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 | Product Description “Fable III” is the latest installment to the action packedand critically acclaimed Xbox 360 exclusive franchise that has sold more than six million copies. Fans new and returning will now embark on an epic adventure, where the race for the crown is only the beginning of your spectacular journey. Five decades have passed since the events of “Fable II,” and Albion has matured into an industrial revolution, but the fate of the kingdom is at peril. In “Fable III,” you will be called upon to rally and fight alongside your people, ascend to the seat of power, and experience the true meaning of love and loss. The choices and sacrifices you make while fanning the flames of revolution, and then as you rule as King or Queen or Albion, will lead to an ever evolving world of consequences that will be felt across your entire land. This sets the stage for unparalleled action and adventure that offers even more ways to fight and engage than ever before. Throughout your journey, you will encounter a colorful cast of characters that fans have come to expect from the off-beat style and humor in the “Fable” games. After determining whether these characters are your friends or foes, you will either join them or fight against them in explosive combat, alone or with a friend on Xbox LIVE®* . In your quest to plant the seeds of revolution, seize power and rule over your kingdom, the choices you make will change the world around you, for the greater good or your own personal gain. Who will you become? A rebel without a cause, the tyrant you rebelled against, or the greatest ruler to ever live? Product Features
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Fable III offers the opportunity to choose their own destinies as a hero, villain or someone between, in a world where where the possibilities are limitless and the consequences can weigh heavily on the path to greatness. In this new adventure, witness tyranny, poverty and injustice plague their land. See a people divided and be compelled to stand up for change. The major question: What would you sacrifice to secure the crown of Albion? Will you uphold the values and principles that led to your ascension, or will you be corrupted by the station you’ve strived to acquire? Will you be a monarch of the people, or bring the entirety of Albion to the brink of collapse?
In the epic story of “Fable III,” the journey to rule the throne of Albion begins five decades after the events of the last chapter. Playing as the child of your hero from Fable II, as you rule your kingdom as king or queen, you will be called upon to make choices and sacrifices that will test your morality and can affect your entire kingdom. Themes of heroism, leadership and consequence are taken to a grand scale as you fight to unite a divided people.
- An all star cast brings the colourful cast of Albion to life: Fable III features the voice talent of John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Simon Pegg, Bernard Hill, Ben Kingsley, Zoe Wanamaker and Michael Fassbender to name a few!
- Rally the Resistance: In Fable III you fight to win the hearts and loyalty of Albion in your quest to become the ruler Albion needs, just remember how you got to the thrown...
- You don't have to everything alone: Call on a friend to fight with you as you fight through the story cooperatively. Fable III's online has been greatly improved as you bring in your own dog and control your own camera
- Watch yourself evolve: As you walk yo
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
(Apologies if i've included any spoilers.)
Now completed the game (well, killed the bad guy and now running my land) so thought it would be worth giving my tuppence worth.
Overall this was a fun game to play. The humour is a nice touch, and some of the locations are nicely rendered. However, and maybe as a result of all that 'niceness', as the game went on i did begin to notice that the framerate would drop as if i was entering some kind of slow-motion. The introduction of the system for changing equipment/clothes etc is a chore. This was supposed to improve the supposedly tedious previous menu system but unfortunately the new and improved system means it takes longer to make any changes. The emotion wheel has been dispensed with and replaced by fixed options which occasionally change but don't really improve things (what ever you do only affects the one person you have chosen to interact with, and not the crowd that is watching). Moving from location to location has a disjointed feel to it, making the land feel like its a series of almost random areas with no symmetry. And as for the TV ads, (and maybe due to the way i played it out) this was hardly a 'revolution', there was no sense of it being a climatic conflict with your brother with opposing armies (just a few troops here and there in some of the latter missions).
Overall this is either 'Fable: The Sims Years' or an RPG-Lite. Probably aimed directly at the casual gamer. If you felt Fable 2 was a disappointment after the original Fable, then you may not be impressed with this.
The things which made the first Fable so memorable are being eroded. Shame, as a lot of people loved that game.
Now completed the game (well, killed the bad guy and now running my land) so thought it would be worth giving my tuppence worth.
