This guides you through basic tasks and gently nudges you into combat, spells, magica and interaction. You are a prisoner in a cell that just so happens to be the one the Emporer uses to escape attack in his own palace. The "tutorial" at the beginning of the game guides you through you simple abilities and puts you straight into the main quest. Quite astonishing and time-consuming if you so choose it to be. You can modify almost every facet of your own appearance from how your jaw shapes up to how much hair you have on your head.
Mine is a Dark Elven Battlemage who is getting good at blunt weapons, can't really pick locks too well, can mix potions nicely, is pretty damn good at destructive magic, can talk anyone around, is a really good jumper.the list goes on. You don't just create a single-skilled character such as an 'Elven Warrior': you create a character that has many many attributes. You create a name, class, attributes, look and feel for your very own ultra-personalised character. This is possibly the most in-depth I have ever seen character creation with practically every element of your character being able to be modified.
Right at the start of Oblivion you have to choose the attributes of your character. However once you've had a look around and got used to them (didn't take me long even as a relative newby to RPG), they are pretty easy to use and certainly very very helpful and is nicely laid out. The icons aren't very clearly labelled and sometimes look a little vague. The control panel at first looks incredibly confusing. It also allows you to equip armour and use potions etc. Its worth mentioning that you can access the control panel all of the time in the game and that it freezes whatever is going on in the game so you can handily change weapons/adjust spells to what you need at the time. It is interesting enough to keep me interested while I beat the baddies and mix my herbs. Lots of little touches like books with a history of the land mean that you learn background as you go along. Having said that the game makes you believe it in the way that a good book does. You have to help out find his son and generally save the world and its people from evil. The HDR effect is quite breathtaking and really gives you a sense of "being there". Flowers are perfectly formed and blades of grass actually look like blades of grass. Its not just the big things that the game developers have gone after: its the little touches too. From the highly realistic grass to the huge mountains that tower overhead: everything is perfectly in proportion and gives you a sense of scale. The construction of the scenery and the details is excellent. The world is called Tamriel and in Oblivion it is approximately 16 square miles. Once you step out into it you get a sense of proportion of just how utterly massive the gameplay world is.
Words find it hard to describe just how totally immense this world actually is. However read on and see why my fears were allayed. I was very wary when first playing this game as I'm used to the non-intuitive controls of some of the RPG's that I have played. I am not an RPG fan: I have played a fair few and always found them to be a bit hard to get into and hard to control. Let me first make a quick mention of my interest in the game.
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