We talk to Lionhead's Ben Brooks about chicken football, playing as a villain, the world of Albion, and more. "Fable has always tried to do cool things with co-op gameplay," says Brooks. "It's always been a big part of what we've done. As well as providing you with a rich singleplayer. We've always wanted for another player to join in. We did a little of that in Fable 2 and Fable 3, but we wanted to take that to the next level. So we do four player co-op, but that's been done as well. So we were want do we really do to stretch it? And that's the villain. Lionhead, a lot of people will know Bullfrog came before, Peter Molyneux and all those guys all came out of that and Dungeon Keeper is a big thing for Bullfrog. So another way of thinking of Fable Legends is bits of Dungeon Keeper, bits of Fable - four heroes working together against a dastardly mastermind who's like a dungeon master looking over all the levels." Brooks also detailed how the villain player progression will play out and explained how the game allows for plenty of different scenarios (singleplayer with AI controlled companions and villains - or players filling any of the latter slots). He also explained how the narrative is being handled as the pacing is somewhat different. Obviously the start of the story is going to be somewhat different as we have a group of heroes in Fable Legends: "Because we have a whole group of heroes and on each quest you can customise who you're bringing we kind of had to look at the story as more of heroes coming together. So it will be a journey, but it will be but it will be of these guys who when they start don't know eachother." As you'd expect there will be plenty of chickens. Or with multiplayer - chicken football. "Fable's got to have chicken kicking. With multiplayer, right? It's not just chicken kicking - it's chicken football." Brooks said that currently there is no "chicken football pitch" in game, but there's still time left of development. Fable Legends will launch into beta later this year. http://www.gamereactor.tv Subscribe to our channel: http://www.goo.gl/KiJz2k Join us @ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Gamereactor

• published: 09 Jul 2014
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