Dungeon Keeper and Fable creator Peter Molyneux appeared on stage at Gamescom Tuesday to announce Masters of Albion — “an open-world god recreation filled with fight, selections, thriller, and story,” he mentioned.
Molyneux mentioned he’s getting the previous staff again collectively to create Masters of Albion, together with of us who helped create Dungeon Keeper, Black & White, and the Fable collection. The staff is simply 20 folks. “After messing round on cellular — what the hell was I doing? — I believed to myself, ‘I would like to return dwelling to PC and console,’” Molyneux mentioned forward of the debut.
Masters of Albion is ready in Albion, which is a setting within the Fable collection, but additionally one other phrase for Nice Britain — in order that doesn’t essentially imply it’s set within the Fable universe. The trailer exhibits a small village that’s alive with folks, managed and designed by a giant floating hand. You possibly can play within the recreation’s construct mode, however you’re additionally in a position to take management of world’s characters to play in a third-person mode to defend from monsters.
Although that is the primary take a look at Masters of Albion, Molyneux truly teased the sport in October 2023: “This can be a choice I dwell to remorse, however I’m beginning common weblog concerning the loopy approach I design video games; specifically a brand new recreation set within the land of Albion referred to as MOAT.”
Molyneux is infamous for speaking up his video games, promising issues that don’t dwell as much as expectations. He spoke to author Simon Parkin on the My Excellent Console podcast and mentioned he had “huge remorse for it.”
“And after I used to return after interviews, a number of the staff members would say ‘Peter, we didn’t know that we’re going to have this characteristic within the recreation’ till they learn it within the press,” Molyneux advised Parkin. Molyneux didn’t promise a lot inside the Masters of Albion preview, simply that the staff is devoted to constructing one thing “new, distinctive, and totally different.”
