Fable Legends - Isn't Really a Fable Game

IGN let us know that Fable Legends isn't really anything like the previous Fable games.

If you go to the official Fable Legends website and click the "What is Fable Legends" tab, these are the first words you see. The thing is, they don't actually tell you anything about what Fable Legends is at all. In fact, it almost makes it sound like Fable Legends is a direct continuation of the core Fable series, which it couldn't possibly be farther from. I'm not pointing this out because I think there's something devious about it though. I'm pointing it out because even though it has, as near as I can tell, no substantive similarity to Fable or any action RPG of any kind, it's piqued my interest. I actually quite like its novel take on wave-based, co-op PvE, so if you want to know what Fable Legends really  is, read on.

Fable Legends is actually two completely different games depending on whether you play the Heroes or the Villain. The Heroes are playing a four player co-op action game where waves of monsters attack them as they make their way through a series of connected arenas. They enter the first arena, kill all the monsters, then move onto the next until they die or reach the end. SImple. As the Villain, you're playing a real-time strategy game, in which you set monsters and traps on the board, and then issue move and attack orders to try and overwhelm the Heroes. Like Evolve, this is 4v1 asymmetric multiplayer, but unlike it, the two sides are playing different genres altogether.