![]() ![]() ![]() The original referred to Lionheart Studios. This article was amended on 25 October 2010. "It was and continues to be a groundbreaking. They appear as Guild Seals with exclamation points over. "The first Fable game was the reason I bought my Xbox," one blogger said. Side Quests will win you Guild Seals, Legendary Weapons and even open up new areas like Driftwood. Games as big as Fable III now have launch days on a par with Hollywood blockbusters as the internet buzzes with chat. As the voice of Richard "Demo Dick" Marcinko in last year's Rogue Warrior, Rourke said he was exploring a whole new realm of entertainment. In the past year, more A-listers have lent their voices to the games industry with Mickey Rourke leading the way. I think this one has a wonderful mythology and it's witty and it's engrossing," he explained.īy Friday advanced sales for Fable III, released in the US on Tuesday and in Europe on Friday, had catapulted it to the top of 's games chart. "One of the things that is missing from a lot of video games is good writing and good voice work. Simon Pegg, who plays a soldier always looking for a fight, said it was a unique project to work on. The roles fit our actors as Ealing once did: clever, witty and idiosyncratic, they recognise in Molyneux an auteur at the height of his game," he said. But it's also cinematic, epic and homely all at once – little wonder that Brit acting talent would want to be involved. "The world that he has created is so rich, so believable and so gloriously detailed it's hard not to be enthralled by it. The Observer's video games editor, Giles Richards, said work by Peter Molyneux, the creative director at Fable's publishers Microsoft Games Studios, could be placed alongside modern film auteurs such as Michael Haneke. Kingsley, who plays Sabine, the leader of the mountain-dwellers, said: "This is my first experience voicing a video game, so what drew me to it was the team, how committed they are, how well organised everything is and how beautiful the game is." Fable III is quintessentially British with its issues of monarchy, taxation, rebellion and charming humour so it was much easier to sell this to British talent." We had a list of people who we thought would be perfect for the roles, and went to the agents to sell the story to them. It took six months from start to finish and by the end more than 470,000 words had been spoken. "A lot has been spent but sales expectations are high. "I'd say it was less than you would pay for an animated film," said Georg Backer, audio producer at game makers Lionhead Studios, and the man responsible for bringing the acting talent to the studio. ![]()
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