2/16/2023 0 Comments Xbox 360 fable anniversary reviewThe growth of your character is actually the best part of the game. After being saved from a similar fate by Maze of the Heroes’ Guild, you’re drafted into training to become a Hero yourself, and eventually take revenge. But on your sister’s birthday, the village is torn apart by bandits, your father is killed and your family taken. In the realm of Albion, you play as a boy raised in the village of Oakvale. If it couldn’t be the “ Morrowind killer”, it’s not going to trump Skyrim, but it’s still a fun action RPG. Nine years later, it now sees a HD remake. It sold enough to become a surprisingly prolific franchise, but did not meet its lofty ambitions, most infamously about how trees would grow, wither and die over the game’s length. No game better embodied that tendency, however, than Fable, released for the Xbox at the end of 2004. Peter Molyneux may have moved on from AAA game development enough for jokes about his tendency to overhype his games to largely dissipate, but anyone who was there at the time can tell you how full in force they were back when Black & White was released.
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