Fable III Limited Collector's Edition

All of us that follow the industry fairly closely know, Peter Molyneux (The creator of Black & White, Fable, Fable 2) likes to tout his own games above all else, and this year he's been doing it again.

That being said, Fable 1 and even the major let down that was Fable 2 were both immensly fun albeit brainless bouts through the thickly woven fantasy world that is Albion. Although the games lack the depth of typical RPGs these games had continuously been touted as RPG's for there light RPG elements, leveling up, stats, grinding experience and such but they were never truly RPGs. This year Peter Molyneuxs approach has been, Fable 3, is not an RPG take it as you will but Fable 1 and 2 worked much better as slash em up adventure games as they did if they were to go against the likes of Oblivion and Fallout 3. So if the focus has shifted to making a stunning action adventure game then I'm all for it.

Let me give you a little history lesson, Slight spoilers, In Fable 2 you play a hero set about on a quest to avenge his sister on the way you meet a bunch of interesting people and here a bunch of wittily written british humour as you tap A around the world killing hobbes, balverines and countless other monsters. Until you finally avenge your sister in the most anti-climatic fight scene ever. In Fable 3 you play one of the sons(or daughter if you so choose) of the original hero, But you are the second son and the first son of the game is now the king of the kingdom, and he's gone mad with power, he's become Hitler, Stalin and Muscillini all rolled into one. It's now your job to dethrone him.

This is where the new dynamic of followers comes in, followers seems to me abit like a replacement for XP, you get followers if you go off and do a quest for a villager, you get followers if you go off and kill hundreds of innocent hobbes, you get followers for all manor of things until finally you have enough to overthrow your brother.

This is where it becomes interesting to me, as a secret power junkie, the fact that I get to play king over hundreds of virtual villagers is exciting to me and it sounds as though Petey M. and his team have created and indepth ruling system in which you can tax everyone and keep the money for yourself, build wonderous castles, invade and pillage, or you can play it nice and humble, no tax and live in a shack. The choice is yours as it always has been in Fable but if feels more like you actually have the power to make whichever choice you want to make in Fable 3.

Whether this game turns out to meet everyones expectations or not I personally have preordered it and although I was disappointed with Fable 2, it was still an immensly fun and playable game in which I have completed countless times over. Whether you choose to beleive the hype or not, the Fable games will always be fun, and that's what counts right?

I would recommend to anybody wanting to buy Fable to buy the collector's edition. This is a really cheap collector's Edition. For only an extra $10 you get heaps of extra stuff. In comparison to other games this is really cheap. $120 is normally the price for the standard edition.

Fable 1

Fable one was such an awesome game, The story line for the game was very good and unexpected. The variety of choices to make throughout the game that affect who lives and who dies, which is normally done through mini quest available on the sides.

Also the death of characters who are close to your character seems to really take its tole on you. Some choices in the game are very tempting e.g in the arena when you are given the choice to kill your rival for a reward was very tempting.

Throughout the game the choice you make affect your alignment, whether you character will have a positive alignment giving your character a halo on his head or a negative alignment giving your character horns (making your character look bloody ugly)

The sword of in the stone was also an awesome feature in this game because it gives players the motivation to strive to be strong enough to pull the sword out of the stone and be as strong as the legendary Huw character which raises your characters status and also makes you as the characters controller proud to know that your character is as strong as one of the legendary characters of fable

Overall fable was an Awesome game, loved it....actually wouldn't mind playing it again, for everyone who has not played it, id recommend giving it a go.

Fable 2

The sequel of fable 1, fable 2 was also an excellent game, slightly different to fable 1 due to updates in features and different ideas added to this sequel e.g having a pet companion was pretty annoying at first but eventually cool and helpful throughout the game because instead of having to run around looking for treasure chests, you could always really on your trusty companion to find nearby treasures for you.

More choices and are available to you to from the smallest detail of the game such as making the citizens of Albion like your character by giving them gifts and lowering prices in your stores, to deciding whether you want to save or kill the innocent which has significant effect on the future of your character.

The game-play for fable 2 was very good. It was not like one of those extremely slow RPG games were you'd have to walk for such a long time to talk to someone in another town just for a few measly dollars. On the way to other towns, you'd always have to keep your guard up because you wouldn't know whether bandits are going to jump out of a nearby tree or balverines would leap at you from a distance.

So I've clocked the game - took me approx 20 hours to complete. Now achievement time! I thought the map was awesome, though would have liked it more available from the main screen 1 button pushed not 2. I love the monters in this one compared to Fable 2 where these ones like the Balverines and the Hobbes are way more bad ass and harder to kill.

I noticed that with certain creatures, certain ways of killing them killed them faster. Such as the monsters from Aurora, the shadows don't like magic and the ones in armour don't like melee.

I did find it in some parts anti-climatic, such as the final boss and section weren't that hard to complete. Story line was awesome though and I wished I could have married that soldier that helped along the way. If you know where to find him please let me know.

This is seriously one of the best games I've played in a long time, I would HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who loved FABLE and/or FABLE 2 or for anyone into RPGs.
Brilliant Graphics
And Even Better story line
Out of the 3 Fable Games this one is by far my favorite.
I would also recommend getting the limited edition over the normal version its well worth paying the few extra dollars.
Definite 5 stars from me