I first want to mention that this is my first review, so feedback is greatly appreciated.
So... Fable 3.
It has been intresting to see the Fable serie evolve. I remember loving the original game and the the serie has really moved away from the old days. But I i'm not sure we are moving in the right way here. But back to Fable 3.
You play the price/princess of Albion, your brother is a giant douche and needs to kicked of the throne ASAP. Therefor, you flee the castle and start looking for allies in your campaign against your brother who is named Logan by the way. Perhaps a tribute to Bioware's DA:O who had a evil tyrann named Loghain. But I digress. During this search you have to make promises that later you can choose to honor or forget that you ever spoke to them about abolishing child labor. I mean, why would you want to do such a thing?
The story is pretty fun overall. The writting is excellent and characters are better than ever. I do have a one issue with it, and that is the fact that there is no revolution. No angry mob or planing acts of terrorism. You get your allies, there is a quick battle and then you are the King. It misses out on such great potential here that it makes my sad.
Combat remains intact from Fable 2, with the largest change being magic. You now wear diffrent gloves based on what spell you want to cast. Later you learn to weave these spells togheter, but they still work is one spell. This for me made using Will extremly boring, the original games let you feel like this awesome wizard who could make the sky fall down upon ye. Now it's basicly a gun that happends to be your hand if you understand. Other than that the combat is preffy fun, atleast for a while.
Other than fighting you can run around, buy shops and houses. One issue is that you have to repair these houses. And when you own all the houses in Albion, that takes ages, even from the map. Get married and have kids. Sadly, Lionhead haven't fixed the fact that there is no reason to care about these villagers because the all look the same. I never felt any kind connection to the NPC that wasn't part of the story. If they die, there is a hundred just like em'.
One has to mention the Sanctury, instead of a pause menu one comes to this room where everything is avalible from manequins. Your clothes, make-up and weapons are their wating for you. It works really well and is very easily handeld.
One of the things I was really looking torwards to was the voice actors. A huge list of great names. When I heard that John Cleese was in it my pre-order was pretty much sealed. However, the only voice they ever really make good use of is Stephen Fry as Reaver. I was expecting some hilarious moments of true Monthy Python humor from John Cleese, on that point I was severly disappointed. If we ignore that fact, the voice acting is very good all in all.
To wrap it up Fable 3 is a good game, but not a great one. It could have been so much more with it's great humor and intresting plot but sadly, the unpolished and glitchy gameplay holds it back. It's fun, but only for a while.
So... Fable 3.
It has been intresting to see the Fable serie evolve. I remember loving the original game and the the serie has really moved away from the old days. But I i'm not sure we are moving in the right way here. But back to Fable 3.
You play the price/princess of Albion, your brother is a giant douche and needs to kicked of the throne ASAP. Therefor, you flee the castle and start looking for allies in your campaign against your brother who is named Logan by the way. Perhaps a tribute to Bioware's DA:O who had a evil tyrann named Loghain. But I digress. During this search you have to make promises that later you can choose to honor or forget that you ever spoke to them about abolishing child labor. I mean, why would you want to do such a thing?
The story is pretty fun overall. The writting is excellent and characters are better than ever. I do have a one issue with it, and that is the fact that there is no revolution. No angry mob or planing acts of terrorism. You get your allies, there is a quick battle and then you are the King. It misses out on such great potential here that it makes my sad.
Combat remains intact from Fable 2, with the largest change being magic. You now wear diffrent gloves based on what spell you want to cast. Later you learn to weave these spells togheter, but they still work is one spell. This for me made using Will extremly boring, the original games let you feel like this awesome wizard who could make the sky fall down upon ye. Now it's basicly a gun that happends to be your hand if you understand. Other than that the combat is preffy fun, atleast for a while.
Other than fighting you can run around, buy shops and houses. One issue is that you have to repair these houses. And when you own all the houses in Albion, that takes ages, even from the map. Get married and have kids. Sadly, Lionhead haven't fixed the fact that there is no reason to care about these villagers because the all look the same. I never felt any kind connection to the NPC that wasn't part of the story. If they die, there is a hundred just like em'.
One has to mention the Sanctury, instead of a pause menu one comes to this room where everything is avalible from manequins. Your clothes, make-up and weapons are their wating for you. It works really well and is very easily handeld.
One of the things I was really looking torwards to was the voice actors. A huge list of great names. When I heard that John Cleese was in it my pre-order was pretty much sealed. However, the only voice they ever really make good use of is Stephen Fry as Reaver. I was expecting some hilarious moments of true Monthy Python humor from John Cleese, on that point I was severly disappointed. If we ignore that fact, the voice acting is very good all in all.
To wrap it up Fable 3 is a good game, but not a great one. It could have been so much more with it's great humor and intresting plot but sadly, the unpolished and glitchy gameplay holds it back. It's fun, but only for a while.
