This Xbox RPG, along with Sudeki, looks good, but falls woefully short and quite inadequate qhen compared with other top RPG's. The story seems tacked on at the end of the game, boss battles bad, and for those of you that say there is more than one way to play you're kidding yourself. Wow, you can kill the bandit or save him, that pretty much the same quest. Wow, you can steal something that is lying on a table or not, one makes you good the other evil. The game definately had great potential but I felt let down. For a game that you can possibly get all maxed stats and all items in less than 15 hours is not worth it. They seem to have stopped right when things could have gotten awesome. They mention a dragon in the monster books, not in the game, they mention you can buy shops, you can't, all the weapons are basically the same, there are only for different qualities of weapons when there could have been tons. It just seems like this game can not measure up to a final fantasy or a GTA because of its lack of length. The gameplay itself is awesome, but when all you need to do to make it a joke is get one spell, ...slowtime... then it just doesn't seem worth it. After this and Sudeki's failure, both of which had promise, just lacking in length, makes it seem like no mystery at all why playstation 2 is a must have for RPG fans and Xbox is nothing but an afterthought.

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Dull. That coupled with jittery rendering, bad physics and horrendously monochromatic enviroments make this RPG rather annoying to play. I was bored stiff within the first 10 minutes. I figured I'd give it an hour...yawn.

The cut scenes are not animated (crude cartoon drawings made to look like they're being clever). And talk about "loading"! I thought Baldur's Gate had a lot, but this one wins the prize. Sudeki beats the hell out of this game.

Kids may like and eventually come to master the complex battle engine (with three concurrent modes of combat), but the lack of a 'femme fatale' playable/interactive character won't hold the adolescent mind very long.

Worth the wait? No. Beautiful to look at? No, unless all you've been playing lately is Quake.

After all the hype I feel cheated. I've been made to cough up 50 bucks for a crude psychology experiment.

One last note: why is voice talent in Western RPG's so bad? Sudeki's 'talent' made you grind your teeth. In the land of Fable, Jamaica apparently lies just off the coast. Once again, annoying.

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I am so phsyced about this game. You have the ability to be good or bad. It has real time combat and magic. It also has customization and branching conversations with different stories. There is also leveling up, like any RPG. It has swords, magic, and bows. You can be highly revered by villagers or despised. Although it dumped an originally planned co-op mode, it still should have awsome gameplay and enormous replay value with the ability to be Righteous or devious. Plus this comes with a bonus DVD with 4 hours of making of features and game demos.

Pre-order this game now. Also, don't review this if you dislike RPG's, fantasies, and adventures because your giving it a bad score( at least most will) because of its genre.

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It hasn't even come out yet! Since the people writing all these reviews obviously aren't in possesion of a pre-release copy, they must either be PSYCHIC or MORONS. I tend to suspect the latter. Or maybe they just don't understand what a REVIEW is. OK, listen up: it's an expressed opinion about SOMETHING YOU HAVE USED, SEEN, LISTENED TO or EXPERIENCED. It is not some uninformed opinons and 5 star ratings based on rumor, conjecture, partial information and biased press releases. So, please, just shut up and wait until the game comes out, because you're not doing anybody any favors. And, as far as "John Smith" is concerned, it IS my *&#$*(% business, because I use the star ratings to decide what games I'm going to buy and it's MY *&#*$& money on the line. Let me point out something painfully obvious to you: looking at screenshots and reading some lame press release copy quoted in a fawning magazine article is NOT THE SAME AS PLAYING THE GAME. Every game preview I've ever seen makes the game look like it's going to be the best thing ever, and 9 times out of 10, when the game gets released if fails to live up to the hype.

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No doubt about it, this is a great game. It is a completely different RPG and a definate succesfful one. You can do apsolutely anything u want, steal, beg, rome, turn evil, anything, hit peasants, crime, (etc.) The only problem though with this games is that it tends to get a bit dull at some points of the game. Here are my pros and cons

Pros:

Great graphics

Ability to do anything

Be bad, or good

Completely new RPG and different in a good way

Cons:

gets boring at some points

no online support/content downloads

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Dont write reviews when you haven't played the game. There is no point. All you do is mess up the star rating system. I like to know what people THINK about games they've bought, I can GUESS about them without any help. You go do that stuff somewhere where Money isn't involved. The 1-star is to counter all the fake 5's

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Why did I preorder this game? I thought, incorrectly that it would ship when it was released. Silly me it still has not been shipped. Guess they already have my money so why hurry? I wont ever shop here again unless some sort of fair recompense is made. Its 9/20 and amazon says it has shipped but according to UPS it still has not shipped just more lying they do respond quickly to my email the only problem is the are not telling the truth!

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When people start reviewing games the first day that you can pre-order, it sorta destroys the purpose of a star rating system. Many people use the star rating system to help choose the games that are right for them and to see if users enjoyed the game being viewed. If you rate and write reviews of games based off screen-shots and trailers, you are doing a disservice to those looking to see if they want to buy. Visually "Fable" looks like it is shaping up to be great with in-depth gameplay, but wait until it is released to put your two cents in so others may see if it is truly a great game on the basis of true playability, not marketing ploys. I am placing a 1 out of 5 rating in hopes to counteract the flood of 5 out of 5 reviews.

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this game bit the graphics were great and all but the game was really short and easy i am an okay gamer and i beat this game in 2 days.It is kinda fun how like GTA u can run up 2 people and slash them then let the guards go after u.Over all i would'nt buy this if your a huge rpg fan then just rent it at blockbuster

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What I purchased was not the game at all!!! It was a Bonus CD that had a demo game on it. I guess I really need to read the fine print from now on. I ended up with a pretty case and not the game I wanted at all. Probably won't ever do this again.

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