The “Break it Down” Blog

As a follow up to the super-Co-Op that Fable 2 will have in it, I watched the GDC walkthroughs and am here to summarize them for you:

NOTE: I am not clear from the walkthrough if the co-op is online or offline only. He talks a lot about the “camera” and how it manages to keep both players in view which seems to be an offline co-op concern. He was also flat-out asked about online co-op and dodged it.

• Full co-op support
  • Join/Leave any time (like Burnout Paradise)
    • There is no level-matching limit to the game. A lvl 50 character could invite a lvl 1 character into his game if he wants.
  • Friend has a persistent presence in your world (money, rep, etc.)
  • Getting each other’s back in a fight, like tag-teaming someone pays off with more experience and bonuses
• You can play as a woman
  • You can get married
  • You can get pregnant
  • You can have a baby
• You can have a family (obviously)
  • You can give gifts to your family
  • You can abuse your family
    • EX: You can let your family starve, then walk into the house with a pie and eat it while they beg for some of it.
• Your co-op partner can kill your family (husband, child, etc.)
  • There seems to be complete freedom with how you treat characters and NPCs
• You can buy any property (house, shop, etc.) in the game
  • Molyneux specifically said you can buy every property in the world
• You can buy any items you want to decorate your house in any way
• World is completely free-romable (a la Oblivion)
• Molyneux said “each players world will be very different”, not sure what this means.
• You have to work to make money, you do not get money as “drops”
  • You can be a blacksmith or a henchmen
  • You can make money as a lackey in someone else’s co-op world.
• Fable is a Fall 2008 Release

Looking pretty damn bad-ass… online co-op will be the difference between “Cool game” and “OMFGBBQ I need this game” for me.