XBL GOD adds Fable II, Fallout 3

By Robert Purchese Published 6 April, 2010

Top-scoring RPGs for 20 quid.

Fable II and Fallout 3 - two of Xbox 360's best role-playing games - are now up for grabs from Xbox Live's Games on Demand service.

What's more, they cost only 20 quid each.

Fallout 3, perhaps surprisingly, is the smaller of the two files at 5GB; Fable II - a flabby 7GB - ought to consider celery.

Both Fallout 3 and Fable II earned 10/10 here on Eurogamer.

Head to the Xbox.com Fallout 3 page to buy and queue the game for download, and head to our Fallout 3 review to find out more.

Head to the Xbox.com Fable II page to buy and queue the game for download, and head to our Fable II review to find out more.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (53) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Toothball #1 2 years ago

    Good offerings, but with the GOTY discs on the market for around the same price it's still a little more appealing to look for physical copies.

  • TFM_Excalibur #2 2 years ago

    Wasn't f2 already released as episodic games on demand?

  • stuarty_2003 #3 2 years ago

    £20 for the vanilla editions?

    The fabled fallout is about to be experienced in relation to GoD pricing, again.

  • galerian86 #4 2 years ago

    Good GOD!

  • ZuluHero #5 2 years ago

    Top dollar for top-scoring rpgs more like :)

  • sneetch #6 2 years ago

    @stuarty_2003

    It's insane all right, do they even still make physical copies of the vanilla editions of these games, I wonder?

  • TeaFiend #7 2 years ago

    blah blah cheaper elsewhere blah blah cry blah blah

  • captain_Carl #8 2 years ago

    Shame Fable 2 is £9.99 on Play.com

    prd:1012390|cat:RPGs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://ww w.play.com/Games/Xbox360/4-/101...

  • Murton #9 2 years ago

    A lot of people going on about price again. Between publisher fees and bandwidth costs I doubt MS will be able to reduce the price on GoD Store in order to properly compete with retail while still maintaining the sort of profits that they would like. I think it would better for MS to maintain the current price point but try to negotiate terms for release earlier so that retail prices haven't dropped to giveaway levels, that way GoD wouldn't seem like such a bad deal.

  • influenceuk #10 2 years ago

    does anyone actually buy these GOD games at such OTT prices?

  • coolbritannia #11 2 years ago

    The real crime here is that fable 2 scored 10/10.

  • RodHull #12 2 years ago

    It is odd that there aren't any Deals of the Week for Xbox Live's Games on Demand. On Games for Windows recently they've had Red Faction Guerilla for £7 and Viva Pinata for £3.50. Sure you have to put up with GFW's loopy DRM system but still much cheapness

  • tiredoldandy #13 2 years ago

    Fable 2 is 9.85 on Shop.to as well.

  • miiiguel #14 2 years ago

    oh... this is the cut/paste thread, innit ?

    use this line in future GoD threads: Look it's cheaper here! and here! and there too! outrageous! Buy here, you can save 5 quid! Burn these thiefs, selling games for 20 quid..., omg!!!! (I don't even own a 360, but I'm the champion of the comunity)
    Edited by 1 at 06/04/10 @ 14:35

  • Retroid #15 2 years ago

    For those prices they should at least be the GotY editions with all the extras included.

  • deadmonkeyuk #16 2 years ago

    I enjoyed both Fable 2 and Fallout 3, but neither should have got 10/10. Fable 2's coop mode was broken and was stripped of many of the features that were talked about before release. 7/10 would have been more like it.

  • Peew971 #17 2 years ago

    miiiiguel is the King :)

    This is the weekly Tuesday whining, gets tiring...

  • Murton #18 2 years ago

    I enjoyed both Fable 2 and Fallout 3, but neither should have got 10/10

    If I could give more than +1 I would.

  • BaggyAnt #19 2 years ago

    does anyone actually buy these GOD games at such OTT prices?

    Yep - I have I wanted to be able to play GTAIV and Oblivion from my hard drive without changing disc (I have all the DLC already for both, apart from Horse Armour) . I then traded the discs in for a fiver. For 99% of people I appreciate that this has novalue but for me it was something I am glad I had the chance to do.

  • dpb135 #20 2 years ago

    Fable 2 GOTY edition is £9.98 at Game. M$ really need to sort out this stupid pricing policy, I may be tempted if it was £10

  • Shikasama #21 2 years ago

    What's more, they cost only 20 quid each

    Fuck off EG

  • Stiggy #22 2 years ago

    £19.99 is the RRP on the classic range - if end retailers want to undercut that to shift old stock than they are fully entitled to. Don't see why we need to go through this everytime something new launches on GOD.

