Review: The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion

The Elder Scrolls IV Oblvion is an amazing RPG. It takes place cyrodiil, the capital province in the fictional land of Tamriel(The entire planet the series takes place on is Nirm if you want to go more to detail) It is on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

The land of Cyrodiil is huge... a little too huge. It's great that they made such a large area too explore, but most of it are just forests. Although the forests are different in every general area which is nice.

Gameplay 9/10- Oblivion's gameplay is great. The combat feels realistic and intense. The only problem with it is that when you have allies you may hit them instead. Otherwise there are tons of magic spells you can learn which are set into catagories like destruction restoration etc. and you can even enchant your weapons and harvest plants and brew potions.

Aside from cambat,harvesting and brewing you can do many other things like purchasing homes that you can customize and purchasing horses that you can rise. Or you can steal things. there are also 100s of hours of quests and thats not just the main quests. There are side quests you can get from citizens and there are guilds you can join.

Graphics 9.3/10- Oblivions graphics are amazing, simple as that. Everything is very detailed and the game has great real time shadows. The graphics still look great today. If I wrote this review back when this came out it would definatly score a 10/10.

Sound 9.8/10- The game has an amazing soundtrack by Jeremy Soule. The voice actors did a great job the only problem is... there's not alot of voice actors, so your gonna be hearing tweo different people talking exactly the same. Also The sound effects are great too but I wish there was just a few more because when you swing your sword against a tree it sounds exactly the same as swinging it against the ground, but its not that bad and it doesn't effect the score at all. If there were more voice actors sound would have scored higher.

Story 8.5/10- The story is pretty good but it felt like it was over too quickly. But on the other hand there are tons of books to be read giving the game alot of lore. although its not as much as Morrowind it still is alot.

Overall 9.2/10- Oblivion is an amazing game and is a must buy.

First Post

So, I guess I'll give you a run down of the blog. It's pretty much about video games to eep it short. Here I'll be posting about video games and reviewing them. I mostly play on 360 so expect most reviews from that console. I also own a Wii, PS2, N64, Dreamcast and I also game on my PC.

So far I plan on starting with reviews for 360 games and Dreamcast games. I have not decided on how to review them yet but they will most likely be on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the highest. Once I decide I will make a post letting you know. And if I get a capture card expect some video reviews as well.

Well thats about it for now. Expect more posts later on .