You promised me the Moon, but you gave me chips. This is the type of feeling I have whenever I play a new Peter Molyneux game. Molyneux is the man behind setting up Bullfrog and now of Lionhead studios and has made such games as 'Dungeon Keeper' and 'Fable'. He is notorious in the games industry for being fantastical in his promises for a game. Open worlds, fully customisable characters, hundreds of ending - all promised, all broken. I have no issue with chips at all. I like most kinds be they chunky, French fries or even the American potato chips (or crisps). What I do mind is being offered the Moon and only getting a plate of chips. Chips are good, but I don't .  Read the complete review

Back in 2004, Peter Molyneux and his gaming company Lionhead Studios delivered Fable for the old Xbox. It was a highly anticipated game, with a lot of hype behind its back not only from Lionhead's previous game, the hugely successful Black & White for PC, but also because Peter made a lot of promises and got people excited way too much. That's probably why, when Fable was delivered in 2004 after two years of hype, people came away disappointed. It was far from poor, there were some decent qualities that really stood out, but because Molyneux had hyped up the game so much, many people realised it was just talk. It's been four years, and the sequel has been ...  Read the complete review

Peter Molyneux's second installment of fable, set 500 years after the events of the first, you follow the story (male OR female this time) of Sparrow, you begin life as a child urchin in the big city of Bowerstone. After acquiring a magic music box, and using it to make a wish, you and your sister Rose are taken to the castle Fairfax, where the evil Lucien has been alerted by the magic from the box, claiming that you and your sister are "Heroes of Albion" he shoots your sister, he shoots sparrow also but he/she falls backward through the castle window and plummets to the ground. You are rescued and raised by a gypsy fortune teller. and she tells you of ...  Read the complete review

Fable 2 was for most people, a highly anticipated game. Its predecessor was one of the most popular games for the original xbox, so a lot of people were expecting much more because of this being on a newer console. One of the main things you notice straight away is that the graphics have improved greatly, before you start the game there is a cut-scene which shows a bird flying thorough Albion in winter, the graphics are simply brilliant here, the characters even have steam coming out of their mouths because its so cold, the attention to detail in Fable 2 is just brilliant. Another good thing about Fable 2, is the new weapons system, you can buy ...  Read the complete review

XBox's fantasy RPG Fable was, in my opinion, one of the best games of the console. The graphics were top notch and the game play - in particular the way that your character evolved according to their actions -was spectacular. Fable 2 is a case of 'why fix what isn't broken?' For, apart from an advance in the time period (you now have guns as weapons rather than bows and crossbows) and an expansion of the map - apparently the Fable 2 world map is ten times bigger than the original Fable map - Fable 2 isn't all that different from the first game. This is no issue for me; the game does lack originality in that it is basically just a longer, more in-depth, ...  Read the complete review