Well Fable II has been out for a couple weeks and has received poor reviews. The hype was that the game would have a never seen before co-op. The co-op is a huge failure. You can not adjust the camera angle and one player can cause the second player to get "stuck", that is make so they are unable to move.

The game has pretty good graphics and some good game play. If you played it all night you could easily beat the main quests. Over all, I am very disappointed. They over hyped and under delivered on this one.

I did enjoy the shooting range. Still have not won first prize. The shooting range seems to be the most challenging part so far. The Crucible was some what difficult, otherwise it is a pretty easy game.

Do not buy this one new, it will start showing up used at game stop soon, if it is not already.

I agree with what you said here, unfortunately, Fable 2 received good reviews by most gaming sites and magazines. I guess they played a different version than I did..

Here is what I thought of it:

Fable 2 was passed off as an open world RPG where you could do whatever you wanted..

It is not an open "free roam" world like they stated. In fact is very much linear. You are on a set path that you are rarely able to deviate from. You have to go through the story mode to unlock the other towns. This is not my idea of a 'free roam' game. Take Morrowind for example, they just let your character loose upon the world. You could travel anywhere your heart desired...as long as you had the potions.

Your choices in the game have consequences. "It will no longer be choose this for good and this for evil"

This really did not change much. It basically was choose one set of dialogue for good and another set for evil. All that was added was purity and corruption.

Co-op.

Co-op is absolutely horrid in this game. It is by far the worst co-op experience I have ever had.I would much rather play StarWars Lego's co-op than Fable 2's pitiful excuse for one. The camera cuts your friends off from you and you constantly have to keep backtracking to get your co-op buddy out from a ledge that neither of you could see really. If one of you pause, you both pause. The whole time it feels as though you are both tied at the waste by a long invisible rope.

After all the hype for this game I truly expected a revolutionary game that blew my mind away at every other turn. Sadly, this game was not it. In fact, I would go so far as to say this is the biggest let down of 2008, possibly of the decade. Not only was the games functions overated, but it also shipped with many bugs still in the game. This has become an all too common occurance in the game industry due to the available option of 'patching' games after release. In the days of the Nintendo, if a game was released with bugs in it, there was no way to fix it. It,along with production company, would be tossed aside and ridiculed. The industry has changed and now many companies produce these games on an unrealistic schedule. The result is a game that loses many of its originally planned features.It is truly unfortunate and I hope that in the future there will be an industry wide change in the way games are produced....but I doubt it.

So far Fallout 3 is a great game. I really enjoyed how Bethesda coded the character creation sequence. Even though I have just started this game, it has been nothing but enjoyable. The game is very challenging and you can roam any which way you choose.

Character Creation
So you are born in a fallout shelter called the vault, and during your birth scene you pick your gender. Very creative in my book. You start as a child in the vault and go through adolescence in the vault until the escape.

The Escape
Everything goes wrong in the vault and your father left the vault and guards are looking for you. You must escape from the vault into the wastelands. So far I have just made the escape and will post more as I go. For now some game play:

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So Fallout 3 is the game of games so far this year. I am only about a third of the way through the game. Way better than Fable II!


I think the next game I will get will be COD: World at War. Received pretty good ratings and I am a COD fan anyways.

http://www.callofduty.com/CoDWW?path=CoDWW

Check it out

Oh and both Fallout and COD have well designed websites.

I have been playing Fallout 3 for well over 20 hours and have yet to get through the fifth quest on the main storyline. It is just so much fun to go and scavenge! There are so many unique encounters and situations that occur when you go off the beaten path that it is truly mind boggling and , at times, quite hilarious. I will also be getting COD 5 soon, but so far this is my pick of the year. Bethesda has once again proven their dominance of the single player R.P.G. experience.

On a side note, I have provided a link for one of my favorite game critics' critique of Fable 2:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/346-Fable-2

It is rated RRRRRR! No kiddies allowed! But hilarity abounds in this review. So true that it hurts, much like my wallet after purchasing Fable 2 LE.....

I am now the owner of not only one music game band set, but two. Here are my thoughts on the different versions:

Guitar: Definitely Activisions' Guitar Hero guitar. They not only upgraded it with a smoother flipper, but they also have set the start buttons and a special "star power" button near the pickup so that you no longer have to do the 'tilt' move in the middle of Through the Fire and Flames. Many times I ended up hording all of my star power simply because to use it I had to miss a few notes Activision has solved this problem. They also have a new section on the guitar called the slider. It is a touch sensitive pad that you slide your fingers over during special notes.... still trying to get used to it, but it is good fun. The whammy bar has also been upgraded it is alot smoother and in a better position. ( I no longer have to move it out of my way when I finish using it)

[b]Drums[b] Once again Activision has outdone themselves. The pads are made of heavy duty rubber and have a good solid feel to them. The cymbals, that's right cymbals!, are also very solidly made and respond well. I like the width of the kick pad, but I feel that it could use some improvement.

[b] the mic[b] Not sure....I can't sing. Seriously, I sound like a frog being run down an antique washing board. Aesthetically, I would go with the Guitar hero mic.

[b] The Game[b] This is where everyone expects to hear Guitar Hero.... Well I am sorry to disappoint, Rock Band 2 is waaaay better than Guitar Hero World Tour. The setlist, in my opinion is better, career mode is funner and longer. I liked the fact that Guitar Hero has an editor that you can make midis in....but that doesn't make the game. In fact I think I only played with it once.

The best combo: Guitar hero world tours equipment, Rock Band 2's game disk.