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Fable: The Lost Chapters

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Game Info

Publisher: Microsoft

Developer: Lionhead Studios

Genre(s): Role-Playing Game

Players: 1

ESRB Rating: RP (Rating Pending)

Release Date: September 20, 2005

Summary

Fable: The Lost Chapters is fully optimized for the Windows platform complete with expanded content, greater customization, new quests and enhanced graphics. Your every action determines your character's skills, appearance and morality. Your character's life story is created from childhood through to adulthood and on to old age. Grow from an inexperienced child into the most powerful being in the world, spoken of by all and immortalized in legend. As additional story and side quests await, choose the path of righteousness, or dedicate your life to evil, and see yourself transform into a reflection of your actions and decisions. Age leaves you wizened and battle leaves you scarred as you explore the world of Albion and the plethora of expanded and enhanced content. With experience comes advancement and physical change, whether it be expanding muscles, a keen eye and nimble form, or the buzz of magical energies around your finger tips. As you develop your alter ego, the world reacts to you and your actions. People comment on your successes and failures, your appearance, and your behavior. Fable: The Lost Chapters offers Windows gamers even more character customization choices that will impact your appearance. The denizens of Albion's many opinions are expressed through applause, mockery, trepidation, panic, and even flirtation if they feel so inclined. Each person you aid, each flower you crush, each creature you slay, will change this world forever. In Fable: The Lost Chapters, gamers decide: "Who will I be?" [Microsoft]

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What The Critics Said

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Gamezilla!

You can tell the amount of love poured into this game, it really shows. An excellent title for anyone who enjoys adventure games, especially those who like the less linear feel that Fable has to offer.

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eToychest

The game offers a lot to do for any RPG aficionado, including a compelling story bundled into a non-linear package that affords something many RPG gamers want – freedom to act as they please. Fable, with all it offers, is the perfect game for this type of freedom.

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VGPub

Fable is a fantastic game and TLC builds even more onto it. The one thing I am disappointed with is that there is no multiplayer mode.

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Gamer's Hell

While we would’ve loved to seen a stronger emphasis on the whole ‘actions have consequences’ premise, Fable still allows the gamer to develop a strong bond with their hero.

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Quandary

I did find the game to contain large portions of the elusive element of fun whilst I was playing, and a sense of exploration and wonder at some of the environments and events.

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PGNx Media

The game’s audio is magnificent. The entire package is excellent and really brings the game’s presentation to first-class standards.

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WHAM! Gaming

It would have been nicer if the storyline was a little longer, but the ability to go back and replay the game, but choosing to be evil instead of good, or a spellcaster instead of a fighter, will allow you to enjoy this game for some time.

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Worth Playing

It has everything I look for in an RPG - a quality story, superb visuals, excellent music, a hint of humor that doesn't overstay its welcome, and above all else, a sense of immersion that sweeps me away to another world.

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Armchair Empire

The production values are perfectly tuned to the game's style as the graphics and audio are beautifully implemented. Quite simply, I loved the game.

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ActionTrip

A quality port that adds more content as well as perfects the existing gameplay. Every single fan of great storytelling and compelling single-player fantasy RPGs should own this one.

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GamePro

The best version yet of a game that doesn't redefine the genre but surely reinvigorates it.

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Game Informer

Offers more of what made the original so unique, and succeeds at making a phenomenal game even greater. [Oct 2005, p.148]

Jolt Online Gaming UK

Fable was, and still is, a cracking and practically beard-free role-player. Maybe in five years from now, we’ll see a sequel that actually resembles what we were initially promised.

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BonusStage

If you don’t own an Xbox or never got around to picking up the original Fable, do yourself a tremendous favor and buy Fable: The Lost Chapters immediately.

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Game Chronicles

The improved interface and totally configurable controls along with some superior graphics definitely make this the version of Fable you want to play.

