Fable got the ambitious core game just right - but didn't build enough of a game around it.
User Rating: 8 | Fable XBOX
They took some lofty ideas and achieved many of them (though not all of them - a little bit of "hype letdown" to be experienced here). Still - the core game is ambitious and solid. The biggest problem? Not enough of it. The game is short and a lot more content would have been needed to make this an industry wide halmark. And then nagging things like the constant 2d adventure game style "area-to-area" progression (and the loading it imposes), as well as the cumbersome inventory/gesture system - tend to drag it down a bit. Verdict? Take the core game - add about 5 times as much content and gameplay to it - and take away some of the cumbersome elements - and you'd have an absolute gaming legent. Until then - it's a solid 8. 
