Exactly Fable II
There is one thing that Fable 2 got correct, and that is its release date. I doubt Fable 2 would have been completely overlooked, but I could see it getting passed by if it wasn’t released when it was. As it stands, it was released one week before Fallout 3 and two weeks before Gears 2. Personally, I wouldn’t have given it a second glance if it was released alongside either of those two games. But it wasn’t. It was released before them and therefore I played it.
So what did I think? I really don’t know, I fear I have a biased opinion. I really didn’t like the first game and this one honestly wasn’t much better, though in my current circumstance I enjoyed playing it. It is a nice change of pace. To be able jump out of a 1st person view and into a third person view. It is also nice to have a decent adventure (decent being compared to most others on the 360) to play through, opposed to all the shooters that are being pumped out.
The only thing that actually pissed me off was the co-op game play. It was absolutely lazy and pointless. (You couldn’t cross your own character to your friend’s world!? WTF) As it stands Fable 2 was a mediocre game that came out at a good time. Rent this game and wait for Fallout 3 and Gears 2, then spend your hard earned money. If you did buy this game and realized that 8-10 hrs later it was over and the side quest and mini games involving cutting wood were no fun, you might still have time to trade it in for a quick 30 in credit towards Fallout.

ed. note: Smokewagon don't like Molynuex much either
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