Fable Review (Fable: Lost Chapters (PC))

Member Name: Crytek

Product:	Fable: Lost Chapters (PC)
Date:	14/04/09 (19 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Customisable and nice combat mechanics.

Disadvantages: Simplistic and over-hyped before release. Led to disapointment.

Every game and movie has a hero, wether good or evil. But how exactly did they end up that way? Well, with Fable, you get to experience this firsthand.

You begin as a child whose family gets killed when his village gets attacked, but what happens next? Well that's up to you. Do you become a noble warrior, vanquishing all evil? Or do you become evil itself; murdering and stealing your way to power? Or do you do a combination of the two?

It's all up to you, but that's really as far as the game goes customisation-wise. You character's appearance and stats change as you do different activities (using magic will give your character white hair, whilst using large weapons will make you muscular), which is worthy of a few runs through the campaign to experience the game differently.

As you adventure through the story you are given moral choices, which affects your standing with certain characters and alters your gameplay experience, although the more evil approach to the game was personally more fun for me.

The combat mechanics are interesting and relatively varied (do you use magic or weapons against certain foes?), but is nothing that hasn't been done before. You basicly pick up a weapon and press the attack button over and over until things die. Your character pulls off combos and interesting animations but it doesn't feel like you were part of the process. It feels very automated and simplistic.

Fable does not live up the hype which surrounded it up until it's release a few years ago. It was entertaining for a few days but became repetitive and was extremely easy to complete.

Worth a rent rather than a purchase.

Summary: Worth a rent to experience the customisation you actively take part in.