Last month Microsoft and Lionhead described the Fable: The Journey demo as filled with "heart-pounding action." Should you wish to pound your heart with some Kinect-ified fantasy, the 1.22GB trial file is up on Xbox Live Marketplace today.

The fully-fledged game is set to reach retail shelves on October 9. As we saw at E3, Lionhead isn't letting any skeptics stop it from trying to make The Journey "awesome" on Kinect.