Fable II Pub Games
Fable II Pub Games
- Fable II Pub Games*** is an Xbox Live Arcade game developed by Carbonated Games under the supervision of Lionhead Studios and released for the Xbox 360 in 2008. It includes three pub game-styled minigames called *Keystone*, *Fortune's Tower* and *Spinnerbox* that all share functionality with *Fable II*. The games are included in both editions of *Fable II*. It was also free for those who pre-ordered *Fable II* from participating retailers.
Gameplay Pub Games consists of three different casino-style games, of which only low-stakes versions can be played from the start. For every piece of gold the player bets on these games, they earn experience points that can be used to unlock higher-stakes versions and Fable II concept art. Tournaments for these games are also unlocked, giving players an opportunity to win items by competing with computer-controlled opponents. Rather than a spinning wheel, the player throws three six-sided dice, and makes bets prior to the throw on what the outcome will be, as in Roulette, picking the exact total, the range of the score, and so forth. The more uncommon the roll, the higher the payout (i.e. 3 and 18 pay the highest).
The major departure from Roulette is that the game is based around a stone arch composed of tiles from 3 to 18, with the 3, 10, 11, and 18 tiles being "Archstones". When dice are rolled, a tile to its corresponding result removes the tile. If either both the 10 and 11 Keystones or just one of the base (3 or 18) stones are removed, the game ends. The player must initially make an arch-bet (a bet on a Keystone) which remains throughout the game. If the die is rolled a value matching a removed stone, it removes the stone adjacent to it, based on its position (lower if it is 10 or less, higher if it is 11 or higher). If the first roll of the game is a 3 or 18, it is declared a Jackpot and all arch-bets automatically win; the game still ends. | GSpot = 6.5/10 | IGN = 6.4/10 }}
On Metacritic, a website aggregating review scores, the game received a score of 53, indicating "mixed or average reviews".