Fable II: You mess with my head
BlogLast night I dug up a condom my dog found, then stole someone’s wife and slept with her in my gypsy trailer, after impressing her by whistling and showing off a severed head I’ve been carrying around.
That’s a line from a review of Fable II I recently wrote on CNET. You’d be wise to read it, and you can do so here.
But I want to add something. It struck me recently that almost every woman in the in-game world of Albion is happy to ditch their husbands simply on account of your whistling skills, or your ability to off your trophies-cum-severed heads of criminals.
The game has many realistic elements. Having a dog dig up condoms? Fine, it happens in Croydon. Impressing chicks by playing songs on a Lute? Cool, it happens in Westminster.
But having a women suggest divorce from her husband so she could remarry, after just 5 minutes of watching a stranger whistle? Only in cocking Albion!
It’s a beautiful game, and I love it. It’s so damn quirky it makes me laugh out loud. Tonight I’m going to steal 10 wives and convince them to raise my children from a gypsy trailer. Yup, that’s all fair game in Fable II.
If only it were that easy in real life, eh?