New Fable 2 Feature: Dog Sidekick!

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New details from Peter Molyneux about the highly anticipated sequel to the original Xbox title.


Gaming blog Kotaku are currently enjoying the wonder that is the Games Developers Conference, right at this moment they are sitting “in a small room with Peter Molyneux listening to him talk up Fable 2.” It seems the game’s creator has been revealing some interesting tidbits about the title.

There will apparently be ”three big things coming to the sequel to his role-playing game, but he only wants to talk about one of them today: Love.” This ‘Love’ will apparently come in three different forms

“There is the appreciation the wide world feels toward your character as he lives and fights in their world. There is the ability to make love and make babies. Yes, you can be both a man or a woman and if you're a woman, you can get pregnant. A first, he believes, for a main character in an RPG.”

But the big revelation is that of a sidekick for Fable 2’s main character, but this is no Robin or Tails, oh no, it’s a dog!

“But the big thing, one of the biggest parts of Fable 2, will be the introduction of a dog to the game. Not just any dog, but your dog. The dog will be faithful to you and will have a deeply nuanced artificial intelligence so you won't actually control your dog at all.

Instead your dog will act as a sort of living HUD. The game has no map, no other user interface on screen. Instead you will have to rely on the dog and what he sees and does. You also will control the dog by your own actions.

A great example. You come upon two bad guys and pull our your gun (yes, the game has guns) and the dogs knows automatically attack the closer targets.”

Interesting stuff indeed, be sure to stick with GWN for more updates and thanks again to Kotaku for the heads up on this.

Mar 6, 2007

News by Karn Bianco.

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