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Games Radar UK (Pre-2006)

Fable's social systems are a masterpiece of design and, if the story and dialogue tend towards the prosaic, the compelling action and delicious presentation boost the experience far above the ordinary. [PC Gamer UK]

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GameZone

Innovative role-playing on the XBox that continues forth on PC. The control system is a little difficult to handle, however, and doesn’t quiet fit the gameplay mechanics.

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IGN

At every turn the world feels wonderfully alive and the consequences of your actions have a real and obvious impact on the world around you. The identification you build with your character is stronger than in any other RPG I've ever played.

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GameSpot

A decidedly great game, all in all. Its most interesting, riskiest features may lie at the fringes rather than at the core--but they're there.

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Computer Games Online RO

If it had been launched directly to the PC, Fable might have become one of the greatest games in history, because the potential was there and the early previews stand testament to the designer’s intentions. Not the Fable is a bad game, far from it, but I just can’t help feeling a little sad, thinking of what might have been.

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Play Magazine

There's a little more optional flavor and a great deal more core content. [Oct 2005]

GameBiz

You can see for yourself that Fable has damn fine looking graphics. The attention to detail can not really be underestimated in this respect. The character models look brilliant and the aesthetic changes in your hero’s look over time add just that little bit extra to the game’s finesse.

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Pelit (Finland)

Expands the original Xbox Fable with new adventures, equipment and other stuff. The PC conversion is beautiful and an all-around fine piece of work, but the main plot is still too short and the world does not feel alive. [Oct 2005]

Gamers' Temple

Although the story may be lacking “epic qualities” and a little short, the game still delivers on many of the promises that it makes.

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Gamers Europe

The story behind fable has to be one of the best I've ever come across. On more than one occasion, the plot took me completely by surprise.

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PC Format

Flawed but irresistable - Fable is lifted by the weight of its ideas. [Nov 2005, p.93]

Game Power Australia

Well-designed, attractive and ultimately quite a fun game. However, it is quite short, and despite the many side-quests and various ways to customise your character, really offers little incentive for subsequent play-throughs.

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Game Over Online

A polished and entertaining ride, jam packed with people to see and things to do. The graphics are nice, the voice acting is superb, and the combat is a lot of fun.

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Gaming Nexus

I enjoyed the time I spent with Fable: The Lost Chapters, but when the final credits ran I found myself asking, “Is that it?” The game was just lacking something.

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Gamer 2.0

Unexpectedly engaging, in spite of its utter lack of difficulty. If you are a PC gamer hoping to see Project Ego come to life, you will be disappointed--but most will find Fable to be as fresh as morning daylight.

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GameShark

Undeniably charming. Technically, it's not the best role-playing game on the market but it is loaded so much personality that its problems melt away underneath a blanket of just plain fun.

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Gaming Age

A very accessible and pretty RPG. Perhaps it could benefit from added complexity and higher difficulty.

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Just Adventure

Frustration was heightened by incorporating diverse elements that did not mesh in a smooth manner.

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Gaming Horizon

While the main game can take about 15 hours at most to beat, completing all of the additional side-quests may take you up to three times as long.

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GameSpy

If you already played the original version on Xbox, it's tough to recommend padding Microsoft's pockets again, but noobs will probably get their dollar's worth.

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Games Radar (in-house)

The story is tightly linear, so it's hard to make your character's tale your own.

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Sydney Morning Herald

It was a difficult task translating the refined Xbox controls to mouse and keyboard, but the system works flawlessly. Combat is basic yet fun, demanding timing.

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PALGN

It's the definitive version of Fable, but only those who've not played the Xbox game, or are die hard fans should pick it up, given the additional content is not as plentiful as one would have expected, nor does it make the game profoundly different from what was released 12 months ago.

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GamerFeed

The controls have been well adapted to the PC and the graphics have been upgraded, so it doesn't even feel like a port.

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GamingTrend

Another place that the game really worked was the social system that was put in place. It's not terribly deep, but each town had its own life and people in it. The world changed depending on the quests that you did. The game had a level of detail in it that made me feel like I was doing something.

