It may require the download of a patch, but Lionhead Studios has announced that Fable II will include multi-player on the day of its release, which just so happens to be today.
The game's promised online mode comes in the form of co-op play. It was announced last month that the feature had to be cut from the retail copy of the game, and would be added later through a patch.
This growing trend of last-minute patches and the shipping of "incomplete" games is a disturbing one, but the good news for now is that we all get to play some Fable II co-op from the get-go.
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