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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
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Gamerz-Edge
Well after a long silence, I have returned with new goodies for you my dear readers. I would ask you now to brace yourself for the following statement. Oblivion is the best title out currently for the 360. Seriously folks, nothing else even comes close.
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G4 TV
The landscapes are beautiful, the cities are incredible, and the detail of the diverse characters you’ll meet it astounding. The audio is just as good, with a dramatic score, top-notch voice acting, and an immersive Dolby Digital 5.1 mix.Role-playing Do
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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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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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Sydney Morning Herald
even lead double lives. Guards will arrest you for crimes, others will beg for your help and some may tempt you to join them in nefarious activities.The temptations in Oblivion never cease and your addiction to its world will grow the deeper you go. Happy
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UnderGroundOnline
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion can prove beyond any doubt that RPGs don't have to come from Japan to be brilliant. One look at the feature list for the game might make it seem like it is just too good to be true. We're talking about a living, breathing
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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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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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Official Xbox Magazine UK
Simply put, Oblivion is a game where the story never ends. The story of your exploits in any other game would have natural gaps, but here you can just keep telling it, with every yarn feeding logically into the next.
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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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Extreme Gamer
The bottom line is Oblivion is probably the only game besides Halo that gamers will still have in their drives a year from now, an after running around the world for 50hrs I can see why.
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Jive Magazine
Each year there is always one title that the gaming industry really looks forward to being released, but there are very few games that make gamers want to squeal like teenage girls at an N’Sync concert. The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion is one of those
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Games First!
By now everyone has seen the opening scene of Oblivion, whether through video reviews or in teaser trailers. You know the one, where you're flying over Tamriel's Imperial City, epic music swells, and you come face to face with King Uriel Septim who
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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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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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Boomtown
Here we have a game that is intelligent and uncompromising yet wonderfully easy to get involved with and enjoy.
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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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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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Into Liquid Sky
The music is superbly scored and goes a long way to set a mood. I ca not imagine playing this game without the soundtrack and any attempt to do so only managed to break the mood.
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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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Entertainment Weekly
Sure, like any good D&D-style role-playing game, you can marvel at all the character generation possibilities (look, Ma...I’m an orc!) before embarking on the game’s ''main'' quest: stemming the tide of a demonic invasion by setting the late emperor
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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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Team Fremont
Fans of Morrowind surely picked up Oblivion on release day, knowing they were getting a truly next-generation entry in the beloved Elder Scrolls series. Those that haven't played an Elder Scrolls game before might be wondering what the big deal is, or if
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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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VGPub
If Morrowind defines the non-linear RPG genre, Oblivion adds clarity to that definition.
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PGNx Media
The main quest, side quests, townspeople, graphics, open-endedness, etc combine to make one of the best videogames available on any console.
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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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eToychest
It is quite possible to blow through the game in 30 hours, but it is equally possible to play for 400 and still not have done everything there is to do in Cyrodiil.
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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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Next Level Gaming
Replay in this game is HUGE, even when I first started to play this game I couldn’t wait until I beat it so I could create a new character and try playing it a different way.
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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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Digital Entertainment News
It all comes down to the freedom to play the game any way you want, and that is something that Oblivion does amazingly well.
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Games Xtreme
Roleplaying games are fairly popular on consoles, the PS2 for instance is stuffed to the brim with various RPGs, while the Xbox and Gamecube have their fair share. But these RPGs are usually fairly small, have a definite linear story and don’t really
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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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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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Xbox-Evolved
I have waited quite a long time for Oblivion, and I knew it was going to be good, but when I first stepped out of the sewer in the beginning of my journey, it only then began to seep in. I turned, and began walking across a bridge, turned to my right and
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DarkZero
Since its inception The Elder Scrolls has been heralded for its sheer size and depth, offering gamers a literally never-ending list of thing to do. The fourth title in the best-selling RPG series is no different - in fact it propels the series to a whole
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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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Gaming Illustrated
Oblivion took our expectations for the game and sent them ... well ... into oblivion.
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