Preview Video Discussion: New Fable Legends Artwork and Details

Rocky · Mar 3, 2014

Name: New Fable Legends Artwork and Details
Category: Gaming Previews
Date Added: 03 March 2014 - 01:18 PM
Submitter: Rocky
Short Description: Motion Capture With Matt Frost!

With Fable Anniversary out of the way, the avuncular Demon Door that is Lionhead has begun to whisper of Fable Legends, the developer's first game for Xbox One. There's a lot of firsts where Legends is concerned, actually. It's the first boxed Fable game to give players a choice of heroes, for starters. Would you like to meet one of those heroes? His name is Sterling, and he's quite the charmer.

As detailed in a new blogpost, Sterling is "dashing, skilful and perfect of skin". He's also a dab hand with a rapier, which is probably going to the aspect of his personality that proves most useful.

"Out in the real world, Sterling soon found that the real land of Albion is a little different from that of the story books," notes the post. "It is less a world of glass footwear and magical mice and more one of unwashed thieves and rabid chickens. Discovering that Albion's roads are mostly mud and droppings instead of paved with gold hasn't put Sterling off though. Instead he's become even more determined to make the world the way he thinks it should be. If a chicken needs rescuing, he'll rescue it with style. If an ogre is menacing a village, then consider it despatched with panache."

The stuff about rabid chickens tallies with lead content designer Ben Brooks's observation that the Albion of Legends is more "dark fairytale" than steampunk fantasy.

"Don't let Sterling's manicured hands and spotless velvet jacket deceive you," the post continues. "He might have been born to a life of sheltered luxury, but he'll always be found in the thick of the action (where better to be admired?). A smile, a wink and an arc of silver, he is more than a match for the many beasts lurking in Albion's forests. After all, he wouldn't have kept those perfect teeth and complexion if his sword was just for decoration."

Update - Lionhead has release a rather flamboyant video about motion capture in Fable Legends, starring both Sterling and Fable: The Journey hero Gabriel. "This is not representative of final gameplay or character assets," notes the blurb. Let's hope it's representative of the tone, at least - nothing screams "saviour of humanity" like wiggling your bum.

You'll be able to level up and customise your heroes in Fable Legends, but there's much less control over moral alignment than in the numbered Fables. All the Heroes are basically benign, though some are more upstanding than others.

Notice that there's a second character in the accompanying image - a pint-sized figure with an enormous rucksack. Is this another hero, or some manner of hero's minion? Time will tell.

Fable Legends isn't the only Xbox One game Lionhead is working on.

Source - OXM
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