Game designer Peter Molyneux says a ‘terrible mistake’ committed by, at Microsoft’s E3 keynote a new Fable game to show that the steering was off. This was the impression that it is an on-rails game.
Peter Molyneux explains in a video interview with OXM that Fable: The Journey no on-rails game will be. Lionhead Studios showed during the keynote the first gameplay footage of Fable: The Journey and see where the game completely via the Kinect, was controlled. By head tracking and various arm movements a player has interaction with its environment, but moving through the game world went automatically.
Navigating through the game world was, according to Molyneux, not shown, to the demonstration of a smooth run, but that was the impression that the new Fable game an on-rails game would be. The manner in which players with Kinect adventure through the world of Albion is not yet known. Also there was nothing about a release date been reported.