The ESRB stated: “The content causing the ESRB to change the rating involves more detailed depictions
of blood and gore than were considered in the original rating, as well as the presence of a locked-out art file or “skin” that, if accessed through a thirdparty modification to the PC version of the game, allows the user to play with topless versions of female characters.”
Currently the content is not accessible on the Xbox 360 version of the game, but the game will keep its current content description for Violence, Blood and Gore, Sexual Themes, Language, and Use of Alcohol, while the PC version will have an added content description for Nudity.
Bethesda commented on the ESRB Re-rating:
- this doesn’t apply to the Xbox 360 version – some modders have used a third party tool to hack into and modify an art archive file to make it possible to create a mesh for a partially nude (topless) female that
they add into the game.”
“Bethesda didn’t create a game with nudity and does not intend that nudity appear in Oblivion. There is no nude female character in a section of the game that can be “unlocked.” Bethesda can not control tampering with Oblivion by third parties. Bethesda is taking steps to ensure that modders can not continue to hack into Oblivion‘s art archives to create partially nude figures.”
