Dungeon Keeper and Fable creator Peter Molyneux appeared on stage at Gamescom Tuesday to announce Masters of Albion — “an open-world god sport stuffed with fight, selections, thriller, and story,” he mentioned.
Molyneux mentioned he’s getting the outdated workforce again collectively to create Masters of Albion, together with of us who helped create Dungeon Keeper, Black & White, and the Fable collection. The workforce is simply 20 folks. “After messing round on cell — what the hell was I doing? — I believed to myself, ‘I would like to come back residence 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 reveals a small village that’s alive with folks, managed and designed by an enormous floating hand. You may play within the sport’s construct mode, however you’re additionally capable of take management of world’s characters to play in a third-person mode to defend from monsters.
Although that is the primary have a look at Masters of Albion, Molyneux truly teased the sport in October 2023: “This can be a choice I stay to remorse, however I’m beginning common weblog concerning the loopy manner I design video games; specifically a brand new sport set within the land of Albion known as MOAT.”
Molyneux is infamous for speaking up his video games, promising issues that don’t stay as much as expectations. He spoke to author Simon Parkin on the My Good Console podcast and mentioned he had “huge remorse for it.”
“And after I used to return after interviews, a whole lot of the workforce members would say ‘Peter, we didn’t know that we’re going to have this function within the sport’ till they learn it within the press,” Molyneux informed Parkin. Molyneux didn’t promise a lot throughout the Masters of Albion preview, simply that the workforce is devoted to constructing one thing “new, distinctive, and totally different.”
