Fable II Signature Series Guide [Paperback]

BradyGames (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 13, 2008 | Series: Signature Series Guide

Good or Evil?

 

Answer the Call! Change the World!

Jump into a world where decisions have repercussions and your choices change the world. Save the innocents or kill them? Deliver the expensive weapon or keep it for yourself? These things matter and your choices will reshape the future of Albion!

 

Albion Atlas

Towns, Tombs, Caves, and Countrysides: Albion is filled with plenty of places for a Hero to relax, cavort, fight, and thrive, but there’s more to living than combat. Each town has its own economy and real estate. Complete listings of available Jobs and Pub Games in the region.

 

Every Hidden Item

Discover all the Gargoyles, Dig Spots, Dive Spots, Demon Doors, and Chests! They’re all clearly marked in the Atlas!

 

Complete Quest Guide

All Quests: An abundance of quests awaits your Hero’s attention and they’re all covered in detail. The strategy provided offers the best tips and tricks to finish every quest to your satisfaction and even indicates when a quest may not of interest to your Hero.

 

Good vs. Evil

Fable II allows you to choose your own path through the world. Our walkthrough provides a complete breakdown explaining the ramifications of your choices and how to follow the course you’ve selected.

 

Exclusive Foldout

More than a normal poster, this provides a complete list of all the Achievements that Fable II has to offer and how to get them. This isn’t just some listing! Strategy is provided for every Achievement!

 

And Much More!

• “Happily Ever After” Diary
• Item and Weapon Lists
• Developer Tips
• Expert Boss Strategy

Platform: Xbox 360

Genre: Role-Playing Game

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: BradyGames; Signature Series Guide edition (October 13, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0744010497
• ISBN-13: 978-0744010497
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,239 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Missing the most needed feature..., November 18, 2008

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J.S. Knapp "ViperMan" (Hagerstown, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fable II Signature Series Guide (Paperback)

I've bought a lot of game guides. I was glad to see that this book is well-printed. I've had a lot of game guides which pages so badly blurred they're illegible. Not a problem here.

However, the one feature I keep picking up this book for is the one feature it's missing. Maps. In my review of the game I mentioned the poor quality of the mapping. The book doesn't help. It gives you the hidden stuff, which is nice, but it doesn't give you the "meat-and-potatoes" of the game, such as the stores, the houses, the things you can buy...

The book does detail the quests pretty clearly. So if you have no clue on how to follow a dotted line on the screen to your various objectives, then I guess this book will help you.

If you're shooting for 100% completion then you'll really benefit from this book. Unfortunately I think the game will bore you before you reach that point, and it definitely won't help you in the day-to-day playing of the game.

26 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, October 24, 2008

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Phil (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fable II Signature Series Guide (Paperback)

I purchased this item a few days ago as the game was actually released. I am pretty disappointed with this guide. It does show you where the dig spots, silver keys, demon doors, and treasure chests are located, but I was really hoping for better coverage for the towns.

As many of you who have played the game know, the mapping system is pretty poor. What I was really looking for was a map of each town that showed where everything is located. Specifically I wanted a graphical map, with the name of each store located on the map. This guide does not have that. It does list the stores in a table that are in each town but it doesn't tell you where they are.

There are some good tips, but it leaves a lot up to mystery, I'm sure in the spirit of discovering things for yourself. For example, basic things like how do you have a child in the game? It does not tell you that you need to get a certain expression, or where to get the expression from. It does tell you that you can have children but doesn't tell you how. Similarly, there are all these tricks you can teach your dog but there is no section on where to get all of these. On this note, it talks about "dive" spots to find treasure underwater, but doesn't tell you how to actually dive. I still haven't figured that out.

Another problem is the layout of the book. If you are wanting to go through and find all of the demon doors, you have to go town by town looking if the book mentions a door or not, there is no demon door section. It would be nice to have a separate section for this so you could perhaps check them off. Similarly no silver key section, etc.

I think the guide has some good things, but is really disappointing to me. I have just found it really hard to navigate the book, and found vital information missing that I end up having to search the internet for. I suggest saving your money and just reading FAQ's on the internet for your game questions.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I want my money back, November 6, 2008

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Go Joe! - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fable II Signature Series Guide (Paperback)

Well first of all as far the the story missions go this guide is pointless there is always a trail telling you where to go and the info you do get you cannot benefit from. And where they should be helping they do not. For example in the beginning of the game there are certain tasks you can complete good or evil that will have effects when you become an adult in the game. The guide doesn't tell you what will happen I had to look online for that.

However I did not buy the guide for the story missions I bought it to help collect the randome weapons and items throughout Fable 2's world. But it fails even worse in this category. This is by far the worst guide I have ever purchased. If you are looking for a guide that shows all the locations of items in the game world look elsewhere.

This guide attempts to show where to go but is inaccurate for the majority of the time. Also the items you pick up dont match with the ones in the book so you don't know if you opened the correct chest for example because not only is the location off but the items in the book dont even match half the chests in the area. I have also been to areas where they have completley left out items that I happened to find by accident for example the silver key found in bowerstone market behind the pub. And there are many others I cannot find due to this poor guide.

Bottom line SAVE YOUR MONEY. Don't buy this trash it is a complete waste of money and I want my money back. If I had the option to give this guide a -5 I would have.