Few developers can – even after all this time – get you quite so swept up in their enthusiasm as Peter Molyneux. It’s an enthusiasm that has, famously, got him into trouble in the past, when passion and promise have failed to meet reality by quite some margin – with players often caught in fallout. So it’s hard not to be sceptical when it comes to 22Cans and Molyneux’s latest project, Masters of Albion. But – as someone who grew up on the games of Bullfrog, the games of Lionhead – after listening to Molyneux excitably play his way through 45 minutes of Masters of Albion, it’s even harder not to be just a little bit hopeful it might all come together this time, when this weird Molyneux greatest hits mash-up promises so many things I love.
