7 January 2009 14:41 GMT / By Verity Burns
PETA has taken a break from slamming video games for their poor treatment of animals, to single out Xbox 360's Fable 2 for being 2008's "most animal-friendly game".At PETA's sixth annual Proggy Awards the organisation described Fable 2 as a "vegetarian's dream come true". It particularly liked the fact that game characters powered by tofu are just as powerful as their "meat-eating counterparts", as well as being "more fit and attractive to boot".
It continued: "Featuring a strong pro-vegetarian theme, eating a plant-based diet helps you rack up 'purity' points, whereas eating meat makes your character fat and evil. A fun and innovative game, it's also an effective tool that teaches gamers the real-life benefits of a vegetarian diet".
This is all well and good, but it seems PETA may not have spotted the chicken kicking mini-game towards the end of the popular RPG, or the fact that you can attain more Achievement Points for giving the odd chicken a boot.
Late on in 2008, PETA attacked popular DS game Cooking Mama for being "so heavy on dishes made from dead animals". Gaming, Xbox 360, RPG, Microsoft, EA, Sony, Nintendo, Games industry, Activision
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