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Fable: The Lost Chapters | 
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List Price: $14.99
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Rating:  293 reviews
Sales Rank: 254
Platform: Xbox
Genre: Role Playing Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 0.6 x 7.5
MPN: v07032
Model: 805529781146
UPC: 805529781146
EAN: 0805529781146
ASIN: B0001UEHP8
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Forge a hero based on actions - Heroes age and evolve through the actions you choose and the paths you follow?for good, evil, or in between. Follow the way of the sword and see your muscles bulge, weave the dark arts and witness power crackling at your fingertips, or rely on speed and stealth to develop lightning-like reflexes and eagle-eyed accuracy |
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Product Description
Fable: The Lost Chapters builds upon Fable's legendary and award-winning gameplay with spectacular new spells, devastating new weapons and stout new armor, all of which will be needed to contend with new monsters and other threats in the treacherous Snowy Wastes. Command your fate and embark on a journey to the wondrous land of Albion in Fable: The Lost Chapters. The best-selling award-winning Xbox title Fable, Fable: The Lost Chapters your quests, conquests and losses, errors and successes paint your reality. In this groundbreaking role-playing adventure game from Lionhead Studios, your every action determines your character's skills, appearance and morality. Your character's life story is created from childhood through to adulthood and on to old age. Grow from an inexperienced child into the most powerful being in the world, spoken of by all and immortalized in legend.
As stories and side quests await, choose the path of righteousness, or dedicate your life to evil, and see yourself transform into a reflection of your actions and decisions. Age leaves you wizened and battle leaves you scarred as you explore the world of Albion and the plethora of expanded and enhanced content. With experience comes advancement and physical change, whether expanding muscles, a keen eye and nimble form, or the buzz of magical energies around your fingertips. As you develop your alter ego, the world reacts to you and your actions. People comment on your successes and failures, your appearance, and your behavior. Fable: The Lost Chapters offers gamers character customization choices that will impact your appearance. The denizens of Albion's many opinions are expressed through applause, mockery, trepidation, panic, and even flirtation if they feel so inclined.
Each person you aid, each flower you crush, each creature you slay, will change this world forever. In Fable: The Lost Chapters, gamers decide: "Who will I be?"
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| Customer Reviews: Read 288 more reviews...
 I'm satisfied due to reasonable expectations. September 21, 2004
Lane Fox (Huntsville, AL United States)
101 out of 123 found this review helpful
Title: Fable
Description: What path will you choose? The highly anticipated and arguably over-hyped fantasy/ adventure game from an extended Microsoft developer. This unique game claims to have extreme character versatility and game possibilities. Your appearance and skills will be altered by things you do in game. If you eat too much you get fat if you fight a lot you will get large and brawny and you also age. Fight the forces of evil or join them. You can adventure with thieves or settle into domesticity with your new wife (male or female.)
Platform: Xbox
Learning Curve: 7- With so much to do in the game expect to spend some time familiarizing yourself with the many skills and spells and also basic social interaction. I don't think you need to have "1337 g4/\/\3R" skills to fight and advance in the game, but the fighting system might take a bit of practice and the game gives you tutorials early in the game.
Replay Value: 9- The standard storyline will have the limitations of what it is, but if you stray from the intended path you can play the game many times altering your persona to be good or evil. Slaughter merchants or be a dastardly polygamous the possibilities can go on and on.
Difficulty: 5- This game has an average level of difficulty from what I can tell. With proper training and skill purchase most enemies shouldn't pose a problem.
Guide: Available through Prima publishers for $14.99. I'm surprisingly satisfied with this guide so far. The guide helps navigate the game easier and might help you get through some puzzles if you are stumped.
Pros: Versatile gameplay, awesome graphics, hilarious dialogue, addictive gameplay, and interesting follow through storyline.
Cons: Main character is as imagined "generic" to permit versatile play, camera angle with bow can get jumbled, D button controls are sloppy, and "noble" heroes will have to be careful for villagers wanting a part in battles with monsters and I often found myself accidentally hacking the occasional merchant.
Time Expected to Invest: As much time as you want, but I imagine most people will find a good month or so of solid play before they are off to another title. I think I will enjoy this title for a bit longer though.
Retail Value: $49.99
Suggested Purchase Price: worth over $40. Try to find it used if possible or wait until the price goes down.
Overall: 9- I admit I really like this game, but I'm trying to keep the casual gamer and expectations in mind when I rated this over all. I think some will be disappointed by the gameplay not being as "versatile" as many thought it would be, but really if there wasn't some kind of guided story involved for more "linear" gamers you'd just have a pet character on a game that would wonder around aimlessly with no direction. I like the option to do either in this game and I think many gamers will feel the same. Was this game too overly hyped? Perhaps, but I am still satisfied with the outcome. Is it a disappointment? No, disappointment is getting ready for the second time for a lunch date only to have the person inform you when they call that they are too "tired" to meet that commitment. I swear I had to get ready, drive into the city, and wait until she got off again and then... sorry off topic. Anyway, no I was satisfied by this game and that is enough for me to consider my purchase worthwhile. I recommend this title and I think while not "revolutionary" the game brings something new and fresh to gaming.
Fairy Tale Graphics with diabolical controller setup November 28, 2004
D. Couse (United States)
71 out of 86 found this review helpful
I resisted the temptation of writing a review too soon for this game; I have now played nearly 10 hours of Fable and here are my thoughts.
