7.5 out of 10
+ Amazingly beautiful graphics at the time. The world was really a thing to behold.
+ Patrick Stewart's voice acting
+ Voice acting for all characters
+ Combat is improved over past games. Thanks to hit detection instead of random dice rolls to determine if you hit an enemy or not.
+ Dark brotherhood missions were amazing
- Inferior soundtrack to morrowind
- less interesting artstyle then morrowind (oblivion was more or less a lord of the rings clone in many ways... boring). Whilst Oblivion may have had more colour it simply didn't evoke the same sense of creeping decay and dread that Morrowind did. Not to mention it lacked the beautiful Telvanni cities that were made out of giant plants.
- enemies scale with your level. This ruined the game for me as there was little reward from levelling up apart from having shinier armour.
- No in depth dialogue options. Planescape torment this was not.
- No houses, just guilds.
- Repetitive oblivion gates. One was enough...
It just felt like a step back in many ways to Morrowind and the rest of the series. Don't get me wrong however, it was still a very enjoyable game.
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