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DailyGame

This is Fable on the PC, but the lost chapters remain lost. I was only able to find bits and pieces of new pages strung about. Still, the game was good on Xbox and they’ve made it good on PC too.

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Total Video Games

Sadly the action based nature of the game hasn’t survived the translation to mouse/keyboard as well as we could have hoped. The fundamental character/camera movement and basic combat works well; it just all begins to get a little messy when the vast amount of keys comes into play.

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Yahoo! Games

Graphically it's a generation behind its peers, and the control system betrays its Xbox roots, but if you can put up with that you're pretty much guaranteed a good time.

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G4 TV

Even if you played through the Xbox version multiple times, there’s enough new stuff here for a look.

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3DAvenue

Unfortunately, while Fable: TLC does feature a nice open ended single player experience, you're likely going to be done with the game entirely once you've finished it.

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Computer Games Magazine

It's remarkably imaginative, whimsical, and full of life. [Nov 2005, p.68]

Eurogamer

For all its beauty, the areas you explore do seem rather small and hemmed in - especially when we're so used to expansive, open-ended RPG worlds.

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FiringSquad

Where the game falls short is in not providing enough for the player to do, so its lack of depth becomes apparent. In the GTA titles the player was kept too busy to worry about the limitations of the world; in Fable there aren’t nearly as many options or missions. The storyline is also poorly crafted though engaging with its chilling touches of darkness.

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PC Gamer

Fun, but it lacks depth compared to other PC roleplaying games. [Nov 2005, p.78]

PC Gameworld

If you have played the original Fable and still own an xbox, I would recommend waiting for the xbox release of The Lost Chapters. If you have not played Fable and won’t be disappointed by the relatively short time required to beat the game, then buy it.

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Computer Gaming World

Fun and ambitious, but not nearly as substantial as it wants you to think it is. [Nov 2005, p.96]

Next Level Gaming

I hate to say this after being such a fan of much of Peter’s and the Lionhead Studios work, but once again Fable turns out to be nothing more than a legend.

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Cheat Code Central

It's certainly one of the best RPGs out there and there's no doubt that some novices will consider it the best RPG they've ever played.

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My Gamer

The sound of a leather boot impacting a chicken, and the resulting squawks and flapping that result, must be heard first hand to be truly appreciated.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 57 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Luke K. gave it a9:
I loved this game. I just got it a week ago, and I'm already on my second playthrough. The age system is interesting, especially since the more you use magic, or "will", the older your character gets. It's also fun to be a dirtbag :).

E M gave it a3:
A boring, super-linear play experience with flat characters and a broken leveling system. The magic is totally unbalanced, and combats are impossible unless you use the one spell that makes them too easy. And let's not forget that if you complete all the side-quests, your character ends up 55 by the time you save your 40 year old mother.

Andrew S. gave it an8:
It was a very good game although the story line could have been better and a bit longer and the graphics could have been better this game was ok (for $19)

Minh S. gave it a3:
This was an alright game. Can't really go anywhere with this game. The quests seems boring. It could have been better if it had a more complex plot to the whole thing. I agree that it is good if your under 10 if not don't buy this game. It gets kinda boring......

[Anonymous] gave it a10:
One of the best ever adventure game. I haven`t seen better game in this category for a long time.

Corey B. gave it a9:
This game is freakin awesome! still trying to get that sword in the stone...but i'll get it, but this game is the best PC game I have played in a while.

J. B. gave it an8:
A good Action-RPG with great graphics, sounds and voice acting. This game is probably not for pure RPG enthusiasts, however, as it only allows you to control one character in a very Legend of Zelda manner. The plot seems facile at first but becomes rather horrifying later on, giving one the sense of playing through a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. Jack of Blades is perhaps one of the most memorable villains in computer villain history. This is one case, however, where the expanded content is less impressive than the original game, almost making you wish that the lost chapters had stayed lost allowing you to finish with an otherwise tight story.

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