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Gag Gifts, Occasion Gifts - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition
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List Price: $49.99
Our Price: $19.97
Your Save: $ 30.02 ( 60% )
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Manufacturer: Take 2
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Take 2
EAN: 0710425312830
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Label: Take 2
Manufacturer: Take 2
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Take 2
Release Date: 2007-09-10
Studio: Take 2
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition (GotY) for Windows is a compilation of this classic RPG game. Oblivion GotY will include the original version of the award-winning RPG Oblivion along with the official expansion, The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles, and the downloadable content, Knights of the Nine. This new product allows players who have never played the 2006 Game of the Year to experience Oblivion for the first time with additional content. In addition, gamers can continue their existing games of Oblivion and experience the new quests and areas offered by the expansion and downloadable content.
Oblivion features a powerful combination of free-form gameplay, unprecedented graphics, cutting edge AI, character voices by acting legends Patrick Stewart, Sean Bean, Terrance Stamp, and Lynda Carter, and an award-winning soundtrack. Gamers can choose to unravel Oblivion's epic narrative at their own pace or explore the vast world in search of their own unique challenges.
With more than 30 hours of new gameplay, Shivering Isles allows you to explore an entirely new plane of Oblivion - the realm of Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness. Shivering Isles features a bizarre landscape split between the two sides - Mania and Dementia -filled with vast, twisting dungeons mirroring the roots of the trees they are buried within. Sheogorath himself looks to you to be his champion and defend his realm and its inhabitants from destruction as you discover all new items, ingredients, spells, and much more. The Shivering Isles features a bizarre landscape split between the two sides - Mania and Dementia -filled with vast, twisting dungeons mirroring the roots of the trees they are buried within. You'll encounter more than a dozen new creatures including hideous insects, Flesh Atronachs, skeletal Shambles, amphibious Grummites. Throughout your adventure, you will discover all new items.
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Summary: Oblivion
Comment: Good Game. A lot of playing hours, and game development is according to your actions and choices. More than one way to solve a quest. Addictive. The fact that you can save almost on each point ease the game no matter what playing level you choose.
Saving interface is not comfortable, as you can not enter your own saving title.
Addictive!
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Summary: Wonderful experience
Comment: I'm not exactly a gamer. I found this game on a recommendation from a friend. I think playing this game helped me understand myself better; it was therapeutic. I think the MODs are the best feature of the gaming system because if you don't like something, someone else has probably already created a mod to change it to better suit you. I've already applied 4 mods and the game experience just keeps getting better and better. Best game I've ever played.
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Summary: Oblivion Review
Comment: This game is excellent, some of the quest are really challenging even on the easiest settings, good non combat quests also
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Summary: Could I give this game six stars?
Comment: I owned this game on Xbox360. I then upgraded my laptop and got it on PC also. After downloading a LOT of additional content (fileplanet has the most by a slim margin)I opened up an experience that is absolutely incredible for the RPG player.
No cheats needed. There are console codes out there, but don't use them. Trust me. There are a zillion ways to succeed at playing this game, and an endless amount of combinations for spell and item crafting.
I cleared 140 hours on my Xbox 360 character without touching the main quest and have spent a lot of time playing the PC version. Completely immersive fun, almost MMORPG-like, with a PAUSE button and NO LAG. That's the best part. Take it with you on the road and escape for a few hours, no matter what you need to be doing the next morning.
Yes, Crysis has better graphics. It's not nearly as immersive or replayable. In fact, while it's kicking the crap out of your system specs (downscalable to play on lower end systems with decent framerates though) it'll outlive just about anything you have in your games library, as its predecessors in the Elder Scrolls line have done in lesser fashion. I play on a Core2Extreme 2.8, 4GB Ram and a Quadro FX 1600mGPU, so your mileage may vary. Well worth playing. Make sure you come up for air on occaision so your family knows you're alive, or, better yet, get deployed so you have limited social options anyway.
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Summary: Top of the line SOLO adventure
Comment: Oblivion is EXACTLY how I imagined an RPG should be like back in the 80's, while playing Ultimas on Commodore 64s and Atari STs.
Oblivion has weather. While there is no wind other than a constant, gentle breeze, you do get rain/thunderstorms, fog, snow (no blizzards though, because there's not much wind). You don't slip and fall on ice but the sound of your steps is different whether you walk on the road, on grass, on snow or on ice.
The world of Cyrodill is not exactly continent-size, maybe some 20-30 miles in any direction from downtown Imperial City but... what a world this is. Cities, settlements, camps, estates, roadside inns, ruins, caves, dungeons, mines, shrines. The landscape is made up of plains, hard-to-climb mountains, rivers, swamps, waterfalls, seas. You can travel on foot or you can ride a horse. You can fight your way into fame and fortune while doing good or you can sneak into other people's houses or pickpocket the unsuspecting. The guards will chase you and throw you in jail if you do illegal things but, if they like you enough, maybe they will look the other way sometimes. Powerful gods or humble people will ask you do 'little things' for them and, if you can make them happy, they will reward you according to their abilities. You can raise to the top of your profession, as a fighter, as a mage, as a thief or as an assassin or you can assemble your own little gang of dreamy crusaders so that you can fight evil and recover the relics of a legendary knight. Or you can do them all and become all, in sequence or make progress in all paths more or less simultaneously while moonlighting as a gladiator as well and, if still bored, how about helping a lady take care of the rats in her basement (that's NOT what you think) or some drunk guy at the inn get rid of the Trolls that took over his daddy's country estate? Oh and, I forgot, there's a world to save or... wait... there's TWO worlds, thanks to the Shivering Isles extension.
This game is so huge, I can't see how you could really 'finish' it. After more than 2 months of almost daily playing, I am maybe 75-80% into the main quest, half a way through the Knights of the Nine, only started the Shivering Isles adventures. I did become the realm's Chief Mage (and the titles earns me no respect from the scholar mages) and the grand master at the Fighters league, got myself 350,000 gold coins in my pocket, 2 comfortable houses and 2 nice offices, completed close to 100 quests, slaughtered 2000 creatures and hundreds of humans, murdered 4 or 5 and all but one by mistake (friendly fire), didn't even come close to the Thieves guild and, foolishly, made it impossible for me to ever join the Dark Brotherhood (these are the assassins). Also, I've never been a vampire and didn't yet start my career as a professional gladiator. I did massacre the peaceful dwellers of a small village but I did that under the influence of some drugs that made them look to me like bloody Orcs - that was the price to pay for infiltrating and destroying the source of that scourge. Oh, and while briefly in the land of Dementia - or was it Mania? - I did, willingly, push buttons that caused a few careless adventurers to go insane and I watched as they were becoming so. I humiliated a lovely princess - or was it a duchess? - and I killed so many fearsome monsters, I lost count myself but the game does keep a count so it's easy to know. In fact, the game keeps track of so many things... I could easily find out how many jokes I told, how many potions I made, how many horses I've stolen (one), how many hours I slept or how many books I read.
Well...? What do you think?
On the 'not so good' side, the game does slow down when you are fighting 4-5 monsters at the same time or when there are other things that keep the machine busy while you are fighting the baddies - like a fire burning. Loading/saving times are a bit too long but, while this is happening, you do get to read some randomly selected good advice on the screen.
The other thing that saddens me is that I don't believe the good people at Bethesda are working on the next chapter yet. I do hope that, as soon as they are done with Fallout-3, they are going to get busy with another adventure in Cyrodill or thereabouts.
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