I have just bought and am starting to play Fable 2, despite all the reviews of this game falling short of the action-adventure rpg game that it was supposed to portrait. i have decided to put that all aside and play the game anyway to see what it is all about. from the first impressions upon starting the game it is pretty good neglecting the fact that all the characters are speaking in an old english accent......Badly! Why there isn't any variety in the people is a bit of a let down i mean i know the game was produced in the UK but they could used another person from another country to act out some of the characters, anybody please..On the other hand the good side to starting the game was kicking the chickens..sad really when you are talking about an amazing action/adventure rpg but anyway still following the story.

After following the story through until i was able to adventure out into games open world. having my first melee battle seemed ok with the melee and ranged weapons, however, once gaining a magic ability i found that the graphics effect and feeling from using the magic had a lot left to be desired. anyway i am out of the cave and exploring the open world and the imediate feeling is that i am all alone in a place that i really should be able to kill something..anything! after i spent a good hour to search the whole area to find some gold to get me started and throwing an absolutly F****** useless ball to a dog to fetch, by the way putting a dog in the game does not make it more fun....perhaps if the dog actually attacked something making a good to look at or useful for something it would be good, but i fail to see a point to it at the moment. maybe further through the game i will see that.

Next onto the town. Entering the town i quickly realise i can steal just about anything i can see which i did, however, after knowing that the sheriff will come if you steal to much and after trying to resist arrest and battling the sherriff for around 30 GOD DAMN MINUTES i suddenly realised that i can't kill him or anyone else for that matter at this stage. maybe latter in the game i can have that luxury. next is the Job that i can aquire and the houses and businesses that i can buy and the gambling that i can play. i am a big fan of mini games in the game if they have any F****** purpose which fable 2 there is none. i have seen the review from Yahtzee on www.escapistmagazine.com for those of you that don't know it yet and in the words of Yahtzee "you can buy the houses, businesses, gamble and get a job, but why would you want to. as it only serves to get more money that you don't really need to buy anything because there is nothing really good to buy at this stage. to be continued.....