This game is definitely an upgrade to the original, but not by much. You become overpowered if you do the tiniest amount of "grinding" - eg doing a job and then being able to afford the best items quickly.
The sense of humour holds this game up from being totally terrible as it contains some great British talent, like Steven Fry.
The story feels thrown together - with limited options with how you can actually effect the story other than "do good thing" or "do bad thing".
The menu system is really bad, along with a pretty much non existent map makes the world hard to feel immersed in.
The combat becomes very repetitive and pointless after a few hours.
We had to force ourselves through the last few hours of the game.
The cut scenes were pretty cool though.
Not as much charm as the original Fable but updated mechanics made it feel a bit nicer to play. Hoping Fable 3 is better