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See This Beautiful Guide With Your Own Eyes!, October 28, 2010
This review is from: Fable III Limited Edition (Hardcover)
Length:: 2:41 Mins
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Yes., November 8, 2010
This review is from: Fable III Limited Edition (Hardcover)
Having played all previous titles of Fable and owned the regular strategy guides that they were released with, I found the Fable 3 Limited Edition Strategy Guide to be both more detailed, and an excellent complement to the LE Fable 3 game package. Just picking it up you'll notice the bulk and hardcover, which makes it much more than a strategy guide. First of all, though, I'd like to mention some of the extensive game coverage included in this that you've never seen in any previous strategy guides:
You start off with the basic setup, controller map, and then you have your walkthrough for the entire game. After that, you get the Albion Atlas(showing both treasure and collectibles locations in each area), Weapons and Items & Clothing. All of these are done in beautiful detail, with high quality images directly from the game, and with nice background graphics.
But in these later sections, too, are some of the newer things they've added, such as the Real Estate Magnate section, which lists pretty much every house and shop in the game, along with its base value and income rates. This is great if you're trying to get a grasp on the wider estimate of money you'll need to earn and/or steal in the game for a certain area, without having to physically go to every house. This can also be done in the in-game Map, but a quick reference guide without, again, having to go to each city and point at each building, is very convenient. You know, I bought every piece of property on the map in Fable 2, and this, along with Fable 3's SUPERB new user interface, makes me all the more willing to take the same route in this game. It's perfect for a completionist, and I have fun being one with this game.
Another excellent addition is the Achievements and Avatar Awards section with tips on how to get each one, which, you'd think would be in a SG anyways, but this is the first time I've seen it in a Fable SG. Great job.
And that about does it for the strategy part of it. The final quarter of the book is pure beauty, though. You can spend an hour or two just looking through it, really. The video review done by another reviewer is a great way to take a look, and you may notice after playing the game that almost every character as well as every map and the objects in it will appear in this section in vivid detail. A lot of what seems to be concept art as well as 3d model images directly from the game, and you even have a section that shows all of the Orwellian propaganda posters. You don't always get a chance to see the full posters while playing, which made this another added bonus for me. Lionhead Studios really did a phenomenal job with this release, and their fine touches have not gone unnoticed. It's so much more than a game guide - it's a work of art that goes up on my bookshelf next to Giger, Tolkien and Lovecraft instead of in a stack of magazines. After I finish the game, that is.
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Must buy for any fable fan, November 13, 2010
This review is from: Fable III Limited Edition (Hardcover)
This is a STEAL for what amazon is selling it for. pretty good maps, however not that many of them. Amazing art section that any fable fan can spend alot of time looking through. The flag cover is just a dust jacket. Underneath of which is a well made hardcover with one of four cover art variants. must buy for any fable fan.
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