For the whole playing world, a discussion of personality Peter Moligne is an obligatory point of the program when reviewing its next brainchild. Like, the developer is good and even in some places talented, but not all his oaths are faithful, loves to embellish a lot and find hundreds of reasons for non-fulfilling the abandoned promises. But the most important thing is not to take away from this person – he is a really talented game designer. No matter how much his creations are accused of excessive simplification and sometimes even foolishness, we all pass them, sharing their impressions with each other. The series Fable is simply perfect for this description – the third part has recently arrived at computers. Owners of Xbox 360 could meet her at the end of last year. And we tried to understand whether such projects are needed at all on PC, or if they should remain console exclusives?
Old fairy tale about the main
The question, of course, is posed a few tough. But the share of rationality in it is still present. You begin to understand this by going through a good half Fable 3 (Fortunately, she is very short). Now we are isolating a little balm in the hearts of those who are used to jumping into any near-game themes of our blogs (or in a commentary on published materials) with words, the approximate meaning of which, as a rule, is interpreted as follows: “PC-gaming forever! Console – evil and for stupid casuals!"Forced to admit, the third part of the" fables " Moligne After Dragon Age or The Witcher 2, it is perceived as a morning walk with a player compared to a real Olympic race of three kilometers.
The Fable series itself was not originally associated with some serious and self-sufficient phenomenon. Rather, it was a parody, a curved and simplified idea of the developers about the genre and the laws by which he lives. The role component was of significant value only in the first part. To the third from her, we will speak directly, we decided to get rid of it completely. Lionhead Studios calculated the accumulation of experience and tracking the state of strips of life and mana burdensome. Authors Fable 3 made the main adventure itself and the ability to constantly make a choice, which in the future in the most direct way will affect the local world. Simply put, this game no longer has the right to be called role -playing (at least in the classical sense), but a naive and even slightly instructive parables can be capable.
No, you don’t think anything like that – we really had to undress this drunkard in thongs. And nothing more!
Pursuit Moligne to get rid of the unnecessary, in his opinion, genre husk is clear. The team tried to present some conventions accepted as before that few did. Skills here are stored in special chests. To open each of them, you need to spend a certain number of so -called guild seals. Awards are earned later and blood. It is necessary either to perform tasks (it doesn’t matter – basic or side), for a long time and stubbornly communicate with ordinary people (again, it does not matter – play or let the gas in the face, yeah). It will not hurt regularly to the preventive reduction in the number of wolves, robbers and other rabble, accumulated in nearby forests, it will also not hurt – they give trophies for this.
They collected the required number of guild seals – welcome to a special “dressing room” with placed chests, which is called an unequivocal “way to power”. Instead of digging in the interface and scattering parameters Moligne proposed a unique and tangible action for our hero. Buying the contents of the caskets for printing is far from all.
Muteti loot!Without money in the world Fable 3 (as in any other) Do not live. At first it will be pretty tight. In order to somehow make ends meet and have a constant opportunity to relax with friends, having drunk a bottle of beer in a bar, you will have to hack a mocking dough, a blacksmith or a bard. In all three cases, the process is to press one of two buttons in time (later – one of three) on the keyboard. To increase the level of skill and, accordingly, the amount of income received can be due to the same chests on the “path to power”. It will not be forced to be a laborer for a long time – the game is allowed to buy almost all the existing real estate (shops and residential buildings), and then rent it out, which means automatic earnings every five minutes. More purchased buildings – more money. Do not forget to regularly repair at home and try to save more gold by the time of overthrowing the dictatorship. Believe me, it will be very useful.
Here’s how, say, RPG has the opportunity to wear a character in more advanced rags in terms of protection? There is a “doll” in the inventory – we are overwhelming the most suitable armor on it, and all. In extreme cases, the conditional projection of the hero can be turned in different directions. IN Fable 3 Instead, they offer to visit your own wardrobe without any exits to the menu (a single pressing of the ESC key is not taken into account) or calling the inventory window. There are mannequins for outfits and wigs. They wanted to look at the conquered trophies or evaluate the size of your own treasury – go to another room and admire.
The same is true iWinFortune review and in relation to weapons. It will be modified depending on the nature of the hero’s deeds. If he was a good man, a hammer and a rifle are shining with a light blue glow. They killed civilians in their own houses, ripped off their stomachs innocent and made bad decisions-a bloody-red halo will have a weapon.
Magic was made by natural cheating. Mana is not consumed for spells. The most preferable of the latter are massive damaging. In addition, there is the opportunity to weave your “Abracadabra” from the proposed and already affordable – to make a combo from several spells at once. Yes, about the choice.
As before, in Albion you can be a positive hero, who is not averse to translating a grandmother or two ahead of the road, escort the lost grandson and children to their forgetful grandfathers and mothers and give out the last golden to the poor from their own pockets. Sometimes, you know, I want to be known as a noble warrior with invisible wings behind his back, which all oncoming ones will smile. But no one forbids to accept the dark side.
Being bad in the world Fable has become a little more fun. This is all thanks to the opportunity to become a respected monarch somewhere closer to the end of the main story. We still have a word about politics, and now for the clarity of the picture with the plot we will figure out.
