Fable 2: Knothole Island

The first DLC for one of last year's most brilliant releases. An extra 100 gamerscore up for grabs. Splendid. So eagerly I bought it last night and started playing. And it must be said I'm a tad disappointed. Whilst it was fun to revisit Fable 2 for the first time in two months, the content is a tad on the small side. I started it, completed all three new quests, got all the new achievements, bought every property and emptied every shop on the new island of its stock in around two hours.

Basically it goes like this (spoilers ahead): You get a new quest message, go to Bowerstone market and a chap in a submarine takes you to the new island, where everything is covered in snow and ice. The chieftain of the village, a complete credit-seeking cock, says it's too cold. Your task is to go to a dig spot and using either a spade or a dog (which can now be ressurected if you chose sacrifice at the end of the main game) dig up a key for a temple. Then you go to the Ice Shrine, navigate a few rooms of fairly harmless enemies and use a thing at the end to make it sunny. Then you go back to Albion and waste some time until the next quest comes up, go back to Knothole Island, dig up the key for the Sun Shrine, go through that, doing much the same as before, only now with some very annoying flit switch puzzles, and use a thing at the end to make it rain. Back to Albion, then back to the island, dig up the Storm Shrine key, go through the temple and use the thing at the end to make it snowy again, completing the cycle. And that's it, all done. Just two other achievements, find the 10 hidden books on the island, which aren't particularly well hidden, and buy everything from the mystery shop, which involves getting a list of stuff you need to trade for other stuff and visiting all the traders in Albion to stock up on said stuff, before trading it in for other stuff.

And that is everything new you get from the DLC in one (admittedly quite long) paragraph. If, like me, you have already 1kd Fable 2 and are a completionist, you've probably bought it already. If you haven't, or aren't, and just wanted the new quests, at 800MSP it's very hard to recommend. The best thing it did was remind me just how beautiful and wonderful Fable 2 is. And that's worth £6.80 of anyone's money.