I pan the camera over the courtyard and there’s some awful pop-in.Ġ8 - I approach a man and the game says press A to interact, this is a bit different than Fable II. What? Can’t I just stay in my pajamas? The butler actually comments on this and thinks it would send the wrong message to my suitor, Elliot.Ġ7 - Ah, there’s the magical golden, sparkly trail telling me exactly where to go. Hey, she’s actually speaking! I don’t think the hero has ever spoken before in a Fable game? Maybe I just pushed it out of my mind.Ġ5 - After a bit of banter I gain control of our heroine and have the option of the practical outfit or the elegant outfit. The butler, voiced by John Cleese, wakes up our princess. Kind of a downer of an opening.Ġ4 - The chef is shown walking back into a large castle and the Fable III title screen appears. Then he flutters into some sort of refinery and is almost melted down.Ġ3 - Aww, sad child laborers accidentally make him into a tea pot, which gets shipped to a chef. We’re apparently following a chicken this time.Ġ2 - Our chicken escapes from its cage and makes a dash for it, getting kicked by marching soldiers and comically(?) landing on the head of a guy about to be killed by an execution squad. The opening movie starts, showing how the age of industry has begun in Albion. It is time you saw what your kingdom was truly like.”Ġ1 - The loading music sounds like the exact same oohs and aahs from Fable II. The same female narrator from Fable II asks who will lead the rebellion: male or female? I think I’ll actually go with a girl for once. Minute by MinuteĠ0 - I press Start and the game detects that I’ve never started a new game before and kicks the first hour of Fable III right off. Willįable III be able to succeed where its predecessor faltered? Or will itsįirst hour lock me in? Let’s find out. Just be so fiendishly over the top with his ambition and pride. While I may not like the finished product much, I will probablyĬontinue to play the first hour of Molyneux’s games though as he can Industry analyst but this seems like a long way to go now that the Needs to sell about five million copies for the series to continue.

A respectable number, though creator Peter Molyneux says it Major review outlets and had sold over two million copies by the end of Released in October of last year, Fable III received good scores from Hopes that developers can learn from their mistakes, however. Presentation of Fable II just felt stuttering and lazy. Gameplay needed a lot of improvement to start, and the overall I wasn’t much of a fan of Fable II, so I’ll be honest to say thatįable III has a lot to prove to get me to play past the first hour.

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