The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Shiver me timbers! Has the world gone mad lately? Why, yes! Yes, it has. Welcome to the Shivering Isles, the latest expansion of last year\'s title, Oblivion. Inside lie the realms of Dementia and Mania, granting players a madeness-tinged title filled with funny quips and quirks. Like Oblivion\'s previous expansion, the Knights Of The Nine, Shivering Isles is all about meaningful choices. You have dozen of quests, including strange ones such as helping a person commit suicide, or driving trapped adventurers mad in order to save your own life. Deciding how to complete the dozens of quests give drastically different (but equally powerful) rewards - from new armour to weapons to titles for players.
Players starting new characters will be pleased to know that the Shivering Isles scale the monsters and treasure levels to their character levels much better than other parts of the game\'s world. By gathering various new ores and other alchemy items found in the psychedelic wilds of the Shivering Isles, players can craft new armour and weapons which come ready with enchantments. These also progressively level up as players forge them anew, higher up the game ladder. Currently, there is a bug which will cause the entire game to lock up after a certain amount of time, whether or not players have visited the expansion\'s islands. On high-end computers, this may be as early as two hours after installation of the expansion.
A patch is in the works, but until that is announced on both the 360\'s Marketplace news section and online, it may be wiser to hold off buying this game. With the fix, though, quirky quests and funny content makes it an excellent expansion for those tired of the serious and realistic setting of Oblivion where they can visit for some of the most memorable characters in the game yet.
