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. Shivering Isles adds to the existing world of Oblivion so you can continue playing with your Shivering Isles features more than 30 hours of new gameplay and allows you to explore an entirely new plane of Oblivion вЂ“ the realm of Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness.

Summary: Shivering Isles features more than 30 hours of new gameplay and allows you to explore an entirely new plane of Oblivion вЂ“ the realm of Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness.

Oh and finally what idiot thought it was a good idea to make you play (or at least reload a saved game) Shivering Isles twice to get all the 360 achievements? I may be an RPG fanatic but IвЂ™m certainly not a masochist. While it was undoubtedly a great expansion I am certainly all Oblivioned out after playing Shivering Isles and IвЂ™m glad my month and a half long trek through the Elder Scrolls IV and all itвЂ™s expansions is at an end. While the original wasnвЂ™t perfect the slowdown in Shivering Isles was painfully noticeable at times and something that still needs fixing.ДЄlso while Shivering Isles does add plenty of new quests, some of them quite brilliant it still is essentially вЂњmore of the sameвЂќ and if you played all the way through Oblivion you may be sick of the game by now and not enjoy this at all.

The frame-rate in general seemed to be choppier once I got to Shivering Isles too. When it did finally work, the game didnвЂ™t crash again, but it can be majorly off-putting to crash the first time you try and enter the place where the games main plot kicks off. There are certainly some complaints to be levered at Shivering Isles too though, some borderline game breaking bugs have still survived unpatched and it took me 10 goes to actually get the games main cities to load without crashing (a commonly reported bug when the game launched). Shivering Isles most certainly features some of the most innovative sidequests to grace an RPG and are well worth taking a break from the achivement ridden main plot to investigate. It took a great deal of though to get this quest complete and it was a lot of fun actually achieving completion of it too. Perhaps the aspect of Shivering Isles I enjoyed the most was the side-quests, it features some highly entertaining ones one of which involving you helping a man kill himself while it still being a surprise to him AND making it look like an accident. Something Oblivion lacked was a memorable cast and short of Martin and Jauffre they are all instantly forgettable, Shivering Isles does something to remedy this and it makes the game far more enjoyable as a result. Other prominent cast members worth mentioning are Syl the Duchess of Dementia whose unending paranoia sends you on a rather interesting set of quests, Hasgill the ever polite but mildly sarcastic butler to Sheogorath and the palace guards themselves who are divided into two factions who dislike each other leading to some interesting stories and dialogue. Sheogorath makes for a colourful lead, leaping about merrily and madly and greeting you with lines about unwinding your intestines and the like. Shivering Isles cast as I mentioned before, is also one of itвЂ™s stand out points. While some of these quests are generic fetch quests the overall quality of them is arguably the best to be found in the whole game. The main plot of Shivering Isles will have you battling drug addiction, defending forts in epic battles and even laying traps in dungeons to try out on would be adventurers. As is typical of Oblivion plots itвЂ™s a fairly standard fare but throw in some strong characters ( a LOT stronger than the originals cast), a great ending plot twist and a truly original world things rise in quality considerably over the main quest in the original games immersment factor. What does Sheogaroth want your help for by the way? To fend off the legions of Juggalog, Daedric Prince of Order who is attacking his realm.

You, of course accept his offer and enter the Shivering Isles, a bizarre world where everyone is most certainly not normal and insanity and paranoia rain supreme. Shivering Isles for those who are unaware, takes place in the twisted realms of Madness and Dementia after the Madgod himself Sheogaroth arrives in the existing Oblivion world looking for a champion to fight for his cause.

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