Fable 2 - Choices, Choices

Not only will I be reviewing and previewing games, I will try to keep you up to date with the games I am playing. At the moment, it is Fable 2.

I know it’s quite an old game now, 2008 it was released in, but I was lucky enough to get a shot of the Game of the Year edition, complete with the DLC for Knothole Island and See the Future. Good times all round.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Fable series, Fable is a third person RPG (role playing game) mixed with some awesome puzzles, a great story of revenge and betrayal, some spells, an astounding variety of weaponry and hitting things a lot with your sword. Swords are good for hitting.

Every choice you make in Fable has consequences and rewards. If you behave as an upstanding citizen, Albion will flourish and you will look regal and majestic. So will your canine companion, but if, like me, you decide to play for the evil team you’re forehead will sprout horns and you will strike fear into the hearts of the people around you and your dog will look pretty damn ferocious. Use a lot of “Will” (which is the magic in Fable) and blue lines of energy will ripple across your body, level up your “Skill” (which is the shooting abilities) and you will grow tall and lithe, concentrate in Strength and you will look like a tank and can even kill people with a single slap emote, sounds good eh?

I have been playing Fable 2 on and off for about 2 weeks now, and without giving anything away, because there may be people out there who haven’t played it yet… for shame. It gets very good, very quick. The difficulty slopes nicely, it doesn’t get too hard before you can upgrade your weapons, which is always a good thing.

Fable 2 is based in being able to make choices to either benefit or detriment people. You can even buy a house and have a kid with your wife. But then there is the inverse, you can buy a house and fill it with people and have sex with them all (on the 360 that will get you The Swinger achievement and a tasty 10Gamerscore.) You can kill anyone in Albion, even your wife, but if you kill your wife your kid will get taken away from you. I put a bullet in my wife’s back last night then invited two women back to my crib in Bowerstone Market. Fun times all round. The women of Bowerstone didn’t even seem to care about the corpse of my wife in the bedroom… freaky femmes in Bowerstone.

More information as it comes in; I will do a full review when I complete it. There is a lot more I haven’t covered but… I will.