Oblivion Review

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Here is a very brief review of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: It blows. Hard.

I was hugely disappointed. I had heard nothing but good things about this game, but all of those reviewers must have been smoking crack. The interface is horrible, the RPG ruleset is tediously complex, the controls are quirky. Melee combat from a first-person perspective is just awful. It was clearly designed to run on a console platform and mindlessly ported to a PC.

Admittedly I haven’t even played far enough yet to select a character class, but the introductory portion of the game is such a turn-off that I’m not inclined to explore it further. I had hopes that this game would keep me from having to renew my WoW subscription for another month. Fat chance. Oblivion is a game to pull out only in dire emergencies, like when the WoW servers are down, the cable is out, and it’s pouring down rain outside.

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