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The voice acting is sublime: with a cast featuring John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Sir Ben Kingsley and Simon Pegg, playing a videogame has never felt so close to a night at the theatre.
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The odd clipping flub can be forgiven, but I spent a third of the game watching the cape and sword on my hero’s back continually disappear into each other (it’s a magic sword, not an invisible one). The glowing trail that indicates where you’re supposed to go still disappears, and the collision detection is hit and miss. But it is still lumpy with kinks that should have been worked out by now, three games into the franchise. So, what about the nuts and bolts of the game? Visually, it is beautiful as always, with its distinct tone that is atmospheric despite being cartoon-like. The ability to buy, sell, decorate, and profit from houses and shops also impacts on the main quest this time around, so everything has a purpose. Also, this dynamic is worked into the main quest much more significantly, so this “total control” gimmick feels like it actually has a point: the clothing choices aren’t just for giggles sometimes you are required to change clothes to infiltrate a mercenary camp, or attend a masquerade ball, or to look more like a chicken. You still have the freedom to do whatever (or whomever) you want, buy whatever you want, wear whatever you want dyed whatever colour you want, but it feels less overwhelming. In Fable III, the supermarket is still there, but this time you are given a recipe. Playing Fable 2 was like trying to create a gourmet meal in a supermarket: sure, the ingredients we needed were there, but so was a bunch of stuff we didn’t need, and there was no way of knowing which was which. Cramming as much of what Fable is famous for into a tighter, more easily accessible package.
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This is a feature of Fable III as a whole: Condensing. Our story begins much later than we’re used to: the traditional tragic, character building childhood featured in the first two games has been condensed into a single tragic, character building moral dilemma you must face as a young adult. The setting for a long-overdue revolution is set: and so-as Theresa, voiced by Zoe Wanamaker, enjoys telling us-our story begins.Īnd here comes the first major change in Fable III. He (or she) has long since died, leaving the land in the hands of your tyrannical older brother (or sis-no, wait, he’s always your brother), Logan.Īs the industrial age starts to boom, Logan rules Albion with an iron fist: sucking the money, joy and sometimes even life from its people.
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You are the son (or daughter) of the old king (or queen) of Albion, the hero (or heroine) of Fable 2 (or II). If there was a videogame set in Brisbane’s Albion, it would be very short: the main quest would simply be to get out of Albion as quickly as possible.)įable III starts fifty years after the end of Fable II. (The ‘Albion’ in question is a fictional land, not the Brisbane suburb of the same name.
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Hitch up your pantaloons and grab your needlessly ornate sword: we’re going back to Albion for Lionhead Studios’s “Fable III”: the game series that combines action, role playing, world renowned British actors and chicken kicking.