For Every Choice, A Consequence (Fable (Xbox))

Member Name: Goldensummit

Product:	Fable (Xbox)
Date:	19/02/08 (179 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Graphically superior, many variety of things to do

Disadvantages: Story's length

With great power, comes great responsibility. In the tale of a young hero, when at a mere age, sees his village and father get slaughtered by bandits. Here, we see the legend, of Fable.

Can you wield the power of your destiny? Will you stay true to the path of the hero, or become a menacing villain, you choose. In this epic game created by Lionheads Studio (The Movies, Black and White), brings you an outstanding RPG like never before, where every action, has a reaction, and every choice has a consequence. Travel through the land of Albion, accepting quests for both good and evil from the Guild of Heroes. Train your Strength, hone your Skills, and master your Will, as you leave a devastating destructive path where-ever you go.

Fight with sword, bow and magic, to defeat the numerous different foes, in many different towns/villages, or choose not to fight, get married, buy a house, buy a store and live a peaceful life, its your choice, though don't let the wife catch you flirting with another lady, or she'll get you good.

I found this game very fun, its great story, wide variety of things to do you'll never get bored of this game, with all the choices you can make. The game is extremely addictive, so many things to do to keep you occupied, and bringing you back for more playing each and every day.

The graphics are very good, going through the phase when the exclusives for XBOX had exceptional graphics. The environments are very detailed, and the characters and NPCs have great detail also, very good looking. The voice acting is pretty decent, everyone in the game has a voice which in its time was very hard to come by, it shows far more interactivity and you feel right at home with everyone having their own personality and jobs. The sound effects are good also every little action you take has its own sound, which is what you expect from a game.

The game isn't very difficult at start, it all depends on how much you fight, how much you train, and how much money you spend on better armour and better weapons. You can probably find this game for around, £5 - £15 now for the XBOX, but it would probably be best to seek its better half, Fable: The Lost Chapters, which offers more quests and increases the length of the game. In short, I really enjoyed this game, its downfall is the lack of quests and short story it has, but considering you don't have to follow the story and choose your own path, it isn't exactly a major problem. They did fix all this however, in Fable: The Lost Chapters, which is for XBOX and PC.

Overall: 9.2/10

Summary: A great RPG that anyone can pick up and play