Sneak Peek
By Fable Knight
The majority of Fable's tale takes place with your
hero out of his teens and entering early manhood.
However, before you can reach this world, you'll have
to make it through your character's youth.
In fact, if you want, you can be a total and utter
jerk from the start. You simply play how you want. You
want to beat up little girls in your first town? They
cry and cry and eventually you get scolded, but hay
you dont care. You can abuse people, steal stuff from
their homes, break their property,slap guards, and
even kill innocents. One early incident involves a boy
being bullied. He begs you to scare off the bully, but
the bully offers to let you join him in taunting the
poor boy. If you want some evil points, start womping
on the poor boy.
In Fable there are always consequences for your
actions. As an adult, if you attack anyone in a town
in sight of a guard you will be fined. Refuse to pay
the fine and guards will attack and attack and attack
and attack. They'll call guards in from other towns
just to get you out of town. The same thing happens if
you break a barrel. After all, that's someone's
property and they aren't gonna be happy with you
breaking their things. You can go into many houses in
Fable and search for items, but taking something is
still stealing.
For each evil or good deed you'll earn morality
points. The better or worse the deed, the more you
earn.
If you've got talent, you can decapitate an enemy an
d then play soccer with his head. Conversely, you can
become the merciful one, who spares enemies when
possible, helps even those who don't want to be
helped, and offer gifts of charity to the
impoverished. These things can be done throughout your journey in Fable.
When a person sees you, it's not just your
"alignment" that matters. Your appearance plays a
factor in how others interact with you. If you've got
a pitch black cloak, spiked gloves, and a sneer on
your face, that will help increase your scariness
factor.
If you are renown for being good, people may
actually follow you of their own and cheer you on.
Others will offer passing comments. Women may swoon at
your presence. If you've been bad, the guards will
actually come up to you as you enter town and warn
that they've got their eye on you.
Reactive interactions come when you approach and
choose to talk to people. Big Blue Box did a smart
thing by having every character display one of three
colored auras -- blue, green, or red. Blue means this
is someone who has basically a passing comment to
offer and no real info. Green is someone who has info,
a quest, needs help, or just simply will offer you
deeper interaction at that moment. Red is any enemy
(and you can hold down the Left Trigger to target any
civilian and make them glow red).People may not offer
a certain quest if you are too good or evil for their
tastes.
Expressions (basicly the way you talk) are handled on
the D-Pad and you'll gather dozens of them as your
progress through the world of Albion. At first you get
just a couple. You can laugh and fart, but you will
learn a lot more useful expressions simply by
interacting with the world. You'll learn to hit on
girls (and guys), make sexy poses, offer a menacing
growl, motion for people to follow you, flip the bird,
say rude things about people, sneer, chuckle,
compliment, and my favorite, the grind, where our hero
asks, "Hey, baby, you wanna..." and then begins
jack-hammering the air with his hips. Oh yes, this
game has it all. |
