• Summary: Shivering Isles features more than 30 hours of new gameplay and allows you 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 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? The Shivering Isles features a bizarre landscape split between the two sides – Mania and Dementia-filled with vast, twisting dungeons mirroring the roots of the trees they are buried within. You'll encounter more than a dozen new creatures including hideous insects, Flesh Atronachs, skeletal Shambles, amphibious Grummites. Throughout your adventure, you will discover all new items, ingredients, spells, and more, and have the talented craftsmen of Crucible and Bliss forge new armor and weapons just for you. [Bethesda Softworks] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 34
  2. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. Shivering Isles is a bona fide masterpiece and the best that the Elder Scrolls series has to offer.
  2. The download is pricey, but the content is varied, interesting, and most important, plentiful.
  3. I can't see anyone who enjoyed Oblivion enough to get through the main quest not buying this. There's lashings of new fighting and exploring, and it's more gorgeous than ever before.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 2 out of 12
  1. A perfect add-on for an already perfect game.I can't rate it 10 because it deserves 10+.It is just so cool the world the enemies the NPC's the weapons everything is changed and is a change for better.And you can play with the character you already have in The elder scrolls 4Oblivion.Sweet. Expand
    • 4 of 5 users said yes
  2. SeanO.
    10
    If only the main game were as detailed and creative as this. A fantastic expansion to an already fantastic game. I'm just a little bummed that they didn't add new music - the original soundtrack is really starting to wear thin. Expand
    • 3 of 4 users said yes
  3. I was forced to play this expansion by a friend of mine, who had told me that it's X times better than Oblivion, the realm of Sheogorath has great lore, story and places. So I bough it and: "really?" The island is small, artificially split in half (that influences NOTHING, we've just different mobs to kill in an each zone). The story could be nice, but it's very bad. I mean, the only good thing in it is Sheogorath itself - it seems that he was created in-game by someone totally outside Bethesda studios and free from Todd's indoctrination. It's just fun to listen to him. But everything else in this expansion is just plain bad - the island, characters, places, quests, items. Let's face it, the core of this game is a crap, and it would be really hard to make from it something better - and I think that some people who were making Shivering Isles wanted to do something more than Oblivion (Sheogorath, an idea for story), but it's still just a feeble, empty slasher called Oblivion. I would give it a 2, because of Sheogorath, he's nice and feels totally out of the place in this game. But I give it a whole 1, because of SecuROM - I had a lot of problems with getting that thing out of my PC. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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