Fable II: Game Episodes available
The first chapter of Fable II: Game Episodes, Microsoft’s episodic version of Fable II, is now available for free to all Xbox LIVE members (Silver and Gold). Fable II: Game Episodes features delivers Fable II in five consecutive installments. The five episodes offer all the Achievements and challenges of the disk-based game. The first episode, which is completely free, lets players experience childhood and the trials of being a young adult in the world of Albion. After completing this chapter, players have the option to purchase the next installment and continue the adventure. Naturally if you don’t purchase anything then you’re done.
Fable II: Game Episodes is fully compatible with the retail version of Fable II, allowing players to enter Albion and continue their story should they purchase Fable II at retail. The episodes also deliver full compatibility with the previously released Game Add-ons, Knothole Island and See the Future.
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Fable II goes episodic with Fable II: Game Episodes
As part of its Fable III announcement today at GamesCom in Cologne, Germany, Microsoft also announced that it would be releasing Fable II in episodes via its freshly launched Games on Demand service. Thankfully the first chapter will be free. The launch of Fable II: Game Episodes will debut Sept. 29 with the release of the first episode for free download exclusively on Xbox LIVE.
In the first episode, players will begin as a child in the world of Albion. After completing the chapter, players have the choice to then purchase the next installment or the entire game (in select regions). Fable II: Game Episodes will deliver the entire Fable II experience in five installments, with all the Achievements, challenges and character growth of the disk-based game, as well as full compatibility with the previously released Game Add-ons, Knothole Island and See the Future. The episodes are also fully compatible with the disk-based, retail version of Fable II, allowing players to continue their story should they purchase Fable II at retail.
More information about “Fable III” and the episodic release of Fable II will be made available at a later date at http://www.lionhead.com.
