The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles is the official expansion for Oblivion-the 2006 RPG and Game of the Year. It features more than 30 hours of new gameplay as you are sent to explore an entirely new plane of Oblivion- the realm of Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness. Shivering Isles adds to the existing world of Oblivion, so you can continue playing with your existing save game/character or, create all new character just to explore the new content in Shivering Isles. New creatures, weapons, armor, ingredients, branching questlines and more await in the land of Mania and Dementia.
- See a world created in Sheograth’s own image, one divided between Mania and Dementia unlike anything you’ve experienced
- Battle the denizens of Shivering Isles, a land filled with hideous insects, Flesh Atronachs, skeletal Shambles, amphibeous Grummites, and many more
- Find and wield new weapons and armor or have new ones forged for you
- Explore a bizarre landscape filled with twisting, vast dungeons buried within the roots of the trees themselves
- This expansion pack requires Elder Scrolls IV: Obilivion software to play
List Price: $ 29.99
Price: $ 20.98
Shivering Isles and Knights of Nine, good add ons to a great game,
When Oblivion first came out for the 360 i put 80 hours into, finished all of the guilds and most of the side quest, after over saturating myself i took 8 months-1 year break, and decided recently it was time to get back into it and I have beat Knights of Nine(which is also on this very same disc) and am half way through Shivering Isles. And here we are…
Knights of Nine
-Good-
~Lengthy quest (5 hours), fun beginning, cool ending. You get a new outfit with fairly nice benefits, nothing jaw dropping though.
~Kind of boss fight at the end in a cool environment(i don’t want to spoil it)
-Bad-
~Half of the quest deals with you traveling all over the map to touch shrines(to become blessed), you have to find 8-9 of them. You get a map, but the actual locations aren’t marked on your main map so sometimes it takes longer then it should to find one. Became some what tedious.
~More fetching type activites then actually meeting interesting characters, go in this cave to find this, go to this other cave to find that, etc…
~Everying thing besides the new boss where you fight the boss, and armor, you’ve seen before.
Shivering Isles
-Good-
~Very interesting story, great ideas and concepts.
~New environment, new weapons, new armor, new tougher enemies, great dialogue.
~Great main quest, and some entertaining side quests ( the first side quest i did; i was told by a distraught civilian that he hated his life and wanted me to kill him, but he didn’t want to see it coming)
~You come across some interesting characters as mentioned above.
~Lengthy, i’ve put 15 hours into so far and am probably only half way done.
~Decent price, you get what you pay for, after all, $30 isn’t cheap for an add-on.
-Bad-
~Review after review stats how different the two worlds are, mania(happy/energetic) and dementia(sad/angry), but honestly, they’re not that different. Don’t get me wrong, you can tell which is which, but it’s not nearly as extreme as i was made to believe. Let’s take leaves off trees and paint the vegetation in darker shades and call it dementia. So far that’s my only complaint.
For $30 this is a good deal because you actually get what you pay for. An additional 30-40hours to an already extremly lengthy and well made game. One side note, i bought this game downloaded it onto my 360, brought it my friends place and downloaded on his as well(he also had Oblivion). Therefore, if you know someone else who wants it you guys should split the cost because you just download it on your hard drive and don’t actually need the disc to play the game(you only need the Oblivion disc).
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|Great Addition,
As much as I liked oblivion I have to admit the environment became a little monotonous compared to the diverse areas of Morrowind. The Shivering Isles expansion is a great addition to Oblivion and somewhat completes some of the gaps that I felt were present in the environment.
The Shivering Isles is a new landscape that can only be reached through a portal in the Nibbenay Basin. The new area is quite large, approximately 25% the area of Cyrodil, adding many new places to explore. It is divided between the brightly forested area of Mania and dismal swamps of Dementia.
I haven’t yet played the Knights of Nine quest yet but the Shivering Isles is enough for me to recommend buying this expansion. If you liked Oblivion then this is for you.
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