Fable II is the sequel to the XBox game Fable, produced by Lionhead Studios, this game is for the XBox 360 only. This game takes places quite awhile after the end of first game, guns have been invented, the Heroes Guild and almost half of the world got destroyed, a lot of the things have been changed or have vanished from the original game. The gameplay is very simple, you use only the the X and Y buttons in combat, and sometimes the left and right trigger, so simple it got boring at some point, which is not a great thing. However, item management and doing things outside of combat has been redone and streamlined. The armor and clothing you get do not have any effect in combat, they give bonuses to certain things like how people see you. Expressions are a lot easier because you can quickly pick any of your expressions from the the right bumper, you do not have to run a gauntlet of menus and button commands to choose the expression you want. A new addition to the game is your pet, the dog, he does all the lame boring repetitive stuff you had to do in the first game, like look for treasure, find buried items and attack downed enemies. You can name the dog and it changes if you become evil or good. It can be upgraded by finding books that increase its rank in treasure finding and combat. Another addition is how you travel around the map, you can fast travel to almost every where in the game, you don’t have to walk everywhere and fight random enemies along the way.
One thing to mention is how good and evil work is this game, you get bonuses and penalties throughout the the game from being good (like choosing the nice guy options and helping people, etc.), or being evil (killing random people, stealing, being a jerk, etc.). You can be super good, have a halo, and shiny teeth, or unspeakably evil, killing entire towns, driving people into poverty, hiring prostitutes, and you will grow horns and turn red. Overall it does not matter much, however your actions can actually effect the world unlike some games. If you choose the evil option you can create a impoverished cityscape, or a well off marketplace.
Overall it is a pretty good RPG, long plot, lots of things to do, funny characters and dialogue. It is fun, it lets you have fun in the world and do all sorts of things, however combat and most other things get really repetitive, really fast, combat is easy as soon as you get a decent weapon, and doing jobs and lots of actions are done using only one button. But hey, they have already announced Fable III, IV, and V, so they have quite sometime to fine tune everything.
3 out of 5 stars
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