Oblivion Remastered Fans Are Just Finding Out About Oblivion's Terrible Mobile Game

Oblivion Remastered Fans Are Just Finding Out About Oblivion's Terrible Mobile Game

From TheGamer (Written by Jack Coleman) on | OpenCritic

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Oblivion Remastered has reintroduced the world to the quirky, wonderful land of Cyrodiil. There are countless daily posts of new players discovering things for the first time, and it warms the heart of an Elder Scrolls veteran like me to see the next generation enjoying Oblivion.

Something that's been all but forgotten over the years is that Oblivion actually had a mobile tie-in game, technically the final game in the Elder Scrolls Travels mobile series. Bethesda was an early adopter of the mobile genre, publishing four games exclusively for mobile.

These games were all developed by Vir2L, a former sister studio of Bethesda that appears to have been folded back into Bethesda sometime around 2010.

There are four games in the Travels series: Stormhold (2003), Dawnstar (2003), Shadowkey (2004) and Oblivion (2006).

Back then, the operating systems for mobile devices weren't homogeneous, meaning several versions of each game exist, one for each popular mobile device. Oblivion Mobile was functional on any phone that had Java enabled. This included several BlackBerry, Sony Ericsson and Motorola models.

Oblivion Mobile recently came up in a satirical post on Reddit by MarshallDyl2, who jokingly referred to the mobile version of Oblivion...

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