New CVG Fable 2 Preview

[Dark Drakan]

New CVG Fable 2 Preview

CVG have recently put up their preview of Lionheads upcoming title Fable 2 (im sure you have heard of it).

Clearly, the game's still a little way from being retail ready, even though the white board in the corner of the room says there are only seven days left until "content complete". Menu items are missing, shaders and shadows flicker in an un-finished fashion, and our hero's dog is bizarrely glowing pink.

"I probably shouldn't say this, but on May 16 we're going to be content complete, which means we're going to have art and assets locked down. The world in Fable 2 is twenty times larger than the first game's, there's a hell of a lot more sandbox. There's also the fact that every single building, even the dungeons, are buyable. I like giving the player a feeling of familiarity at the beginning. If we're going to make a game that's really going to be dramatic, making people feel like they're not just looking through a portal at this world is really important. One of the problems with that is the mini-map. We had one of those ghastly, distasteful things in the top corner of the screen, and our levels were getting so detailed that we realised that our mini-map was getting bigger. So we said, 'let's just get rid of it'. There are other games that don't do it. So we replaced the mini-map with this little bad boy...

Can Read Full Article Here:

Preview: Fable 2 - CVG.com

 

[Steve]

Re: New CVG Fable 2 Preview

Sounds good to me! I'll be heading over to CVG now to check it out. Cheers, DD!

 

[Zarkes]

Re: New CVG Fable 2 Preview

I'm sorry no what is this all about? JK drakan