When Peter Molyneux, Lionhead and Microsoft to quit in March, the movement is the general trend of his illustrious career and controversial intermittently. He founded Bullfrog in 1987 and sold it to Electronic Arts in 1995 and left in 1997 to found Lionhead. Lionhead was sold to Microsoft in 2006, and now turns his attention to Molyneux 22 cans, an independent company again.

Lionhead The way people say, then, the release of Peter Molyneux was a big surprise. "I worked with Peter for 23 years," says Gary Carr, director of creation. "I knew that at some point, he would do something different. I think he wants to try new things. "It was not a shock to Fable: The Journey, for instance, with most design work is complete before leaving for new horizons.

"Obviously, he had a great influence on the way and still has a great influence on the trip because he is always there as a consultant," said Ben Brooks, head writer on the final draft of Molyneux of Lionhead. "The kind of thing you do now as a consultant, examining the game and the comments that's exactly what Peter was made at this stage of any game of Fable."

Spire:. Their final destination claim

Meanwhile, one wonders if the world also breathe a little easier without Molyneux on hand at meetings of the media, where reporters gathered is often used as armored promises become exactly what ambitious thoughts. The promise of excitement in his voice will change the spells that are converted by hand gestures Kinect, for example, which receives no mention in our recent visit to Guildford Lionhead Studio. Or categorical assurances that Fable: The Journey is not, by any means, on the rails.

time in the game is divided into sections dealing with the past of a wagon pulled by horses and on foot sections that are, at all reasonable definitions of "on track" on track . This is a blow to the hope that is expected to freedom of movement that is added at a later date, as suggested by Molyneux in the previous projections of the game, but is not, or should not be an automatic death blow for Fable: The Journey. This is just another way the trip is, mechanically speaking, the antithesis of everything as before Fable.

fables III were loose, open world adventure, the journey is a journey: a linear, cross-country walk to the Spire, the building in mystical previous games. Where previous Fables presented separately hero custom characters, the heroes travel gives us a well-defined in Gabriel, the young gypsy-like in the reigns of his trip transportation. When the last game of the animal companion was a beloved dog, The way is Seren, the Shire horse tied to Cart brilliant Gabriel. All this is established in a first person view, not a point of view in the third person, as best the main difference between this game and other fables: Kinect.

No room for the traditional controller in Fable: The Journey. This is a pure Kinect entirely built around without control of the Xbox. Their roots are mixed development project at Lionhead with Milo, the boy presented interactive virtual public debut at E3 in 2009 Kinect not grow beyond a technology demonstration - a sequence that is likely to play a magic pool, shaking hands extended on the surface, is reminiscent of the pool in the demo of Milo.

Fortunately, this "nine or ten hours" each game is played sitting Kinect, with the sequences of horses tested pulling to the left or right on the reins, both to accelerate the formation of cracks , or pulling up and back brake. action on the feet, using each hand to cast spells that include a fireball, a thrust force, and a number of leaves Call of Fable fans will recognize from previous installments.