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Fable Heroes
Released On: May 2, 2012
55
4.8
All Platforms
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 58 Critic Reviews
55
14% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
52% Mixed
30 Reviews
30 Reviews
34% Negative
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 58 Critic Reviews
55
14% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
52% Mixed
30 Reviews
30 Reviews
34% Negative
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
A game with great local and online multiplayer, two versions of the main game and a fun and unique upgrade system, Fable Heroes does a great job of keeping you entertained, whether you are young or old. Just a word to the wise, make sure you play the end credits, the boss battle is awesome.
Fable Heroes is a fun, simple way to wait for The Journey. Keep in mind that you'll really need some friends to enjoy it, otherwise you'll end up playing for a really short time.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 33 User Ratings
4.8
39% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
6% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
55% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 33 User Ratings
4.8
39% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
6% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
55% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
A really nice hack-n-slash game that introduces the Fable franchise to children. It borrows levels and enemies from all the Fable titles and allows those too young for the regular series to enjoy the world of Albion. The game has a lot of charm: the minigames. the ability board, the puppet theatre, the adorable art, the collectable characters, the chicken kicking all serve to make the game highly enjoyable, and the ability to transfer gold to Fable =: The Journey was a nice add-on. Recommended for children 6-10, or to those who just enjoy a good hack-n-slash.
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Xbox 360
I thought this was a fun game! I recommend this for anyone looking for a great multi player side scrolling beat em up adventure game! The whole board game feel in between levels reminds me a bit of Mario Party, and the pick up n play action is similar to Castle Crashers. This downloadable title may not be a masterpiece, but a well done, simple game! Worth the ten bucks for sure.
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Xbox 360
Fable Heroes is more of a small multiplayer game than a traditional video game. Again, it's mainly fit for multiplayer, so if it's not your call, don't answer it.
Micro-characters for mini-adventures that maybe will appeal to a younger audience. Just don't pretend to call it Fable.
The old Fable games were filled with promises of amazing adventures, and sadly most of them never came to fruition. I guess that's where the final nail in the coffin rests because instead of trying to achieve lofty goals and falling short, Fable Heroes doesn't even try.
An abject failure in how it represents what Fable is about, the epic stories, the self-determination and perils that presents, your character's impact on the world. It's undeserving of the name.
It might be a suitable family game, but there are certainly better family games out there – games that won't leave a five-year-old yawning. For Fable fans distraught about Peter Molyneux's departure from Lionhead, I would recommend pretending this title didn't even exist. And for the unlucky few who can't resist and buy it anyway, I'd wager a nickel that you only ever play the game once.
"Fable Heroes" is an XBLA action game, which costs 800ms points and mixes various styles, as Beat Em Up, board games and mini-games. It presents a cutesy graphic look, with puppets of characters inspired by the world of Fable, and locations of the game, but the features of Fable stops there.
The graphics are hand drawn with 3D effects, and very colorful and vibrant, despite adopting a more childish impersonation, as in "Fairy Tales". In general, the scenarios have a good building, with many details, and they are more interesting than the action itself. The musical style and sound of the game is well animated and fits the action.
The basic gameplay is a style of action as in "Castle Crashers" (but without violence, of course), which goes by the stage in a side-scroller way, defeating wave after wave of enemies, and destroying items and enemies to release coins of various sizes (used to buy upgrades), with bosses at the end of some stages.
The game commands have a simple basis: B to Roll, A to do some actions, quick strikes with the X, slow and strong with Y and specials with RT, basically.
You play with 3 other characters that can be controlled by AI or by friends, both offline and online, and you face the enemies with them, each character collecting coins for themselves. Each character can be selected at the beginning of each stage, and have distinct visual, weapons and abilities, and with time we get more different characters to select and play.
Also in the stages there are chest with temporary power-ups, and certain icons for "good or bad", that can bring beneficial or harmful effects to the other characters in your party.
At the end of each stage, you can enter a mini-game reminiscent of various existing games, such as Vina Pinata and Rio, for example, where you face your friends for a final ranking. After that, it falls on a board game, "Monopoly" style, where you roll the dice and falls in homes that allow, depending on the house, to change the appearance of characters, weapons, or upgrades to your abilities to be used in the central gameplay the game, with the coins that are collected in the stages.
In short, the game features a mixed style of gameplay, but based centrally on Beat em Up and with sequences of mini-games - like any game where you can play with your friends is fun, but with the repetition and little variation of the action can become boring. The positive features of the game are the happy and funny visuals and the low price (10US$).
It is a reasonable option for anyone who wants a casual game, to play with friends, and enjoy the style of Beat Em Up, but remind there are better options on the market.
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Xbox 360
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Xbox 360
Summary Fable Heroes is an action-packed, hack-and-slash adventure built for Xbox LIVE Arcade. It delivers a fresh spin on the "Fable" franchise with a unique art style and gameplay that takes playful competition to the next level, with four-player multiplayer time trials and leaderboards on Xbox LIVE.* Whether on the couch or using Xb...
Rated E +10
for Everyone +10
Platforms:
- Xbox 360
Initial Release Date: May 2, 2012
Developer:
- Lionhead Studios
Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
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