Fable 2 Preview
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There was an air of conviction and confidence about Peter Molyneux as he stood in front of the two large screens at the start of the presentation, speaking about his intentions for his latest baby. Revealing that Showcase provided the opportunity to share the opening moments of Fable 2 for the very first time, the Lionhead boss was far from the over-excitable Molyneux with over-elaborate ideas that he's sometimes seen as being...
Describing the early story arc of Fable 2 as a "voyage of discovery" in a similar fashion to super-hero origin stories, the first scenes of the game begin with a stunningly realised cut-scene as we follow a small bird flying through the snow-covered landscape of Bowerlake, on its way to perch on a stone wall in Bowerstone slums...where we watch it do what birds on ledges frequently do, and promptly follow the bird poo drop down and land on the head of the hero. A tongue-in-cheek entrance to the game, it's one of few cut-scenes being added to Fable 2, thanks to Molyneux's philosophy of minimising the amount of time that control is removed from the player. In fact, just four and a half minutes of cut-scenes are being prepared for Fable 2 - it's certainly a far cry from certain established Japan RPGs...
