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29 out of 32 people found the following review useful:
Neat Game!, 9 October 2004
Author: bjo2smo from Tallahassee, FL, USA

Fable is one of the better RPG games out there (from someone who's been playing RPGs for 20 years). The storyline, though basic, does allow for a lot of wandering and exploring, as well as side adventures not related to the main quest though entertaining and worth taking. This is one of the first games I have seen that has the amount of interaction between the PC and NPCs. The creatures do become progressively more difficult, and you have to always be ready to try something new to defeat them, but learning and mastering the basic skills are what will keep you alive. If you are looking for a game that has a solid storyline, but gives you relative freedom to explore the world, this is a fun, enjoyable, entertaining game.

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7 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
Perfect game, with lots of freedom., 27 August 2006
10/10
Author: morton grimp

PC version.

You start off as a young boy, from a royal bloodline with great mystical powers. When your village gets burnt down, and your father murdered, you must avenge their deaths. In the Heroes' Guild, you learn to fight and use the "will", which allows you to cast magic spells.

This game is perfect (or nearly at least). I totally enjoyed it. The graphics are perfect, the music is great, the story is good. The gameplay is very simple. For the PC version, you must use a mouse and keyboard, it's not compatible with gamepads.

There is a great amount of freedom in this. Although you are given many quests to complete, you are not expected to be good. You can be evil, you can kill innocent people, you can wreak havoc throughout villages, you can even choose to live a gay or bisexual lifestyle if you want to. There are many weapons and armour to be purchased and discovered, as well as many magic spells to be mastered.

The only downside I saw in this game was the length. It just didn't seem very long to me at all. I would be ecstatic if Lionhead were to make another one. I didn't experience any glitches in this, it ran totally smoothly from beginning to end. My system is XP media center edition, 2 gigs ram, 1.6 ghz And dual core, and an ATI X1900. If you purchase this game, be sure to not start it unless you plan on playing for at least an hour or longer. The save option doesn't appear until after you've completed all of your guild training, and that could take a while.

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5 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Compelling fluff with good gameplay, 5 March 2008
8/10
Author: enkephalin07 from United States

The title says it all, so I can be brief. It's an RPG-lite and an epic with all the depth, and the charm, of a fairy-tale. Decent enough dialog, peppered with light humor, and voice acting that sounds professional but pretty much aimed at children. The gameplay value is stronger than the story, and its as engaging and fun as the story. Replay value is low; you could challenge yourself with various character development types, but that won't significantly change the plot.

IMDb wants no less than 10 lines for a review, but brevity is the soul of something they can't be bothered to look up anyway. Fable is worth owning and playing.

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Absolutely excellent, 11 December 2008
9/10
Author: SimplyMe15 from United Kingdom

Fable is excellent.

The sheer number of choices in this game are incredible, hundreds of weapons, items of clothing and spells etc. not to mention Lionhead's much publicised 'morality' system. This morality system gives the gamer the choice to play out the game as a saint saving villages, giving beggars gold and generally being an all round good egg or being a downright scallywag! The game never runs out of nasty little sins you can commit, from beating up children and robbing shops, to kicking chickens all around the towns! This choices system, whilst a little black and white is fantastic, adding a real element of playagainability as you try and find out just a little more about Albion every time you play.

Albion itself is beautiful and while the graphics look a little outdated today, they still function well, with the design of the locations making up for their lack of detail.

However where this game really comes into it's own is in humour. There are hundreds of little easter eggs and fun things you can see and do around time. Sometimes you can just stand round the various settlements and await choice quotes from the townsfolk, I recommend youtube-ing fable one for some hilarious videos from the world of Albion.

So your asking yourself, why only 9 stars? Well, to be honest the story is a little generic and the fight scenes can become a little monotonous, but all in all Fable is, along with KOTOR and Halo, one of the flagships of the Xbox and should be settling in a place within everyones collection. Including yours!

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It's not just a game, it's a lot of fun, 29 April 2008
10/10
Author: Ilia Temelkov (someone_sf) from Bulgaria

This is not just another Role Playing Game, like I tough when I started it. It's a fairytale full with good and evil, which it was the main purpose of the game makers. I played it three times, first I was like a bunny - good and peaceful, I was helping everyone, I had no bad deed. It was fun, but the demon in me was rebelling and I started the game for second time. Then I was not just bad, I was Evil, like a demon from the Hell. It was nice to kill innocent people while you listen to Slayer. But this was fun for about 2-3 hours which pass so quick, and there where the third time. I was "me" again, neither good or evil, I was like Budha - the middle, so I was missing the circle above my head, but there was no screams or annoying kids running around me, I was like invisible. All these thinks I done for a week, and then the game was over - three times. Now I'm waiting for the second part where I'll be again the good, the bad, and the evil - what about you?

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Good fun, a must-have for RPG fans, 13 May 2007
9/10
Author: Shaun Marquet (metalsonic_chaosking) from Australia

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

I haven't really played games like Morrowwind (not even sure if that's how you spell it right), but upon purchasing this game and playing it, I was hooked immediately. Let's get to discussing it!

The good points:

: 1. Enemies don't stay just the same throughout the whole game, they vary, from Balverines to bandits to Trolls. 2. A good range of magic spells in the game, some of which require certain alignments to master (Summon, Drain Life, Turncoat, Heal Life, Physical Shield and Berserk). 3. Jack of Blades, I can say, is without doubt, the most evil thing I have ever seen, or can remember. The name Jack may sound a bit lame, but it really works on this game. 4. A good soundtrack, one that won't make people reach for the mute button every time a certain tune comes on. 5. A good collection of weapons, ranging away from just the sword, which is without doubt the most popular of the older weapons. 6. Character expressions are actually realistic.

