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| From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
New (6) Used (3) from £31.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  95 reviews
Sales Rank: 119
Format: Unknown Format
Platform: Xbox 360
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: Video Game
Operating System: No Operating System
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 9CS-00016
UPC: 882224719681
EAN: 0882224719681
ASIN: B001CSO00A
Release Date: October 24, 2008
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 another let down for the 360 December 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
i have now played two of the new games for the 360, grand theft auto and fable II, both of which made a very big first impression, quickly followed by a sense of massive anti-climax. The first thing that hits you is the quality of the graphics and this takes some time to get over, particularly with a number of impressive cut scenes, but then i find i begin to get a bit bored by the gameplay, not only are there no real improvements to the original versions of these games, they have also lost some of the scope and magic of the originals. considering that fighting seems to be at the centre of fable its surprising to find it is just as awkward, clunky and disatisfying as before. the fact you cant die but just keep coming back to life removes any challenge, the storyline strays little from fable I, which was also underwhelming, with an abrupt,anticlimactic ending, leaving one feeling flat and let down. its one of the shortest games i have played so far. there are things you can do to spin it out, but i couldnt be asked to be honest. i began to replay it as a villain, since this game allows you to be good or evil, but this game just doesnt hold the interest enough to warrant this. having said all this it is still worth playing, but i would try and borrow it off a mate since it only lasted me a couple of evenings, and other than the graphics it was on the whole more disapointing than the original. fable would like to pretend its a roleplaying adventure, or the kind of grand-theft-auto san-andreas type of game, where you can go where you want do what you want, like entering some kind of virtual world of your own- if this is what you expect prepare to be disapointed. a lot of time and trouble has been taken on graphics and endless cut scenes, while the fighting and the actual gameplay can be pretty tedious.
 Not even as good as Fable I December 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Firstly, I'd like to point out that my review title refers to Fable: The Lost Chapters (as I heard that the game was much worse without this).
I'm not going to say the game isn't playable. It is. Unfortunately, the number of bugs you might find is pretty significant (I know not everyone will get the same problems, but if you get the number of complaints that this did, there must be something going wrong). The problems I had were:
- Furniture shop after a while only had 1 crappy book, and nothing else (I know there is another shop, but it doesn't have the best stock in the world either). I fully expect people defending the game to say that it isn't a game-breaking glitch, and I agree. However, if you are selling the game on the depth of play such as things like decorating houses as you want, you should be able to make sure it works!
- Game freezing/ saves getting corrupted. If you are going to stop people having back up saves of a character, surely you need to make sure crashes etc arent as commonplace as they are in this game?!
- Game frequently jumping. Especially annoying when you are pouring pints, upping your earning multiplyer, then the bar disappears and then the pint drops. Surely the 360 should be able to run a mini-game easily?
Then issues with the gameplay:
- Save feature as I already explained. I see what they wanted to do here, making you live with mistakes, but for example, when I stole jewel off some hollow men, it didnt give me the chance to give it back (was in mid swing when it asked me what to do) so I had to live with something I didnt want to do!
- Expression system is pretty poor: look at what someone likes, then keep using the same expression over and over again!
- Magic: the spell system is much harder to use (as is just using food/ potions) than Fable. What hapened to calling up those options in game?
- Very poor variety of bad guys (possibly even more so than Fable?)
- Misses having real armour options (I know you can get some armour, but no real options for it).
- I won't even begin to mention co-op!
For the amount of gameplay you get with this (and yes, I include Gargoyles and everything else) it has very poor longevity, and I can't see myself playing it again (though I may go back to Fable 1!) To make matters worse, I'm sure we will see some DLC released very soon, and in my mind, it'll probably be stuff that should have been on the original version in the first place!
If you are a regular gamer, just rent this for a couple of days (or borrow off a friend) as you can probably finish everything you want in a couple of days play. This may well be the very first game I actually trade-in!
Beware this game - December 29, 2008
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
This game has a very unsavoury approach - it includes paying for sex, having sex without condoms etc - it should have an older rating ie 18. Otherwise what a shame to use such good graphics etc in such a sexist way.
 A good game For whats its worth December 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had been a good fan of Fable ever since the first one came out and was eagily excited when i heard about the second one. Gotta say apart from few things this is a whorth while game
few things that have been improved from the first one is there is more options for evil and good and it shows more im my opinion than the first one and the story line is alot better than the first one making it feel a much better game. The combat system also is greatly improved adding more actions to it seperating the diffrent styles of combat needed which was needed in the first one
why 4 stars? the multiplayer feels a bit rushed and there is a bug for 2 player where it would reset the whole game again and had to start the game again after putting his charecter into 2 player(i presume this has been sorted in patch?) also the multiplayer camrea is very difficult to deal with and takes some time to get use to. thirdly the story feels short however the freeoroam makes up for this.
Overall its a worthwhile game with few flaws in it. i am hoping that they relase an add on to resolve some of these issues but its still early days. a defenatle buy for orginal fable players or people who like the idea of the game
Simple December 18, 2008
this game had a lot of potential but i didn't live up to the hype very disappointing and so simple...the so call last boss is an absolute joke completely pointless i actually don't no why he was even in the game...its not worth buying
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