Gaming: Peter Molyneux's Masters Of Albion Looks Like Three Games In One,...
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Masters of Albion, the upcoming god-slash-action-slash-management game from Peter Molyneux's 22Cans, has a new six minute "epic deep dive" trailer showcasing what you'll be getting up to. And the perhaps unsurprising news is that none of it looks like much fun.
The selling point for Masters of Albion is that it's basically all the Peter Molyneux games you love in one: it's a bit like Fable, a bit like Populous, chuck a dash of Black & White in there, and we're good to go. The player switches between management elements, upgrading buildings and the like, can intervene in events on the ground with magic powers, and finally can take direct control of a character and run about in third-person.
The new trailer showcases each of these and is contiguous, so at least we know this is the game we'll actually be playing. Thing is, it's a Jack of all trades, master of none. The base management is as basic as it gets, at least in this preview, with the player upgrading shacks and shuttling resources about, with the occasional stop-off in a crafting menu. It's all… well, fine.
Source: PC Gamer
