PC Games March -- Video Summary

The march issue of the German PC Games magazine came with a DVD that contains a video demonstrating some of the game's features. This video is about 5:30 minutes long and contains some new material as well as some material previously seen in the trailer and the E3 demo video.

We watched the video and have summarized it's content here so you know exactly what it's about.

Note: The pictures included here are not from the video. Rather, they're either screenshots as released by Bethesda Softworks of snapshots from the TES: Oblivion trailer. They're included because the scenes described correspond to these pictures.

Part 1 - Intro:
1.1 A Lich attacks the player, as seen in the trailer.
1.2 A fight in the Arena: the PC shoots an enemy with a staff enchanted with a shock based spell.
1.3 A land-Dreugh attacks the player in a dungeon, slashing with its arms.
1.4 The player kills a goblin in a dungeon.
1.5 A skeleton gets killed by a trap in the familiar Ayleidic dungeon; the scene is the same as the one in the demo video
1.6 The player flames a rat with a fire based spell.
1.7 A battle scene: four assassins vs. two guards, also familiar from the trailer.
1.8 The player fights imp with a spell. The imp hovers above the ground but doesn't really fly up in the air. Birds chirp.
1.9 A Daedroth attacks, jumps towards player with it's claws ready to strike
1.10 The player gets attacked by a goblin which is killed after two seconds by a swinging trap from behind, The player screams in pain as he's hit by the goblin.
1.11 Player fights some kind of angry wraith wielding a glass longsword, very cool. The sword looks very much like in Morrowind (it's still green), and the creature has a white beard, ghostly white eyes, some kind of crown or tiara and it is wearing a robe.
1.12 More fighting in the Arena: the player fights against multiple enemies using magic, the crowd cheers; an enemy hit by the lightning staff the player wields is hurled into the air and falls to the ground.

Part 2 - Great Wide World
2.1 The Oblivion intro music is playing; view side-scrolls along a pond of sorts, showing reeds, rocks and several kinds of trees, one of which seems to be birch like.
2.2 Familiar scene from the trailer with the little house on the left and the sheep on the right.
2.3 Zoom to the familiar statue. Don't ask me what it is :)
2.4 Zoom to the familiar Elven (Ayleidic) ruin we have seen quite a few times in screenshots, the trailer, the demo...
2.5 An impressive view from a mountain top towards the capital in the distance; it is a bit lower detail, but that is hardly surprising. The view distance is definitely amazing. As is already known, the capital is circle shaped with a big tower in the middle of it dominating the whole "skyline".
2.6 Zoom away from a pond with two waterfalls falling into it; very nice, even though the water looks a bit odd as the camera moves away.
2.7 Zoom towards a town with a cathedral; the town is the one with the big bridge by the pond or river, as seen in some magazine's exclusive screenshots.
2.8 Sidescrolling view of the Talos Plaza in the capitol. Pretty much the same as in the trailer.

Part 3 - Courage and humanity:
3.1 In the Mages Guild, an Argonian woman in a robe talks to a Human male about a woman called Marie and what a great person she is.
3.2 Same place; a Khajiit in a hooded robe talks to what might be a Dunmer female (voice sounds more Redguardish though); both are gesturing with their hands.
3.3 The same (Dunmer or Redguard) woman is now seen mixing a potion: holding a purple vial in the left and a glass beaker in the right; animations are very detailed: she pours the liquid from one into the other, holds it up to look at it and then samples the smell, holding it close to her nose.
3.4 A human woman talks to an elderly elven woman about a talented smith called Rethan or somesuch. A demonstration of how you can learn a lot from listening to inter-NPC conversations.
3.5 On a bridge before the entry to a castle or city, we encounter a woodelven man who calls out to the player: "Over here" and who wishes to talk to the player, but: "We can't talk here! Too public!". He wants to meet the player someplace after midnight. Very sneaky guy, but hey, he says he'll make it worth our while..
3.6 Scene in Chorrol; view of the place near the fountain close to the gate, as seen in the trailer.
3.7 Inside a pub, two NPCs are talking to each others at a distant table, one NPC in the foreground keeps drinking from a big mug of beer..that guy wants to get drunk real quick. Looks like the pub is on a ship: the window looks like a bullseye and there seems to be a big mast in the middle of the room.
3.8 Starting dungeon: A guard approaches and asks the player to move to the window, Emperor comes in, "You! I saw you" etc etc, same as in the demo video.
3.9 A scene in scenic Kvatch in flames; The cathedral is in ruins, heavy rain is falling, just like in the trailer.

Part 4 - May the battle begin:
4.1 A dungeon reminiscent of the goblin cave from demo video; a new kind of trap is seen in action: rocks are dropping to the ground through a big hole in the ceiling, surely squashing everyone who would stand there.
4.2 A Spider Daedra attacks player! There's a table in the background with some items on it and a banner on the wall behind it with a skull and two skeletal arms on it; The Spider Daedra seems to be using magic to attack.
4.3 A Dremora attacks the player in front of a gateway to Oblivion, same scene as in the trailer.
4.4 Ayledic dungeon interior: the player shoots a skeleton with a bow using a skill perk to aim more precisely ("zoom mode"). The skeleton is hurled back, crashes onto the floor and decomposes into it's various parts;
4.5 Another look at the statue from earlier.
4.6 The player fights a goblin with an enchanted sword. A lethal hit sends goblin off into the air in a cloud of fire. The goblin lands realistically on the ground in a position that looks quite painful. But what does he care, he's dead ;)
4.7 The Spider Daedra again, very intimidating creature, that. It seems to spit some spell at the player.
4.8 Two goblins are shooting arrows at the player which make a realistically sounding sound. One of the goblins approaches is killed by the player with an enchanted sword. Again, the killed goblin goes up in flames. The dungeon has some interesting decoration, like a deer head on the wall.
4.9 An army of NPCs approaching with swords hot as seen in the trailer.
4.10 The dremora again, just getting out of the gateway.
4.11 NPC and player engaged in combat, both summoning creatures: the enemy summons a flame attronach, while the player summons a dremora. The player slashes the enemy creature from behind with a curved elven shortsword.
4.12 A familiar scene: the player fights against a guy in elven armour in front of the well-known ayleidic ruin.
4.13 Ayleidic dungeon interior: a headless zombie attacks the player while a minotaur fights a player-summoned flame atronach. The minotaur seems to have lost parts of it's left horn!
4.14 A Battle scene: a few soldiers fighting against Clannfear, as seen in the trailer.
4.15 The player fights a blonde elven woman in chain mail with bow and arrows on her back and a dagger in her hand. The player throws what looks like a poison-based spell at her.
4.16 A new scene from the starting dungeon: The Emperor waits while a guard unlocks a gate and another guard tells the player to stay where he is and not to attempt to follow them.

That's all! :)