Instead of getting you up and active for a casual gaming session like most Kinect-enabled titles, Fable: The Journey sits you down for a long ride through the world of Albion. It's a nice showcase of the potential for storytelling and immersive gameplay on the Xbox 360 , but it falls a bit flat with...

Beautiful graphics; Charming story and characters.

Slow pacing; Strict linear progression; Heavy-handed computer assistance

Fable: The Journey Review: Fable: The Journey might not be your typical 20 hour Fable epic, but it takes the wonderful setting and visuals from past Fable experiences and gives the spinoff the character that it needs to avoid falling flat.

The world of Albion is captured really well; When the action works; it's pretty cool throwing magic projectiles and tethering enemies

The Kinect doesn't work properly all the time; making it hard to play the game; To recalibrate the sensor; you have to leave your game.

In theory, Fable: The Journey offers up a new way to experience Lionhead's long-running role-playing series. The Kinect-only experience allows you to cast spells with one hand, grapple enemies with another, and duck and weave out of the way of projectiles by leaning.

Caring for your horse; A streamlined Fable experience; When it works; it's fun

Uneven controls; Tedious gameplay; Ugly cutscenes

The Journey begins like pretty much every Fable game. Our hero, Gabriel, is introduced as a downtrodden youngster who never dreamed of wielding power or saving the world. He's then quickly swept up into a quest to fulfill his true destiny and keep Albion from ruination.

+ Lengthy adventure that stays true to the; + Fun tossing Hobbes and blasting them with fireballs

? Will the ability to fart on unsuspecting citizens be DLC

Fable The Journey is a wagon trail game set in the Fable universe. Think of Fable The Journey like this - Oregon Trail if it were set in medieval times. Add in magic, monsters, fortune tellers, seers, and more. Players sit on their couch or chair to play Fable The Journey with the Kinect sensor.

If Microsoft is trying to reach a hardcore audience with the Kinect, Fable the Journey isn't the answer.

Good voice acting; more lore for the Fable universe

Boring gameplay; unresponsive controls

Bottom line, Fable: The Journey is an admirable installment in an already superlative series of video games. It's fun for adults as well as kids, like all the Fable titles have been, and while some of the mechanics feel like inessential add-ons, the main storyline and battle scenes are impressively...

The motion controls make sense Look, we're throwing magic fireballs here; That's just cool, right? In addition, we're not pretending to hold weapons, and we don't have to hold weird plastic peripherals in order to hurl glowing balls of energy at several types of baddies, including skittery bugs,...

Steering a horse can get tedious Riding Saren is a fine game mechanic, especially in the first act of the story, as it allows for exposition dumps and a gentle introduction of the motion controls; But steering the horse gets, well, boring after a while.

Of course, there's much more to Fable: The Journey than caring for your horse. This is an on-rails adventure in which you continually travel toward the Spire, where your ultimate fate awaits you at the end of your journey.

Strong relationship building; Well-realized Kinect controls; Smart pacing gives you ample time to rest; Beautiful visual design

Motion controls don't always register properly

We take a journey in the latest Fable game for Kinect. Find out how it fares in our full review.

+ Funny; + Tutorials are good

Poor controls; Too many horse sequences

Welcome back to Albion, boys and girls. Did you miss it? Traipsing over the hills, finding hidden caves, engaging with a gormless yet comically benign populace…Wait, what are you doing? Strapping those boots on, are we? Got some walking in mind?