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| Fable: The Lost Chapters | 
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| From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $17.40
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New (36) Used (11) from $13.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  72 reviews
Sales Rank: 1323
Platform: Windows Xp
ESRB: Mature
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 1.2
MPN: 100722
UPC: 882224042819
EAN: 0882224042819
ASIN: B000A76ZNO
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 THE ABSOLUTE ACTION cRPG! October 28, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you haven't yet played this game, well, you don't know what you are missing...
FABLE-THE LOST CHAPTERS is a game so full of great ideas that later games could not stop imitating (and isn't imitation the best form of compliment?). After being an X-BOX title for too long, it eventually got released for PCs.
The game is a Third-Person cRPG starting with your character as a little boy made witness to his village burning and his family getting murdered. The orphan then gets schooled in a military academy (one of the most subtle and best designed tutorials EVER!) and graduates to face his first quest. From then on, this beautiful non-linear and multileveled game never lets you without a fresh surprise!
Sure, there is hacking and slashing and sharpshooting to our hearts content; however, this cRPG's ambitions do not expire there. Your character will grow, acquire scars and marks, get haircuts and tattoos - whereas his body shape and height will depend on his habits, training and alignment. You can buy a house, impress the ladies and even get married. There are also a number of mini-games within FABLE, from gambling to fishing and prize-duels.
The graphics are beautiful (a bit dated today yet still much better than most systems can handle). Facial expressions and body movements are fluid and natural, whereas, grass, flowers and tree branches move to the wind and in your path. There is a weather system and night-and-day alterations. In FABLE you will see the best sunrise and the most rich sunset sky colors EVER! When a scenery moves you enough you can even take a...in game picture that can be viewed later (they are saved in a special folder in MY DOCUMENTS). I am telling you, Peter Molyneux left nothing to chance! Whatever could be turned on its head, well, it was...
The gameplay is plain brilliant! The controls are intuitive and the lower-edge-of-the-screen shortcuts could not be more user-friendly. Looting is usual and merchants are abundant. Weapons and armor are well designed (nothing like the childish ones in...NWN) and special unique sets (rarely) available.
I have completed this game at least three times (the last one was this summer) - and I have enjoyed all of them immensely! Now that the price has dropped, it's even a bargain!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
 Was I just expecting too much? September 15, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I remember seeing previews for this game years ago on the Xbox, and I hated myself for not owning one. I was overjoyed to see it finally released for Windows, and with even more material as well.
I really liked this game, and I still do oddly enough. While it may be the same thing every time, it still manages to get me to come back constantly and play again. The story line is great and the plot is deep enough to keep you going.
While the game is a bit on the short side, as you may have already noted from other reviews, it seems to keep calling you back over and over again. I could probably blast though this game in one day if I was so inclined, but I found myself enjoying it for far longer than that. While the game may have fallen short of what it was destined to be (I believe the creators even admitted to this) it is still more than worth the price and time.
I would also like to say that this is quite possibly the best system port I have ever played. Not only was it moved from Xbox to PC nearly trouble free, They even added new content to the game. It may not be much (max 5 hours) not worth picking up if you already own the Xbox version, but it showed some decency on the part of the creators to put some more work into the game other than just canning it and throwing it out there for us to blow our money on.
Text Issues August 23, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
For some reason in my copy the text did not always appear on screen. This made it difficult to learn some things. Also the combat can get somewhat repetitious.
A fun time-killer, worth your measly $20. May 14, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
For KC Oaks, the problem lies not in the game but her/his computer. This game works beautifully with my nVidia 3VGA 7600 GT card.
Okay, true that the game is kinda short, but you can't cheat on a god mode, so it's not like you're gonna finish it in a day or 2. & for only $20 you're getting you're money's worth; the game is both fun & highly amusing, nothing seems cliche & many things are unexpected. The environment is beautiful, the soundtrack is beautiful, just like American McGee's Alice's OST. Cheaters will have to rely on the games exploits; many seem to have been almost added to the game on purpose because of their humorous nature. Down the line, all games become tiresome at some point, but you'll end up wanting to play the game at least once a year. I'm already looking forward to Fable 2.
 It *used* to work April 13, 2007
7 out of 14 found this review helpful
When I bought my new PC, I made explicitly sure that it met or exceeded the recommended specs, including making sure I had a compatible nVidia card. I also made sure I had XP Pro as most of the error reports I had found revolved around Vista.
The first day I had it home, it worked! I played several times through the day, sometimes after a cold boot, sometimes after no reboot. However, at the end of the day, it just stopped working. This is the only application that has been installed on this machine. Now, upon starting the game, the entire system freezes. This is even with a bare boot with no extraneous services or applications running. When it first worked, I made sure to create a restore point in case things went bad. Going back to that restore point has had no effect. I'm starting to wonder if there was actual hardware damage to my nVidia card done by the game.
The bottom line is that nVidia, LionHead, and Microsoft have no answers. There are no patches, there are no updates. There is a meager troubleshooting guide that seems to do no good for the vast majority. Nobody is supporting this product without you first purchasing a support plan at a cost that's multiple times the cost of the game.
Some people have had luck switching to Radeon cards, maybe it's a problem with nVidia and this game together. I don't know, nobody knows for certain. Save yourself the trouble and find a different game. Otherwise you're rolling the dice.
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