Chris Strach, Mercury News writes: "Fable 2" is an action role-playing game that allows players to develop a customized character and choose a life of adventure or regular day-to-day work. It's a watered-down version of "Dungeons &Dragons" for the Xbox. You'll live in an open-ended, imaginative and often colorful world. Set 500 years after the original, this game offers innovative real-time gameplay, including freedom to explore a vast array of dungeons, catacombs and caves in the world of Albion.
The good: The graphics are nice and gameplay is simple and accessible to casual players.
The bad: The story is not compelling. Players have access to only eight spells, while many games offer hundreds. The characters are bland. Most annoying is that this should be a game for all ages, yet includes sexual content not appropriate for children. It's like watching Disney doing something salacious to get a Mature rating.
The bottom line: One thing this game does well is it allows you to act out in a world where you can be something different from what you are in real life. Many players will find it engaging, if only for a short while. It's an improvement from the last version, but there's still work to be done.
The Xbox 360 was a fantastic console in its day with some truly classic titles, but what are the seven best games for the console?
I'll go with,
Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Culdcept Saga, Shadow Complex, Ace Combat 6 with the flight stick,A Kingdom for Keflings, A World of Keflings.
Bonus Kinect Games: Happy Action Theater and Sesame Street.
*Skyrim was so bad on PS3 that it almost deserves to be #1*
Was this made by a.i.? No human being would put Shadowrun, Fable III, and Splinter Cell: Conviction into a list of the 7 best Xbox 360 games.
Would love to play Ace Combat6 on PlayStation, but Xbox decided to buy exclusivity and keep it off a competing platform.
The only mainline game I never played except for one level at a friends place. Game sold less than any other in the series if I remember correctly.
When the current gen XBOX offering is so lacking people need to refer to games released two generations back....
Fable II launched back in 2008 and remains the best the series has offered. Ahead of the series comeback, it's time to look at the classic.
Loved this game, oh and i always saved my dog at the end, hope the new Fable has a animal companion.
Fable 2 was the best inthe series. Peter waaaaaaay over promised with fable 1 and it was good but disappointing. He didn't go crazy eith hype for the second game and it was surprisingly awesome. Then he ran his mouth promoting 3 and it was the worst of the 3.
I only got to play it once 😩 I'm so tempted to buy a Xbox 360 slim but planning on getting the series x soon since I got a PS5 in February Im ready to get saints row 1&2 back, GTA 4, fable 2, but I also want to play infamous 1&2 again Sony screwed us over with the stream only for saints row 2 and other gems smh
It’s foolish to say that one RPG is "better" than all the rest across systems and generations. This is merely the 25 RPGs we feel are the best and nothing more!
Dragon Quest 11 isn't even the best Dragon Quest game, it's a good game, but not the best. Dragon Quest 8 is superior to it in almost every way.
OK let's end this, in order
Xenogears
Final Fantasy 8
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 9
Final Fantasy 6
Chrono Trigger
Legend of Dragoon
Breath of Fire 4
Breath of Fire 3
Dragon Quest 8
Dragon Quest 11
Vagrant Story
Saga Frontier 2
Chrono Cross
Suikoden 2
Suikoden
Threads of Fate
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy XII
Lunar 2
Some of my personal favorites are Planescape: Torment, New Vegas, Morrowind, Kotor 2, Wasteland 3, Witcher 2, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, Deus Ex, Disco Elysium and Vampyr.
As far as jrpg, while I'm not as big a fan as I am for Western RPGs, I love Persona 3 - 5, Dragon Quest 8 and 11, Rogue Galaxy, Final Fantast 6,7, and 12; and Lost Odyssey.
I almost spat coke..
6.5? 6.5!?
This guy doesn't know how to enjoy games.
Buddy should stick to news articles.
Agreed, giving this 6.5 is ridiculous. Maybe he doesn't know how 2 play it properly n is just a leper.
Seems a bit harsh, but a review is a review.
6.5 is way too harsh, it may "look Disney", but the game is blatantly not aimed at children.
Just because the graphics are cartoony, doesn't mean it's aimed at kids.
wait he says appropriate for all ages. *looks at box cover* WTF M. wow im done reading this. no point in going on.
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