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Fable III - Xbox 360

Publisher: Microsoft  |   SKU: 9854786
Release Date: 10/26/2010  |  
ESRB Rating: M=Mature
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4.0 of 5 4.0 of 5 (53 reviews)
Mature
Ages 17+. May contain intense violence, blood, gore, sexual content and/or strong language. Check below for details
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Gameplay designed for one person.

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Thought-provoking role-playing game with mature themes.

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MATURE 17+
M for Blood, Language, Sexual Content, Use of Alcohol, Violence


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Synopsis
Five decades have passed, and the distant land of Albion has matured into an industrial revolution — and the kingdom's fate is in peril. Rally your people and fight alongside them as you defend your homeland, rise to power and experience the reality of protecting the throne. How will the choices you make affect the world around you? As you embark on your epic adventure, will you choose the greater good or personal gain?

Fable III is the latest chapter in the Fable series. In the 50 years since Fable II, the kingdom of Albion has flourished into an industrial revolution — but the kingdom's fate is in peril. Called upon to rally and fight alongside your people, you must choose between the greater good or personal gain, and who you will become. Will you rebel and fight against the power you detest, rise to power and become a tyrannical ruler — or become the greatest leader that ever lived?

Features

  • Follow-up to the acclaimed Fable II, set five decades later
  • Live your life with innovative gameplay where every choice you make affects the world around you
  • Explore the vast land of Albion, caught up in an industrial revolution
  • Fight alongside your countrymen, rise to power and defend your throne in this magical storyline
  • Become a rebel, tyrannical ruler or the greatest leader to ever live as you make decisions along your epic journey

Customer Reviews

Fable III - Xbox 360 (41 out of 53)
Amazine
5
Posted by: from on 04/13/2013I spend to much time exploring. I was hoping it would be as good as 1 and 2 and it is.

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I love me some Fable 3
5
Posted by: from CA on 04/13/2013I like Fable 3 because this is one of a few games that I can actually beat and not get bored whole playing. I also like Fable 2. I can't wait for the next Fable (Fable 4?).
  • Gender : Female

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Great casual game to play with my wife
4
Posted by: from Washington, DC on 02/10/2013My wife and I are always looking for games BOTH of us like to play together. Fable III achieved that with the convenience of saving often so we can start/stop when we like. This is a huge plus for us because we have young children who don't plan their needs around our gaming time. The storyline is interesting and you get to "choose your own game" in that your choices alter the content you will experience. The travel mechanics include a nice feature to fast-travel to locations on the map where you've been before. You have to "poof" to your "Sanctuary" and walk to your map table the hit Y to bring up your quest log though, not too convenient. The repetitiveness of repeating the same expressions over and over to build relationships with in-game characters is a bit tiring. Parents recommended to heed the game rating (M), quite a bit of flirtatious innuendo and graphic combat. Overall, we still enjoy playing this game.
  • Age : 25-34
  • Gender : Male

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Decent Sequel
3
Posted by: from Kansas City, KS on 01/15/2012I didn't play Fable 2 but I did play the first one. This was really different than what I was used to. The graphics aren't that great. The whole gameplay is a joke because the game would freeze or slow down while I'm running or attacking which creates frustration over how poorly the programming was done on this game. Gameplay is fast but I have not finished it because I'm just too angry about all the little defects and bugs in the game. Enhancing your weapon is a bore since you have to do stupid side missions like digging 25 times or killing a certain breed/race which takes time in searching in different places for. Overall, it was not worth it but I got it with my Xbox bundle. I'm going to sell it once I completely finish the game.

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It's.... ok
3
Posted by: from Manteca, CA on 12/17/2011The game isn't bad, but it's not great either. I played it all the way through because it came free with my XBox package and game I bought XBox for I need wait until Xmas to open haha. But it's almost pointless. If you be the good king (the 2nd half of game you are king) and do right by everyone and keep all your promises, most of the people die and then those that live hate you and you go down in history as one of the most hated kings. Or be the evil king, break all your promises, save everyone, but still be hated because you were an evil king. Game is lose-lose either way you play it. No happy go lucky good feelings after playing this game.

