Oblivion!

That's right, it's my first video game review. I'm now - officially - a complete nerd. Although I suspect everyone who reads this already knew that.

My boyfriend Keithen and I were hanging out in a video game store the other day, and he said to me,"You you wanna get an Xbox 360?"
I replied, "No. I'm hella broke."
So he said, "Yeah, but I have money, because even though we have equal salaries, I'm not a compulsive buyer like you. And don't say 'hella'."
So about two hours later we left with our new baby, our beautiful little Xbox 360. When we chose our first game for it, we got Oblivion, because I figured there was no way we would finish it before Christmas and we would save ourselves from having to pay $60 for Bioshock.

So we got Oblivion. I spent many long, lonely hours with it's prequel, Morrowind, on our first Xbox (now acting out for attention from the dusty bottom shelf of our TV stand). Now I realize that Morrowind was widely acclaimed and a bit of a landmark for it's genre - which, if you don't know much about video games, is the genre of Super Nerdy I-Totally-Just-Scored-a-Plus-Seventeen-Hit-Point-Mage's-Staff-and-Now-
I'm-Gona-Go-Kick-Some-Dwarf-Ass-With-It Nerdified Nerddom.
But Morrowind kind of sucked. I mean, I liked it alright, except for the really bad character designs (for some reason you can only give your female character a receding hairline) and the fact that you have to wander all hell-and-gone over the whole entire countryside anytime you go on a mission. It was a beautifully animated countryside, but that shit gets old.

So when I learned that the sequel had come out with improved character designs and and a fast-travel option, I knew I had to have it.
Yeah, that was a year and a half ago. I'm not sure if we're late adopters, or just poor.

So my initial thoughts on Oblivion. (I haven't finished it yet. I have to make it last until Christmas, remember? Oh yeah, and I have a job and a life.)...(OK so I obviously don't have much of a life. But I do have a job.)...(OK technically I'm an intern. Shut up.)

Oblivion is like a big fat "fuck you" to Morrowind. For some reason my female character still has a receding hairline, but that's the only thing they didn't fix really, really well. I was kind of disappointed that there's no big floating jellyfish (just look it up), but there are cute little deer frolicking around in Oblivion's wilderness. And deer are cute.

So Oblivion gets an 8 out of 10 from me. Woo video games!