While it may have been proclaimed to be finished earlier this year, Fable II has only in the last few days gone gold, which means the game is officially finished, with discs being pressed for general gamer consumption. From the Lionhead website:

“It’s been three years since we finished ‘Fable: The Lost Chapters’ and since then we’ve built a new engine, built an entire new tools architecture and editor, created a new and compelling story, built and populated a world which is massive compared to the original Fable, attempted highly complex and difficult things. We looked at EVERY aspect of Fable 1 reworked, recreated, expanded and got to hang together in (what we think) is an amazing game.”

Well, congratulations Lionhead. European gamers will be able to get their hands on Fable II on the 24th of October, while US gamers get it on October 21st. The only questions now are if you’ve already pre-ordered, and are you going for the Collector’s Edition?