  • Xerx3s #23 2 years ago

    "This is the weekly Tuesday whining, gets tiring... "

    No, what gets tiring is the fact that they constantly try to rip off the consumers at every turn. It gets tiring that there are actually people daft enough to defend it. The 'weekly whining' usually holds a couple of amusing posts so that is about the best we get out of this sad DLC crap.

  • kangarootoo #24 2 years ago

    "Don't see why we need to go through this everytime something new launches on GOD"

    Amen.

    How about everyone just bugger off down their local HMV and kick up a fuss about how most of the content is cheaper on Tesco's website...... OR, go find something better to do.

  • TeaFiend #25 2 years ago

    It would be better if for the £20 I also got some free clothes, a hat and a good looking wife.

  • kangarootoo #26 2 years ago

    "No, what gets tiring is the fact that they constantly try to rip off the consumers at every turn"

    What, by printing the price clearly on the product they are selling?


    In WHAT feeble, personal responsibility free, "I can't do up my own buttons" kind of world is that to be considered a vendor trying to rip customers off?

    By that definition EVERYONE is trying to rip customers off.... except the vendor out there with the very cheapest price in the world. Seriously, you live in the real grown up world, so just deal with it.

  • Der_tolle_Emil #27 2 years ago

    Isn't Fallout 3 still considerably more expensive when you buy it in the shops? I've been waiting for it to go down in price for ages but it seems like that it can't be found anywhere for under 25 pounds (GOTY edition that is). No idea how many addons it has but it seems a fairly good price if you ask me. (much better than many of the other GOD deals)
    Edited by 1 at 06/04/10 @ 15:44

  • Peew971 #28 2 years ago

    @ Xerx3s - They're just selling at "Classics" RRP, we're just lucky here in the UK that most retailers are happy to sell below that. Most of my friends abroad can't find a year old game for less than half the price anywhere... even preowned!
    And that's not really a rip off when you have the choice to go and get it cheaper elsewhere. Compare that to DLC, how nice would it be if Shopto could sell the Stimulus Pack for 800pts?

  • Xerx3s #29 2 years ago

    I don't know about other people but just about every brick store around here sells those games for less. Most online stores as well. They want that people buy DLC but they price it at absurdly unrealistic prices (you pay more and get less). Hell, you don't even own what you buy, that should be reflected in the price if anything.
    They have every right to slap whatever price on it that they please. I on the other hand have the right to call it for what it is and buy the better version somewhere else. Everybody happy for now.
    The problem is that if enough people buy into this stuff, sooner or later, the rest is forced to do so as well (this is how free expansion packs became overpriced dlc). This is why I think that people who - like me - don't agree with this stuff, should speak out about it. So yeah kangarootoo, I'm dealing with it as a grown-up by voicing my opinion. It would be childish to see something and not call it for what it is.

  • kangarootoo #30 2 years ago

    @Xerx3s

    I've got no issue with you calling it overpriced. It is when people start using terms like "try to rip off the consumers" and "forced to buy" that a vein in my neck starts twitching.

    It doesn't really matter what anyone else does, or what price they pay. If the deal doesn't represent good value to you, don't buy it. Buy something else. Or buy it elsewhere for less. You have many options, and the addition of these old games to XBLA has removed none of them.
    Edited by 1 at 06/04/10 @ 16:46

  • BBIAJ #31 2 years ago

    @ Der_tolle_Emil:

    Keep an eye out on Zavvi and their Mega Monday Deals, I picked up Fallout 3 GOTY for £17.95 from there late last year, and a second copy of Borderlands for co-op play for the same price just months after release.

  • WayMucho #32 2 years ago

    Great games, but I'm never going to get a GOD game at this price point. I think they should be fixed at £10 - even if that means they are released on GOD even later. I wait for a few games to come out on Platinum or Classic or whatever it's called and would be happy to pay about £10 to wait another 6 months or so. As someone's already said: who is buying this stuff at this price - they're obviously able to buy online???

  • coolbritannia #33 2 years ago

    I got fallout 3 GOTY edition for £15 as the cover was missing. Now, GOD don't come with covers either, so.....I win.

  • AniManu #34 2 years ago

    Fairly sure this is a xboxlive mistake but currently Fable II and the expansions are FREE on live. Get them while you can !

  • TeaFiend #35 2 years ago

    @AniManu:
    That is Fable 2 Episode and the free version of the DLC for people to try parts/share items.

  • AniManu #36 2 years ago

    Ah, I knew it was too good to be true, thanks for the response TeaFiend.

  • supersaintee #37 2 years ago

    Just in case anyone is interested, I saw Fallout 3 GOTY edition for £20 in Asda tonight. No comment on the GOD pricing, but it's a damn good deal when you consider what it would cost for the DLC on its own.

