Fable 2 (Xbox 360)

...== History of Fable II == Well, set 500 years after the original game Fable and Fable: The lost characters, having not played either of these games I had no idea what to expect when I put the disk in the console. Apparently the game is set around the time of what would have been the Enlightenment, my god if I haven't heard enough about the Enlightenment in the past two years doing my English A-Level. All about the times with castles and guns being ...
...character..! === Fable Game Play === == Albion itself.. == To get around most places it is simple enough to follow the glowing trail that shows you basically where to go if you set the quest to a certain place in the land then the glowing trail will show you how to get there.. Obviously running and walking everywhere is not going to always be the fastest option for an explorer so there is a feature in the pause menu to travel quickly to a place ...

ChemicalRomance 13.11.2008 (14.11.2008) · Read full review
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Oh my goodness... a sequel that doesn't suck sliced lemons. This is a game that would be either revered as an awesome demi-god of action RPGs, or be reviled like a pile of cow pat diarrhoea melting in the hot sun. Luckily for me (and you) I like this game, therefore I am here to review this game and reveal to you why I enjoy this game so very much. I won't lie to you. I love RPG games, especially those with a great, amazing and epically well written ...
...thickens, it is a lovely thick beef stew, with dried mushrooms. Simply delicious. As a result, my review here will be somewhat biased due to my penchant for gaming of the role playing type, but it would be a bias within the realms of Ciao review acceptability. Oh yes, let the conformation begin. The game takes place on Albion where everyone sounds British. The poor all sound like crazy cheeky cockney chaps, whereas the rich all sound like pompous ...

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...life shtick of the original Fable didn't seem to wash with either the gaming press or players, who found the whole experience not unpleasant but somewhat more shallow and superficial than suggested. Lionhead have kindly spared all these critics a job though, as to accurately summarise Fable 2 is to click 'Edit', suffix '2' to the title and click 'Publish' - as 'somewhat more shallow and superficial than suggested' is the phrase which readily springs ...
...I'm rupturing scorn all over Fable 2's cack-handed notions of freedom, I'll also mention that the getting married, having a child, and pursuing a career features are as unfulfilling as they are unnecessary. Luring a spouse into your grubby clutches is so simple it's little wonder that some of the towns seem overrun with dirty looking street urchins. As with all user instigated communication within Fable, attracting a member of the opposite sex entails ...

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...having a lot of merits, Fable was unceremoniously crushed under the weight of expectation, victim of its own ambition: talking up a myriad of features, only to axe them one by one as release drew nearer. Four years and one hardware generation later, Fable II promises the stars again; does it deliver? ===***The Story***=== I always found "Fable" to be one of the most aptly named games ever, with its storyline being exactly what I picture when I ...
...as an added bonus. Truthfully, Fable II does try to up the story ante a little bit, but even the "twists" remain pretty much stock; it does however succeed in weaving the story better into the gameplay and connecting the hero avatar with the player that much more. Gamers will probably find the pay-off a bit on the light side, as the game is certainly lacking in climactic one-on-one battles, but it does culminate to a couple of hard choices that ...

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...creators of such games as Fable and Black and White, I had very high hopes for their "Revolutionary" sequel to their Fable franchise, Fable 2. Upon playing said game however, you cannot but help to be disappointed at how it eventually turned out. With Lionhead Studio's first appearance on the current generation of consoles, you would hope for something great to come out of this. Unlike its predecessor, Fable 2 is set 500 years into the future from ...
...this, Albion (the land of Fable 2) will not seem anything like the first Fable, it has increased far in size, and has become open world (no set routes or restrictions for this game!). You start off by choosing what gender you want, be it male or female. Then you play the life of a child, an orphan, that lives on the streets and tries hard to make ends meat. You are given several mini-quests to do at this point so you can gain enough gold to buy ...

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Fable 1 miffed me...it threw away a lot of established concepts about the role-playing game and concentrated specifically on one fundamental aspect...story. Actually, this shouldn't miff me at all. I love story in games, I love being drawn in by the depth of the characters, no matter how unbelievably British they are. Seriously, they are not even British, they are only "American" British (i.e. an international viewpoint of how a cartoon British ...
...What miffed me about Fable 1 was its ideas...they were strange. And with Fable 2, they threw away most of them and made new ones. What gives. This time around, set 500 years after the previous installment, you're a child that loses his/her sibling to a once-happy man with paranoid delusions and an itchy trigger finger (many thanks to Lionhead for spearheading the bling-bling that is musket rifles), and your life is irrevocably changed. Under the ...

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Fable 2... before this game came out in my mind it was set to be the greatest game ever created. I was ready to make the sacrafice to my social life and never see outdoors again. Unfortunately my social life remains active and i have stepped outdoors regularly. The game promised much and failed to deliver. First of all i should explain that a large amount of customisation was promised, however i discovered there to be very little choice when it came ...
...thing for me. And the Fable 2 story line is quite good in my mind. in certain cases it is a little cliche but i enjoyed it. It begins with you as a child, it appears magic has left the world of Albion and anytime magic crops up its highly interesting. any way, you do jobs to get money to buy a magic music box. Your characters sister makes a wish to live in the castle, and in the middle of the night a guard takes you to castle fairfax. Where a man ...

