Oblivion Takes #4 in GameSpy's E3 Awards
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At every E3, there are always a couple of games that have people walking out of the demo slack-jawed and incredulous, suddenly aware that they're seen the next generation of gaming. This year that expression could be seen on the face of every person lucky enough to get a demonstration of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Oblivion is the fourth in the long-running Elder Scrolls series, and has a couple of things in common with its predecessors; a huge, continent-spanning adventure involving a dire threat to the world of Tamriel, a protagonist that starts in a prison cell, and a simply enormous world to get lost in.
Beyond that, though, everything else Bethesda showed of the game is brand new. Scratch that, Oblivion leapfrogs past "new" to become one of the few truly "next-generation" titles at the show. The game is graphically stunning and sports a host of technological buzzwords like "normal mapping" and "pixel-shader effects" that pale in significance to the moment you first look at the engravings on a sword hilt and realize that every single one of those engravings is casting its own shadow!
