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The Game Nexus - Fable: The Lost Chapters
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List Price: $49.95
Our Price: $40.90
Your Save: $ 9.05 ( 18% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Feral Interactive
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 204
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Feral Interactive
EAN: 0644247002924
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Feature: Shape and explore a living, evolving world - Champion or manipulate an ever-changing land with competitive and cooperative heroes, dynamic weather systems
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Feral Interactive
Manufacturer: Feral Interactive
Model: 292
Platform: Mac OS X
Publisher: Feral Interactive
Release Date: 2008-05-05
Studio: Feral Interactive
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Features
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Shape and explore a living, evolving world - Champion or manipulate an ever-changing land with competitive and cooperative heroes, dynamic weather systems
Hone your skills and master new abilities -- from the art of thievery to the art of raising a child. Fable - The Lost Chapters expands these offerings, providing the player with even more customization choices.
Never play the same game twice! Once an adventure has been completed, players can forge a new tale full of unexpected twists and turns -- with new skills, powers, influences, allies and enemies.
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Summary: The Best computer game in the last 25 years
Comment: When Fable came out I read a lot of postive reviews but never bothered to test it out. I had played a lot of these RPG games since Diablo I. They were getting better each year. Different styles, different features like in Dungeon seige or Lucas arts games.. These days most games just show off on the huge system requirements and have the same one or two tried and tested game formulas - like shoot em ups Quake types or Diablo type dungeon crawlers in 3D or 2D.
Just recently tried this game on a friends computer while eagerly awaiting for Fallout 3. And I am hooked. Now can patiently wait (for 2 or 3 years) till a Mac version of Fallout 3 comes out...jus kiddin'. This game has a mix of innovation in all aspects of game play - an easy to use attack system for those who like action, quests for those who like adventures, social games for those liking the "SIMS" type games, awesome soundtrack, great graphics effects. For example, when Elderscrolls on XBox came out, it initially looked great because of the vast expanse of the world within the game. But the ingame camera that tracked the character was very awkward to use and the combat system when fighting with swords had no way to direct a slash by changing the camera direction. Then Lucas arts came out with such a feature in their Jedi outcast. But then it missed the replay value of Elderscrolls. So all I am saying is there has never been a game that fulfilled all the great elements of gameplay till FABLE.
One can play the quests again and again using different weapons or combinations of spells and gain all the experience from an unfinished quest to try better weapon spell combinations. That feature alone contributes to the great replay value of this game. This feature was a wished for feature in other RPGs where if you loose a quest you would have to restart with all the stats set to the pre-quest values.
Couple of thing still sorely missed in all these RPG games is a weapon system that a user could design using items collected from all over. Augmentations for weapons are a good touch. But a range weapon that can be modified using different propellents, different types of triggers, and different types of payloads would have been nice... Even fallout 3 does not have a feature like this. May be in Fable 3... And an attack system in which keys that can be chained to create combination attacks like they had in that game called "Oni". May be the feature was ignored because there was no character like the "Monk" in Diablo in this game.
If you want a game or two (Fable 2) which will get you hooked to gaming, This is it.
Lets see if Fallout 3 or Diablo 3 can match the innovative features in this RPG
Five stars for this all time favorite computer game.
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Summary: Worst tech support ever!!!
Comment: So, I had heard loads about this game on xbox, and was excited when I heard it was available on mac. So, I bought it, and have regretted it ever since. I can't actually say that the game was bad. I haven't actually been able to play it.
I'm running a 2.2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo 15" Macbook Pro, which supposedly meets the minimum game requirements. Nevertheless, the game consistently freezes during the first cut scene before the actual gameplay. This looks like it could be an awesome game, but I can't get it to run at all.
So, I used their online tech support (b/c I'm not calling the UK! What?! No USA tech support?!) and submitted and explanation of what was happening, and the system report of my computer that they want. And, now two weeks later (and a second submission) I have yet to hear a peep from the tech support. I've never had this much trouble on any other game. Maybe it's just Feral Interactice is stupid.
So, I'd rate this game as a 0/10, b/c of all the hype, without any results.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Awesome
Comment: This game is very expandable and playable many times over,also graphics are good a very low levels. I give this game 2 thumbs up!!
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Summary: My Fable Review
Comment: As an avid console gamer I am often skeptical of PC/Mac games. I have played my fair share of PC/Mac games to include (but not limited too) Black and White 1 & 2, F.E.A.R., Half Life, etc. And have actually enjoyed them all. After hearing that Fable was avail on PC/Mac I was fairly worried. I own Fable for the Original Xbox and was worried some things might get lost in the translation and controls. I must say that I am mistaken. This game is truly a gem. I know that a lot of individuals are now more interested in this game now that Fable 2 is around the corner (exclusive on 360 for now perhaps PC/Mac later). So this will be a possible want for some gamers. But the fact of the matter is this is a NEED for gamers. Peter Molyneux does an EXCELLENT job with Fable. The controls transition smoothly from console to Mac. The story remains the same. Fable is a game that truly lets you play how you want (good/evil/mix) and even changes your appearance based on the extremes. You constantly do evil things and have your moral slider over to evil you can grow horns and have glowing red eyes. On the flip side if you do constant good things and continue to be a hero you will "glow", your hair will become whiter etc. And the people will react accordingly. You can have different hair styles, tattoo's, expressions that will effect how people react to you as well. You can fall in love (with a man or woman), buy a house, drink at a bar, etc. There is so much to do! The story line is fantastics and once you get into it you will be hooked. I will not give out story details because I don't want to spoil any of this for you. There are also quite a few choices that you must make throughout the game. One's that I honestly had to pause and think "do I want to do this?" Lionhead honestly made a truly one of a kind game with Fable. But with its awesome praise there must come negatives. I found that the story may not have been as long as expected. For me it was around 8-9 hours. That's not to say it would be maybe a few hours more because I haven't completed all of the side quest. All in all it is a truly unique game that offers you a true choice to be good or evil. And in my opinion this is in my top 5 games of all time. This is a MUST HAVE for any gamer! Hope this game will bring you as much fun as it has brought me.
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Summary: A good game for a console, not good enough for mac or PC
Comment: RPG and adventure games for consoles are necessarily simple because of the limitations of an Xbox or a PS3. Fable is ported from an Xbox game, so if you are used to great fantasy adventure games like Diablo or Neverwinter nights then this is a big disappointment. It is also written with a series of stock cliches, you start out a kid, your village is killed, they take you to a guild to train you up. Every bit of dialogue is taken from the stockbook of boring lines and the horrible acting is cringe inducing. The Alignment part of the game affecting your appearance is very novel, if horribly pedantic: the game tells you when you're about to do something bad or good, and when you are making an alignment choice. Better alignment system were developed decades ago on better games, but again, it's a console platform. I'd recommend saving your money for Neverwinter Nights 2 if you want to game on a Mac. It's like playing the Sims on your computer vs. playing it on your Wii, there's simply no depth or breadth to Fable: The Lost Chapters whatsoever.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Based on the best-selling award-winning Xbox title, Fable: The Lost Chapters has expanded content, greater customization, new quests and enhanced graphics. This is a unique role-playing experience, where you'll take control of a characters life from the age of 12. Will you choose a path of righteousness, or will you become selfish and evil? 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?" Grow from an inexperienced child into the most powerful being in the world, spoken of by all and immortalized in legend.
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