Once Bethesda issued an official statement stating the fact that their action/RPG, The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion would be headed to the PSP, the first question on every one's mind was how the hell would Bethesda manage to fit the vast world of Tamriel onto Sony's handheld? Well, Bethesda isn't going to fit the vast world of Tamriel onto Sony's handheld as they've completely axed the free roaming idea for the PSP and have decided to go in for a more 'dungeon crawling' experience.
No need to slit your wrists though; even though Oblivion for the PSP will be a different game with a different storyline, "all the core attributes and perks as well as most of the skills from the original game will be in the PSP version."
No official media is out as of now, but we'll keep you posted as more info gets released. Oblivion will release for the PSP sometime in 2007.
Roaming in Oblivion is half the fun though, but i suppose it cant be helped seeing as the UMD drive is slow as hell. I suppose downsizing is necessary but to this extent? I think that making a backup of your copy of oblivion and running it off the memory card is a much more efficient way for the game to run. 