THE BAD.

1. Allignment spells should be, on Lost Chapters, Infernal Wrath and Divine Fury. 2. On the original Fable, the Goodies do not get some ultimate weapon, like the original Sword of Aeons. Also, this game seems to give evil-doers the benefits of very strong weapons. (Sword of Aeons, Skorm's Bow). 3. Story is limited. 4. battles are far too easy. Resurrection Phials are only needed, for the newer players, in the Arena, if they are trying to do it the whole way without stopping. 5. If one starts off evil from the very beginning, a glitch may occur, where people, instead of fearing you, hate you instead, where they should actually alternate with a mix, mainly fear but. 6. marriage almost seems to mean nothing, it just... happens.

Don't let those last few points discourage you, try it out!

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Chicken Chaser? Do You Chase Chickens?, 18 August 2006
10/10
Author: horrors_R_us from United States

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

I love Fable! It's one of the better RPG's out there. I also recommend just playing the Lost Chapters and skipping the original game all together. That's what I did.

A really cool thing about this game is that you have the freedom to roam lands and interact with the locals and traders. Buying property and marrying chicks (or guys) are just some of the side things you can do.

Overall, it has really good graphics and sound affects. Great realism as well. It rocks that you be good or evil. I also enjoy the expressions.

This game gets a 10/10 for me! Enjoy your game play!

Who will you be?

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For every bad choice...the game reloads., 1 December 2004
Author: daemonicsatanicus from Hell, New Jersey

Do not take this the wrong way. I'm not really disappointed at the game. I believe it performs well as evidenced by the excellent graphics, the musical score, the voice-overs and yes, story (short and childish as it may be.)What did you expect? Its called Fable.

The advantages overcome the cons only by a hair. However, the game fails to deliver when it comes to fulfilling its tag line

"For every choice a consequence."

yeah, Right. To say that this game gives you freedom is an exaggeration. I've seen better freedom in games like Fallouts 1&2 and Morrowind. There is rarely a chance to do great evil in the game (like chopping off the head of someone you were supposed to rescue and showing it to the person whos looking for them, now thats evil.) Instead evil is gained by randomly killing innocents which is kinda boring. And i got the feeling that it doesn't really reward evil that much. I'm sorry but Fable is just too short and limiting when it comes to quests and side-quests.

However, this game almost seems like a breath of fresh air from other RPGs out there today and it deserves a pat in the back.

this game gets 8 outta 10 quest cards for me.

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A great romp...or is it?, 28 September 2004
Author: rising_phoenixdave (rising_phoenixdave@hotmail.com) from Somewhere, Anywhere

So, Fable.

Fable is a surprisingly innovative game in a genre that many have long said lacks innovation. But at the same time, Fable just isn't what it claims to be.

Graphically, Fable is pretty impressive. Certainly not the most polished graphics ever, but still visually very pleasing. Audioly, the music, sound effects, and voices are pretty good. I would imagine some people (like me) would get tired of the pseudo-cockney accent that the world seems to have. Fable is a very beautiful game and, with the right sound system, very pleasing to the ear as well.

It's the rest of the game that falls apart.

Combat, the biggest part of the game (arguably), is little more than mash-the-buttons. One button attacks, and you'll be pushing it constantly. One button dodges and blocks, and you'll use it every so often. That's pretty much it. Sure, there's magic spells as well, but magic can only do so much to curb the monotony of the button mashing.

Although the game has a much touted "evolution" system, there's really not much to it. Either your character gets buff...or he doesn't. There's definitely in-betweens, but who cares? Are you going to go for the semi-buff guy? Not likely. You're going to stay scrawny or go with massive muscles.

As for the replayability of the game, yes, I will admit there's some replayability. However, there are only two endings to the game, good and evil, and once you see both of those, your reason to play the game over again will rapidly evaporate.

There are many quests for your character to accomplish in the game, but with few exceptions, all the quests consist of either beating something down, or, well, beating something down. After a while you don't even care why you're beating something down, you just are.

There's also a definite lack of free will in the game. In every area of the game (and there are many), you are restricted to certain paths. No wandering off the path, no searching for treasure. It's all on your map, and that's all you get. Also, there's no chance to be evil in the quests you take, unless the quest is evil to begin with. For example, in one mission, you have to rescue a boy from the caves and get him back to his grandmother. Killing the boy or letting him die results in mission failure and you have to start over again. Why can't you kill the boy and deliver his head to the grandmother? It would certainly be an interesting and thoroughly evil thing to do.

Fable is a good game, don't get me wrong. I played through it three times in less than a week. However, the game is, at best, incomplete, and lacks the features that would raise it to the level it aspires to. This is definitely a game you should try before you buy.

Final score 6/10

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I've played it, 16 September 2004
Author: Sprunt Okorky from Washington, USA

OK its just as good as I hoped......AND BETTER MUCH BETTER I mean at first I was thinking of almost Morrowind graphics (not that there bad) but this game excels in every way I have played it for 8 full hours it rocks the story the graphics I am just so fully impressed with this game cant wait to hear more from you all its such a fun game there's so many choices you can do so much and its not confusing at all to get started in I am so impressed I hope to see more from these creators but I just don't know if there will be any way to give it this games same Majesty its just an all around fun game so lets see what everyone else has to say

A VERY SATISFIED CUSTOMER

10/10 in my book

P.s. ITS NOT HALO 2 IF YOU WEREN'T PAYING ATTENTION IT IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT GAME PLEASE QUIT COMPARING THEM

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