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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 204 months Binding: DVD Brand: 2K Games EAN: 0710425311390 ESRB Age Rating: Mature Label: 2K Games Manufacturer: 2K Games Platform: Windows XP Publisher: 2K Games Release Date: March 26, 2007 Sales Rank: 1570 Studio: 2K Games
Features:
Travel across a bizarre landscape split between Mania and Dementia -- filled with vast, twisting dungeons mirroring the roots of the trees they are buried within
Encounter more than a dozen new creatures including hideous insects, Flesh Atronachs, skeletal Shambles & amphibious Grummites
Discover all-new items, ingredients, spells, and more -- have the talented craftsmen of Crucible and Bliss forge new armor and weapons just for you
More than 30 hours of new gameplay, with an entirely new plane of Oblivion - The realm of Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness
Product Description: With the Elder Scrolls IV: The Shivering Isles DVD, you'll open up new areas in the world of Oblivion so you can continue playing with your existing save game/character, or create an all new character just to explore the new content. Within the Realm of Sheogorath, players can explore the two extreme sides of the god's madness -- the sublimely creative and the completely psychotic. Something is happening to the Shivering Isles and Sheogorath himself looks to you to be his champion and defend his realm and its inhabitants from destruction. Do you have the strength to survive his trials, tame a realm fraught with paranoia and despair, and wear the mantle of a God?
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - This game installs malware
Buyer beware - the product description does not describe some important aspects of the game:
This game secretly installs SecuROM - a particularly nasty piece of software which can cause many problems for your computer. It communicates encrypted data to remote servers, and is almost mpossible to eradicate completely from your system.
Rating: - Starting From Scratch Is Definitely An Option
There are plenty of good reviews here do I don't want to rehash things. I do just want to point out that you can play this with a new character and not have problems. I finished Oblivion long ago and deleted the game from my hard disk, but thought I'd kept my save games. Ooops. I loaded Shivering Isles and couldn't find the saves, and was concerned that I'd have to spend hours leveling up before I could start the expansion pack. No worries. Just create a new character, wait for the quest to pop up, and jump on in as a Level 1. You can work the side quests while you build levels and get some nifty new armour and weapons. It's a good chance to try a new character type and experiment with new abilities. Until Elder Scrolls V comes out, this is the best we're going to get, and a great value for the money.
Rating: - Pretty Good
Let me just start by saying that basically, this game is more of the same. But people who like this game aren't looking for a genre defining expansion, so if you liked the main game you'll like this. It basically adds more quests, items, creatures, dungeons, etc.
If you're fine with that you'll like the game. At 14 bucks it's a steal. Personally the story is passable. Something about a mad king with a mad realm needing saving or something. Oblivion's main weakness has always been the story and your purpose in the world. You never really feel like you make much of an impact with the things you do. And small things like literally 2 voice actors that voice every single NPC in the game take you right out of the immersion even more. Thankfully, Oblivion's main selling point is being immersed in exploring the world.
If you see a point in the distance, chance being you can walk, ride or swim from your current position all the way to that far off point. Chances are you'll never make it to that mark on your map anyways becuase half way you'll constantly find yourself going off the beaten path. Discovering dungeons, new castles, fighting bandits, opening portals and a myriad of things that make this game unqiue. Even with an expansion that adds some new elements, it still doesn't solve the problem of a meaningless story and your close to meaningless place in it. Yeah you can affect the world and your surroundings somewhat, but you never really feel a part of it, unless your exploring some hidden nook in it's huge world.
I wish this expansion had atleast added some freaking new voices for the NPC's. I can't tell you how jarring it is to hear every single NPC in the game speak in the exact same voice as his next door neighbor. It does seem like some of the new female characters are atleast "attractive". Visually the game is beautiful, but the character designs are freaking hideous.
I'm eagerly awaiting Elder Scrolls 5. Just making the minor changes I've complained about they can really have the next great RPG on their hands. That being said 14 dollars is a small price for 20-30 hours of brand new content.
Rating: - Not worth the money
Took me 2 days to finish this addition. I wouldn't suggest it. Good content but not enough of it!
Rating: - Brilliantly Demented (or Manic, Take Your Pick)
First, do you have The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion? You'll need it for this expansion.
The installation is easy and the expansion integrates into the overall game with ease. Even if you're well on your way with Oblivion's main quest, the entrance of Shivering Isles into the realm of Tamriel is unobtrusive and natural. A strange door appears on a little island near Bravil. Whether you investigate immediately or later is entirely up to you.
Think of this expansion as a much-deserved vacation into lunacy, a break from saving the "real" world from infernal Daedra.
So what happens? To say anything of the plot would be spoiling the fun. Suffice it to say that you'll dealing with an impetuous god, one of the Daedric princes. Sheogorath has a wicked sense of humor, a personality split right down the middle, and a very elaborate plan (or two) for you. To accomplish the goals that Sheogorath sets before you, you will engage in dungeon crawls, caving expeditions, tragic battles and political conspiracy. And rest assured that the decisions you make will have a marked impact on your future.
From my experience, the lessons learned and the abilities gained from the Shivering Isles quests and adventures can prove incredibly handy toward completing the main Oblivion quests, should you decide to visit Sheogorath's realm before saving Tamriel entirely.
As with Oblivion, the technological demands are remarkably steep, particularly where graphics cards are concerned. If you're a Nvidia enthusiast, you'd best be armed with an 8-series card (Examples: eVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTX 768 MB PCI-Express Graphics Card or eVGA e-GeForce 8800GTS 320 MB PCIe Video Card), at the very least. While Oblivion and its expansions can be played on older, less muscular systems, the experience will always be sub-par without the full effect provided by a better graphics card.
- This game installs malware
- Starting From Scratch Is Definitely An Option
- Not worth the money
