Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 204 months Binding: Video Game Brand: Microsoft EAN: 0882224694179 ESRB Age Rating: Mature Label: Microsoft Manufacturer: Microsoft Model: 9CS-00002 Platform: Xbox 360 Publisher: Microsoft Release Date: October 21, 2008 Sales Rank: 51 Studio: Microsoft
Features:
Action RPG for Xbox 360 picks up 500 years after the first Fable and offers wide-ranging open-ended gameplay
Players can assume the role of either a boy or girl
Combat system allows for short-range, long-range and magic attacks
Currency earned in minigames on Live Arcade can be used in the game
Online multiplayer mode lets you bring other players into your world
Amazon.comFable 2 is the anticipated sequel to the popular original that sold more than 3 million copies. Created by famed game designer Peter Molyneux, Fable 2 for Xbox 360 features an epic story that picks up 500 years after the first game. It offers an open world environment giving players a massive amount of freedom to explore and play as they please, with every decision made contributing to the game itself.
Fable 2
Players: Offline: 1-2 Online: 2
Gameplay Modes: Single player, offline cooperative multiplayer, online cooperative multiplayer.
The new combat system lets you master different fighting styles. View larger.
You are free to roam the world of Albion any way you like. View larger.
Every Choice Has Its Consequences Fable 2 provides players with a truly immersive experience where a virtually limitless number of choices can be made, all of which have their own consequences, making each game unique. When you start the game, you choose either to play the role of a boy or girl, and depending on your choices, the hero will grow up to be tall or short, good or evil. Players can get married and have children; female player characters will become pregnant, which will then be reflected by their physical appearance.
Early in the game, players are presented with a stray dog for a best friend, who will need to be fed and loved, and will accompany the player throughout his or her life. Depending on the player, the dog will change appearance and assist him or her in various ways, such as alerting of impending dangers and attacking enemies.
Players inhabit the world of Albion and are free to roam the land to as they please. Players can use different expressions to communicate with others, such as taunting and laughing, and even belching or farting.
As the players grow, so does Albion, reflecting the choices that were made earlier in the game. Every house, hut, castle, and dungeon can be purchased if the player wishes. Players can buy up all the land in a town and can become mayor, king, and even emperor of the entire land.
Fable 2 presents a dynamic and free-roaming world that doesn't demand a player to take any one set path. At the same time, players seeking a plot line will find an epic story and quest that they can follow if they wish, along with many side adventures.
Fight Using Different Weapons and Magic Fable 2 introduces a new combat system that allows for mastery of hand weapons, such as swords, long range weapons such as cross-bows and guns, and, of course, magic. Players improve at each discipline with time, and can combine different combat styles when they fight. Other advanced design features include tactical positional advantages that can bring new strategic elements into combat.
Bring Other Players into Your World Fable 2 has a multiplayer mode that allows you to bring other players into your own world. Consistent with the rest of the game, the actions of these other players can be permanent and affect your world. You can explore and fight together with these other players, share treasures, and even fight each other.
Note: Fable 2 will not ship with Online Co-op mode. An update with this functionality is rumored to be released shortly after the launch of the game.
Xbox LIVE Arcade Mini-Games Gamers can play minigames through Xbox LIVE Arcade and earn currency that can be used in Fable 2 to purchase weapons, armor, and other items for the hero.
Fable 2 is rated M for having mature content that may be suitable for persons ages 17 and older.
Depending on your choices, the protagonist can turn out wildly different -- male, female, good, evil, and more.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Fun, but over hyped.
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, time's 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 ... Read More
Rating: - A Disappointment from the Original
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Fable 2 or Fable 1?
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Fun.
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).
Rating: - Yup, same glitch problems as everyone else
I was fortunate enough to run into two of the glitches. First was while talking to the monk in Oakfield, losing me about 10 hours of playtime and the second was after re-beating the contest in wraithmarch. Only buy this one if your blood pressure levels are normal and you have no pre-existing medical conditions. I suggest doing something less stressfull like taking a drive through rush-hour traffic on a long weekend afternoon with your mother in law.
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- Fun, but over hyped.
- Fun.
- Yup, same glitch problems as everyone else