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jlb834's Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (360)
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| [April 25, 2011 01:07:05 PM]
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Intro:
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is a single player adventure role-playing game (RPG) for the Xbox 360 that was released in 2006. The game has a sandbox game-world and an epic main quest with a linear storyline. The main story of the game is that demonic gates to other dimensions, called Oblivion, have opened in an attempt conquer the peaceful world of Cyrodiil. The main quest is to close the gates and stop them from opening and taking over Cyrodiil.
Game-world:
The game-world in Oblivion takes place in the realm of Cyrodiil, on the continent of Tamriel. The game-world is massive and occupies around 16 square miles. The game-world has several major cities as well as hundreds of different places-of-interest spread throughout the world. These places-of-interest include dungeons, small villages, Oblivion gates, and many different and unique places.
Features:
One of the unique and most interesting features of Oblivion is that the player is free to explore and interact with the world in a wide variety of ways. There are several different classes, as well as different skills that can be leveled up which gives the player perks. Besides the first quest, the player is free to play the game in any way they desire, such as become a thief, assassin, merchant, or just explore the many dungeons for loot. The back-story of Oblivion is huge with over a hundred different books in the game that give history of the game-world and how it ties in with the previous games. Oblivion has two downloaded content, DLC, packs that expand the game; however, the game comes with a plethora of content and the DLC packs are primarily for people who have beat the game several times. Another one of Oblivion’s major unique features is the level up system. The only way for a character to level up is to use the particular skill that they want to level up. This usually equates to holding down or pressing a button repeatedly just to go up one level, which is especially tedious for higher levels.
Play sessions:
I had two major play sessions for this review. The first session composed of setting my character and completing the first quest then starting to explore the game-world. The second session was used to level my character up and to become a thief and a mage.
First session:
During the first game-play session, I started the game from the beginning by complete the tutorial mission that teaches the player how to play the game. The tutorial is quite long but interesting, and it is structured in a way that it still provides challenges for both experienced and new players alike. Once the first level was done, I exited the dungeon and began to start exploring the world. Almost every part of the game-world can be accessed after the first level is completed. Since I have played the game before, I knew of a couple of glitches which will allow my player to duplicate objects. So I spend most of the first session getting a lot of money then buy houses, weapons, armor, and potions, that a new player usually cannot afford; however, because most of Oblivion’s content is available from the start, I was able to acquire many high level items for my character rather quickly.
Second session:
The second game-play session was primarily spend progressing my character even further than the first session; however, this session focused more on making my character and the character’s items more powerful. The first part of the session was spent joining a thief’s guild so that I could more easily steal from NPCs who sometimes have powerful items that cannot be made by the player with magic. The second part of the game-play session was spend accessing the mage’s guild so that I could charm my weapon’s and armor to make them more powerful. Joining the mage’s guild requires a significantly higher effort than the thief’s guild. In order to join the thief’s guild the player only needs to complete one simple quest, but the mage’s guild requires a recommendation from each of the major cities in the game, which can take well over an hour even for someone who knows exactly what to do. The game-play session ended when my character’s items were maxed out as far as the game would allow.
Overall:
Overall, Oblivion is a fun open-world that allows players to approach the game from many different perspectives, which allows for many different replays of the same game. The game follows a standard RPG style approach by providing an epic main quest with a lot of back-story and side quest.
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jlb834's Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (360)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Sunday 24 April, 2011
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