Fable II Is Just Another Myth
In a single word. No.
Wait. Not just no, but HECK no.
Fable II fails in places that it's predecessor succeeded. For one, the game is entirely bug ridden. From animations that get stuck including falling bodies, disappearing dead enemies (left in a twitching loop), frozen magic spell animations, and a HOST of dialogue / storyline progression bugs. It makes you wonder how this game was even released to the public in it's current state, especially with the dialog problems which force players to save games, and then reload to 'fix', or rather 'get around' the bug.
And load times. They aren't short. They are long, and completely unacceptable for a game of this type on a current gen platform. Oblivion had a more rich landscape than Fable and it had wider and more diverse areas with fewer load screens. You can literally traverse areas in under a minute before a new load screen will pop up. Oh, and I did mention they take a while right?
Another let down is the fact that player aging is completely gone in this game for all intents and purposes. Their are now 'story archs' that progress the story 10 to 15 years at a time which then age the player. Considering the first game had true player aging, the loss of it in the sequel is a more than a minor let down.
Gameplay is still good. It's the same solid game play (pretty easy) from the original Fable. Fighting, shooting, and magic are all done fairly well, with only the occasional context issue. Enemies seemed to get turned around a LOT allowing you to hit them from behind repeatedly, making for easy kills. The difficult setting on this game is definitely of Lego origins.
I'm still playing through Fable II, but I'm nearly done with the game, and all I can say is it's yet another huge let down. Not only did it fail to deliver on the original promise of it's predecessor, a wrong the developers claimed they were going right, but the lack of features from the original and the sheer number of bugs makes Fable II just another Myth.