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...to be shot down make fable 2 a place you would want to explore and experience, and as a few issues mainly predictable stories and questional combat decisions, but its pretty easy to ignore the faults once you get sucked in. The story of Fable 2 is one of vengeance in setting things right, someone whom being is intent of molding the world and his image. The story is everything as it sounds iintroducing generic character to urge you on your quests. ...
...is the best part of fable 2, because there's not these other great human characters that exist in the world, he's the only real emotionally attachment to the world, he barks and wags his tale, he'll run ahead of you and fine treasure and there are a few moments in the game were he'll get injured and you'll have to heal him, or you'll jump off a cliff and he wont! So you'll have to find a long way down so you'll find yourself alone for a few minutes ...

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The original Fable was a game both powered and blighted by great hype, one that promised the world and fell short – but only just. Though a very entertaining, ambitious effort in its own right, it didn’t quite live up to the sky-high billing its enigmatic creator, Peter Molyneux, gave it. The selling-point behind both Fable II and its predecessor is the notion of freedom of choice, and the effects this leads to. The games are designed to hinge on ...
...of the essential elements of Fable II are very familiar. The effects of the move to a more modern setting are mainly seen in the technology; guns have replaced the bows of Fable, and are neatly incorporated into the player’s arsenal alongside the familiar magic abilities and slightly updated melee weapons. The game follows the same rags-to-riches, sequential quest pattern as before, only doing so in a greatly expanded world rendered in more impressive ...

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...work for Albion's newest hero. Fable 2 for the Xbox 360 is Lionhead's much anticipated sequel to one of Xbox's greatest selling games of all time, but does it live up to all the hype? Fable 2 starts off with the choice of making your mark on the world of Albion as a boy or a girl. This much needed improvement makes the game much more customizable and appealing to both sexes. I chose to start as the boy, penniless and homeless with my sister, Rose. ...
...a good deal of suffering. Fable 2's main quest is a grand story spanning years, with some truly unexpected twists thrown in for good measure that kept me on my toes. As with everything in Fable 2, it's a journey filled with choices; and at times some really thought provoking ones. Along for the ride is the most loyal of companions, a dog. This is one of the biggest emotional backbones of Fable 2. No matter how many times you deny it, your dog will ...

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=(Story)= Fable 2 has a really strong story, having the story strong does help the game time last longer, basically you are a little boy/girl living with your little sister dreaming of going into the castle, after years of living in a run down tin shed after your parents die, one afternoon you decide to go out and in that great day out you earn five coins and buy a magic music box that grants you one wish, you wish to own the castle, you go to sleep ...
...the scenery is fabulous, because fable 2 is a game where you can venture anywhere the scenery is really focused on and well done, I love the way that when you buy a house you always spot another one in the background, I also love the way the trees sway in a different way every day. The characters are really good and amazingly done, your character (Boy or Girl) evolves in many ways, first you are a boy, then you evolve into a teenager, and you look ...

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...really got into the original fable - but eventually, I was persuaded to rent it. Needless to say, I bought it two hours later. Starting the game and expecting the worst, I tried not to get too comfortable as I was expecting a trip back to the rental store. How wrong I was. The game lets you choose your own path pretty much the entire way through - from the sex of your character, to the fate of the world. All of these decisions actually affect the ...
...game. This is what makes Fable II a truly unique and must-have game. Starting from just a small child and watching your character grow is highly entertaining, and the story line is gripping but with no unnecessarily long videos which can make games increasingly tedious - Fable II have got it just right, and very addicting - so watch out! The Graphics are beautiful! Not the best Xbox have ever created but they are still more than satisfactory! The ...

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Fable II can be described in many different ways, the vast majority of those coming from lead designer Peter Molyneux. But are his words backed up with gameplay enjoyment? GAMEPLAY The controls of Fable II are fairly simplistic, but the execution reduces the feeling of constraint often associated with similar control schemes. Simply put, the A button is context sensitive actions (opening chests, talking to characters, diving for treasure etc...) ...
...to the niggling part of Fable II's gameplay. Character death. This is the key flaw in the combat, and what makes Fable II simply too easy. The penalty for dying is practically nil. Basically, you lose all of the uncollected experience orbs, and gain one scar. Then you're resurrected at the same spot you died with full health, ready to finish up. I think this is far too lenient, and they should at least reset the enemies health, or send you back the ...

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I never normally like games like these, RPGs or whatever they're called, but this one I was really impressed by. Saying that, it did take a while for me to get into it. This is not a chilled out game that you can play for the odd half an hour and then leave it again. If you play, you really have to play. When I was unemployed I found myself spending all day on this game, and not even realised where the time went. The game begins with you as a little ...
...for a little bit, collecting things, running errands to try and get money, and once you can afford this magic box type thing, you buy it, then suddenly you're a lot older and living in somewhere completely different. From here, you can do plenty of things. You can earn money, fight people/creatures, work, buy houses, even get tattooed and change your appearance in many ways. There's loads of different errands and missions for you to complete (these ...

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Fable 2 is the long awaited sequel to fable 1 for the Xbox. I first played Fable along time ago and really enjoyed it but the game had some flaws and to be honest I got bored of it before I completed the main quest I got really near to the end but one day I was playing Fable but then the next day I just got bored of it and decided that I did not want to play the game anymore. I don't know why I got so bored of Fable but I got bored of a game which ...
...forward to getting Fable 2 for a long time and the week before Fable 2 came out I was just like a giddy school girl I was looking forward to this game because I knew what fable 1 was like and I was really looking forward to getting it because I knew how good the last Fable was and I knew that they could only improve upon Fable 1. Fable 2 starts off just like Fable 1 did you are a homeless kid living in a city who has no money and you have to earn ...

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