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Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Game of the Year Edition | 
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Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 583
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: 39284
Model: 39284
UPC: 710425392849
EAN: 0710425392849
ASIN: B000TG72PG
Release Date: September 10, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: factory sealed
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| • | Includes Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine expansions |
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Product Description
On the heels of the amazing success of the original game, which has earned countless awards from publications around the world and won numerous Game of the Year and RPG of the Year awards, comes the enriched and expanded Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Game of the Year Edition. This new product will allow players who have never played the 2006 Game of the Year to experience Oblivion for the first time with additional content. Included with the original game is the official expansion, The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles, and the downloadable content, Knights of the Nine. In addition, gamers can continue their existing games of Oblivion and experience the new quests and areas offered by the expansion and downloadable content. ESRB rated RP for Rating Pending
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 "Best Game Ever Made" is a Worthy Description May 6, 2008
We all have our favorite movies, our favorite books, authors, etc.
Some of us have favorite video games. Oblivion is all about sword-fighting and combat, magic and wizards and orcs and monsters... Now, normally I wouldn't consider this my type of gaming - I'm more of a science fiction, action/adventure fan than science fantasy.
But Oblivion... ...oh my, Oblivion...
There is more content, more creativity, more bang-for-your-buck entertainment in this game than frankly any other game I've ever played before. Period. The sheer scope of what this game lets you do is more than I'll ever experience. From enchanting your own weapons and armor to creating your own potions or magical spells, buying and improving houses, managing inventory and treasures. There are so many hidden features and items... ...it's mind boggling.
You take the roll of a character (which you completely design and name) destined to save the land of Cyrodiil from the evil clutches of Mehrunes Dagon and the parallel universe that is Oblivion. However long it takes is entirely up to you, as along your path to complete the core quests of the game you will encounter simply countless "side jobs" and hidden quests to complete, dungeons to plunder and insuremountable quantities of loot to collect. With epic battles to fight, wild and imaginitive creates to save or slaughter, and a massive landscape to explore, there seems to be no end to Oblivion.
Complaints? Well, the game seems to crash occasionally. Save often and it won't cause much heartache. This game presents enough data to keep these modern gaming consoles working pretty hard. This game would be phenominal online, however no such option exists. Oblivion could very easily be the next World of Warcraft. Other than that, I have no complaints - I played this game to completion on both the Playstation 3 AND the Xbox 360. Again, as a non-enthusiast of Science Fantasy games, that HAS to say something for Oblivion.
Buy it - buy it on Xbox or PC so that you can add some of the downloadable content not available on the Playstation. Buy it, then set aside a LOT of free time to enjoy all it has to offer. I also strongly suggest getting the game guide - read my review on that before buying, though.
And Bethesda, quite frankly I would be relieved if you just made every game that ever comes out from here until the end of time.
 not very happy,actually pretty sad.... April 19, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The game itself is interesting however somewhat redundant in scenery..my biggest complaint is the error messages ALL THE TIME !!! FROM BRAND NEW!! have to save continuously or you'll have to start all over right in the middle of combat ....very frustrating.....others said the regular edition didnt have this problem.....maybe just got a bum disc..dont know..but I'll think twice about another game from Bethesda though !!!!
A must have... April 17, 2008
I know, I know...everybody loves this game, right? Well there's a reason for that. Oblivion is a superb game. Along with Gears of War it is an absolute must buy for any 360 owner regardless of genre preference. The grapics, gameplay, and storyline are all extremely tight.
That being said there are a few downsides but they are nearly all in comparison to the prior episode in the series, Morrowind. 1) The number of factions within the game is reduced. This naturally reduces the number of questions, storyline interactions, etc. 2) Between the various factions there isn't the same level of consequence. In certain quest of Morrowind, completing the quest either got you expelled from another faction or prevented you from join it. This added a more realistic feeling and made you get more creative in quest completions. 3) Training has been extremely limited. You're only limited to 10 total training levels per character level. This may just be me but I don't particularly like that.
The other two things are more personal preference. The "level" of enemies and items can go either way. I see why Bethesda did it but I liked the other way better. The other thing is a lack of multiplayer. I don't personally want a multiplayer aspect in this type of game but some people might.
Both of the expansion packs included with the GOTY edition are solid additions. The Knights of the Nine starts out a little annoying as you go around making pilgrimages and such but it gets pretty good. Shivering Isles is a solid edition worth playing on this and just to download from XBox Live if you already have the original version of Oblivion.
Again, overall a fantastic game. Definately a must buy.
One of the most immersive and addicting games around. March 30, 2008
This is basically a much more complete version of what fans of the series got the first time around. The expansion pack fixes one of the main problems in the original, the short main storyline. Now with the extended storyline in Shivering Isles makes it much longer, and closer to what is commonly thought to be acceptable for a WRPG. Just like before there's all the factions for you to do side quests for, causing you to become famous, infamous, or just crazy rich. There's also the Knights of the Nine packed in, but I didn't try it out because I didn't want to waste even more hours of my life with this game. However if you're an oblivion fan starved for more content, I'm sure Knights of the Nine will help feed that hunger. I have one rather big complaint which keeps this from being a perfect 10, which would put it amongst my favorite games of all time. This complaint is that the game is still filled with glitches, long load times, and occasionally bad frame rate. This is a re-release, they should have taken the extra time to fix at least some of the issues from the original, this is unacceptable in my opinion. Other than the technical issues, this is one of my favorite WRPGs and I recommend you give it a look.
I now have it for both PC and XBOX 360 March 25, 2008
This is what RPG games are all about.
My first taste of Oblivion was watching a friend play this game. I'm not usually a fan of watching other people play video games, but this game, with its graphics, seems much more enjoyable to watch it. Sometime I'll find myself stopping to "smell the roses." I usually stop shortly after when a wolf starts attacking me, but you get the picture. Of course there are the infamous glitches in the game. Most people, especially for PC (which I am one of them) could not even play this game without buying a whole new PC. I enjoyed the game so much though (I borrowed my roommate's PC to play the PC version), I felt it worth buying a version for my 360. The expansions, although not worth paying for individually, added enough new content to warrent the extra money for the GOTY edition. Overall an excellent addition to a dying genre. Hopefully other RPG makers will follow suit and provide single-player only RPG's for those of us who just like to run around doing our own thing once in a while.
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