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Platform: Xbox Genre: RPG Publisher: Microsoft Developer: Big Blue Box ETA: Q1 2004
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Fable
When
a game is hyped to be the best RPG ever, nobody notices. When Peter
Molyneux has a hand in the project, everybody wants to know about it.
Big Blue Box Studios, led by Simon and Dene Carter, have done an
incredible job in creating a hype for the game Fable. After all when
your game is supposed to go toe-to-toe with Halo 2, how can money signs
not flash in your eyes. This game though, can be as good as its hype or
even better. The
game takes place in the fantasy world of Albion. After a normal
childhood, reality teaches you a tough lesson as your family and pet are
murdered and you are thrust into the world alone and unguided. Live the
next 70 years of your live with the path you choose. Will you be evil, a
thief lurking in the shadows or good, or maybe the paladin coming to the
rescue of a damsel in distress? Whichever path you choose will shape the
way you look, act and even NPC's reactions to you. |
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Features -Your
actions shape your body. Wield a heavy sword all day and your muscles
bulge and likewise weave the arts and witness power crackle at your
fingertips. -
'Will' system. Will is the Fable equivalent of MP and the unique thing
about this system is that frequent use speeds up aging. Ever wonder why
wizards always look so old? Now you know. -Follow the storyline and do good deeds or just run around and creat havo. The choice is yours. |
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-Weapons
can affect your rank with NPC's Will you be known as an almighty
Blademaster or the Frying Pan assasin? -Woo
the ladies. If you can't score in real life at least you can in this
game. Risk everything for love or ignore it altogether. -Gain
fans and followers. What can be more fun than hacking up little kids
dressed like you? -Co-op
Play. Play with a friend (If you have any that is). One character has to
be main one which affects NPC's reactions etc. Make the perfect
combinations of characters. An evil character who mows down all the
enemies in the game and a good character to make towns bow down to you. -Champion
or manipulate an ever-changing land with competitive and cooperative
heroes, dynamic weather systems and deformable environments. Interact
with teeming cultures, creatures, and citizens from various towns and
cities. -Look
like a warrior. Earn battle scars during your quest for glory. NPC's do
the same. Hack up a little kid while you venture through a town. Come
back 20 years later and he'll hold those scars and will be after your
throat.
-Every
action has a reaction. Slay some teenaged boys? The next town could get
word of this. The guards will be waiting... This
debut title will propel BBB to glory if it does do well. And to all the
people at BBB who have put so much into the project that they're on the
brink of insanity (They actually have a board with odds on which
employee will crack first) let's hope it does. -
Stefan Shetty (June 1st, 2003) |
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