Microsoft details Games with Gold service for Xbox 360

Microsoft has elaborated on its new Games with Gold service that was unveiled during its pre-E3 press conference. According to the official Games with Gold page on the Xbox website, Microsoft is making two games available for free very month, which gamers with a subscription to Xbox Live Gold can download and keep. A new game will be added to the service on the 1st and the 16th day of each month.

To kick things off, hack-and-slash fantasy RPG Fable 3 is the game available this month, and will be available until June 30. Fable 3 continues the series' tradition of having semi-open worlds and linear quests. Players step into the shoes of the younger sibling of the tyrannical King of Albion—Logan. When he spots you and your childhood friend spying on one of his meetings, he forces you to make a choice: kill your best friend or kill a group of protestors. Your mentor rushes you out of the castle and starts a rebellion so that you can take over the throne. Both you and your brother are the children of the protagonist of Fable 2.

Fable 3 is the first game with gold

Fable 3 takes the series a step further than it already was. While the original Fable was a typical fantasy setting, Fable 2 showed an industrial revolution and the use of flintlock guns. Fable 3 shows a complete renaissance where industry is at its peak efficiency

The game has three ways you can murder things—swords, guns and magic. All three of these ways can be chained together to cause even more mayhem. The game doesn't have any solid class system; instead, you're free to level up whatever abilities you may have. Also of note is the game's morality system, where your character's appearance changes to reflect the choices you've made throughout the game. Stay good and your character will look good and might even have a faint halo. Becoming evil will result in your character growing pale and growing small devil horns.