Fable II CE contents, price trimmed

Perhaps more so than his work on genre-defining titles, such as Populous and Syndicate, Peter Molyneux has become known for not delivering on promised features for the final retail products of his games. With the release of Lionhead Studios' action role-playing game Fable II just a few weeks away, the designer isn't doing that reputation any favors.

Last week, Microsoft said Fable II's oft-touted online co-op mode would not be finished in time for the game's retail release. As a result, the publisher hopes to patch in the mode for North American gamers sometime during the first week of the game's release, though the timing for European co-op remains in limbo.

Today, Lionhead had a bit more bad news to report. By way of the studio's official blog, Lionhead community manager Sam Vantilburgh revealed that the Fable II Limited Collector's Edition has been dramatically scaled back from what was previously announced. Due to "supply chain issues," the bundle will no longer included a premium box, the five printed fate cards, or a Hobbe figure.

As the collector's edition now stands, it will include the game itself and?a "Making of" DVD. Collector's edition purchasers will also be granted bonus in-game content, including The Hall of the Dead dungeon, a weapon, and Halo-themed Spartan armor and energy sword. As a result of the cuts, the collector's edition has been discounted from $79.99 to $69.99.

Hoping to regain a bit of goodwill, Vantilburgh also announced that Lionhead has released a special Fable soundtrack that can be downloaded for free through Sumthing Digital beginning October 6. For more on Fable II, check out GameSpot's previous coverage.

Source: Gamespot

just revealed two days ago on X-Play, the co-op patch is done, and while it wont ship with the game, if Microsoft doesn't shoot it down for one reason or another, the patch will be available the day it's released.

No updates on the patch. Of course, this could mean good or bad news.
I'll update this once I find any updates.

We'll probably hear about it tomorrow or Tuesday. And the final verdict on the game.

EDIT: According to wikipedia, it was just announced today, October 19, that the patch will be available as free DLC from the Xbox LIVE market place on the launch day worldwide.

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People have the game, and they say they have had an update.
I guess we can count on co-op as soon as we pop in the disk.

I just said that the patch would be ready in time.

Maybe I should've pre ordered the collector's edition... hmmm...

If you want Halo DLC aswell as some weapons and a new area to explore, you should have:P

But you can only get the dungeon and the master chief armor IF YOU HAVE LIVE!

You're so evil >.<

I really just wanted the DVD.

Get LIVE then, lol. Its worth it. You meet some awesome people.

I couldn't pre-order the collecters edition where I lived unless it was Gamestation for �45.
They'll release the area and Chief DLC soon enough on XBL Marketplace, I'll be happy enough with the normal game for now though.

I would, but I need to buy the wireless adaptor to connect online, and I'm really busy in school right now, so my parents really wouldn't let me for a while.

zavvi were selling the game for �38 pooly. Thats where I got mine from - AND ITS JUST BEEN DISPATCHED! :D

On 22-Oct-2008 Arbitor said:

zavvi were selling the game for �38 pooly. Thats where I got mine from - AND ITS JUST BEEN DISPATCHED! :D

I could only get mine from Game, I traded 3 crappy Ds, 1 Xbox and 1 Wii game in and got �38.50 for them, and that was only on a trade in card, so it was that or Mercs 2 >_<

Ahh, you made the better choice. It is one hell of a game.

Yeah. It's awesome. I won't tell you where I am right now, since even though it doesn't ruin the plot, Arbitor may think it will. I'll just tell you that it resembles a very fun place from Fable I.

Can you have multiple files on the same account? It doesn't look like you can, and I haven't checked yet, but I really want to keep my current character an be able to start a game with a female character.

I read you can, but I've not tried it. To busy with my pure evil guy

Yeah, I'm going to make a "Good" girl character once I finish my evil guy. And by "Finish" I just mean complete the main story.

Heh, I got the CE Edition after, and a special edition guide book which comes with a 300 page guide, and an art book around the same length, for some reason there was no free pub games though.
My character was good, until I joined a mates game, he killed 8 gaurds and I got all the evil points, so I'm gonna go good or evil and pure for now.