Overall this was a fun game to play. The humour is a nice touch, and some of the locations are nicely rendered. However, and maybe as a result of all that 'niceness', as the game went on i did begin to notice that the framerate would drop as if i was entering some kind of slow-motion. The introduction of the system for changing equipment/clothes etc is a chore. This was supposed to improve the supposedly tedious previous menu system but unfortunately the new and improved system means it takes longer to make any changes. The emotion wheel has been dispensed with and replaced by fixed options which occasionally change but don't really improve things (what ever you do only affects the one person you have chosen to interact with, and not the crowd that is watching). Moving from location to location has a disjointed feel to it, making the land feel like its a series of almost random areas with no symmetry. And as for the TV ads, (and maybe due to the way i played it out) this was hardly a 'revolution', there was no sense of it being a climatic conflict with your brother with opposing armies (just a few troops here and there in some of the latter missions).
Overall this is either 'Fable: The Sims Years' or an RPG-Lite. Probably aimed directly at the casual gamer. If you felt Fable 2 was a disappointment after the original Fable, then you may not be impressed with this.
The things which made the first Fable so memorable are being eroded. Shame, as a lot of people loved that game.
50 of 52 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I've actually never felt compelled to write a review before, but was so gutted by the gaming experience provided by Fable 3 I felt I should sort of warn other Fable 2 fans. It just seems like a load of unnecessary changes have been made that made the experience worse, some necessary changes haven't been made, and the whole thing takes a fraction of the time Fable 2 did (which, in a funny way, turns out to be a blessing).
The small stuff first - NPC interactions have been broken. The expression wheel has gone and you can no longer choose your action. The fact that it seems to default to 'dance' means that to make friends with anyone (male or female) you have to perform a Patrick Swayze lift on them. Not very kingly. Also, you now have to enter an 'interact' screen with your dog - why?
Combat, always a bit of a weak point, is now worse. Magic powers are too powerful and your melee attacks are virtually useless.
SPOILER ALERT: Once you become King the choices you are able to make are stupid, simplistic and mean that you can either have a beautiful but poor kingdom with everyone dead, or a ruined but rich kingdom with everyone still alive. Once you know this you can of course spend ages in the early stages amassing a personal fortune and donating it to your kingdom, but to me this seems like a workaround for a broken system than a valid gameplay tactic. Also, the second 'half' of the game when you're King only lasts an hour or so, then the final battle sneaks up on you and gives you no opportunity to sort out your finances. END SPOILERS.
I spent weeks and months of my life playing and replaying Fable 2, but after 3 days I doubt I'll ever have Fable 3 in my console again. I never even bothered to get married, have/adopt kids etc as I couldn't see any point. I never felt connected to the game, characters, my dog, Albion... and why have an RPG sequel that's so much shorter than its predecessor? What a shame.
The small stuff first - NPC interactions have been broken. The expression wheel has gone and you can no longer choose your action. The fact that it seems to default to 'dance' means that to make friends with anyone (male or female) you have to perform a Patrick Swayze lift on them. Not very kingly. Also, you now have to enter an 'interact' screen with your dog - why?
Combat, always a bit of a weak point, is now worse. Magic powers are too powerful and your melee attacks are virtually useless.
SPOILER ALERT: Once you become King the choices you are able to make are stupid, simplistic and mean that you can either have a beautiful but poor kingdom with everyone dead, or a ruined but rich kingdom with everyone still alive. Once you know this you can of course spend ages in the early stages amassing a personal fortune and donating it to your kingdom, but to me this seems like a workaround for a broken system than a valid gameplay tactic. Also, the second 'half' of the game when you're King only lasts an hour or so, then the final battle sneaks up on you and gives you no opportunity to sort out your finances. END SPOILERS.
I spent weeks and months of my life playing and replaying Fable 2, but after 3 days I doubt I'll ever have Fable 3 in my console again. I never even bothered to get married, have/adopt kids etc as I couldn't see any point. I never felt connected to the game, characters, my dog, Albion... and why have an RPG sequel that's so much shorter than its predecessor? What a shame.
34 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
As someone who loved Fable 2 and played through it several times, both as good and evil, this was a huge disappointment.
There are big quality issues and bugs including constant slowdown, the gold trail that your meant to follow constantly disappearing and characters getting stuck, but even more frustrating are the many poorly thought through design decisions.
