Merciful Allah here we go again. You may have caught some of the discussion on the recent “Islam is the light” debacle surrounding Baby Pals for the DS. I agree with the conclusions drawn on other gaming sites that have covered this, mainly that this woman needs a hobby and is hearing things that aren’t really there. What I want to add to this discussion is to focus on the other inflammatory aspect of the coverage. Clearly any news outlet that runs a story like this has little credibility to begin with. However, the viewpoint represented exists and, as gamers, we should not laugh this off when there are those who will take it seriously. We need to understand biases such as these if we are ever going to overcome them.

Roaming the world of Fable II choices have to be made between actions that are either good or evil. Fable II is not the first game to present these mini dilemmas and they fairly simple ones. What I find interesting about this trend is that the choice to be evil is often accompanied by negative consequences. This occurs in games other than Fable II, such as Crackdown, and even GTAIV. With all three of these games being rated M by the ESRB are we not as gaming adults able to handle the reality of such choices?