Fable 2 Preview

BBC News has published a short preview of Fable 2, complete with some overly ambitious commentary from Lionhead Studios’ Peter Molyneux.

Fable, released in 2004, was Molyneux’s first role playing game (RPG) and his ambition going into the game was simple.

“I want to make the best RPG ever,” he said at the time. The game sold many millions of copies but Molyneux has admitted that the game did not match his ambitions.

He and his team at Lionhead Studios are now working on a much-anticipated sequel.

And this time his ambitions are no less far reaching.

“I hope those who enjoy the game rate it in their top three games of all time.

“That’s pretty ambitious. In fact, being ambitious, if I asked anybody they would say that Fable 2 featured as their number one game.”

To reach his ambitions Molyneux has spent a long time tackling two key issues: how to make people care about the game and how to make it rich and deep enough to satisfy hardcore gamers and simple enough to attract new players.