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A Really Enjoyable, Fun Game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This was the first game I played with the Xbox and I really think it lived up to its expectations. I loved being able to play it more than once, making my character either into an evil person or a good person depending on the deeds I did during the course of the game. There are plenty of little side games to play along the way. The graphics were good and the game play was good as well. It is even a fun game to 'watch' someone else play. This game was obviously had developers with a sense of humor and that was helpful in the entertainment factor as well. It is not a 'long' game, but like I mentioned before, you can do all sorts of things with it that take more or less time depending on what you decide to do. Great fun all around.

An awesome game that should not be overlooked despite its flaws.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Fable is one of those games people love to hate. It was hyped up big time, and it didn't really deliver on all of those promises, so people give it a hard time. If you take the time to actually play Fable, you'll realize its still a very open ended RPG, and one of the best at that.

Visually, the game is one of the best of the PS2/GCN/Xbox generation. In terms of graphics alone its one of the best looking game on the original Xbox. It has high amounts of shine and a surprisingly high amount of textures. Everything is pretty well detailed. While the world isn't as open ended as I had hoped it would be, it still has the long draw distance that you would want it to have had it been more open ended. In other words, its a very impressive game for its time. In terms of artistic design, it fairly unique. Its kind of how you'd want a fairy tale based game to look. I like ti a lot, and it brings you into the game's style very well.

The soundtrack is surprisingly good. Its very light hearted for most of the game, but it gets pretty epic and loud during boss fights. It also switches into a sort of dangerous sounding theme when you're near enemies. Its not the best music I've heard in a game, but it works pretty well and reacts to what's going on in the game world.

Game-play is always the core of the game, if the game-play is broken, the rest of the game might as well be nonexistent. Lucky for us, this game rocks. I know its not as open ended as promised, and there's a couple other minor broken promises, but overall its very cool and fun to play. The thing that stands out most to me is that depending on the way you play, your character becomes good or evil. The more evil you play, the more evil you look, you start to grow horns, become very pale, and you develop a sort of red glow. Likewise, if you play like a saint, you look like one. People also react to you differently depending on how evil or good you look. The ending of the game is also different depending on if you're good or evil. The combat is fun, simple and responsive. Being able to just fly between melee and spells mid-fight is awesome. I consider the combat to be mostly balanced, except that the ranged weapons are kind of useless. The story is fairly predictable, but its not a bad one either. Character customization goes beyond good and evil, you can choose tattoos, hair styles, beards, clothes, weapons, and more. There's a lot of different weapons that you can augment, including secret ones you usually have to do separate quests for. Which brings me to the side quests, there are lots of side quests, and it makes the game last much longer if you do them. There's some awesome game-play to be found here.

Just an overall awesome game if you have an Xbox, Xbox 360, or PC and you give it the chance it deserves. Peter Moleneux may be a little overly ambitious, but the game still turned out great.

Short and Sweet

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Fable
Fable was supposed to be the game in which everything you did affected your story and character. Was it? No, not by any means. It is however, an extremely fun game that anyone can pick up and play. It is an RPG, but the game is very simplistic. Any learning curve that exists is explained during the opening hour of the game.

Graphics- 8/10
Fable has a different type of graphical style to it. It's not supposed to look realistic or cartoony. The lighting is there, but I would not consider it the best. Everything is easily distinguished from one another. Environments are all very well done and nothing feels repetitive.

Story- 9.5/10
This is the best aspect of the game. Despite the game being short, it packs in an incredible story. You start as a young boy who is just trying to do deeds to get his sister a birthday present. Soon, bloodthirsty bandits attack your town of Oakvale. They are looking for you and your family. You have no idea why. They kill all of your family, or at least it seems that way at the time. Luckily, you are saved by a man named Maze and taken to the Hero's Guild. From there you begin training to be a Hero, who can be good or evil. You will grow up and take on new challenges as you go along. You can take multiple ways to get through the game. Sadly, despite whatever way you take, you will end up in the same place at the end of the game.

Sound- 7/10
There isn't much bad you can say about the sound. Everything sounds good. The music is always good, but it can get tedious after a while due to them playing a lot of the same music over and over again. The music will always fit what is going on though. The sounds effects of everything are average to good. The weapon sounds are a little below average. Your foes sounds are pretty good.

