Dungeon Keeper and Fable creator Peter Molyneux appeared on stage at Gamescom Tuesday to announce Masters of Albion — “an open-world god recreation stuffed with fight, decisions, thriller, and story,” he mentioned.
Molyneux mentioned he’s getting the previous group again collectively to create Masters of Albion, together with people who helped create Dungeon Keeper, Black & White, and the Fable collection. The group 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 house 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 may play within the recreation’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 take a look at Masters of Albion, Molyneux really teased the sport in October 2023: “This can be a choice I reside to remorse, however I’m beginning common weblog concerning the loopy manner I design video games; specifically a brand new recreation set within the land of Albion known as MOAT.”
Molyneux is infamous for speaking up his video games, promising issues that don’t reside as much as expectations. He spoke to author Simon Parkin on the My Good Console podcast and mentioned he had “monumental remorse for it.”
“And after I used to return after interviews, plenty of the group members would say ‘Peter, we didn’t know that we’re going to have this function within the recreation’ 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 group is devoted to constructing one thing “new, distinctive, and totally different.”
