Fable Let Me Choose Whether a Talking Pig Should Live or Become Lunch | IGN Preview

Out of everything under Microsoft's now-massive, multi-publisher umbrella, there is no game I'm more excited for than Fable. I adored the original trilogy (especially Fable 2), and, um, we'll just pretend that the Kinect version, Fable: The Journey, never happened. But anyway, Fable is not only unlike anything else in Xbox's thick portfolio, it's being crafted by arguably the best studio they own: Playground Games, who have done nothing but make one 10 out of 10 after another. Playground also possesses one key trait when it comes to building a Fable game: it's British. This year's Xbox Developer Direct offered the best evidence yet that Playground has all of the ingredients in place to craft a worthy Fable revival, and after the Xbox Showcase – which finally gave the game a firm release date of February 23, 2027 – I got to see it running myself on an Xbox Series X. While I didn't see combat, which is honestly the one true concern I have for this game, seeing as how Playground has never built something with combat in it before and the combat animations from what we've seen so far seem to lack weight when a weapon impacts an enemy, I did see the key non-combat side of Fable: the life