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| Fable II | 
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| From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $51.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  135 reviews
Sales Rank: 59
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 9CS-00002
Model: 9CS-00002
UPC: 882224694179
EAN: 0882224694179
ASIN: B000FRVAD4
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Lots of fun December 3, 2008
I bought this game for myself last week and during the Thanksgiving weekend I couldn't stop playing. It's easy to follow, the dog helps a lot because you don't have to look for treasures/dig spots yourself and there are so many fun things to do. I haven't played the first one extensively since it wasn't saving my progress, so I was waiting for this one to come and didn't get disappointed. The graphics are amazing.
I'm playing this first round as a good female character. So every decision you make affects your appearance and how people see you. Later on, when I finish this first round, I wanna try being bad and see what happens for the fun of it. I got married, bought a new home, rented the first one, have a business, I'm working from time to time and I'm following the story line. But the fun is that you can choose what you want to do. One thing that I recommend is having enough money to buy good weapons.
 Fun, but over hyped. December 3, 2008
This is a fun game. That doesn't mean that it is revolutionary (it's not) or perfect (it's REALLY not). Fable II's premise is similar to the first Fable every choice has a consequence, be careful what you do it may come back to h... sorry I just dozed off there for a second. Anyway it's set 500 years after the first, times have changed heroes are no longer needed. You are the great, great, great, great grandsomething of someone who was special. Yes it is that cliched. The story actually gets better as it goes along though. The combat is fun but gets repetitive. The money system in this game is broken, gold is almost useless. You can buy practically everything. It's a fun game to play through once. The BIG problem I have with it is you are never fully immersed in the story. You will always feel like someone watching from afar. It is a good game, has great artwork, but the story just doesn't do it for me.
A Disappointment from the Original December 2, 2008
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I like many was excitedly counting down to the release of fable 2, I was a huge fable fan and play through the game several times to complete every quest and get every weapons. So when fable 2 was released I was excited to give it a try,
Unfortunately I found this game far less entertaining and challenging compared to the original. The same basic style of game is there, but it is the things that they changed that I didn't like, the major one is that you cant die in the game. It takes away all the challenge of the game, because no matter what enemy you face if you keep at it you'll beat them, if you run out of health you just get knocked out and bounce right back to keep fighting which eventually got pretty boring. The next thing that they changed that got to me was the way you control spells. They have this power up system to it so to get higher level spells you have to sit and charge them up instead of them being unleashed from the beginning like the original, also they did away with the magic meter which again makes the game easier when you can keep constantly dishing out spells and never run out of power. That last major bother for me in the game is the story, well not the story, but again the ease of it, I wont put any spoilers in here but there are no big boss battles anymore, or at least the are battles the seemed like boss battle but since you can't die they felt incredibly easy, especially the final fight with Lucien, way too easy.
Those are the major disappointments in the game for me, the rest are minor content stuff like the elimination of armor in the game, now all the clothing are just clothes like tunics and stuff, no cool looking armor which sucks in a game that is still primarily based on sword fighting, but those are just preference things that don't really affect overall game play.
Overall this game is disappointingly different from the first game so don't go into it expecting a lot if you enjoyed the first game like I did and you like a bit of a challenge in the games you play.
Fable 2 or Fable 1? December 1, 2008
IMO: When a sequel is launched, there are a few important criteria that must be met for it to be successful.
1. Does the gameplay improve?
2. Does the story continue into new and interesting territory?
3. Do the graphics improve?
4. Are the throwbacks from the first game improved by a large amount?
5. Do I feel continuity from the old game and a desire to replay it?
My answers to these questions:
1. Slightly... fable 1 had a very odd interface about casting "Will" spells and it required a high degree of human dexterity to successfully quickly cast spells intermingled with other attacks. Fable2 solves some of these problems by allowing users to bind a spell to the "B" button so that you dont need to hit the right trigger at the same time to cast, however, they introduced casting time for higher level spells so holding B becomes an annoyance.
2. Fable2's story is actually pretty funny. They start by pointing out that the "old heroes" (from fable1) became arrogant and ran amuck. Much like I did after beating fable1 and getting bored with no quests to completed... so this is funny... but outside that one joke, pretty much all previous story lines are erased (not that fable1 had much of a story).
3. Yes, xbox360 graphics for Fable2 are very pretty and I've actually caught myself enjoying a sunrise / sunset or two. Character / weapon graphics are good and the "finishing" moves are fun. However the fights (while graphically are fun) are pretty generic and bland, with only two types: you vs. boss, you vs. hoardes. I would have liked to be required to outsmart someone, or do something more interesting than just mush X until the people die.
4. Fable 2 could easily be Fable 1. The existing things are there, and the new additions? Well there aren't many... Your dog is kinda fun, but you can only do a few things with him. Jobs are a good easy way to get gold, but are completely monotonous (like real life i guess), dying your clothes colors... whee... for 5 minutes... The weapons / behavior quests are all pretty darn similar / same... There just wasn't anything drastically new / exciting. I enjoy playing, but there's no real wow factor bringing me back.
5. As I wrote earlier, one of the first things they tell you in Fable2 is that the Fable 1 world is not around anymore. So.. uh.. no. and I have pretty much no interest in playing fable 1 cuz it's pretty much the same :(
All in all, as a stand-alone new game... it's ok, nothing special and nothing that's terribly memorable since all the cool things you can do in fable 2 (like git-busy) were there in fable 1... meh... but as a sequel it's bad... it's not halo-2 pick up a second gun... it's halo-3... not much new, not enough exciting changes to live up to it's own reputation.
 Fun. December 1, 2008
ok first of this game is great, with graphic and gameplay, but its sort of short and not much to do after the story and it gets repetitive after sometime, but can't wait for the new DLCs (Downloadable Content).
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