Lionhead’s trilogy

This trilogy was beautiful. I used to watch my brother play Fable the lost chapters on the Xbox original, and I always loved how Lionhead managed to create this mystical world of Albion with so much variety and possibilities. Peter Molyneux the creator of theme park – (a 1994 game which later spawned the series of theme park world and other games by bullfrog) and lead designer of Fable games had supported the series from when Lionhead took over from the blue box when making the lost chapters, but did he realize he had created one of the xbox’s all time legends?

I don’t believe that the game was first with idea of good and evil as games like Mass effect – (renegade and paragon) Fallout & Infamous – (Karma) and Deus Ex, Hitman & Dishonoured – (which gives you the option to avoid violence) which all involve moral choices – but the fact that your choices affect your appearance making you look like a god or a total fricken badass, is just … badass – and no we are not talking about only your eye colour changing – Mass effect!

What is even cooler is the fact – (in fable 3 only) is that your primary weapon morphs depending on your actions and achievements and the world around you (fable 1 & 2) adapts from the choices you make, – in fable 2 Old town can either be a high priced estate or another crap hole in Bowerstone

So what went wrong? – I cannot judge fable down to the games haven’t played but – Fable hero’s and Fable the journey, just appears to be the company milking this British beef dry. It pains me to criticise this rose of a series among the ocean of diarrhoea , but these last two may as well drown in the mud.

Let’s play: each games starts with you, the character as a kid, and you are given choice which is the first of your many to come – it’s a small sampler on what’s to come – but it’s also the best opening for an RPG of this size.

I shan’t have my review spoil the story for you guys and I shall recommend you guys to give the games a shot at least – they aren’t everyone’s cup of tea but fable are one of favourite series –  it gets a 9

Not a good time to fallout

The first-person/third-person unstoppable juggernaut Fallout with it’s renown quirks and gimmicks. This game – (Fallout 3 by Bethesda) is seen by many as the greatest post-apocalyptic game so far, rivalling Doom and Borderlands. and winning the “Game of the Year” by IGN, The Golden Joystick Award, and “Xbox 360 Game of the Year” from Official Xbox Magazine

So the apocalypse has been and gone and now radiated humans now exist as ghouls and the surviving human population are either lobbing portable nukes at each other, avoiding brutes, joining the brotherhood of steel, getting gnawed to death by mole rats, praising a bomb, getting addicted to chems, giving a deathclaw a high five, or swimming in radiated waters.

The choices you have are ridiculous, and the missions are highly rewarding – with wide range of perks and your wonderful V.A.T.S. – (Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System) taking a raider’s head off with a hunting rifle from 300 metres away is as easy as, well pressing a button.

Let’s Play: When you start the game – oh my, you start it in the womb, while you are deciding what your character is going to look like.  Don’t worry – the whole game doesn’t consist of you growing up, time skips to toddler stage where you are growing in a vault and at this point you assign your S.P.E.C.I.A.L. – (Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, and Luck) points buy reading a baby book – (The vault sure do love their acronyms)

Time skips again and it’s your 10th birthday, and this is where you receive your faithful pip-boy 3000 which is basically everything you will ever need. Last time skip, and you’re taking your G.O.A.T. – (Generalized Occupational Aptitude Test) which determines the three Skills you wish to focus on.

If I were to say any more after that, I would be ruining the whole aim of game, so to avoid spoiling any experiences, I’d recommend buying, playing and completing the game as my experience would be completely different to yours due to game’s self-tailored ability, which allows close to complete customisation of how you play. This is a true and pure Bethesda game and it gets an 8.6.

By Sean Dennison