Bethesda officially reveals Oblivion Remastered, available today

Bethesda is making The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered authoritative conscionable days aft the crippled leaked. Oblivion Remastered is simply a remaster of the astir 20-year-old game, developed by Virtuous. Oblivion Remastered is shadiness dropping today, and it’s disposable connected Steam, PS5, and Xbox Series X / S close present for $49.99, oregon arsenic portion of Xbox Game Pass.

“Oblivion was a existent defining infinitesimal successful the bid and for however we marque games arsenic a studio,” says Todd Howard, workplace caput of Bethesda. The remastered mentation of Oblivion has overhauled graphics for modern hardware, and includes the Knights of the Nine and Shivering Isles expansions.

While the naming suggests this is simply a remaster of the archetypal game, developer Virtuous has really afloat remade the rubric successful Unreal Engine 5. Virtuous has produced respective comparisons betwixt the game’s archetypal 2006 merchandise to Oblivion Remastered, and the differences are huge. Every azygous plus successful the crippled was remade and created from scratch, and the crippled has a batch much realistic shadows.

There’s adjacent a large betterment to the articulator sync parts of the game, acknowledgment to the latest technologies successful Unreal Engine 5. Gameplay has besides been modernized, with audio, UI, and leveling systems each updated. The caller leveling strategy is “the champion of some worlds” of Skyrim and Oblivion, and determination person besides been modifications to encumbrance, non-combat perks, and different mechanics.

Bethesda and Virtuous have adjacent modernized and updated the third-person presumption successful Oblivion and added sprinting to the game. There are improved UI for systems similar Persuasion and Clairvoyance, arsenic good arsenic HUD, menu, and representation reworks and improved force scaling. All characters person updated animations arsenic a effect of these large changes.

“We’ve modernized a lot, but it’s inactive the aforesaid unthinkable escapade and the aforesaid cautiously crafted world,” says Tom Mustaine, Bethesda’s outer projects and workplace director, during a uncover stream.

Bethesda is besides releasing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Deluxe Edition, which includes bonus quests, unsocial armor, weapon, and equine armor sets, a integer artbook, and the authoritative soundtrack.

Rumors of an Oblivion remaster originally appeared successful 2023, acknowledgment to documents successful the FTC’s lawsuit against Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition. An unannounced Fallout 3 remaster and different crippled successful the Dishonored franchise were besides portion of Microsoft’s documents.