Gameplay- 8.5/10
This game really shines in this area of judging. Fable is very fun to play. You will play it many times just to have an evil or good character. I found it to be much more interesting to be evil myself, but you may feel differently. That is one of the great things about this game. You have melee combat, archery, and magic at your disposal. Sadly, there isn't much variety in weapons. They are usually just stronger than your last weapon. Magic on the other hand is very fun to use. There is a fairly large variety of magic spells you can use. Some spells are for hurting your opponents, but some are for helping you. It all depends. Also, body armor/clothing is lacking in this game. There is usually just a dark suit, normal suit, and light suit at each level of clothing. Your appearance plays a role as to how people treat you, but not a big enough role for it to matter how you dress.

Difficulty- 5/10
The game is short and easy. The only thing you could have problems with is the final boss and the arena challenge. Everything else is as easy as block/attack/block. The game can be completed in a few hours. The only side quests are Demon Doors, which you have to do a task to open, and they aren't that great anyway.

Overall- 7/10 (Note- This is how much I like the difficulty)
This isn't the best game in the world, but it is a solid game. It's easy to pick up if you aren't a committed game player. Many hardcore gamers will be let down by the game's simplistic design and lack of options that mean anything. Still, the good story and ability to be good or evil makes this game good and I suggest it to anyone. Just don't expect a Final Fantasy XII type game.

Best RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Along with the two Halo games, Fable is one of Xbox's best games. The gameplay and story are addictive and fun. The game is full of humor and a lot of action. Since I didn't have high expectations for this game, when I played it I was simply shocked by how good it actually was. Since I bought it to play on my Xbox 360 the game was very cheap by then so not only did I buy one of the best game ever, but I got it for a mere $10.

GTA for a medieval world?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Many of the reviews mention that this game did not live up to the hype. From the perspective of someone who's playing the game 3 yrs after its release, I missed all of the hype. That being said I probably rank this game higher than those who bought the hype. Apparently within the hype were a lot of broken promises.

This game shares a few similarities with GTA San Andreas. (hence my title) It offers a large open ended world where you can kill random people. If you choose to kill innocent people, the guards/police will come after you. In both games you can have multiple wives/girlfriends in different cities (both of which give you gifts if you keep them happy).

That's about where the similarities end. You can't steal cars, boats or planes (obviously). In fact there are no modes of transportation (except teleporting). You get so lost in the game that you don't even notice that there isn't a single horse in the entire world. That aspect of Fable is nothing like GTA. The actual game is more comparable to Zelda.

This game has an excellent journey with a very abrupt ending. My biggest complaint with this game is that once you take your final quest the game is over. They should follow the lead of GTA style games, where once you've completed the main story line you can continue to free-roam and complete side quests. After you've worked so hard to get the best weapons, and max out your attributes you should be able to actually use them.

When people complain about a game being too short (I'm looking at you Gears of War, Bioshock, Halo 3) what they're really saying is, now that the game is over I wish I were still playing it. I consider it to be a compliment.

This game has tons of secrets and plenty of things to do every step of the way. After switching from PS2 to Xbox 360, I'm finding that there are a ton of Xbox exclusive games that offer hours of entertainment! This is only my second RPG (KotOR was my first). I'm not a big fan of turn based fighting where you queue up your next move. Since Fable offered live action fighting this aspect was better than KotOR, but KotOR had a better story line.

The bottom line is; Fable is a deep action adventure RPG where the journey is greater than the destination. This game is great even 3 years after the initial release (maybe even better because you avoid the hype).

Not Morrowind, not trying to be

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: March 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

D&D-style 3rd person RPG for xbox only, like Morrowind, but without the length, openness, complexity and GLITCHES of Morrowind. This is both its strength and weakness. Dumbing down and simplifying a game like Morrowind would probably cure its glitchy ails, but this is a double-edged sword.

