10 years ago Fable brought something new to the RPG world by giving a player the ability to choose their own path of good, evil, or a little of both. Now Fable Legends will again bring something new to the XBox One, a multi-player experience where a player can team up with other heroes or reign terror down as their own personal villain. This week at E3 Microsoft revealed gameplay footage showing the beautiful enviorment, intrepid heroes, and a little of what it’s like to be bad.
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Set 400 years before the events of Fable, Legends will take place around the town of Albion where heroes will gather together to quest against dark forces in search of an ancient artifact. Players will choose one of four customizable characters: a sly and charismatic swordsman, a well equipped and frosty mage, a tower shield wielding bad ass chick, and an archer with plenty of arrows to get the job done. Players will also have the opportunity to be bad with an overhead RTS style and littering the field with baddies and traps for the unsuspecting heroes.
Using XBox’s Cloud capabilities, Fable Legends will only be available to play online which will be disappointing. Letting an AI take the place of any missing players the game will be mostly consisted of dungeon crawls with scheduled DLC’s to extend gameplay well into the future.
Check out Microsoft’s presentation here!
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A Beta is expected to be coming soon with a full release of the game by the end of the year.