It is definatly one of the most visually amazing game, and the most innovative and feature full RPG i have ever known to date
It is so far from the standard RPG affair, with games like Mass effect, Gothic, Witcher etc, that mekes those titles seem old and tired comparing IMO
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Fable 2 feature list
. Movie Like Combat in Real Time - Live the movie like combat in real time without health points or bars. Now, only one cut of a sword can become a mortal blow for your enemy. However, if you miss your blow, your life will be nothing more than a memory.
· Character Transformation - Fable 2 enhances the innovative system which consists of transforming your character according to your actions. Your look depends on two dimensions: the good and evil, and now also by nobility and corruption. Good deeds and evil deeds will modify your physical look, but with corrupted deeds, for example, to drink too much, or noble deeds, for example, to work hard in your employment, will modify the look even more. Where your friend's evil hero could be a slim and fine young man and as threatening as Dracula, who has made evil and noble deeds, your hero could be as hideous and malicious as Quasimodo following his corrupted ways.
· Reacting World - Day and night cycle mark the passage of time. Watch as the spring, the summer, the autumn and the winter go by. As the years pass, see the effects of your actions in the world. See how a village develops and thrives through the years. Sow terror among the inhabitants and see the village being reduced and finally become a ruin and a ghost town. In this world, even a modest purchase will transform the local economy.
· Life of the Hero - Live a life of a hero, from childhood to old age. Will you become a nice muscular colossus, or a master-robber?
Would you like to become a covetous big landowner, a champion who sacrifices themselves for the masses or to simply direct a modest inn to provide for the needs for your family? You decide.
· Man's Best Friend - Your best friend in the world will be a faithful four-legged companion. A pup that will reach adulthood as you do. By giving him compliments and by punishing it, he grows into a frightening attack dog, a playmate to impress the others, or a partner, who, thanks to his sense of smell, will avoid problems and help you find treasures. Observe as your best friend transforms to reflect what kind of hero you are.
· Use the Environment to Your Advantage - Fight on a shaking rope bridge, and unbalance your enemies so they fall the over edge to their death. Fight in a narrow cave passage and resist the attempts of your adversaries to surround you and realize that the very low walls and ceiling
constitute serious obstacles. Fight when you're surprised and you are likely to be surrounded. The location of battle will play an essential part for your survival.
· The fair sex - Play the game while begin a heroine. You can even get pregnant.
· Customization - Choose your sex, the color of your eyes and you are ready to play. Also, you can personalize your character like you want: let the hair or beard grow, change the color of your clothing, get tattoos, buy accessories, dye and cut your hair, or even do make up.
Create the hero or the heroine, you wish to be.
· Careers - When you are not doing an epic RPG quest to kill the baddies and to progress in the game, stop for moment to test one of the various careers in the game. Hero's job doesn't always pay that well, so there are many means of increasing your income while working part-time. Perhaps you would like to become professional gladiator for one day, or a barkeeper, or a blacksmith, a gambler, or a farmer or even a burglar. It is for you to choose what you do and it is always possible to earn money by doing things simultaneously.
· Offline Multiplayer - Those who don't have an access to the Internet can always play together by bringing their hero in their friend's world (via a memorycard) and by transforming it into a spirit, a powerful creature which can fight the monsters, cure friends, curse the enemies, divert the masses, find hidden treasures and take the place of the main hero when the action becomes too hard!
· Online Multiplayer - Join a group of players sharing the same interests and objectives, which can appear in their respective world in the capacity as "phantoms", share resources, fight each other in very diverse challenges, bury treasures so that the other players can find them in turns, to trade objects and much more.
· For each choice a consequence - Discover the causes and the effects behind each of your actions. Eliminate all the inhabitants from a city and become a wanted fugitive and disguise yourself to escape from the police. Make yourself an idiot and notice that everyone shows you the finger, makes fun of you and that nobody will give you any serious work. Have sex like there's no tomorrow and discover that you became a father or a mother, if you didn't use protection.
· Freedom - It's a world of adventures: give up on the roads and travel through fields to surprise your enemies, swim across the lakes and dive in to find treasures, pass by the windows and the balconies in an immense tactile world.
Fable 2 confirmed features list so far
World
-There is a small campsite in the middle of a large forest called Brightwood.
-Bowerstone returns for Fable 2.
-Bowerstone has different districts, such as the slums district and the rich district, as well as a merchant street.
-Each tree, as well as the tree's branches and leaves, are animated individually according to their own unique physics.
