Fable II is the true sequel to the wildly successful original that sold morethan 3 million copies, offering even more choices and building on thecore gameplay theme of Fable, where a player’s every decision continually defines whom they become. Fable 2 is an action role-playing game (RPG) that truly allows players to livethe life they choose in an unimaginably open world environment.

Set 500 years after the original, Fable 2 will providegamers with an epic story and innovative real-time gameplay, includinga massive amount of freedom and choice to explore a vast collection ofdungeons, catacombs and caves in the world of Albion.

At first, the loss of all health would result in a Hero falling down, leading to permanent scars. At the Game Developers Conference in 2008, Peter Molyneuxindicated that the design for death had changed due to player feedbackduring play testing. It was found that players would rather turn offtheir console than subject their character to permanent disfigurement.In the final design, upon losing all health, a hero falls and loses alluncollected experience on the ground, the character is given a scar andsome of the collected experience; this experience is exchanged for a'burst' of energy, allowing one last 'Heroic Struggle' in which theplayer rises to their feet and knocks all enemies away, leaving theplayer momentarily safe from harm. This can, of course, be avoided if the player uses a ressurection phial.