TES IV: Oblivion

Alright, I've been a little bad on what games I've been playing lately. I was craving some boring repetitive fighting and trading, so I've been playing Freelancer for the past month. Solid RPG in space kinda deal with flying a ship around till you're bored of it (when you stop playing, then you truly beat the game). Then I rented Battalion Wars 2 for the Wii...because I hadn't played the Wii since I participated in the "Check Mii Out Channel." Solid game, but it's very short, and I beat it in the time I had it rented, so it's not really worth buying.

Wishing to play something like Freelancer again, with all the freedom to choose whether you want to be good, evil, indifferent, or just plain weird, I thought about The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I haven't played the game in months, so it's lost the boredom factor that it had after I had completed every quest on 3 different characters (maybe I should buy the official plug-ins). To get you acquainted with the kind of game it is...try to imagine yourself in medieval times. What's the first thing you would do? Odds and a half are...you can do it in the game. If you wanna use magic to send everyone in town into a mad frenzy, there's a spell for that. Wanna bash some skeleton heads? There's a war hammer with your name on it! Want to become a vampire and suck the blood of innocents? Not a problem! Have the erge to stack the corpses of the town guards in a nice pile in front of your mansion? Go for it! Want to become the god king of your own reality? It's actually in the expansion pack, Shivering Isles (I ain't jokin'). Want to string the bodies of live sacrifices to you in the windows of your sanctuary of murder? There's a Vizine for that!

You have near absolute freedom in the game and can kill just about anyone no matter now powerful or influential they are (with exception of main quest characters). Just be prepared to reap the fruits of your actions. You can also go through just about the entire game without killing anyone at all, if you're more of a sneaky sort. And if you don't want to even pick up a single weapon in the game, don't: there's magic that makes people run in fright of you. You can just go treasure hunting if you don't want to raid bandit camps and undead forts. I have never played a computer game quite like this before, and so far it hasn't been duplicated too well either. The only downfall: it's single player. This would be the greatest game ever created (until TES V anyways) if there was some kind of multi-player. Even over a LAN system (MMORPG would be just too crowded and annoying) would be great. Ah, well, maybe next time. If you want some RPG ownage, hook yourself up with this game. It's also out for Xbox 360 and PS3 with purchasable plug-ins that add quests, items, and locations (of course not for Wii), so this increases the availability and reduced the need to nice computers to run them.

Rating: A+