Fable
In Fable, the players' every action determines their character's skills, appearances and moralities. Life stories are created from childhood through adulthood and on to old age. Players may choose the paths of…
Fable is an adventure developed by Big Blue Box, released 14 September 2004 on Xbox.
What Fable is
Fable is an adventure game developed by Big Blue Box and released in 2004. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox only. It runs on Gamebryo.
The premise, in the publisher's words
On his sister's birthday, a young boy's village of Oakvale is raided by bandits; killing the boy's entire family. An old Hero, Maze, rescues the boy, seeing great potential in him; Maze trains the boy to become a Hero at the Heroes' Guild. Years pass; after honing his skills, Maze informs the Hero of a blind seeress living among a bandit camp near Oakvale, and advises the Hero to infiltrate the bandit camp. To the Hero's surprise, the blind seeress is actually his older sister Theresa who was taken in by Twinblade, a former Hero and the present Bandit King. After a showdown with Twinblade, the Hero is given the choice of killing or sparing the bandit. Later on in the Hero's life, after he…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Fable holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 87, across 340 votes.
What it launched against
Fable launched on 14 September 2004, within three weeks of Rome: Total War, Burnout 3: Takedown, Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Rome: Total War, Burnout 3: Takedown, Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Fable yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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