Games Convention 2004 Overview
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And then there was Fable: Peter Molyneux's long awaited title for the Xbox. The game was shown on 6 big plasma widescreens and on one small screen - I have to say that it looks awesome on a widescreen. The graphics look great and the game plays well, too. There was not enough time to play it for too long, but I guess I have enough time to play it at home, now that it is released.
The game starts out with you as a boy, who is living happily with his family in a small village. You get your first quest in this early part, which consists of buying a birthday present. You raise money from others by performing some good deeds, allowing you to buy the present but before you can hand it over, the home of your family is raided and everyone, except you, is killed. A stranger, who leads you to an academy where you will be trained in combat and other matters, eventually rescues you. While there you learn the controls and grow older from a young boy into a young man, while performing several quests. You can be a good person and finish the academy or behave badly and eventually get thrown out of the academy. This is as much I played but I can say that the game plays very smoothly and had me hooked to the screen for a long time, longer than I could afford as I was late for my next appointment, making it impossible to play both as a good and a bad boy or grow up very much. It must, however, be very interesting to see the boy grow up and eventually even get married and have children. How often do you see that happen in a game?
