The Fable series, part 2

And on the third day, the lord came down from heaven and said "What be pimping hoes?"! Sorry for the late update this week, Charter cable is now my official nemesis. On our second foray into the fable games, ergo we look at the second game. The sequel I believe built quite faithfully onto the original in terms of story and gameplay. It also tweaked a few features and added some new ones that I think all work very well in contributing to the game. A few that stand out are the streamlining of the ranged combat including spells, and guns. Another thing that I thought was extremely note worthy was that, the developers added in a whole bunch of endgame content to help raise money. This was a feature that was lacking in the first game, and is a welcomed adition to the sequel.
As far as story goes, Fable II has it's shit held tight. Even though your charater never speaks, or interacts socially with other people in traditional methods, the developers wrote the story so well, that your character exhibits all of the traits of a literary hero. Yet again, the game's story line is dark, with undertones of classic British humor, just like the first game, but the dark bits are even darker and creepier. The dream sequence after Lucien declares that he killed your family (and your dog, bastard) is so wonderfully eery, it drove chills up my spine towards the end, what with the music box playing in the background of all the death and destruction. A well received collection of features that were supposed to be in the first game, indeed made it into the second, including the ability to have a child.
Fable II has some of the coolest endgame rewards in rpgs, like the ability to become king of all of the game's world, you don't see that too often. Which raises the question of what the point of the third game is going to be. Recently a teaser trailer was released with the catch phrase of "The race for the crown begins." Now, I think that the selling point of the sequel is going to be to become a powerful monarch, which you already could in the 2nd game. So my guess is that maybe the third game is going to build right off of the 2nd game, (using the same character?) and is going to take the allmighty ruler thing to the next level. Before I sign off for this week, I want to say two things. The first is that I will now be posting on saturdays for sake of convenience. The second is that a really cool looking MMO called Aion is coming out around the same time as the newest addition to the Halo series (all hail master chief) and it would really be worth your time to go check out it's web site. Now, onward Concord!