Fighter’s Stronghold includes new castle, treasures.
After about a year of frequent downloadable content updates culminating in a full-on expansion, the extra content for Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivionhas dried up in the last six months. We figured the blokes at Bethesda just got busy working on Fallout 3, but apparently they weren’t quite finished with their early next-gen hit. Today they announced the sixth and final downloadable content update for Oblivion, Fighter’s Stronghold.
As the name suggests, Fighter’s Stronghold provides a more muscly alternative to previous add-ons like the Thieves Den and Wizard’s Tower. The swordsman’s place of residence, a giant detailed castle, is full of special goodies including new treasure and the ability to choose how the place is decorated right down to hiring a taxidermist to make trophies celebrating your triumphs.
Fighter’s Stronghold will be available on Monday, October 15th for the PC and Xbox 360. Unlike most of the previous downloadables, it will be free for the first week. Bethesda has not said how much it will cost after then, but previous downloadable packs of this type have ranged between $1 and $3, so probably not much.
For the PlayStation 3 Oblivion owners in the audience, Bethesda VP of public relations Pete Hines updated the Bethesda blog with a post on if and when the Shivering Isles expansion will be coming to the PS3:
“Since we’re talking about DLC, I thought I’d update you with what’s going on with the PS3 version of Oblivion. We are close, very close to working something out to bring Shivering Isles to PS3 owners. That may be in downloadable form via PSN, or as a standalone retail disc, or both. I can’t say definitively yet that it will happen, and I definitely can’t say when. But it’s looking good, and hopefully we’ll have good news soon. Don’t have anything I can tell you about any other DLC, but Shivering Isles is the one we get asked about all the time, so I at least wanted to update folks on that.”
Hines also kindly reminded potential players that if they haven’t picked it up yet, the Game of the Year edition of Oblivion — which includes Shivering Isles and the Knights of the Nine mini-expansion — is coming out for PlayStation 3. A Shivering Isles stand-alone disc will also be released for the 360 next week.
Source: gametab.com