Fable 2

Oh Peter, you’ve done it again. You went and said your game Fable 2 was going to be great, but truthfully it wasn’t. It wasn’t even close. Fable has greatness, but just like a nice building with graffiti all over it you can’t call it truly great because it’s been vandalized (unless of course the graffiti was nice). Yes Fable has so many annoying blemishes that I’m just going to say them now to explain to you all the things that will piss you off in fable.

First, thank you for giving us a golden trail to tell us where to go (otherwise it’d be ridiculously hard to find stuff), however the fact that the golden trail will constantly glitch leading you in the wrong direction is frustrating. Also what happened to the armor system? I want to see my hero full armored basically indestructible to any monster he sees. But no instead I have the choice of looking scary or sexy that’s all (which doesn’t really make any difference both can force people to do your bidding). On the topic of good and evil my little brother decided to make a good character and from what he is doing I’ve come to the conclusion that there is no point in being good. When you are good you’re everyone’s bitch. When you are evil everyone likes you (when I say like I mean intimidated into liking) and you get to betray their trust time and time again. Sometimes I wonder how they keep following me into the temple of shadows as I put my cult mask on and start laughing. This leads me to another giant flaw. Choice is the hallmark of fable, but your choices are always limited to a few. Sometimes I wonder how killing a little tree sapling causes a whole town to be corrupted. And yea I’m sure that not allowing that guard catch a few criminals caused the whole town to never take a step into the light. Essentially it would’ve been much more reasonable if they set requirements to meet to make towns good or bad. But that’s just me being a bit picky. Before I sum up this review with the classic its still a good game and if you loved fable you should buy it let me just say that there are no choices in the fighting game play. Magic spells are limited to a handful and fighting and range are really useless when you could just buy the best weapons. But none of this matters because if you want to level up quick all you need to do is get another player to come in make him sell all his spells take the xp and max your character out instantly. There; game over, you win; now go have some unprotected sex with your wife while you wish they had turned fable into the gem every game reviewer is making it out to be.