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- Forge a hero based on your actions: Age and evolve a hero or villain through the actions you choose and the path you follow–be it for good, evil, or in-between. Ply the way of the sword, and see your muscles bulge. Weave the dark arts, and witness power crackle at your fingertips. Skulk in the shadows, and watch your skin bleach.
- Engage in intense real-time combat: Collect battle scars as you duel with a world of cunning foes and deadly creatures. Master an array of deadly weaponry as you hone the art of blade-craft. Hunt your quarry using subterfuge and stealth. Weave death from the elements, as you harness the dark arts of the arcane.
- Build your living legend: Through deeds and actions, build a name for yourself across the land. Recruit allies and followers. Gain glory or notoriety. Make friends and enemies. Interact with a living world of people, places, and event all reactive to you. Hero or butcher? Who will you be?
Product Description
Fable is a ground-breaking role-playing adventure game from Peter Molyneux, in which your every action determines your skills, appearance, and reputation. Create your life story from childhood to death. Grow from an inexperienced adolescent into the most powerful being in the world. Choose the path of righteousness or dedicate your life to evil. Muscles expand with each feat of strength; force of will increases with each work of wit… More >>
01/31/2010 at 3:02 pm
I resisted the temptation of writing a review too soon for this game; I have now played nearly 10 hours of Fable and here are my thoughts.
The graphics are just plain crazy; wonderfully done! I’m still fascinated at every ray of light that comes down through the forests and trees. Truely a marvel in gameplay.
Sound is also another home run with a surround sound setup. The sound will suck you in to the realm of the game and bring you that much closer to the ever blurring fine line of reality and dreamland.
Fighting. Well, lets put it this way. If you are after a hack and slasher hero, then the game is set up pretty good for you. Just hit the X button multiple times to increase your attack multiplier and then hit the B button for a flourish kill. However, if you want to cast a spell somewhere in there, then things get a little interesting. It can be very difficult to keep an eye whats going on the screen while scrolling through your spells to figure out what you want to cast.
Controller config is where the game has it’s downfall. The problem is that there is too much customization you can have going on. Unlike many games, EVERY single button, trigger, joystic and pad is used during combat. This becomes an absolute nightmare when you start to get attacked by more than 5 creatures at any given time. What’s even worse is trying to prioritize your victim in the melee is virtually impossible. A very typical combat scenario turns into the floundering of the controller as you try to remember to hold in the right trigger and hit Y to scroll to the right spell setup. All the while you are getting slashed. So you want your spell to get the guy in the back of the crowd that is shooting at you? Keep that right trigger in, now hold in the left trigger and continue to click to target different enemies; again, all the while getting slashed. This doesn’t even take into consideration trying to keep you health up and Will by using the D-pad somewhere in that battle.
Don’t get me wrong, the game is a definite purchase. However, the developers have created so much here that it is overwhelming when it comes to the combat.
But hey, I still can’t put it down.
Rating: 4 / 5
01/31/2010 at 3:03 pm
Be a tyrant. Be a priest. Kill em’ all. Protect the weak. Or you could just sit back and be a bum. This is life w/ magic and shit
Rating: 5 / 5
01/31/2010 at 4:38 pm
I`ve been gaming 4 my whole life, and i`ve never seen a game like this… just by reading a few reviews i can tell this is a a great rpg. those if apearence is important in it then its kinda bad that the more u use will, the older u grow. ive never heard of a game with ai this great so thats one big step up from the stupid ppl in other games. I think this game will come very close or possibly match its expetations
Rating: 5 / 5
01/31/2010 at 6:26 pm
I am very happy with this game; like the rest of you, I did think it would be a heck of a lot better. The graphics are pretty good, the story line is cool, the ‘idea’ behind the game is pretty awesome. The only real problem I saw with the game is the inability to wander around. The world, the surroundings, are quite linear. I was expecting more of a Morrowind feel. I’m slightly disappointed… oh well. I mean, the game is still very revolutionary, it’s just not the caliber people were expecting. If you planned on buying it, go ahead and do so. It won’t be money wasted.
Just to get a few things straight:
1. It’s not like Morrowind or GTA where you can just do what you want.
2. Fable is a good game, with good intentions, great replay value.
3. The fighting system, I think, is a lot of fun; picking up the experience orbs afterwards, is a little annoying.
4. Over a period of time, choices you make chenge how you look. You can also get haircuts and tattoos to change your appearance.
5. Traveling around is not too tedious, you can teleport anywhere you’ve been before.
Rating: 4 / 5
01/31/2010 at 6:50 pm
In this game you choose if you are a well respected admired by all that matter,women through themselves at you,little kids where their hair like you and dress like you,your cheered when you come into to towns and get all the deals,sounds nice being the hero,sounds realy good to an angelic hero,I’ll get to that in a later.But why be good,good is boring for the most part.You could be an outlaw admired by the the deginerat scum,a rapeist,a man who steals candy from babies,people run and hide when you enter towns,and many merchents may hate you and over charge you.
Now if you chose the path of Righteousness(why you would I don’t know) you will basicly save people on a quest to avenge your parents deaths.If you accidently kill an innocent first off congradulations there may still be a chance for you to be evil,second you can go to the Chapel of Light to redeem yourself.When you wanna settle down you’ll be able to marry anyone of those damsel in destress types,then have kids that’ll act like Beaver and Wally Cleaver.
Now onto the fun stuff:EVIL!Now all you light wieghts who think you’ll be Darth Vader like that,it won’t be that easy.To get to Vader status you have to be a souless menicle bastard.On your way to kill the SOB that killed your parents you’ll marry an equaly hard chic and have kids that will remind you of Cain and Able,without the Able.And to be evil you have to creative.Anyone can be bad if you want to evil:do the bad thing,then do the right thing,which means you double crossed everyone,and when all is said and done kill em’ all.
Rating: 5 / 5
02/02/2010 at 1:06 pm
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