Fable

Fable is, in the end, the Xbox's best adventure game - and that is the thing that we should not forget.

I was 8 hours into Fable III before I was abruptly reminded via a load screen that I hadn’t kicked a chicken yet. Surely that’s not right... I had dressed up as a chicken and was asked to dance around like one to lure a batch of escaped poultry back to their coop though. I’d also fetched a gargoyle head from an ambushed stage coach and returned it to a fully grown man dressed as a gnome... to give to his best gnome friend as a present. But still, I hadn’t kicked a chicken and there’...