Fable Review

GameSpot has posted a review of Fable, giving the much anticipated Xbox RPG an overall score of 8.6/10. Their concluding paragraphs to follow:

A beautiful classical-style orchestral score plays pleasantly throughout the game, changing its tone and mood effortlessly to fit each different type of setting and situation. Ambient sound effects match or even surpass the richness of the graphics. The game’s voice acting (all of it is British) is of very high quality overall, and there’s a ton of spoken dialogue to be heard. You’ll occasionally hear some repeated lines as you wander through towns, and this is really the only strike against a game whose sound is amazingly well-done.

Fable is an imaginative game that’s got enough remarkable, unique moments in it to make it shine. That many of these moments happen to be good for a laugh is all the better. It’s true that the game’s high points are not always frequent–its ambitions are evident but not always fulfilled, and the pervasively playful spirit of the game sometimes is mired by convention. These trespasses are more than excusable, though. Regardless of how much time you ultimately spend playing Fable, you’re not likely to forget the experience for a long while.