Video Game Review: The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion

The Best Xbox 360 game would have to be The Elders Scrolls: Oblivion! This game has one of the best looking graphic systems that I have seen so far. I am an avid RPG (Role-Playing Game) fan and player and I have many on the Xbox 360.

Oblivion is a single-player game only, but it does have some online capabilities such online downloadable content from Xbox Live and there have been several patches and updates for the game some of which have really expanded the game play and added many more achievement points to the game, so it not only made me want to play the game more because of the new and exciting mods that Bethesda was making for the game, but for the fact that they also were generous enough to add more achievement points to the game furthering my gamer score, which everyone with Xbox Live know, if you have a low gamer score you are a pitiful gamer lol.

When the game starts off you are in jail and you have to find your way out, but once you do you can tell the game is going to be amazing to look at and the sound tracks are awesome as well. The dialogue is a little lacking as is in most RPG games, but for the most part you get used all the characters repeating the same lines in only one of maybe six different accents.

When the game starts you are given the task of finding the hidden heir to a throne that now sits bear, the previous king was killed by some unknown assassin. Your task is to go through the world of Tamriel and search out the heir and solve many side quests during your struggle.

The game play is like most RPG games, you hack and slash your way through enemies or you can sit at a distance and pick them off with your bow. Some of my favorite moments are using spells from a great distance and watching the people scatter. The game has an alchemy system that allows you to create your own concoctions some with good effects, some with ill effects and you can even create enchantments for your weapons to make them stronger or give them a special attribute.

One of my favorite things to do in the game was to collect as many "Feather" potions as possible so that I could use a glitch in the game to shoot off into the sky like a rocket and I could look down on the entire map and see the edges where normally you cannot see or get to from the map, it was like I was Superman jumping over tall buildings and over steep mountains.

The games leveling system is a little too easy though as I was able to level up so quickly that I wasn't even done with the first part of the main story mode mission and I was already mostly unable to be harmed and had more specialty items and weapons than I was supposed to at that point in the game. Oblivion allows you to do that though, I was eighty hours into the game before I basically started the main mission there was even more side quests to do, but I got to a point in the game where I had to do at least part of the main story mode mission or else I wasn't really going to be able to progress further in the game.

There are several mods for the game that Bethesda released which included more armor, items, etc, but they also released new locations that came in the mods such as The Elder Scrolls IV: Knights of the Nine, The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles, Oblivion Vile Lair, Oblivion Thieves Den and Oblivion Wizards Tower. All of these mods added new areas to explore enhancing an already spectacular game.

There are so many reasons to play this game, as I have over three hundred and eighty hours in the game and I'm still only about ninety-three percent complete with the game. I hope there will be a sequel to this game, Bethesda really knows how to make an awesome RPG game!