HCG: What opportunities are we going to have in Oblivion? What will a player experience, who has never confonted a part of the series before?

PH: They get to experience the sum total of all wisdom and knowledge that has been gained by making the previous games in the series, poured into the single greatest Elder Scrolls game, and hopefully the greatest RPG and video game, ever created.

They'll get another chance to experience open-ended, freeform gameplay in a way that nobody has ever done it, including us. Unbelievable graphics, a really fun combat system, great main quest, great faction quests, terrific AI...the list goes on and on. What the player is going to do in the game is up to them, not up to us, which is what makes it so brilliant.