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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