Much Ado About Everything

I somehow managed to finish Oblivion (meaning, finished the main quest). The game started in fun, but ended in frustration. If you want to play it, do yourself a favour and read a character creation guide to figure out how to level up properly, and pay attention to fatigue and enemy health during combat. I wasn’t aware of how big of a factor is former and how to find out latter, but once I did it helped quite a bit in reducing my frustration (or at least how often I had to reload the game).

My final opinion is that lack of polish (the game crashes occasionally and even corrupts your savegame sometimes!), lack of performance (the game stutters and frame rates are low even on really fast machines, and especially when it is needed the most – during multi-enemy battles) and inconsistent and unbalanced monster/player level up system have robbed this game of its greatness. I’d rate it as “good”, 3.5 out of 5.