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average game
3
Posted by: from san diego,ca on 08/07/2011average game but i feel the players need to be bigger just 1 persons opinion and feel up more of the screen great graphics good story ,need to work on outfits

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Very good game
5
Posted by: from Miami, FL on 04/13/2011Fable 3 is a very good game but not excellent. I still recommend people purchase this game especially if you are a Fable fan. First half of the game is were you are growing up away from the castle and than take it from your brother and become King. The second half is playing the role of a King for Albion. I thought this feature was a really nice addition. i just wish that the story mode could have been longer since you can beat the game in about 5 hours. The multiplayer is a way better upgrade than Fable 2 as you can bring over your Hero to help another Hero in their world. I also liked that you can combine 2 spells to make one. But in general the game is really fun, just hope that for Fable 4 they make the story line even longer.

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I used to love the Fable series...
2
Posted by: from Mesa,AZ on 04/02/2011In the old Fable games, choosing good or bad often resulted in a choice of gameplay. Like, protect the barn or attack the barn, giving you two distinct missions to choose from, and two distinct versions of the aftermath. This one completely takes away the gameplay choice, you are going to protect the barn either way, but after you protect it, you can choose to let the owner remain the owner or take the farm from him. This is not an actual example, but it just shows that you no longer have that gameplay choice. The game itself has also been dumbed down significantly, taking away the majority of any customization you had as well as stream lining combat so that any 4 year old can play. Graphics: Pretty much the exact same as Fable 2. Decent for the 360, but they aim more towards cartoonish than realistic. Storyline: The storyline was decent. You are the son/daughter of your character from Fable 2, and your brother is king and is abusing his power in many ways. He has made promises all across the kingdom that he has broken in the name of saving the kingdom, the classic excuse from a tyrannical king. In the begining of the game, you are faced with probably the largest moral question of the game, where each choice has a negative impact. This forces you to examine your life, and flee the kingdom in hopes of starting a revolution. The first half of the game is all about this. You must go from village to village trying to recruit soldiers, and in the process prove that the results of your revolution will be nothing like the rein of your brothers. The second half of the game is when you become king, and must make decisions larger than any seen in the Fable universe. As said previously, the decisions are usually "play mission A, choose ending A or B" as opposed to the "choose mission A see ending A, or choose mission B see ending B" as it has been in the past. The decisions you have to make are on a much higher level than you have seen in the past, because you are now making decisions for the entire country of Albion. Generally the idea is, do you become a good king and make the people like you, but run out of money in the treasury thus facing certain doom, or do you make the hard choices, and become a bad king and save everyones life in the end. Some of the decisions are just ridiculious though. For example, you are faced with an issue one day as king. The old king has placed a limit on the number of alcoholic drinks that a pesant may buy. You can be a good king, and take away the limit, be neutral and keep the limit, or be evil and ban alcohol. I am shooting for a good king, so I decide to take away the limit to make my people happy. They do end up being happier, but now 90% of the population in my kindgdom is throwing up on the streets. This is not a joke, it is literally at least 90%, it completely takes away from the experience of walking through a town when everyone except the children is throwing up everywhere. All of your decisions are like this, they are either one extreme or the other, often way over the top as well. Gameplay: Your basic hack n slash combat here. They make combat easier by assigning the melee weapon to the X button, gun to the Y, and magic to the B, the same layout they had in Fable 2. Unlike Fable 2, they basically eliminate any customization you had with weapons. In 2, you could expect to pick up a new weapon in every dungeon. Even if it wasn't a better weapon than what you had, you would at least get a choice of what you wanted to use. In this game, most people will be using their original melee weapon and gun the entire game. The reason for this is that they claimed the weapons would "evolve" based on your gameplay. All this means is that when you level up your weapon, it changes appearance, and maybe a little stats, but you have no way of checking that. So we go from having 200+ weapons in the last game, to having less than 30 in this one (and most of those weapons are legendary weapons). In this game, you also only have a total of 6 magic spells, and are not really able to use more than one on the fly. You basically choose one, and stick with that the majority of your time. This doesn't make magic any less overpowered though. If you use nothing but magic the entire game, it would probably cut the difficulty of the game by half (and the difficulty is already a joke). You also have no healthbar- the screen just starts to red when you are about to die, and it gives you the choice to use a potion. To put it in perspective, I died