At today's Fable reboot. With Xbox Game Studios working overtime to build a first-party lineup to rival Sony's on the lead-up to the launch of the Xbox Series X
This surprise reveal shocked many despite the further swelled by a Microsoft trademark, with the publisher renewing with intent to use.
Now, those rumors have been proven true at the Xbox Games Showcase, where Playground Games unveiled a brief but magical teaser for a simply titled Xbox Series X and PC reboot, Fable. Based on the trailer's silky and epic narration, the franchise reboot will still focus on "stories of legendary heroes and treacherous villains," but promising that "not all stories have happy endings." True to the series' cheeky humor as previously established by Peter Molyneux's Lionhead, the trailer features a dainty fairy being suddenly swallowed by a toad. The teaser also hints that Playground hasn't lost the Fable games sense of epic fantasy wonder, promising a fantastical setting replete with the knighthood, castles, and mystical forests that fans expect.
So far, though, very little can be gleaned about how Playground Games' Fable reboot will actually look and play. That could very well mean that the game is still very early in development, as no actual release date or window was provided beyond the cinematic teaser's charms. Capped off by a name reveal and sweeping look at what is still presumably Albion, it's probably safe to assume the massive fantasy city 'pon a hill will be the capital city Bowerstone or a similarly important central location in the serie's rebooted universe. While Xbox Games Studios was happy to treat loyal fans to hearty helpings of nostalgia at today's presser with this teaser and a Psychonauts 2 trailer starring Jack Black, it's simultaneously possible that Playground might not shy away from really exploring and redefining what Fable will be.
Of course, there will be plenty of time to discover what a next-gen revisit of Fable will entail for players when it eventually launches (and even more time to speculate in the interim), as Microsoft promises that today's excellent Xbox Game Showcase will not be the last of this E3-less summer's announcements.
Source: Xbox
