What I've been playing

Finished this little baby last week.  An excellent experience, which would no doubt garner a "just right" response in a Goldilocks-penned review.  Definitely worth the 6.29UKP that rattled off my financial coil.  The PS3 seems to be the breeding ground for innovation right now, although I'm sure Sony would just prefer the market share. Flower is peerless.  Santa Monica are nailing it.  

I'll keep it short and sweet.  Huge fan of the first game,. Not disappointed with the sequel.  Frame-rate drops a little, but the scope is huge - so there are things you can easily forgive.

Fable 2 masks much of its complexity through a clever control system which allows you to perform the majority of actions intuitively.   You'll have everything you need in combat, but the controls take a rougher ride when going off the beaten track.  Doing something specific is a one-way ticket to a wood-themed pause menu, which is a pain when you're trying to pop a potion during a multiplier.

End-game is interesting.  Unlike say, GTAIV - where all your choices inexorably lead to crappy outcomes, the final main-quest conundrum is well laid out - explaining the consequences of your action succinctly.  Doesn't really make the choice any easier .  Without being too spoiler-ific, Sacrifice is a bitch if you're a family man.  Even worse if you're a polygamist.  

Very glad to have played it.  I really want to see Lionhead do another Fable this generation.

Played this a few times and my romps through the infestation immensely.  I've mostly been playing this with randoms, but we're looking to put together a 4-man squad with people from work.  Only downer on this game is buying it this far after its release.  Many people know what  they're doing.  I do not.  Got kicked from a game the other night due to my Romero-paced shambles through a versus game.  But that's ok.  I'd probably have been the same if the roles were reversed.

Some people like to game in short bursts - comfortable with the likes of Pro Evo and Streetfighter, but entirely absent from The Capital Wasteland.  Left 4 Dead is perfect  for them.

Loved Sands of Time, gave up very quickly with Warrior Within and skipped over whatever the last one was called.  Sunk around six hours into the PS3 version.  

The game is platformer and puzzler, with combat playing a small part. A tidy list of combos is the small guy in 90/10.  Puzzforming rules here. 

Overall, I'm impressed.   The core game flows, and its clear that the game has been through some real balancing.  A fellow Praiser of Persia remarked that "it's the first game to have absolutely no penalty for death, but still remain compelling".  A great approximation of the game.

Finished this little baby last week.  An excellent experience, which would no doubt garner a "just right" response in a Goldilocks-penned review.  Definitely worth the 6.29UKP that rattled off my financial coil.  The PS3 seems to be the breeding ground for innovation right now, although I'm sure Sony would just prefer the market share. Flower is peerless.  Santa Monica are nailing it.  

I'll keep it short and sweet.  Huge fan of the first game,. Not disappointed with the sequel.  Frame-rate drops a little, but the scope is huge - so there are things you can easily forgive.

Fable 2 masks much of its complexity through a clever control system which allows you to perform the majority of actions intuitively.   You'll have everything you need in combat, but the controls take a rougher ride when going off the beaten track.  Doing something specific is a one-way ticket to a wood-themed pause menu, which is a pain when you're trying to pop a potion during a multiplier.

End-game is interesting.  Unlike say, GTAIV - where all your choices inexorably lead to crappy outcomes, the final main-quest conundrum is well laid out - explaining the consequences of your action succinctly.  Doesn't really make the choice any easier .  Without being too spoiler-ific, Sacrifice is a bitch if you're a family man.  Even worse if you're a polygamist.  

Very glad to have played it.  I really want to see Lionhead do another Fable this generation.

Played this a few times and my romps through the infestation immensely.  I've mostly been playing this with randoms, but we're looking to put together a 4-man squad with people from work.  Only downer on this game is buying it this far after its release.  Many people know what  they're doing.  I do not.  Got kicked from a game the other night due to my Romero-paced shambles through a versus game.  But that's ok.  I'd probably have been the same if the roles were reversed.

Some people like to game in short bursts - comfortable with the likes of Pro Evo and Streetfighter, but entirely absent from The Capital Wasteland.  Left 4 Dead is perfect  for them.

Loved Sands of Time, gave up very quickly with Warrior Within and skipped over whatever the last one was called.  Sunk around six hours into the PS3 version.  

The game is platformer and puzzler, with combat playing a small part. A tidy list of combos is the small guy in 90/10.  Puzzforming rules here. 

Overall, I'm impressed.   The core game flows, and its clear that the game has been through some real balancing.  A fellow Praiser of Persia remarked that "it's the first game to have absolutely no penalty for death, but still remain compelling".  A great approximation of the game.