Now with the third game in the series, all players can have children. As lead designer Josh Atkins put it in a recent interview with AfterEllen's Sarah Warn, 'We're enormously proud of the fact that game allows you to be gay, straight, whatever you want to be.' The game also boasts an impressive voice-over cast, including Ben Kingsley, Simon Pegg, John Cleese, A Single Man's Nicholas Hoult, and out actor Stephen Fry.īesides their playfully tongue-in-cheek atmosphere and a unique moral system in which a player's choices affect the type of character they become, the Fable series also has the distinction of a progressive and outspoken creative team. Set in the mythical world of Albion, the newest game follows a hero of the player's own making who must raise a revolution against your brother, the land's corrupt king. The Fable games have proven to be a big hit for Microsoft as an Xbox exclusive, selling 6.4 million copies worldwide. Previous games in the groundbreaking Fable series allowed for romances and marriages for same-sex couples to take place, but the third entry has added an in-game adoption agency open to all. Video gamers who own an Xbox 360 will now have the option to build families headed by gay and lesbian characters thanks to this week's release of Fable 3 from Lionhead Studios.
