As a small beggar-child trying to scrounge together enough gold coins to buy a magical trinket, you'll take any odd job. So when a felon offers to save you some trouble and offers you some money, it's hard to side with responsibility. Only you'll find out 10 years later that your decision devolved the town you lived in into a den of scum and villainy. If you had resisted, the city would have blossomed into a bustling haven.
Welcome to "Fable II," the sequel to Peter Molyneux's blockbuster game that launches Tuesday for the Xbox 360. "Fable II" is as much about player choice as Will Wright's "Spore" is. But instead of presenting players with a set of tools to shape the appearance of a species the way "Spore" does, "Fable II" lets you dictate the moral fabric of your in-game character as he ventures through the world.
Moral dilemmas are starting to make their way into games with increased frequency. This is part of a desire among games designers to "move away from 'reflex' challenges to mental, emotional and psychological challenges," Ubisoft Creative Director Clint Hocking said in an e-mail. "The stuff that matters to us as human beings is the challenging decision making, but very few games use this."
The Outerhaven writes: Being fans of Fable, we decided to do an in-depth retrospective on the Fable franchise, exploring its choices, consequences, tone, and lasting impact on RPG design.
The Outerhaven writes: An in-depth retrospective on the Fable franchise, exploring its choices, consequences, tone, and lasting impact on RPG design.
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*
Ah yes, Shadow Complex! Good indies back in the day. Summer of Arcade. I enjoyed Trials Evolution as well.
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.
360 had Namco hitters AC6 and RR6... both quality titles. You should at least bust out the 360 for AC6 if you can score the flight stick. Its great.
When the current gen XBOX offering is so lacking people need to refer to games released two generations back....
It's a nostalgia peice same reason we get thousands of YouTube videos on sega genisis. Something people have fond memories for but the era is long gone.
It's xboxs golden year imo it was their genisis years the time where they stuck it to the market leaders Sony.
They stuck nothing. Sony screwed themselves giving Xbox an opening. They would have gotten the usual smack down if the PS3 had launched at $399 and was easier to develop for.
