Plot:
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. Obesity follows gluttony, skin tans with exposure to sunlight and bleaches bone-white by moonlight. Earn scars in battle and lines of experience with age. Each person you aid, each flower you crush, each creature you slay, will change this world forever.
Rating:
Graphics 8/10
Acting 8/10
Plot 9/10
World 8/10
Online N/A
Character: 9/10
Game-play 8/10
Customize-ability 8/10
Camera 6/10
Controls 7/10
Difficulty 5/10
Replay Value 10/10
Soundtrack 10/10
Overall 10/10
Review:
Fable is a game that will become close to your heart, it is definitely a classic, and the expanded content just emulates that perfectly. Fable is a great family-fun, funny, loveable game. Its humour has become genre defining. With it's staple "British Humour" mixed with fun game play, its hard to not enjoy this game. You don't get to pick your gender (Which is fixed in the sequels) but you are given a rich back story and tend to love your character. This game series is built on being allowed to choose your path, to an extent. Your main choice is morality, and this is reflected on your body as you will glow and have blue butterflies and a halo if you are good, and will be dark with horns and flies if your evil, this is seen all the way down to the blue or red eye colour.You also get the choice of how to customize your characters fighting style, whether you choose to wield magick, shoot bows, swing a melee weapon, or any combination of the three, the choice is yours. The only place that your choices don't seem to be able to affect is the main storyline, which occurs regardless of whether your good or evil. There is no real "evil ending" except for a choice you get to make after killing the main bad guy. This is the real only way in which this game failed. You have to kill the main bad guy regardless of being good or evil, and then on top of that the fact that they created a really awesome bad guy, with a large build up to beating him, and then he turns out to be the easiest boss in the game. It is a little disappointing and turns out to be a staple in all Fable games, to have a rather enjoyable game and then disappoint at the end. There are very few things wrong with this game, but all tend to be shadowed in the rest of the games enjoyable nature. Small things like villagers dropping boxes when they notice you, strange map interface, and rapid aging of your character. Then there is of course the worst NPC ever created... Thunder. He is a Hero who no matter how far you progress always looks down on you. His sister is in the Heroes Guild with you and even when you beat her at every turn (Which is easy to do) he calls it luck. If your able to dominate with a perfect score and without taking any damage in The Arena, he still calls it luck. He talks crap all the way up to his optional fight where he turns out to be a very very easy cookie cutter boss fight. His counter is Brier Rose, who starts out looking down to you and then learns that you are awesome. (Spoiler...kinda) in the final boss area you have to wade through enemies, when its her turn to fight beside you and then stay behind she says "Its time these people learn who Brier Rose is!" which is cool. When you fight alongside Thunder, and he has to stay behind he says "I am exhausted, you go ahead I'm going to rest for a bit" I feel so strongly about this NPC that I would erect a statue in his visage just so I could destroy it with a sledgehammer. The world of Albion is great, however, with humourous people and guards, to either funny or annoying enemies. This games enemies aren't too far fetched, except for the Balverines, and Hobbes. Hobbes are fabled to be stolen children converted to a plump short ugly creatures, and Balverines are a new take on "Werewolves" though I tend to like Balverines better. I would recommend this game and plan on replaying it in the future as I have done since its release.
Note:
F*$% Thunder for having such a cool name and being such a stupid NPC.
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