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It's time to get medieval and take down some hobbes in this review of Lionhead studio's awe-inspiring Fable II.
Fable II is an action RPG exclusively for PC and Xbox 360, the sequel to Lionhead's Fable for Xbox. It is set in Fable's mythical world, Abilon, and has a similar map.
The beginning of the game is slow, and hard to want to play. You play as a child again, doing various tasks and deeds to get a small amount of money with your cruddy equipment. After this sequence, you are taken into the castle, where the strange and creepy king kills your sister (thank GOD. She is ANNOYING.) and knocks you out a fairly expensive looking window. A weird gypsy then takes you home to nurse you back to health.
You wake up a few years later at a gypsy town outside Bowerstone. The gypsy that took you home earlier gives you a magical amulet with which she communicates with you, and unlocks a superduper cool cave place, where you practice your sword and crossbow, until you learn to do magic at the end, and reveal your headquarters for story quests. From then on you do a variety of cool things, from blacksmithing for money to killing whole gangs of bandits and destroying zombie-like hollow men.
The storyline is easy to understand, but it makes you want a more compelling story. I, honestly didn't care if the bad guy killed everyone in Abilon, OR killed my annoying sister before my eyes. I just wanted to kill stuff and get lots of money!
The fighting controls and system are amazing! I switched between silver rifle to sword to fireball in the blink of an eye (like a bawss). It was extremely well balanced, and was fun killing whole swarms of enemies while still being challenged. It was like being surrounded by 1,000 soldiers with a wooden spoon that reigns death by touch, a .44 magnum with infinite ammo and an unlimited supply of fireballs with the clothes on your back. It will take you a while, it will be hard, but you can certainly do it.
Fable II is a strongly recommended game to play. It gets 8 piles of bandit ashes out of 10.
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