The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition Deluxe

2009

Audio: English

role-playing (rpg)
adventure
action
fantasy
historical
sandbox
open world
single player

The story

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition presents one of the best RPGs of all time like never before. Step inside the most richly detailed and vibrant game-world ever created. With a powerful combination of freeform gameplay and unprecedented graphics, you can unravel the main quest at your own pace or explore the vast world and find your own challenges.

What it’s like

Lush, sun-dappled fields and dense green forests under a painterly sky, with warm golden hour light spilling over stone towns and misty ruins after dark. The look leans on rich, saturated fantasy colour, with torchlit dungeons and blue-grey mountain passes giving way to hazy vistas that stretch to the horizon. Sound is a sweeping orchestral score that swells over open country and drops to quiet strings and birdsong in villages, while the clink of armour, distant wolf calls and the rhythm of hoofbeats on a long ride keep the world feeling inhabited. Pacing is unhurried and self-directed: you can wander for hours, stopping to pick flowers, haggle at a market or chase a side quest, and the emotional register is adventurous and mildly whimsical, with a steady undercurrent of heroic purpose. Its characters tend toward the gently comic and the earnest, with a lone wanderer slowly becoming a figure of renown. Combat is frequent and fairly stylised, with swordplay, arrows and spells, and some blood and cruelty in dungeon encounters, but nothing graphic or lingering. It suits a long, open-ended evening, a weekend of exploring, or a rainy afternoon with a controller, and it is for players who want a sprawling fantasy world to get lost in at their own pace.

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