A New Continent?
Fable I and Fable II were both purely based in the land of Albion, shrouded with mystery and history in both games, however the third of the game introduces a new - hostile land in which you will probably have to fend off. Little is currently known about this place, Aurora, but they threaten your newly acquired Kingdom and it is your duty as King (or Queen) to deal with this situation - however you want.
I Can Feel It
In this game, the sympathy generated from Fable III has escalated to an entire new level! You can now touch people in a way never before done in previous RPG's. You can grip the criminal or carry the child and anything in between. This will allow more realistic actions done that do not look comically silly (yet halirious in some cases). You can even hold hands with a girl/boyfriend, not usually with...
Gloves, Wait, What?
Now, magic is done with two different gloves you can gather, through stealing, buying or as a reward you can get new Gloves which can level up and generate a specific element of magic you will use to combat foes. Each glove will combine with the other to make a suitable single-target spell or one with an area of effect, make a very fluent and powerful cast which will leave your combatants devastated!
How Will I Wear Them
Your throughly British butler (voiced by John Cleese) will assist you (without a Gaming User Interface) with your costumes in your very own dressing room! Complimenting your fascinating suits or cracking a joke at how stupid it may be. At least you can see how it will look on you before you equip it.
Speaking About Equipment
You don't just use magic to assist your bloody battles, guns and melee weapons will be returning with a much greater aspect of morphing and leveling.
Weapon Morphs
That's right, your weapons change and develop as you do! As you begin using your sword it will slowly be getting sharper and sharper until it is eventually maxed out. Not only that, but its appearance changes on whom and what you kill. Be it killing wolves, it may transform into a giant fang. Or it could be a massacre of innocent civilians cleansing your tool of destruction with blood dripping down it - or a giant bloody fang what make it look really cool. Types of enemies will change it and mixes may be a very intriguing thing. But that isn't to say they forgot about your character.
To the Extreme
One of the very attractive changes is the 'Extreme Emote', allowing you to sprout wings which itself looks varied depending on your stance (good, evil, pure, corrupt - you are permitted any combination of good / evil and pure / corrupt). Use this to strike fear into your minions or to spread love amount your most devout citizens, even a serious combat effect maybe used using this very threatening mechanic.
More than One New Continent
You can also visit other peoples Kingdoms and check out their fantastic or disgraceful intentions, cooperation with another player is also spread further as it enables the two of your to spread as far out as you want without the need to stick together, allowing more free movement and fun gameplay montages. Even if you don't see them again, you can always give them something to remember you by...
In-Game Trade
You can now trade weapons and armor to people you meet online with much more specialized gear, making each item unique and thus valuble will be very important on Fable III, it will be great to see people online bargaining for great items. Possibly even more Kingdom-like resources...
You're the King!
You have always been a hero one way or another in the Fable games, yet even after 550 years your dragon-slayer ancestor isn't so well remembered, now however everyone will know of your deeds and be recorded throughout history. You may be able to trade slaves and coal for different resources online - that is, of course, if you tolerate slavery. Of course, you cannot simply start as King...
Your Evil Brother
Your evil brother, Logan, has usurped the throne from your father / mother from the previous Fable game, buy by sinister means. Learning of this at adult age, you begin your journey to lead a revolution against the horrible tyrant. Of course, people put under such pressure may fear the consequences of such an alliance, you will need to encourage them...
Promises
Everyone has been there when you promise something, forget about it and question if you had at a later date when confronted by a friend. You may need to do the same here to both gain power and maybe maintain it. People will seek to obtain their supposed awards when they come to you asking what had happened - it will be your choice on what to do. Of course, bad times with Logan may have instilled desparate measures for some people now homeless and unable to survive, something as serious as lying to his majesty will seem a small price to pay. You can also choose how to confront this.
Free Gameplay Style
As King or Queen it is your duty to protect the people and lead them, but how? Will you openly suggest what to do and receive the support of your loyal followers, or will you be in your study at night finding a small financial gap you could use to complete you wine cellar? If you are challenged by someone will you take them into your castle and have them executed, or will you challenge them into your new arena and battle it out in fight-to-the-death to determine if you are worthy of such a role.
You Can Play Morally
To a degree this game will prove a useful test for moral questions, not only that, but it will be able to simulate some proper consequences for your actions, and it will not only be what you do - it will be how you do it also. Decide how you deal with the people and adjust according to their reactions, you may need to voice it slightly differently to that in which you actually intend. Politics is a tricky business, a much more grand scale than your previous characters...
Big Decisions Make Big Changes
Whether it be the tax amount or the dealing with the local landlord, you will always change how something works somewhere with every action you do, and it could go as far as flip the table on the specific area in terms of poverty or prosperity. You will need to be cautious about this if you want to let it last.
It Will Last!
This, is just through one play. Imagine being able to do this 50 times and each time it will come out differently? Maybe first you be good at the start with a fang as a sword, then you be evil with a bloody fang. Next you could be evil all the way through, with a flintlock rifle with an unrecognisable trigger. There will be a series of weapons and a series of changes unique to every weapon, making hundreds - maybe a thousand different combinatons you can use, and that is excluding your own physical form!
The Summary
With amazing changes to the very unique world of Albion with every game, this one has taken one of the biggest steps yet! If you've been looking for such an astonishing RPG game with some unique history (such as the name Albion itself) you will be impressed indeed. Fable III will be for PC and Xbox, coming out October 26 for Xbox - but there is not yet a date for the PC version.
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