After his family is murdered by marauding bandits, the Hero is taken by a powerful mage, Maze, for training at The Guild, an academy for heroes. Players take control of the Hero, a mute, nameless boy from the village of Oakvale. Strong improvements to visual design, control schemes and altering the way saving works all combines together to give a modern polish to an aging title. Lionhead have avoided altering too much of the core mechanics, instead focusing on making the playing experience as enjoyable as possible. As far as re-releases go, Fable Anniversary is fairly stock standard. There is a delicate balance to strike between dogged adherence to the original work and the desire to modernise and streamline dated mechanics. Though the mechanics may seem slightly dated by today’s tastes, Fable Anniversary is still as charming, witty and enjoyable as Fable ever was. To celebrate the occasion, Lionhead Studios have remastered and re-released the game and its pseudo-expansion, The Lost Chapters, under the title “Fable Anniversary”. With over 2 million copies sold, the original Fable helped prove that the Xbox was more than just a home for shooters and third-party ports.
2014 marks only the 10 year anniversary of the original release of Fable, easily one of the most recognisable franchises in the Xbox pantheon.
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