-Albion is 10 times larger than in the first Fable.
-Each tree in Fable 2 has roughly 120,000 leaves each.
-There are around 15 million poppies in Albion.
Features
-A second player can come in and out of the game at any time as a guest. This player keeps all gold and experience they earn and takes it with them back to their own game world.
The host can determine what share the guest gets of the gold and experience gamed when the guest is in their world.
-Guest players will get an hourly rate of pay for helping the host out.
-Guest players can kill the host player's family.
-NPC's will be able to recognize and respond to any guest playing with the main player. For example, if you have an evil guest with you and you're a good character, people will react accordingly.
-If you go into another persons game as a guest the look of the character will be based off of your character's look. If you don't have a character of your own you'll have a generic pre-determined look to your hero.
-The host can give the guest items to take back with them to their own game.
-Demon Doors are returning for Fable 2 and are still only opened by meeting certain requirements or performing certain actions. Some can only be opened in co-op.
-The game world will alter according to your interactions with it. If you trade with a small camp you may find that it's given the camp the push it needs to turn into a small settlement in the next 10 years.
-Good and evil are being tracked as well as rich and poor, and both can affect your physical appearance and how the world reacts around you.
-Morphing is going to have a large part in Fable 2, with the different morphs relying on , , corruption, purity, strength, will, and more.
-Experience is affected everytime the player passes out or collapses during a fight.
-Because so many people played as good characters in the first game it's going to be more difficult to be good in Fable 2.
-A dog is going to be the main characters main companion in the game from near the beginning on forward.
-You can use expressions towards the dog to help train it.
-The expression system is back for the main character, including some expressions such as "flirt" and "pose", among others.
-You will have no direct control over the dog.
-You can play with your dog, such as throwing it a ball to play fetch.
-Your dog works with with you to alert you of danger, hidden areas, and assists you in combat.
-Your dog will morph according to your actions as a player. If you're a good character your dog will look pleasant. If you're an evil character your dog will appear scary.
-If you go into a fight with your sword drawn your dog will attack the gun-wielding enemies first and vice versa.
-You can feed your dog but you're not responsible for feeding him.
-If you overfeed your dog it can become fat.
-The lower your health is the closer the dog will stay to you rather than venturing off further down the path.
-A gambling mini-game called KeyStone (a cross between roulette and craps) will be released before the release of Fable 2 on Xbox Live. Any money won in the game can then be imported into Fable 2. This game will cost points to download in advance but will be included for free in Fable 2.
-You'll get more experience for a good "****" of fighting and less experience for "button mashing".
-Instead of picking up gold from enemies you'll have to rely on getting gold from gambling or various jobs offered around the world. You will also get no gold for completing quests.
-Jobs you can have include blacksmith, farmer, assasin, and henchmen.
-The more you work at a job the more your skill in that job will increase.
-Village shops will offer you free items as thanks if you happen to have saved that village from a particular evil.
-When you marry somebody you become a part of that community.
-You can have a dowry during marriage.
-Due to marriage you can have a father-in-law.
-Instead of mini-maps there will be a new breadcrumb trail.
-If your spouse is killed your son or daughter will have to go to an orphanage.
-You can purchase and own any building in the game, ranging from dungeons, houses, inns, to castles.
-Most buildings or structures you can buy have specific quests associated with them.
-You can play as a male or female.
-You can get married and have children.
-Just as in the first game same-sex marriage is possible.
-The appearance of your children will be determined by the appearance of your spouse as well as that of yourself.
-If you leave home for too long your family will react accordingly upon your return, either by being very happy you're back or by being upset that you've been gone for so long.
-If you're evil your child will exhibit evil characteristics. If you're good your child will exhibit good characteristics.
-As the breadwinner of your family you will be responsible for your families survival by making sure they have enough money to eat, etc.
-You can have protected or unprotected sex.
-If you play as a female character you can become pregnant.
-Combat will be used via a one-button system. There will be one button for your sword, one for gun, and another for magic. This kind of combat is based off of timing and positioning of the character.
-Combat will be position oriented; your character will interact with the environment around him to help him fight.
-You can pick up and throw bottles at enemies.
-Your combat ****will change according to the kind of weapon you're using.
-The player will unlock more skills and combos with particular weapons as they become better at fighting.
-Aside from swords and magic the player can use guns.
-The player can use a more accurate aim with a crosshair during gameplay.
-Hobbes will be making a return for Fable 2.
-While Peter says you can complete the main story in 12 hours if you rush through it it would much longer to do everything in the game.
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