The graphics are just plain crazy; wonderfully done! I'm still fascinated at every ray of light that comes down through the forests and trees. Truely a marvel in gameplay.
Sound is also another home run with a surround sound setup. The sound will suck you in to the realm of the game and bring you that much closer to the ever blurring fine line of reality and dreamland.
Fighting. Well, lets put it this way. If you are after a hack and slasher hero, then the game is set up pretty good for you. Just hit the X button multiple times to increase your attack multiplier and then hit the B button for a flourish kill. However, if you want to cast a spell somewhere in there, then things get a little interesting. It can be very difficult to keep an eye whats going on the screen while scrolling through your spells to figure out what you want to cast.
Controller config is where the game has it's downfall. The problem is that there is too much customization you can have going on. Unlike many games, EVERY single button, trigger, joystic and pad is used during combat. This becomes an absolute nightmare when you start to get attacked by more than 5 creatures at any given time. What's even worse is trying to prioritize your victim in the melee is virtually impossible. A very typical combat scenario turns into the floundering of the controller as you try to remember to hold in the right trigger and hit Y to scroll to the right spell setup. All the while you are getting slashed. So you want your spell to get the guy in the back of the crowd that is shooting at you? Keep that right trigger in, now hold in the left trigger and continue to click to target different enemies; again, all the while getting slashed. This doesn't even take into consideration trying to keep you health up and Will by using the D-pad somewhere in that battle.
Don't get me wrong, the game is a definite purchase. However, the developers have created so much here that it is overwhelming when it comes to the combat.
But hey, I still can't put it down.
Thank you very much Lionhaead Studios September 13, 2004
Wolfgang14 (Cali)
33 out of 56 found this review helpful
Fable is a game somewhat of an overhyped game. Some things such as everychoice you make decides who you are is not exactly true. While it still is an awsome looking game (from the 2 hours of footage and trailers and all the reviews ive seen)not all the promises are fulfilled (im not gonna go into detail). Besides that, it is a very entertaining game, just dont go into it expecting you can do anything. One more thing is... you might have heard it is a 50 hour game but from the people that have played it (finding most the secrets and completing most of the side quests) they found it to be 20-25 hours.
You start the game as a young boy about 12 years old, and your father reminds you it is your sister's birthday. He tells you that for every good deed you do he will give a gold coin to buy your sister a birthday present. You go around town exploring (there ar other ways to get coins "cough"). The interaction with the town and economy is amazing. So then a little later on a group of bandits raid your town and you survive but your father is killed and your sister and mother are kidnapped. From there the guildmaster, Maze, finds you and brings you to his guild where you will learn combat and all the controls turnig you into the beginning of a hero. (the variety of things to do in fable never really gets boring as there is almost always something to do ex. bored? try fishing or enter a pie eating contest. not in a village? try going off the road and the chances are good that youll find something interesting. After you finish the guild the rest of your story is pretty much up to you, to be good or evil and whatnot except you do have to follow the main quests qhich shape the story but even those can be different from someone elses. Some examples of evil deeds would be convincing someone to follow you into the forest then chopping them to peices or maybe breaking into someones house at night when there sleeping to steal ther stuff. Examples of good deeds would be killing undead or picking apples if someone asked you to. Since taking on a a full review would be too long ill leave it to someone else. For and 8 page review with over 200 screenshots and about 10 movie/trailer/clip/actual game footage go to www.teamxbox.com for a full Fable review from someone who has played through the game twice. Another thing, please click very helpful for this review. So that it gets on the front page of reviews, everyone can read it and everyone can know the greatness of fable, thank you.
Prince Charming or Prince Alarming:You choose part1 July 6, 2004
26 out of 90 found this review helpful
In this game you choose if you are a well respected admired by all that matter,women through themselves at you,little kids where their hair like you and dress like you,your cheered when you come into to towns and get all the deals,sounds nice being the hero,sounds realy good to an angelic hero,I'll get to that in a later.But why be good,good is boring for the most part.You could be an outlaw admired by the the deginerat scum,a rapeist,a man who steals candy from babies,people run and hide when you enter towns,and many merchents may hate you and over charge you.
Now if you chose the path of Righteousness(why you would I don't know) you will basicly save people on a quest to avenge your parents deaths.If you accidently kill an innocent first off congradulations there may still be a chance for you to be evil,second you can go to the Chapel of Light to redeem yourself.When you wanna settle down you'll be able to marry anyone of those damsel in destress types,then have kids that'll act like Beaver and Wally Cleaver.
Now onto the fun stuff:EVIL!Now all you light wieghts who think you'll be Darth Vader like that,it won't be that easy.To get to Vader status you have to be a souless menicle bastard.On your way to kill the SOB that killed your parents you'll marry an equaly hard chic and have kids that will remind you of Cain and Able,without the Able.And to be evil you have to creative.Anyone can be bad if you want to evil:do the bad thing,then do the right thing,which means you double crossed everyone,and when all is said and done kill em' all.
 Weak dudes... September 11, 2004
IngersollTCF (Pennsylvania)
16 out of 54 found this review helpful
The game is not even out until at least 9/14 and already it has 17 glowing "reviews". Unbelieveable
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