If you're looking to see the sights and understand the culture of a foreign land, the easiest way to do it might be from the comfort of your couch, video game controller in hand. Open-world video games come packed with quests, combat, storylines, and bad guys to kill. But their core appeal is in the vast expanses of digital territory that players can explore.

Few such games have ever captured that sense of wonder and discovery better than the now-classic role-playing game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

First released in 2006, and recently rereleased with brand new graphics, Oblivion was a landmark of the genre, partly for the nonlinear freedom it offered players and partly for the sheer expansiveness of its open world. Set in the mythical fantasy realm of Cyrodiil, it sets players loose

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