Fable: the Lost Chapters

The Awaited Return to the Real Albion

Not long after I did that glowing review of Fable for e-AAGH.net, my Xbox died. I was unable to play Fable anymore, or any other Xbox game for that matter. Needless to say I was very excited to get back to Albion on my PC. Although it's not perfect, Fable: TLC is just what I needed to rekindle my love for the game.

The biggest addition is the mouse and keyboard control scheme. It's a little awkward, but for anybody who's played a Grand Theft Auto game on PC it's a simple transition. The biggest addition is the hotbar, which allows you to bind up to 10 commands, items, expressions or spells to the number bar on your keyboard. This eliminates allot of the hoping for the right context sensitive icon to pop up, lest you'd have to scroll through menus to find what you want. The only thing I wanted was to have several of these to scroll though, depending on the situation. Imagine one for combat, one for wooing townsfolk, and so on. Sadly, you only get the one, but it's better then the original. You do get three context sensitive slots tied to your F1, F2 and F3 keys as well. Also, F4 through F12 each access different menus, making inventory management easy.

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