Albion’s greatest hero (retired) holds forth
The footage also treats us to what feels like a representative mix of actions from the game - wandering a castle marketplace chinwagging with less-than-courteous civilians, stabbing dryads in the mouth, using magic to launch enemies so you can pepper them with arrows. Even afterlast year’s fairly glossy trailer, I’m still quite surprised by how photoreal the new Fable looks. While some may prefer the stylised cartoon vibe of the older Lionhead games and even the rakish Arkane-esque appearance of the abandonedFable Legends, I think Playground has thrashed out an appealing visual direction that doesn’t get in the way of Fable’s parodic writing.
I remember trying to persuade Playground to say something, anything about their new Fable when I profiled them for Edge before the launch ofForza Horizon 4, whose British landscapes were probably great preparation for working on Albion. It was just me and a studio exec, locked in a room for 40 minutes, competing to think of ways of mentioning Fable without saying the word “Fable”. My opinion then and now was and is that Playground are the natural choice to reboot Fable, though much will depend on whether they can put their own stamp on the humour.
