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Fable II Limited Edition Guide (Bradygames Limited Edition Guides) | 
 enlarge | Author: Bradygames
Publisher: BRADY GAMES
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $19.78
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 6199
Format: Special Edition
Media: Paperback
Edition: Limited
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.9
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.6 x 1
ISBN: 0744010500
Dewey Decimal Number: 794
EAN: 9780744010503
ASIN: 0744010500
Publication Date: October 14, 2008
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Product Description
The Ultimate Collectible - Two Books Inside! Exclusive Art Book Gorgeous concept art combined with commentary straight from the Lionhead artists provides a unique behind-the-scenes perspective about the inspirations, direction, and choices that brought Fable II to life. Signature Series Strategy Guide - Four Collectible Covers! Each Signature Series guide comes with one of four outrageous covers straight from the world of Albion! Strategy Guide Includes: ALBION ATLAS! Detailed data sections reveal Spotlight Homes and Businesses, Collectibles, Jobs, Pub Games, and More! COMPLETE QUEST GUIDE! Full strategy on completing the game and finishing Every Quest! GOOD VS. EVIL! Detailed morality tables indicate how each quest result will affect your Hero! EVERY SECRET! Gargoyles, Chests, Silver Keys, Dig Spots, Dive Spots, and Demon Doors! EXCLUSIVE DOUBLE-SIDED FOLDOUT! Complete Xbox 360 Achievement Listing with strategies and tips. LOADS OF EXTRAS! “Happily Ever After” Diary, Item and Weapon Lists, Developer Tips, Expert Boss Strategy, and Much More Platform: Xbox 360 Genre: Role-Playing Game
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 A Mediocre Book for a Mediocre Game December 1, 2008
I feel it is only appropriate that I begin with the problems that I had with this strategy guide and move on into the few points that I liked. This strategy guide suffers from several large problems ranging from inadequate indexes to obvious misprints. I am under the impression that the editors did not spend any time reading through their own guide before they sent it to press.
Many descriptions in the guide are printed under pictures that they don't belong to, and this is not an isolated problem. Every other page of this guide has very simple mistakes that could have easily been corrected, but for some strange reason never were. Strangely I haven't found many typos, which means that there was someone around to edit the text, but that the graphic design team didn't bother to check their work when it came to placing text and images together.
The guide also suffers from a problem that I have found in many guides lately, which is that they do not seem to understand why customers want to buy their guides. With-holding information in a strategy guide because you want the player to discover things on their own is hypocritical. If you're going to sell a strategy guide you should accept the fact that your players aren't going to blindly stumble through the game on their own. You're helping them do it, so you might as well help them do it right.
The guide goes through a lot of trouble to give you information you don't need, but neglects to give you the information you want, or at the very least index it in a way that is convenient to find and use. For example, the main reason anyone would want a strategy guide for an xbox 360 game is to acquire all the achievements. This guide gives you the achievements on a fold-out poster in the back, which you have to take out if you don't want to accidentally rip it. This means you have separate sheet four pages long that you have to find and fiddle with every time you want to check an achievement, while you also keep the strategy guide close because the technical designer thought it would be a great idea to make you flip through one hundred pages of of the Albion Atlas to discover how to find every silver key or gargoyle instead of simply making an index for these quests/achievements.
With the exception of the many many misprints the Albion Atlas was the most useful part of this guide, even though it would have been much easier if I just had a section for the gargoyle and silver keys to themselves.
The artbook is very nice and worth the price on Amazon. It is the minimum size that I expect from a video games artbook that is sold rather than used as a giveaway. It is smaller than it could be, considering the volume of sketches and c.g. that must have gone into the creation of this game, but it does give an interesting insight into the process. The only disappointing element of the artwork is the fact that all of the effort and talent put into the artwork for Fable II is wasted on the terrible story and game play.
In short, buy this guide for the artbook and sell the guide after you trade in the game. Because there really isn't a reason to keep Fable II around after you beat the game and get all the achievements you want. It's an amusing game that seems really grand at first and quickly turns into a miserable glitch-filled experience. So, if you're not going to keep the game, there's no real reason to keep the guide.
 Fable 2 Limited Edition Walkthrough Book November 29, 2008
This is a beautifully art worked, highly useful book. Each quest is explained with both the good and evil methods explored. Side quests are easily found and the maps are extremly handy for finding gargoyles and keys.
 Eh... November 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Pros:
+ Artbook has some beautiful stuff and is well worth the $7 difference if you are into game art.
+ All around good looking guide
Cons:
-- No overall world map. WTF why is there no world map showing how the reigions are connected for this game anywhere inside or out of the game?? This is inexcusable in the game, and doubly inexcusable in the strategy guide. In addition there is no indication of where the exits or entries to an area are on the maps in the guide. This is a huge glaring oversight.
- not leatherbound as was originally promised, nor hardcover as it indicates now. It comes as 2 books in a thin cardboard slipcover.
- terribly organized information. For example, the maps for the regions that a quest takes place in are in an entirely different part of the book than the descriptions of the quests. No indications of where vendors are in an area, etc.
Overall, I don't understand how the release of this game was so botched, I ordered the LE of the game only to have it stripped of most of it's value and get no further discount from Amazon, and then the guide arrives and is nothing like what was originally promised. Oh well, at least the game delivers, it's gotta' be the most fun I've had with a game in a long time, at least on par with GTA4 for me.
They lied, but guide is ok just buy regular one. October 27, 2008
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
First off art books not worth the extra money just go buy the regular guide.
Ok so i pre-ordered both collector editions, game and guide. Originally the game was to have a collector hobbe bean bag figure with it which pictures were uber kewl. But instead I hear that Lionhead decided to give the original collector editions and doll away as promo material to stars and reviewers lucky enough to attend their lavish parties, and gave us true fans crap.
As for the guide, buy the regular one it is all the important info you need. However note that treasure differs from the guide. Almost 99% of what the guide says you will find in dig spots, dive locations, and chest will not be what it says but something similar. I don't know why. But at least it helps you find where they are tho you wont know what they are.
Lastly, I wonder how many more times game manufacturers are going to dupe us with pre-order build up that turns out to be fraud, and I also wonder how long before we get sick of it and create a class action lawsuit for fraud. In ohio there are Bait and Switch laws that say something like this, "Product has to be what is advertised" or it becomes fraud. Sure i'm being a little BBBchy about it and I am a massive nerd that probably would have bought it anyway. But i'm tired of thinking im gonna get one thing and then get something else.
No leather...wtf? October 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just received my 2 copies of the LE Guide, one for myself and one for my girlfriends birthday. It is NOT LEATHERBOUND as it said it should be as I first placed my order. Huge turn off. I could have just gone to best buy and actually got the gift to her on time. But, I would truly like to know why its been changed. They mention the whole LE itself and whats been taken out.
Truly disappointed and would prefer my money back
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