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A brisk 19 years after the original game's release, Bethesda went back and slathered a thick layer of Unreal Engine 5 over The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion's beating Gamebryo heart. It's out now, it's $50 (£50), and you even get the horse armour thrown in (except, um, the special deluxe edition horse armour). Don't say Todd Howard never did anything for you. But oh, what's this? Cyrodiil certainly has expanded since I slotted it into my Xbox 360 disc drive back in 2006. Where the original game asks only a svelte 4.6 GB of drive space per its system reqs on Steam, the remaster wants, uh, more. Quite a bit more: it wants 125 GB. Fair's fair, though: that's only an economical 115 GB download thanks to Steam's compression. It's also a lot bigger than Dave the Diver. Which, not to brag, did not surprise me. (Image credit: Valve) That's a size increase of about 2600%, if you're a relativity fan. At 125 GB, it slots in neatly at seventh place in our list of the biggest games by install size, shunting Red Dead Redemption 2 down to eighth place (though, full transparency, it's been a little while since we last updated that list—the Oblivion Remaster probably isn't actually the seventh largest game ever made). You may like Oblivion remaster live coverage: Launch info and latest news Thank Todd: The Oblivion remaster is here and you can play it right now But damn, it's a meaty one. I can't be too mad, though. I have to admit: a bit of weirdness with some character faces aside (my beautiful Betto Plotius, what have they done to you?), the remaster does look gorgeous. Bethesda and Virtuos say—in terms I can understand—that they've got UE5 handling the graphics and good old Gamebryo handling the core logic. That's a whole lot of game to put in one place. It's no surprise it's put on a few pounds in the transformation. That's what really excites me, I have to say. Keeping Gamebryo intact should mean all that beautiful Bethesda jank, the stuff Howard grimaces and calls "charm" in the reveal vid, ought to still be there in its full glory. Stilted conversations? You bet. Amiable idiots wandering into deathtraps in single-file? Absolutely. Some guy ascending corporeally to heaven because the physics engine forgot how gravity works for a sec? If it's not in there, I quit. Beautiful but still weird? That's just what I want from an Oblivion remaster, so I'm eager to get my hands on all 125 GB of this one. Now all I need to know is what's gonna become of all my mods, and I can meander through Cyrodiil a happy man. 2025 games: This year's upcoming releases Best PC games: Our all-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPS games: Finest gunplay Best RPGs: Grand adventures Best co-op games: Better together The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsBy submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. Joshua Wolens Social Links Navigation News Writer One of Josh's first memories is of playing Quake 2 on the family computer when he was much too young to be doing that, and he's been irreparably game-brained ever since. His writing has been featured in Vice, Fanbyte, and the Financial Times. 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