I love the idea of playing Third-person, but in Oblivion... it didn't quite always work out. The game looked great with the camera zoomed-in a little more... but the moment you began to move sideways or backwards, it just went ballistic. Any word whether that aspect might get improved?

Yeah, 3rd person has been reworked a lot.

You could zoom in on the 3rd person camera in Oblivion.

I don't know whether what your asking is improved but the animations and those sort of things look very improved,

The problem was that the camera only really "worked" when moving directly forward. If you strafe or move backwards, it actually really bizarre.

I hope to work good, because thats the way I am playing TES games in 3rd person view only. Fallout 3 and NV too by the way.

It was working awesome for me in Oblivion, well only shooting with bow couldn't be done, but everything else was great. Same with Fallouts, VATS all the way.

So they say they reworked it and is even better from Oblivion, which is good. Can't be happier.