Fable 2 Is Short Lived....

Fable 2 is a Medieval/Magic RPG
It is sort of open world, but not like Fallout 3 or Oblivion
After the beginning you can either, start on your main quest, or
go around earning money and getting better armor and buying houses and renting for money,
there are only a few diferent places to go
there are several Bowerstone places, (Market, Town, Cemetery)
and there is another almost full city, and then another location with several houses but not really full (Oak field)

Each location is fun and cool, with lots of secrets to discover

As you play through the story you will round up several "heroes" and then when you finish the game you will have three options..

you may want to replay the game to try the other two that you didn't choose

there are a lot of times throughout the game that you may want to replay and see how it comes out different..

The graphics are sort of cartoonish.... but really bad at the same time, and there is no excuse for that

When people talk about their "fable dog" tell them to shut up, the dog is annoying, worthless and the only reason to keep him is for the achievements about playing games with your dog..

supposedly he can fight..

he never once got a kill for me...

The fighting is pretty much all the same thing, but its fun the ranged weapons are fun, the melee are fun and the magic... is great.. but not until you have upgraded it to 3 or 4 or even 5 for some of them

There are lots of mini games that you can replay

and you will probably find at least one character that you like for one reason or another.

Graphics: 4.0 There is no excuse at all... ridiculous..

Story: 5 Quite boring.. but the side quests are fun.. (and you have to do some to play the main story)

Gameplay 9: Earning money from houses you rent out, to killing citizens that don't give you discounts, its all fun but it does get old faster then it should

Overall: 6.5 Its fun the first time you play through it, and then a little bit after, but I felt no reason to play it a second time (other then get the achievements for choosing different endings)

Content: There is a little blood, there is swearing, you can do "evil" things... but you turn evil looking, oh yes and

there is "fable 2 sex" but everything is blacked out..  and there are hookers.. but you don't see anything

recommended for mature teens and above

I would recommend this game as a rental, and maybe even a buy,  for fans of RPGs and people who don't hate Medieval Magic stuff...

Mass Effect

Start off by saying
the only reason to play this game is for the story

Mass Effect was fun the first time through
at the beginning it started off sort of like the Knights of the Old Republic games, with a tutorial like level that is related to the story (a lot) and then you get somewhere but you can't get/use your ship yet and then you do some quests related to the main plot and you get it

During the entire first (second counting Eden Prime) the story is fun, and so is the gameplay
During this part of the game you will be glad that you rented/bought it

then

as soon as you get your ship it goes downhill FAST
it is exactly like knights of the old republic in the way that you travel to several planets and collect maps/people
basically tracking Saren trying to find a way to defeat him (he is the villain of the game)

All three (yes there are three....) planets are pretty much the same
the first one (Noveria or something like that..) is the best
with the second and third being so boring that you want to rip your hair out, although some of the side quests are fun (there is no real way to know when someone has a quest for you except sometimes you will hear someone "saying shepherd over here")
then after two of the planets are completed it will become obvious that Saren has been doing some work on another planet (that looks a lot like the unknown world from SWKOTOR 1 and that is a good thing)
and you can go there
this is were the plot really starts to pick up
I don't want to spoil anything
but after that there are two more levels

Since the game is pretty open playing... there is a lot I didn't know where to put above

side quest planets
they are randomly generated (I hope so, because they all look the same and suck)
after the first few you will probably want to just avoid them..

Side quests
there are a lot of good side quests for you to do, most of them are on the main place (Taris/Dantooine for the knights games)

Leveling is easy and worth it because you get "powers" for every few levels in each skill that can really turn the tide of a battle (not that 2 or three shots doesn't usually kill .. instantly...)

unlike the KOTOR games the armors are hardly different then each other and you will only have to change them a few times in the coarse of the game, same with the weapons (everything has upgrades that you find)

now for a few more of the problems
Major texture popping issues
pretty much everything is the same (you will raid the same bunker like 20 times..)
there is a glitch that when you get into your ship the screen will stay black forever (it happened three times to me so save before you get in)
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The journals usually keep you knowing where to go, although the side quests would be better in another section so you don't confuse them..
the map is only so helpful.. because there are sometimes multiple levels and stories to one place
thats pretty much it

GRAPHICS: some of the best I have ever seen, a little bit less then Bioshock and a little bit more then Call of Duty 4 (the faces of the Characters are the best part) 8.5/10
STORY: Bioware. 9/10
GAMEPLAY: 4/10 fighting sucks... and gets really boring..
FEATURES: you can replay the campaign with your character staying at the same stats which is fun no co-op (although I see why..)3.5
Re playability:  not much.. after you beat it once and know the entire story... the middle of the game you might have to force your self to re-do.. but there are some hard choices that might make you want to see what would have happened if it had been different..3.0

Overall: 5  Fun rental for one play through and for any KOTOR fun but if you don't like RPGs (ya, those games were you talk and then fight) you won't like this game
5 for above average