Box Art Confirms PC Version of Fable III

The box art for Fable III seems to suggest that the role playing game is heading to the PC platform, as well as the Xbox 360 home gaming console, when it comes out in the final months of this year or in the first half of 2011. Development duties for the action role playing videogame are handled by Lionhead Studios, and the game is set to offer some significant changes when compared to Fable II.

Initial rumors that Fable III was headed to the PC, presumably through the Games for Windows Live service from Microsoft, have appeared earlier in the year. Microsoft Game Studios offered a job to a network programmer that was able to create PC features for a videogame and “work with the PC and 360 codebase to ensure the PC and the Xbox 360 builds can interoperate”. The concept of cross platform play between the PC and Xbox 360 was talked about for some time, but until now gamers were not interested in it because of the possible advantages that one platform could have over another.

The original Fable, which initially arrived on the first Xbox, was then ported to the PC with extra content called The Lost Chapters. Fable II, which was launched in 2008, did not get a PC port. If Microsoft is really serious about potting the third game in the series on the personal computer, then it would do well to also create a port of Fable II.

Fable III is set to allow players to import saves from the second game in the series, with the Hero being the father of the new protagonist. Albion is in the game ruled by a tyrant called Logan, and again the player character will have to get the support of the population in order to take him off the throne and become king himself. Peter Molynuex is promising more choices and more moral impact than in the previous games of the Fable series.