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Wednesday, August 18, 2004

Fable - The Greatest Preview of All Time - Express Yourself

Hey, folks who have an Xbox, listen up:

This is a preview of a new RPG, Fable, exlusive for the Box only.

This section of the article is courtesy of xbox.ign.

Enjoy!

Expressions 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.

You can use expressions at any time. Walking alone in a swamp, don't be afraid to let out a little chuckle. Walk by the mayor and flip her off, that'll go well. Or stride up to a gal and make with the sexy talk. This is your main mode of communication and there's a startling number of ways to be both nice and aggressive. Expressions are a great way to get some good reactions from people. You'd be surprised how many lines of dialogue seem dedicated to people being offended by a fart or belch. The best I heard in my two hours: "Why don't you decapitate yourself and try that again?" I promptly sliced him up and then shoved my sword through his spine when he was on the ground. And then I burped again.

I do have some concerns over expressions, however. I found sometimes that, especially when chatting up women, I would stand around and just cycle through expressions trying to build up someone's liking for me. Rather than being interactive, it felt more like playing a game of Sims. Blech. I can't say that's how the experience will feel in a regular game, where there's a lot of time to chat with people and there's no time limit. I mean, I had two hours and that was that, so I had to work my mojo quickly with the ladies.

Couple that with the fact that (obviously) you can only assign four expressions to the D-Pad and it can force you to have to open up the menu system quite often to change up the expressions or simply to access more of them.
That's a bit cumbersome, especially since there are so many expressions in the game. This is probably, for me, the weakest areas in terms of what I played. It's not bad, it's just a bit clunky and I don't know that that's really gonna get much of a fix between now and September 14.

I wish I had a Box, now. Such a lovely game to be able to play!

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