Gothic

[Igiss]

Did you ever play Gothic games from JoWooD and Piranha Bytes, Gothic or Gothic II? It's a German singleplayer RP game (there is an English translation of course), one of the first RPGs that had a NPC daily shedules and advanced physics right from the 1st part. It has 1st/3rd person view, like Elder Scrolls games, and great graphics. What makes it even closer to what Oblivion will be is a real-time combat system without rolls. And - Gothic III is scheduled for release in Q4 2005 (no exact date for now), so this game will be a direct competitor of Oblivion. As for graphics, it's different from Oblivion, but not actually worse...

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/image_viewer...1&sid=undefined