Black and white
For the third time, listen to a fairy tale about growing up a little hero, who will be hobbies, girls of easy behavior again (well, when he grows up a bit), bars and amazing adventures with fights and killing a bad uncle in the end we could no longer. And then there is 2 engine that was getting from Fable 2 … Is all the changes only in the total simplification of gameplay? Lionhead Studios She reasonably reasoned that this time to attract the well-deserved attention of the players, it was necessary to score to some familiar canons of the series.
Initially, the hero is now not small. A completely independent young man (or girl). The evil older brother Logan brought the kingdom to an unimaginable decline – entire quarters of cities in desolation, taxes are mercilessly high, the working day lasts almost a day, and even children are forced to plow behind the machine. Already at the beginning of the story, an insidious relative gives us a difficult choice: to kill a loved one or a bunch of civilians. Thus, the authors immediately tried to set the tone for the game. Let it be all so caramel, bold and about the over -time royal offspring, but adult topics for thought properly proposes. Although far from the most serious methods.
We should enlist the support of all the regions of Albion, give out promises of a better life, help the poor and arrange an uprising against a sniffing brother. At a certain stage, you will have to refuel with political affairs. And here is the famous opportunity to choose between good and bad, which Moligne He shares shamelessly for a very long time, opens at an indecently pleasant angle. It is one thing to decide the fate of the unfortunate Verzila-robber and completely different-a whole region. So, they will give a tyrant and despot to drain the swamp (the location forever changes its appearance), turn the orphanage into a public one – naturally with Blackjack and whores. And you can also increase the already astronomical taxes, introduce a “dry law”, give a damn about all these promises, burst into frightening laughter and lie down on state -owned gold in the storage, previously carefully crossing most of it into your own pocket.
Everything is like in a fairy taleMonitor the main story, despite wild conventions, is interesting. There are really cool levels with tasks like searching for missing people in the desert or participation in the carnival-vakhanalia in the chambers of a local psychopath. But secondary quests also have something to amuse an inexperienced viewer. After all, do not forget – we are dealing with Fable 3, in which the developers are not averse to blowing up and diluting even the most severe scene with a clumsy and homerically ridiculous dialogue. We have selected three just the most excellent tasks for you, which must be told about. But believe me, there are much more interesting missions in the game.
1. "Dangerous tours". The hero takes part in the production of the play, which was composed by the distraught author. The mass of living and simply funny dialogues, the ability to rewrite a work at personal discretion and a dance in a costume of a rooster are attached.
2. "Speaking of rooster". In the village of a clear -long peasant, a distracted peasant will invite you to find the missing chicken. But, according to him, the usual "Tsypa-Tsypa!»To call birds is not suitable. You need to put on a huge chicken costume, rub in confidence in prodigal creatures and lead them to the owner. The chicken will sing their combat songs to you as a reward.
3. "Board game". Imagine a strange variation of Magic: The Gathering, in which our protagonist, reduced by the forces of three tendencies in hoodies, is directly involved. Included: characters in the form of cards voiced by the same monks, complete uncertainty and improvisation of the creators and the final, killing a dialogue on the spot on its unpredictability.
The state management stage is perhaps the only period in Fable 3, when the path of the apostate is given less blood than following the highest moral ideals and values. Indeed, upon coming to power in the treasury, well, very ridiculous amount. To correct even half of all the troubles created by an ownerless brother, it is necessary to regularly replenish gold reserves from a personal punch. Well, how can I not become a greedy scum?
And the rest of the time, our bad intentions with the boring of the class teacher-girl condemn. And they are intrusively trying to persuade to good. “Ranced court cooks and dishwashers? Ay, how badly! It was possible to just kiss everyone in the lobby!" – scriptwriters poke their fingers in us.
I want to say the developers of the game: “Give me you, finally, to calmly become a merciless ruler of the world in order to come up with all new sophisticated trials for ordinary people – for the delight of my black soul!"
Of course, this is far from the main trouble Fable 3. Lionhead Studios I touched on too serious topics in my work: betrayal, conspiracy, treason, coup d’etat, economic problems, exploitation of children, infringement of the rights and freedoms of citizens, genocide, and even the threat of environmental disaster. But he is trying to tell about all this in his favorite dumb manner. The main character, who has just restored a whole village in the desert from the ruins and bought up half of Albion real estate, flaunts a rooster in a suit. Or, excuse me, it farts under the nose of an unknown fan, and then it is vulgarly spinning the crotch in front of his own child ..
Fable 3 It consists of contradictory things, it is filled with strange stupid things and therefore cannot be an instructive fable. This is rather just a little obscure, but fascinating bike. I don’t want to delve into details of a pretty good plot, because you simply do not believe in it. Well, what are the drama and bitterness from temporary lesions if the woman-woman runs with a talled goor, poured in the gateway and shoots overwhelming gnomes? Nevertheless, the talent and insight of uncle Moligne It remains only to envy – it is interesting to play all this uniform disgrace again.
Pros: many interesting side quests;In some places an intriguing plot;The consequences of decisions made during the reign of the country are most obvious;Interesting basic characters.
Cons: primitive economy;graphics not like in Crysis so -so;annoying division of solutions into obviously good and bad;The final battle is not impressive.