PROS
- Amazing top-notch score (as with Morrowind's Jeremy Soule) by Russell Shaw and Danny Elfman (does mainly stylish fantasy and horror soundtracks such as Tim Burton films, Simpsons stuff, etc). This is infinitely more important than you think.
- excellent variety of enemies and bosses with their own unique abilities and challenges.
- excellent variety of items, weapons, armor, etc but simple enough that you can remember everything.
- experience and level-up system works fine.
- good story narrative (and thankfully you can bypass any cut-scene at any time)
- game length is fine, despite what critics have said. The game should not be compared to Morrowind (the longest game ever next to Oblivion) or GTA. There are tons of missions (quests). People that say you can complete this thing in 12 hours are either lying or have no life.
- hair, tattoo, etc customization (as in GTA San Andreas).
- fun to kick chickens
- good voice-acting, various british isles accents, english, irish, cockney, etc...the style and feel are a bit british (developed by Lionhead UK, now owned by MS). It's good to have an actual british game developer in the mix with US and Japanese dominated game design.

CONS
- main melee attack is mapped permanently to a button not the trigger (like every other game in the world). Can't map it to what you want. Counter-intuitive.
- uber-hype marketing nonsense; I think this is what everyone got upset about.
- some (not all) combat is button mashing
- while the graphics are nice, they are just a tinge cartoonish.
- ebony weapons. Uh, did they just rip this off from Elder Scrolls?
- save system is mean (cannot save during missions) - just save the damn thing where the hell I want it to!
- IMPOSSIBLE missions (quests) - there are a couple. Nowhere near the problems of Morrowind, but extremely annoying. One for example has you freeing 2 hostages in 2 locations. You are able to free one, but as soon as you appear in location #2, the hostage dies IMMEDIATELY with no way to even remotely save her...
- End quest is impossible unless you lucked out like I did and happened to have hundreds of health and magic supplies with you because they DON'T let you go back and prepare for it first. The end quest occurs immediatly after the preceeding quest. Don't have these supplies? hope you saved recently (before the preceeding quest).
- Cannot go back to side quests after main quest is completed? Why the hell not? That's a pretty moronic game design choice. Morrowind let's you play on forever....It extends the longevity of the title.
- Long recovery time when you get hit. Why does every single hit have to knock me down? Even if my "toughness" is maxed out.

Morrowind is overall clearly a better title, but due to its massive amount of glitches, it's also more annoying. If you want a lighter, more contained, briefer version of Morrowind with simpler gameplay, Fable is an excellent choice for xbox, also playable on 360.

Too short...awesome game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

While the game was incredible. I did find the main story line way too short. However I waited another year, went back, and played the game again. This time I tried being completely good,(I obviously went Evil the first time) I also went on all the side missions and did pretty much everything there is to do in the game.(I.E. opening all the demon doors, getting all the silver keys, finding the dolls...etc) Over-all I found it more satisfying the second time. Getting to play both sides and experimenting on the different missions really adds variety to the game. I think there is probably a little bit of something for everyone in this game. If you think it was too short, then you should go back and play it with a different path or trying everything you can think of. If you still think it was too short, then you are probably comparing it to Morrowind! Over-all I enjoyed the game.

Not what I'd hoped

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I liked some aspects of this game. I liked the graphics and the details - like the fact that you can buy tatoos and hair styles. There was also the fact that your actions affect how people react to you that made the game more interesting. Beyond that, I felt the game was too linear. You follow a story line and there is virtually no room to explore or interact with the world on your own. It reminded me too much of final fantasy, where there is a path to follow and its always the same. I found the game repetative and uninspiring. I was very disappointed. Everyone I talked to LOVED this game, and the review were fantastic. I'm glad I didn't pay full price.

Good escapism

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Excellent game, lived up to the hype. Might be a little short, but there is some replayability there if you want to try it opposite of the first go 'round (evil vs good or vice versa). I'd buy it again.

A fun way to pass the time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: September 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If your looking for a good game to pass the time Fable is a pretty good bet. The mission based gameplay leads you through the story, but the option to be honorable or just plain ruthless keeps it entertaining enough to keep you playing. The spells you choose to learn along the way make the game unique each time through and it's short enough that you don't mind playing through it again... and again. Some of the people wondering around can get in your way pretty easily if you are using area spells or even a bow, but you can alwayse smite the anoying buggers :)

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