Steal too many goods from others homes for instance and you’ll start growing devil horns and taking on a darker look, whereas if you run your life as a good samaritan helping out anyone and everyone, you’ll find yourself growing up to become a rather dashing fella. Obviously only the good looking succeed in life and you’ll constantly be watching your character change depending on your actions. Some will have back stories and send you on optional quests (of which you can of course choose a good way or bad way of completing), whilst others will need to be showered with gifts, in your sometimes failed attempts at finding a wife. The Hero of Oakvale is a mute character but that doesn’t stop you from being able to interact with near enough every single NPC in the game, in fact the sheer depth of character interaction puts some newer titles to shame. Each mission comes with a couple of options, the heroic way or the evil alternative and depending on how you approach each scenario you’ll see your character, and all reactions, change as time goes on. You can of course leave all these mindless little additions behind to just concentrate on the task at hand, becoming the Hero of Oakvale, but how you do that is entirely up to you.
Whilst you don’t ‘have’ to do it, you find yourself participating in a bit of Albions local sport a little until you just can’t be bothered any more. The humour is still there and letting off wind mid conversation was always a good thing but maybe I’ve grown up a lot over the last decade, as something that I vividly remember being so much fun back in the day, now feels a bit too silly. Well, the good news is that Fable Anniversary covers everything that was great about the first game but throws a modern twist onto proceedings. So is the opening game of the series still worth visiting or have things taken a turn for the worse in the once wonderful world of Albion. In that time many a title has come and gone and the whole ‘alignment’ thing has been done over and over again, not least to greater effect in its sequels, Fable 2 and Fable 3. The original game was out on the very first Xbox and now, as we break into the next generation we finally see the game popping up on the Xbox 360. So was it ahead of it’s time? Maybe, but ten years is an awfully long time and a lot has changed in that decade. It was however one of the first games to include a complex morality system and place such a large emphasis on being good….or bad, something which we now see in abundance. Peter Molyneux said it was ‘going to be the best game ever’ and whilst it came close and garnered a massive fan base, it didn’t quite live up to its original billing. The story was that of a young boy, forced to watch as bandits over ran his town, before finally growing up to become the Hero of Oakvale. Ten years have passed since we first experienced Fable.
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