Exclusive: Fable II - The Crucible

Published 22 October, 2008 Duration 3:59

Sadly Sheffield's premier snooker venue has undergone a bit of a refit for Fable 2. Contestants, rather than entering into a spot of refined gentlemanly sportsmanship, must battle their way through sequentially harder rounds of beasties in order to win experience and rewards. Actually, Ronnie O'Sullivan would probably be quite good at this.

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  • Moonprince #1 4 years ago

    err that looks kinda crap.

  • cyacomini #2 4 years ago

    /\

    Why?

  • Mudo #3 4 years ago

    looks good
    I like the shooting

    Otherwise seems the same as fable 1 (no bad thing when it comes to combat)

  • GiNGHamster #4 4 years ago

    have to say the commentary is rather uninspired, unconvincing and pretty irritating...

  • Mudo #5 4 years ago

    Kind of like sports commentary in real life !

  • Rowlsten #6 4 years ago

    Poooowerstoneeee!

    Maybe not :(

  • mikeck #7 4 years ago

    I can't put my finger on it, but that video did nothing for me. I am still intrigued by this game, but not sure how much I want to play this right now...

  • Moonprince #8 4 years ago

    Just think that vid makes the game look crap. I'll still be buying it come Fri.

  • mazzl #9 4 years ago

    what's this crap.... not going to be doing this?
    i guess this is a arena fight or something, doesn't look fun at all.

  • jack_klugman #10 4 years ago

    What the devil is going on?!

  • MrWonderstuff #11 4 years ago

    Looks fun as way of making money. Be interesting to see how hard it gets later on.

    For those who don't know what's going - go to the back of class. It's pretty obvious.

  • Tzetrik #12 4 years ago

    I hate things like this in games, its just a lazy way of squeezing a bit more life out of a game.

    Plus the commentator talking over himself is a bug if you ask me.

  • HolyJebus #13 4 years ago

    Surely there's better videos of gameplay to show then this?

  • #14 4 years ago

    looks shit tbh.

  • Apostle #15 4 years ago

    Gotta agree with a couple of others here, seems a bit shit really.

    I'm guessing this is a side-quest/extra activity thing? If so then I'm positive the actual game is better.

  • Slipstream #16 4 years ago

    My character will be totally Melee, and have zero attack spells.
    Slowing down time and the Assassin Rush are a must though.

  • mikeawmids #17 4 years ago

    It is just a mini game, it hardly reflects the overall quality of a game that's been getting pretty awesome reviews across the board. :p

  • sailesh #18 4 years ago

    RE: first comment.

    Doesn't look crap at all, I didn't know it would be looking so cool. **consideration to purchase a 360 grows**

  • Bertie Verified Senior Staff Writer, Eurogamer.net #19 4 years ago

    You'll learn all about The Crucible if and when you pick the game up; it begins as part of the main quest but can be revisited to try and break records and earn prizes later on.

    It's a rather stunted video, sorry - and a bit muddied by our encoding process. I was struggling to find things that wouldn't give the game away too much but also show what was going on. I'm also super brilliant and make it all seem easy. Cough. Plus, that was about my fifth time through there - great way to earn experience, incidentally.

    I've just finished the campaign and have been playing for a fair while and I still don't find the combat boring, despite the deceiving simplicity. I started with a wizard in mind, but started maxing spells so I moved on to other abilities - I'm pretty much an jack of all trades now, so I wouldn't worry about specialising too much.

    Hitting an area effect spell, then slowing down time and cutting down three or four enemies at once before whipping the gun out to shoot a straggler in the head is great fun. Empowering, too.

    We did this quite quickly, too, with no editing to chop together some exciting bits and so on and so forth, so it may be a bit boring :)

    Edited by Bertie at 23/10/08 @ 09:38