  • menage #38 2 years ago

    "The real crime here is that fable 2 scored 10/10."

    Oh sod off.

    I had a blast with it, sorry if it didn't fit your defintion of perfect.
    Edited by 1 at 06/04/10 @ 20:45

  • Der_tolle_Emil #39 2 years ago

    Well I don't live in the UK so I can't really take advantage of some of the in-store deals. Still, compared to many of the other GOD deals where you pay more than twice than what you would have to pay everywhere else the 20 for Fallout seem fairly reasonable. Especially considering that I would have to pay ~42 pounds here in Switzerland for the game (which is surprising - games rarely go down in price and I was expecting it still to sell for the 67 pounds like when it came out). Even considering the "mainland" GOD prices (30 pounds after conversion) at least GOD is still cheaper than the shops.
    Edited by 1 at 06/04/10 @ 22:43

  • metalangel #40 2 years ago

    When they brought out horse armour, I didn't speak up,
    because it didn't represent good value to me.

    When a horde of plane reskins descended for Ace Combat 6, I didn't speak up,
    because I figured I'd buy something else.

    When Penny Arcade Adventures was 1200pts, I didn't speak up,
    because I decided to vote with my wallet,

    When the MW2 Stimulus pack offering five maps for 1200pts arrived, I didn't speak up,
    because obviously everyone else would see it was a ripoff too.

    When GOD games were twice as expensive as a new copy from Amazon, I didn't speak up,
    because what moron would pay more and not get a physical disc?

    Now, it's 2015 and all games are 'on demand' only, and cost the full £39.99 whack, and never come down in price.
    and I'm stuck paying it because nobody spoke up.

  • coolbritannia #41 2 years ago

    'Oh sod off.

    I had a blast with it, sorry if it didn't fit your defintion of perfect'

    8/10 at best. A reasonable story up until the incredibly weak ending, 2 dimensional combat and pointless, crap minigames. Eurogamer Portugal said something similar i believe. Fallout III was far more rewarding, but with another weak ending. 9.5/10.

  • kentmonkey #42 2 years ago

    I never fail to get a giggle from people that whine and moan about people whining and moaning. It's as though people don't have the right to their opinion. How very dare they. Scallywags.

  • spookyzombie #43 2 years ago

    Fallout 3 GOTY is £12.95 pre-owned at Blockbuster (360 and PS3). It's £7.95 for the standard edition. Just a heads up and not intended to be a bitch about GOD pricing.

  • Der_tolle_Emil #44 2 years ago

    If you were forced to buy, then yes. Otherwise, no. Also, as already mentioned, GOD is the cheapest way to get the games in many other European countries.

  • Daikon #45 2 years ago

    So far Fallout 3 runs quicker from disc than from HD. I wonder if performance from HD has been improved for the GOD edition.

  • kangarootoo #46 2 years ago

    First off, I'm not defending these prices. I am purely concerned with how people react to them.


    I suppose my point is that if you are going to "speak up", it might be better do it objectively and with reason, rather than screaming tabloid outrage. Stamping your feet and crying "forced to pay" and "trying to rip off" is hardly going to turn the ear of publishers. Doing that just makes you part of the vocal minority that haunts the internet, making a disproportionate amount of noise, but not really listened to by publishers because you buy their stuff anyway in the end.


    @metalangel

    Honestly, "speaking up" means nothing if you buy the products anyway. Keeping your money in your wallet is the most powerful thing you can do as a customer, and really it is the only thing that matters.

    So in all your examples, you did the right thing, and if in the future you end up paying £40 for digital content, that will be because that is what the market at large will have said it wanted when it "spoke up" with its collective wallet. And you will of course still have the personal choice to not buy.

    I know some people think that kicking up a stink on the net makes a difference, but seriously, if you buy the product anyway, your vocal protests mean nothing and matter not. Withholding your purchase is ALL you can do, and if you don't like the deal, it is absolutely what you SHOULD do.

  • menage #47 2 years ago

    @CoolBritannia

    There we go again, Stop focusing on a freaking digit.

    I couldn't care less if it was an eleven.

    People around here think FFXIII was a solid 8 as well, while I think it reeks of incompetence. Still, your and my opinion isn't the only one so if someone thinks it's a 10 so be it. It isn't fact, just an opinion.
    Edited by 1 at 07/04/10 @ 13:09

  • metalangel #48 2 years ago

    @kangarootoo: Better to say something against it than nothing at all? If you just sit silently with your credit card still in your wallet, for all the game companies know you weren't their 'market' anyway.

    Whereas if you say "I am an avid gamer but I am not prepared to pay what you're asking" then you've gone down on record as being a potential customer that they've driven away.*

    That's what I mean. It's all very well to say you should just vote with your wallet and not give them your business, but you can't then complain when the companies in question just shrug their shoulders and keep putting prices up because they assume everyone's cool with it because nobody's complaining. At the end of the day, yes, I've done the 'right thing', but I don't want to get to the stage where they are charging us £40 for DRM-ridden download games and I think back and think I didn't speak out against it. Yes, one person won't make a difference in all likelihood, but you have to at least try.

    *while obviously not handing over piles and piles of cash for insulting rip-offs while grumbling 'THIS IS A DISGRACE that I just can't resist buying anyway'. I can't play MW2 with my friends any more because they've all got Stimulus and I'm not paying that much for it, for example.

  • pinochet_cz #49 2 years ago

    Well these games are not "really old crap" as usual in GOD. There were games you can get free with 10 liters of gasoline, Fallout 3 is different, at least here. If they go with Metro or Bad Company2 for same price, it will be my first purchase.

  • aphexstwin #50 2 years ago

    only microsoft could get away with calling something GOD. oh, fallout 3 brand new, £11 in tesco

  • kangarootoo #51 2 years ago

    @metalangel

    "If you just sit silently with your credit card still in your wallet, for all the game companies know you weren't their 'market' anyway"

    You may think your wallet is silent, but it really isn't. A shouting voice on the other hand might be loud (and might make the shouter feel better), but that doesn't mean it actually gets heard.

    The big publishers (and certainly companies like MS) have a pretty good idea of how big their market is and what their predicted sales figures should be. In fact they almost certainly pay a fortune for good information so that they can be very sure.

    My point really is that abstaining if the price is bad is the only thing you can do that matters. If everyone else agrees, sales figures will be low and the price WILL change. And if everyone else is ok with the price and sales figures are good, NO amount of foot stamping (or polite emailing for that matter) will make one tiny little bit of difference.

  • metalangel #52 2 years ago

    @kangarootoo: My wallet IS silent, because games that I would buy for 800pts are still being released for 1200pts. I assume their figures show just how many copies of something they sell during these big 'sales' deals they do every week (I reckon over half my XBLA stuff was now things I wasn't interested in until the price was dropped) but whether this matters to them is another thing.

    Thing is, their 'predicted figures' as you say might say you are meant to be someone who'll buy this. But you don't. Except, some dingus who just got his 360 and thus wasn't included when the figures were calculated decides that 1200pts is a freakin' bargain for five maps for MW2 and, wiping the drool from his controller, buys it. And suddenly the figures add up again, X number of people do indeed want to pay this much for this DLC.

    The real problem is that there are plenty of idiots out there who think this whole thing is perfectly fine and acceptable, and that tragically makes it so. It won't stop me disagreeing with it, or saying so, no matter what you might think. (I also won't be buying the DLCs)

    You're also free to tell me I'm wrong to vocally disagree as much as you like :p

  • kangarootoo #53 2 years ago

    @metalangel

    "My wallet IS silent, because games that I would buy for 800pts are still being released for 1200pts"

    Not true. The fundamental assumption there is that if you voice could only be heard, things would be different. That is the attitude that causes people to shout in outrage about these things. There is this firmly held belief that the state of things is empirically wrong, and that if that could only be pointed out, people would genuinely WANT to make it right.

    The truth is, and what you have to accept, is that your voice is not the only one. If games cost 1200pts it is because the larger market has shown that it find that price acceptable. It is not that your voice has not been heard, it is just that unfortunately your voice was not the majority, which meant that in this instance to put it bluntly, your voice didn't matter.

    This is the real world. Sometimes we shout and we are heard, and change results. But sometimes we shout and we are heard, and we are still ignored for genuinely good reasons (what company in their right mind would drop the price of their goods because a tiny minority of customers asked them to?).

    IF we are ignored for good reasons, stamping our feet in outrage is just petulant. All we can do is take our money away, and ACCEPT that we might simply not get our own way this time if the rest of the market doesn't agree with us.

    Edit:
    "The real problem is that there are plenty of idiots out there who think this whole thing is perfectly fine and acceptable"

    Its a shame you think those people are idiots. They might just genuinely think the price is ok. There are all sorts of personal reasons why one person thinks something is overpriced and another thinks it is good value. Personal preference, nostalgia, convenience, method os use, personal income, disposable income....

    To boil it all down to "My subjective choice is right, everyone who agrees is correct, everyone who disagrees is an idiot" is a real shame. But we see that all the time every day on these pages, which is also a shame.
    Edited by 1 at 08/04/10 @ 12:12