The lack of HUD is a very big problem when it's absence isn't handled well. This is one scenario where it isn't. Any time anything appears on screen it is completely situational, often at moments of inconvenience (why would I want to have my healing options only when I'm on the verge of dying?) No menu system at all is completely impractical. Even more so is the exclusion of any sort of inventory system. In other words, good luck knowing what you have on you at any moment and pray you had remembered what you're last health potion count was, cause you ain't gonna get any warning until it's too late. The lack of weapon customization also adds to the shallow feeling of the game, I immensely enjoyed customizing my weapon in Fable 2 but in this game that has been completely removed. Instead your weapon mutates depending on your actions. This can be something as ineffectual as finding lots of treasure altering the look of the handle. Why couldn't we still add gems to it that would alter it's properties while at the same time altering it's appearance? It's all just a little............. unsatisfying.
The story just felt rushed. There were so many fantastic set-pieces that could have been great for player exploration. Instead the story is often pushing you at a breakneck speed to rush through the story, leaving only the player's consideration to determine when appropriate deviations for side quests are appropriate. Now, that wouldn't be so bad if the game would actually give you a hint at where in the story progression you are. Towards the end of the game you'll hit the no-going-back final mission and once past that there is no going back. Also, in general the world of Albion was just shallow, there are some great side quests that are incredibly creative but they are few and far between.
Will I be playing this game a second time around to see what differences playing as evil make? I doubt it.
There are big quality issues and bugs including constant slowdown, the gold trail that your meant to follow constantly disappearing and characters getting stuck, but even more frustrating are the many poorly thought through design decisions.
The lack of HUD is a very big problem when it's absence isn't handled well. This is one scenario where it isn't. Any time anything appears on screen it is completely situational, often at moments of inconvenience (why would I want to have my healing options only when I'm on the verge of dying?) No menu system at all is completely impractical. Even more so is the exclusion of any sort of inventory system. In other words, good luck knowing what you have on you at any moment and pray you had remembered what you're last health potion count was, cause you ain't gonna get any warning until it's too late. The lack of weapon customization also adds to the shallow feeling of the game, I immensely enjoyed customizing my weapon in Fable 2 but in this game that has been completely removed. Instead your weapon mutates depending on your actions. This can be something as ineffectual as finding lots of treasure altering the look of the handle. Why couldn't we still add gems to it that would alter it's properties while at the same time altering it's appearance? It's all just a little............. unsatisfying.
The story just felt rushed. There were so many fantastic set-pieces that could have been great for player exploration. Instead the story is often pushing you at a breakneck speed to rush through the story, leaving only the player's consideration to determine when appropriate deviations for side quests are appropriate. Now, that wouldn't be so bad if the game would actually give you a hint at where in the story progression you are. Towards the end of the game you'll hit the no-going-back final mission and once past that there is no going back. Also, in general the world of Albion was just shallow, there are some great side quests that are incredibly creative but they are few and far between.
Will I be playing this game a second time around to see what differences playing as evil make? I doubt it.
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you could not pay me to keep playing
ive played about 30 minutes and really am not that interested in going further...the gameplay is slow and repetitive, everything so far feels a little dragged out. Read more
Published 1 day ago by sam
The fall of the Fable series
It's sad seeing Fable come to this point, a point where it may never be able to turn back.
The story is a mixed bag in many ways. Read more
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Published 17 days ago by Joe A
Decent, but lacks innovation.
Fable is fun. It really brings in great british humour, and a stellar cast of British celebrities bring life to the characters of Albion. Read more
Published 22 days ago by Smiley
An excrement of a copy paste
Fable 3 is nothing more than the worst copy paste ever done for a video game. Even dead space 2 did better with its puny monsters. Read more
Published 23 days ago by Nidrae
Coming To Terms With What Fable Really Is
Fable 3 gets a hard time for the light RPG elements and it's a fair statement. The game isn't deep at all, combat ends up button mashing, environments are surrounded by invisible... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Adam Towers
Make sure you do this
If you are going to buy this game make sure that you earn lots of money whilst playing because you are going to need it. If you want to be evil then their will be no problems.
Published 1 month ago by Rebzey
Love the Fable!
Two reasons why I didn't buy the game earlier, lack of time and that ppl in general didn't enjoy it was much as the previous titles... what a mistake... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Gasch
a slap in the face to fans
By far the worst fable ever made it felt like a add on to fable 2 a boring pointless story and a rushed and crap ending. Read more
Published 2 months ago by MR SMITH
Great fun
This is the first Fable game I have played and I really enjoyed it. I liked how the choices you make throughtout the game shape the story, the combat is solid and vaired between... Read more
Published 2 months ago by spudbuddy
Very good
This games is good and it is good graphics and the gameplay is very good! It's a good game to get if you like RPGs!!
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