Fable III Storyline Review

Fable III - Hero and Walter

I have recently been playing a lot of Fable 3, the awesome game made by LionHead Studios about two years ago. The game follows on as a sequel from Fable 2 (similarly fantastic). *SPOILER ALERT!* So Fable 2 followed the story of your character (nameless, known as Hero), a small beggar boy in a city with only one friend. Fast forward hours of fun gameplay later you are an adult Hero, casting flames from your fingers, shooting bolts of enemy at your foes from deadly ranged weaponry. You master Blades and Hammers so fearsome that they are... very fearsome! So long story short, you spend the story developing the Hero, purchasing real estate and armour and weaponry along the way. You fight the bad guy. You win. You also become King somewhere along the way. Kachow! Then...

Fable 3 follows your character (again nameless, known as Hero) derived from the Hero in Fable 2. So basically, in Fable 3 your Fable 2's Hero's son. This time round you start as the brother of a current King, (another chap who's your son from Fable 2) and you have to fight your path to the throne again! *SPOILER ALERT!*: you become King, but find out you have one year to prepare for impending doom from an incoming evil. You have that time to amass 6,500,000 of gold to help save your Kingdom. Problem is, doing evil choices will give you alot of money, but everyone will hate you. Good choices means you lick the pavement to glean all the savings you can manage. The Kingdom running part of the game is a great chance to develop your characters personality towards harsh or fair. Either way its possible to save your people, (just takes ALOT longer if you want them to love you). All in all the third game in series was fantastic, the graphics were sharp and bright, alot of voiceover acting which helped the game to come alive. Fable 3 sorted out all the things in Fable 2 that ruined the game or was just generally a bit annoying. Fable 3 reimbursed multiplayer to an extent, enhancing your online gameplay via Xbox Live. Fable 3 in my opinion was the best so far and I can't (despite its age) recommend it enough.

Overall love:
Great RPG,
story didn't drag on,
alot of optional side questing available,
>> Graphics <<,
Voiceover was immensely enjoyable,
same console multiplayer great fun to play.

Overall hate:

One minor glitch I got stuck in during a Midfields Balverine quest,
you dance with a stranger about 3 times and you automatically get a quest to marry them (???).

Overall review:

Awesome, fun, great for any RPG lover or casual gamer. Don't expect too much online cooperation.

★★★★★

Xbox Avatars for Window's Desktop

If you run an operating system from Window's Vista and up, you should have on your desktop the 'Gadgets' bar.  You can put alot of cool things on the gadgets bar such as a clock, photo slideshow, currency exchange, puzzles, a piano, even a CPU meter! But something that I found fascinatingly awesome was the Xbox Avatar Gadget. Yes, that's right. You can place your Xbox Avatars on your desktop, as well as all your friends. Without further ado, I suggest you go makeover your desktop with this wonderful feature! (You don't have to type in any passwords or any details, just the Gamertag) Here is a screenshot of my lavishly detailed desktop: