I played for about two hours. Fable has aged poorly.

The character models look horrible. The storytelling is poor, with the plot and characters having no depth whatsoever. Combat is repetitive and simplistic. All of the enemies are damage sponges. The karma system has uninteresting black-and-white morality.

The intro is a dull slog. It's a series of unskippable tutorials for the most basic of gameplay systems. Quests are boring; they're MMORPG-eqsue in how mundane they feel.

Zones are tiny and are broken up by loading screens. It makes the game world feel small and fragmented. It feels poor even by 6th-gen standards. Surely the Xbox can do better, seeing as to how it was the strongest console of that generation.

Reviewed on Jan 02, 2024


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