multiple times in 1 and 2, and used at least a 100 potions in each to keep myself alive, in this game I did not die a single time, nor did I use a single health potion. Upgrading has also been worsened. You still get experience, but not nearly as much and there are about 1/5 of the avaliable things to upgrade as in Fable 1 or 2. Before, when trying to upgrade melee weapon strength you would see a number of sub-sections. In addition to upgrading weapons strength, you would have the choice to upgrade health, toughness (armor), or strength (weapon power). In this one, all you upgrade is weapon strength. They took away almost ALL the customization there used to be in upgrading, and turned it into a giant letdown. This used to be one of the huge aspects of the Fable series, and now it is something that is almost entirely left out. Even if they didn't touch is and left it the same as it was in Fable 1 or 2, it would have been much, much better than it is now. To put it in perspective, you had a total of 27 unique attributes you could upgrade in Fable 2, in Fable 3, you have a TOTAL of 48 upgrades. Fifteen to upgrade your melee,gun, and magic (5 levels for each=15 total), fifteen to upgrade your job (in this one you don't upgrade the amount you make on a job from working, you make more from upgrading, and these account for 15 of your total 48 upgrades). So we already have 30 of 48 total upgrades accounted for. Then you also have about 10 upgrades for actions, like buying property, using the kiss emotion, and stuff like that- things that you had right from the get-go in Fable 1 and 2. So a total of 40, plus then the 6 spells you can choose from, which don't really do anything different other than have a different animation. I really don't count the jobs or the emotions as things you should upgrade, so basically you are looking at a total of 270+ upgrades from Fable 2, to 23 TOTAL upgrades in Fable 3. A huuuuuge decline for the series. The world is just as impressive as in Fable 2, but odds are you will not be enjoying it nearly as much. Since you have no reason to go to the shops to upgrade weapons and armor, or to go to the pubs to engage in gambling at the table games, you will most likely go from town to town completing the quests without taking much of the scenery in. If you want to get the "good" ending, you will also have to pretty much buy every avaliable buisness in the entire game. If you want to keep your promise to everyone, it will put you massively in debt. You don't really get any money in this game outside of working at your job or real estate, though it really doesn't become an issue until you become king, because, once again, the lack of purchasable weapons and armor. Once you become king, you will have most likely have made less than 100k total, only to find out that you need to gain 8million to get the good ending. This requires purchasing massive amounts of real estate which will get you about 200k each time once have obtained it all, but takes a long time to get even that much. Overall: This game is, in every single way, a step down from the original 2 games- worse combat, worse upgrades, worse interaction with NPCs, worse quests. I also don't remember the first two being that long, but this one was a joke. I could have beaten it in 10 hours, but because I was forced to farm tons and tons of money through real estate, it tacked on another 4 hours of gameplay, so I could get the good ending. You'll notice that I did not review this as an independent game, but clearly as part of the Fable trilogy. I feel that we have already played this game, and that it is up to the creator change it or not based on how they feel they can make the game better. Obviously, they felt that Fable should be made easier to be open to more people, and in doing so they have destroyed the respect of the Fable franchise that they had built up to this point. I was a very huge fan of the first 2, and was utterly dissapointed in the game. I honestly can not even believe they let the Fable name be put on this piece of junk. If you are a Fable fan, stay far, far away. If you are looking for decently fun hack n slash combat with almost no reward for your efforts, welcome.

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Garbage
1
Posted by: from Georgia on 03/05/2011This review is not for casual players. For those that take your gaming a little more seriously, heed my words. The Fable trilogy continues to go downhill as it progresses. The game is annoyingly short, easily finishable in a single sitting. The sword and gunplay are boring and repetitive, with no real strategy involved. Magic is now utilized through magic gauntlets, which you have to equip like weapon in order to use the spell. Example, equip the fireball gauntlet to use fireball. Combat is flavorless and boring. The moral choices that make Fable unique are pointless, as the overall choice your character faces is, "Be a benevolent savior and all of your people will die, or be a ruthless tyrant and everyone will live." And I'm not exaggerating, that's the choice you have to make. Finally, the final boss is an absolute joke, easily dispatched even though its supposed to completely devour all life and light in Albion. Fable 1 was a good game with a great story and sweet gameplay. Fable 2 was an okay game with a great story and bad gameplay. Fable 3 is a boring game with a bad story and bad gameplay. If you really want the extra couple hundred points on your gamer score, rent it. Don't buy this, its a waste of money.

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Great video game.
5
Posted by: from Nashville, TN on 02/07/2011My bought this game for my daughter. She loves it.

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