Loinhead

Fable 2 is currently being developed for the Xbox 360 by Lionhead and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The basic concept is that you take a hero with a doggy sidekick through his entire life in a beautiful highwayman’s world set 500 years after the original Fable. Guns have been developed, and the game is supposed to be slightly darker in tone.

Release Date

Lionhead has officially announced a 2008 release date.

Fable 2 for PC

So far the plan is only an Xbox 360 release. Molyneux has said:

I’d rather get one single format absolutely nailed, and then think about other formats.

However, Microsoft Game Studios may decide to release a version for PC several months or a year afterwards; there’s some room for speculation.

Storyline

Not much has been said, although Molyneux has revealed a general outline.

Now let’s talk about the story, let’s talk about the opening of the story, as I said, you can be a man or a woman, the story starts in classic computer game style. It’s all about this bird, this regal bird, flying through this, oh this amazing, incredible landscape, through, down valleys, over mountaintops, through city streets, the bird just comes to rest on the top of this, this tower, and, it takes a dump. The camera follows the dump down, it comes down, the crap lands on this kid’s head - that’s you. Anyway, That’s the style of the game. You’re nobody, you’re nothing, you live in the sewers, everybody, you know, just disregards you. Your destiny is to be a truly great hero …
The story has a baddy, who’s Lucien, we’re trying to make him the most cruel baddy you’ve ever seen, not evil, cruel. He is destined to build this tower, called the spire, that tower will end up fifty miles high, what you do with that tower is very much dependent on how you play the game, we are really going in, and anyone that saw the talk with Peter Jackson this morning and heard some of the things that I said will realize that I’m really into the world and the story connecting with you, what you are, so you will find the story slightly different when you play it, but you still will be able to talk about that, you are destined, in that story, to bring together a group of heroes rather like the Magnificent 7.