Fable Legends - E3 News

As you know Fable Legends is shown at E3 and you can play together with your friends on Xbox One and PC to gang up and beat that one openent with the four of you. It will eb released this Christmas and it is meant to last for some time as it is supposed to have years of contents (thanks Couch), which measn that it will be supported for a long time after its release with new content being added, although nobody knows how long a long time actually is.

GamesRadar got the chance to play the game and share with us some information of that session.

At first blush, Legends looks pretty similar to what you might expect from the Fable series, at least in visual design. The forest I traverse throughout the demo has that olde England fantasy vibe synonymous with the franchise, and the characters on my team - including an elaborately dressed sorceress and a sentient suit of armor able to steal the souls of nearby monsters - play well to the semi-sinister fairy tale tropes that Fable is known for. However, the gameplay has a wholly different aim, focusing on tasks your team of four must accomplish together. That means traditional RPG elements like talking with strangers and completing story-based quests have been sidelined (at least during my demo) in favor of killing waves of enemies as a team. 

Specific character roles are fairly obvious from the start, based on the weapon each character is holding, but while a clear bit of ambient tutorial, that almost makes it too easy to charge in headfirst without checking with your team. That can result in disaster, because once you're dead there's no way to respawn without being revived by another team member. If they don't see you or don't want to stop and perform the revive spell, that's one less person on the field, and more for the remaining players to deal with. A team that doesn’t coordinate properly will be easily picked off one by one, as their already incapacitated comrades look bitterly on.