and entertaining that advances what freedom can feel like in a video game.
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Thunderbolt
Cyrodiil looks absolutely stunning. Everything is bright and wonderful in the sunshine, birds singing, pigeons flocking, butterflies dodging about in the shadows, and then environments look damp, cold and miserable when rain rolls into town. The level of
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Gamecritics
Oblivion is a game people will still be calling a classic a decade from now—and in the fickle world of gaming, that's high praise indeed.
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Science Fiction Weekly
Stubbornly single-player in an era trending "massively multi," the Elder Scrolls series vamps on the premise that letting you do whatever flips your lid beats herding you through a mausoleum of tropes like a maze-manacled lab varmint. Toss the maze and
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Pro-G
Oblivion will consume you. It'll consume your life, your performance at work will suffer and you might not see friends in weeks. With hundreds of hours of gameplay, and an unprecedented amount of quests to be completed, I couldn't possibly recommend
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Game Vortex
When I reviewed Morrowind back in 2002, I used words like “epic” to describe every aspect of the game. If Morrowind was epic, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is somewhere beyond epic. Everything that made Morrowind a great game returns in Oblivion, only
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Ferrago
Oblivion excels in almost every department but emerges as absolutely more than the sum of its parts. When viewed as a complete creation, the RPG genre can offer little else to compare; the console market has never known such deeply involving and
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RPGFan
It's not a perfect game (but I've yet to see a game that is), but if this is the direction next generation RPGs are headed in, then fans of the genre should rejoice.
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GameShark
What really makes it different is the level of immersion that is offered. It was so easy to start playing and only come up out of the game when the body’s demand to expel waste and take on more fluids became an urgent scream.
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Da GameBoyz
Likely the best game released in the last decade.
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Silicon Fusion
As I put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard, my journey is complete; the Great Gate has been destroyed and the land of Cyrodiil is once more safe from the invasion from Oblivion. Bethesda Softworks' latest masterpiece is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion;
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NTSC uk
Over four years in the making and originally slated as a launch title, Bethesda has finally released their freeform, action-oriented RPG on the world. It is a massive, jaw-dropping and awe-inspiring experience, a must play game. Those needing a little
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GamePlasma
In the war between the next-gen consoles, the outcome will depend on the system exclusives that demonstrate why each system should be number one. The Xbox 360, as of right now, doesn’t have too many of those types of games. As much as I like playing my
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