Shivering Isles
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion expansion pack
System: Xbox 360
Type: RPG
To start off I would like to mention that when I first joined the escapist forum, I promised myself that my "Gone Gonzo" post would be about oblivion, and since I love to write this worked perfectly.
Feel free to make "Grammar Nazi" posts because they help!
And does anyone know how to resize pics for posting, or to center them!
Oblivion
Due to this being an expansion review I won't go into Oblivion related stuff. Like Combat and leveling. For those who don't know, Oblivion is a massive Single player RPG, and according to me, one of the best of all time! This review requires some Oblivion knowledge!
Shivering Isles
FEATURES
34 new quests (36 if you include none-journal quests)
1 Joinable Faction (Court of Madness)
30+ Hours of Gameplay from the Main Quest itself.
100+ NPC's along with 9,500 new lines of dialogue
40+ New Creatures
25+ New Spells
60 New Places to Discover
42 New Alchemy Ingredients
25+ New Books
5 New Sets of Weapons (Not counting Unique Weapons)
6 New Sets of Armor
10+ New Rings/Amulets
10+ New Clothing
The Expansion is adding 25% More to Oblivion (In terms of land mass)
Story
Shivering Isles starts off by when you load up your normal Oblivion Game the next time wait/sleep for 24 hours you will receive a new journal about a strange portal to another world. It turns out it is the portal to the lands of the Daedric Prince of Madness Sheogorath's world. The world is divided into 2 types of crazies. Maniacs, crazy happy people who are dumb. Or Dementics, sad, cynical people. The plot revolves around the Sheogorath looking for a champion that can save his realm from a great devastation that happens at the end of every era. Which so happens to be....NOW!
During the course of the main plot the player will fight the Infamous Gatekeeper, solve a religious mystery, fight to keep the place crazy, and get some great perks
Trust me when I tell you the main story is reason to buy the game itself
Side quests
Oblivion is know to have some great side quests, ones that surpass the main plot, but while that's not the case in this expansion, the side quests are still barrels of fun, Side quests include Helping a man commit suicide, reconstructing a fallen foe, becoming the duke of your people, solving investigations and much, much more!
Shivering Isles Geography
Shivering Isles is a major expansion adding lots of places for the explorer to go. As you can see by the added Landmass
Weapons
This is the only category Shivering Isles falls short in. The main 2 piece of armor you get are the Madness and the Amber armor, which I feel look stupid
Madness on left, guars in middle, Amber on right
Luckily theirs lots of other weapons around like Dawn/Dusk Fang, easily the coolest weapon in the game, and one that you get in the coolest mission evar!
Actually 1 sword, changes night and day
Voice acting
The voice actors who play the major roles in the game are delicious, Sheogorath sounds like the boss he is, and every sentence he says is pure gold, and his servant Haskil speaks in a grim dull tone, the exact opposite of his boss
Sheogorath and his palace
Usind Arguments
I know this is more of a rant of how great this game is, but if you haven't played it you're missing out. Oblivion players will feel that special Oblivion Feeling that you had when you first crawled out of the sewers and looked into the beauty that was this game.
Rent, Buy, Set on fire
If you have Oblivion, you need this expansion, its pure genius
MADNESS!!!
Bitching
I wish Bethesda had made the Heretics play a bigger role in the plot
Well, thats my gone gonzo post, hope I get some replies. Anyway, The escapist fuckin rules!
Happy Easter
(Im Greek Orthodox, our easter is today!)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion expansion pack
System: Xbox 360
Type: RPG
To start off I would like to mention that when I first joined the escapist forum, I promised myself that my "Gone Gonzo" post would be about oblivion, and since I love to write this worked perfectly.
Feel free to make "Grammar Nazi" posts because they help!
And does anyone know how to resize pics for posting, or to center them!
Oblivion
Due to this being an expansion review I won't go into Oblivion related stuff. Like Combat and leveling. For those who don't know, Oblivion is a massive Single player RPG, and according to me, one of the best of all time! This review requires some Oblivion knowledge!
Shivering Isles
FEATURES
34 new quests (36 if you include none-journal quests)
1 Joinable Faction (Court of Madness)
30+ Hours of Gameplay from the Main Quest itself.
100+ NPC's along with 9,500 new lines of dialogue
40+ New Creatures
25+ New Spells
60 New Places to Discover
42 New Alchemy Ingredients
25+ New Books
5 New Sets of Weapons (Not counting Unique Weapons)
6 New Sets of Armor
10+ New Rings/Amulets
10+ New Clothing
The Expansion is adding 25% More to Oblivion (In terms of land mass)
Story
Shivering Isles starts off by when you load up your normal Oblivion Game the next time wait/sleep for 24 hours you will receive a new journal about a strange portal to another world. It turns out it is the portal to the lands of the Daedric Prince of Madness Sheogorath's world. The world is divided into 2 types of crazies. Maniacs, crazy happy people who are dumb. Or Dementics, sad, cynical people. The plot revolves around the Sheogorath looking for a champion that can save his realm from a great devastation that happens at the end of every era. Which so happens to be....NOW!
During the course of the main plot the player will fight the Infamous Gatekeeper, solve a religious mystery, fight to keep the place crazy, and get some great perks
Trust me when I tell you the main story is reason to buy the game itself
Side quests
Oblivion is know to have some great side quests, ones that surpass the main plot, but while that's not the case in this expansion, the side quests are still barrels of fun, Side quests include Helping a man commit suicide, reconstructing a fallen foe, becoming the duke of your people, solving investigations and much, much more!
Shivering Isles Geography
Shivering Isles is a major expansion adding lots of places for the explorer to go. As you can see by the added Landmass
Weapons
This is the only category Shivering Isles falls short in. The main 2 piece of armor you get are the Madness and the Amber armor, which I feel look stupid
Madness on left, guars in middle, Amber on right
Luckily theirs lots of other weapons around like Dawn/Dusk Fang, easily the coolest weapon in the game, and one that you get in the coolest mission evar!
Actually 1 sword, changes night and day
Voice acting
The voice actors who play the major roles in the game are delicious, Sheogorath sounds like the boss he is, and every sentence he says is pure gold, and his servant Haskil speaks in a grim dull tone, the exact opposite of his boss
Sheogorath and his palace
Usind Arguments
I know this is more of a rant of how great this game is, but if you haven't played it you're missing out. Oblivion players will feel that special Oblivion Feeling that you had when you first crawled out of the sewers and looked into the beauty that was this game.
Rent, Buy, Set on fire
If you have Oblivion, you need this expansion, its pure genius
MADNESS!!!
Bitching
I wish Bethesda had made the Heretics play a bigger role in the plot
Well, thats my gone gonzo post, hope I get some replies. Anyway, The escapist fuckin rules!
Happy Easter
(Im Greek Orthodox, our easter is today!)
