Fable II Signature Series Guide (Paperback)

by BradyGames (Author)

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Product Description

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: BRADY GAMES (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 (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #15,865 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, October 24, 2008

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

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.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	J.S. Knapp "ViperMan" (Harrisburg, PA) - See all my reviews

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.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars decent info on quests, but maps are not accurate, October 30, 2008

By	Lap Tran - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The book contains good information on the quests - good vs evil resolution. It also details all the skills, enemies, items, and weapons.

However, it doesn't list where each item/weapon can be found or bought.

The maps are also somewhat inaccurate. The illustration doesn't always match the map screen in the game. It also gets wrong the number of keys and gargoyles found in each zone; the region screen in the game lists more than what is shown in the guide book.

Overall, a decent resource if you want to know what consequence your actions will have, but you will need to look elsewhere if you're looking to find every item available.

11/5/08 - Edited to Add: The guide may not be wrong in the counts of keys and gargoyles. Some regions have "dungeons". In the game, when you enter a "dungeon", the map page shows the region and therefore the key/gargoyle counts are the combined total for the region and "dungeon".

The guide book keeps a separate page for each of these "dungeons". The key/gargoyle counts are then divided amongst the pages for the region and its "dungeons".

The description of the dungeons does not always indicate which region it belongs to because the map section of the guidebook merely lists every region and "dungeon" in alphabetical order.