Fable Preview

Warcry has written up a http://www.warcry.com/scripts/columns/view_sectionalt.phtml?site=15&id=117&colid=4429">preview of Fable, based upon what they saw of the Xbox RPG at this year's Gen Con. Check it out:
Digging through our rather extensive character statistics, I noticed that our character had a chicken punting record of 16.015 (meters, I believe). Not being one to be outdone, it was time to best that record! So, while still in this lovely dress, we ran up to a chicken, and executed a chicken-punt (with some rather excellent form, if I do say so myself), right over a wall! After some careful calculations, we ended up besting the record by about half a meter. Not bad!

So to give you a bit of an overview, your character has four primary '˜attributes' that affect your appearance and NPC reactions: attractiveness, just what the name implies a character with a positive attractiveness rating will be able to woo the women (or men, or both) with moderate ease, while those with a lower or negative attractiveness will have a much harder time. Don't forget that extensive battles with those pesky bandits may mar your impeccable skin, lowering your attractiveness sorry ladies, but gone are the days of battling hordes of baddies and not breaking a nail.