Cuba Criticizes Call of Duty: Black Ops

[samsonguy920]

How the heck did this game make it into Cuba in the first place? Would think they would be sharing Venezuela's policies on such games and not letting them in.

Or did the writer go shopping the black market just to find something for flamebait?

 

[Gashad]

While no big fan of Castro I feel that we have to admit that to have people try to assassinate in a video game someone still alive today is controversial(and as far as I know unprecedented). While all the stuff about video games causing violence is rubbish I do understand Castro's indignation over thousands of people attempting to kill him in a video game...

I mean imagine the outcry if there was a video game released and you had to assassinate Obama or George Bush...

 

[Major_Tom]

I'd like a game where you play as Castro while avoiding 600 assassinations. That would be more fun than this borefest of a game.

Have you played Black Ops, or are you just saying that becuase its COD?

Yes, I stopped somewhere during the Vietnam part (why hasn't anybody made a good Vietnam War game since 2003?). I actually like COD, well LIKED, since last great one was COD4 and last decent one was WaW. MW2 is a piece of shit and so is Black Ops.

 

[Lord_Gremlin]

Well, I never liked USA or CoD. I guess I sympathize with Cuba. Although I'm not a communist, I'm a monarchist.

 

[Aiden_the-Joker1]

Can't remember Cuba getting this annoyed when you get to shoot Castro in the chest in Godfather 2.

 

[Woodsey]

Actual communism doesn't have a government by the way.

Neither does 'actual' Capitalism, but we work with the examples we know.

That's because capitalism is an economic system, not the opposite of communism.

 

[ProtoChimp]

Castro, now 84 and frail but still the head of the Cuban Communist Party, said in 1998 that he's survived so many attempts on his life that when he does actually die, nobody will believe it.

That makes the US sound so impatient, just let mother nature do her work, she's the best Assassin in the job right now.

Mind if I steal that line?

OT: Black ops.
Tastless: Yes.
Encourages sociopaths: No. Nor has any other game I can think of.

Also does anyone here think Castro is actually dead and the cuban goverment is keeping it a secret? I'm not sure on the matter but I wanted to know what other escapists think.

 

[toapat]

castro, that is the most impressive statement ever.

I feel Black Ops is rather poorly done when the second mission is 7 thousand kinds of awesome, and both the missions dirrectly before and after it are run of the mill Call of Duty missions.

i kinda agree with cuba here, where it sorta demonizes castro and cuba, but the psych comments are completely wrong. Gaming lowers rage because people have a real location with which to vent, instead of an imaginary one

 

[teh_Canape]

honestly, this does makes kinda sense

nothing personal, but y'all north americans just cant leave past failures go, can you

I mean, so many recreations of US winning over Vietnam War, and now attempts to kill Castro

just leave the past alone

again, nothing personal, it's just something too common in the medium

 

[WilliamRLBaker]

and yet they don't mention them potraying Castro with JFK being all kick ass and taking down zombies? ~_*

 

[Fallen-Angel Risen-Demon]

Strangly though in the airport in Cuba they have the American flag, I found that veeeeery odd considering the relationship between the two countries in mention.
OT: Didn't this happen in Godfather II? I can't remember them complaining about that, though I probably missed it.

 

[TaboriHK]

How adorable, Cuba thinks the United States runs Treyarch.

 

[AceDiamond]

I love how he thinks the US Government contracted Treyarch to make this game just so they could watch Castro take one in the head millions of times over. Just like how Hugo Chavez thought the US Government contracted Pandemic to create Mercenaries 2 so they could simulate invading Venezuela and destroying the whole country through the power of Matthias Nillson a.k.a. Techno Viking.

As with Chavez, Castro is clearly talking out his ass and this is a fake controversy. Protip, dictatorial regimes, just because your governments have you owning every corporation that exists in your country doesn't mean it works the same way in the USA.

 

[TaboriHK]

By the way, didn't anyone else laugh at the ludicrousness of that scene? When I shot Castro, and they did the dramatic Max Payne sniper bullet shot, I said aloud to my roommate, "really?" It's probably a bad sign when a game that takes itself deadly serious gets laughed at in the first five minutes.

 

[RatRace123]

I guess we know where Cuba stands on the California case.

Off topic, kinda. I think I know why the many attempts on Castro's life have failed: His beard wanted them too.
Say what you will about the guy, a man with a beard like that will not go down easily.

 

[AceDiamond]

By the way, didn't anyone else laugh at the ludicrousness of that scene? When I shot Castro, and they did the dramatic Max Payne sniper bullet shot, I said aloud to my roommate, "really?" It's probably a bad sign when a game that takes itself deadly serious gets laughed at in the first five minutes.

I actually didn't think it really ruined the scene that much but it says a lot when just a day before I had faced a similiar situation in Battlefield: Bad Company 2, which did not feature any bullet-time at all when I resolved the human shield problem with a well-placed pistol shot.

Also are you sure this game takes itself seriously? I mean really, really sure?

 

[Siberian Relic]

Stopped reading at "hypocrisy".

 

[cobrausn]

Actual communism doesn't have a government by the way.

Neither does 'actual' Capitalism, but we work with the examples we know.

That's because capitalism is an economic system, not the opposite of communism.

One promotes (enforces?) communal ownership of property and a wageless, classless society, whereas the other promotes private ownership of property (and the means of production) and a society based around the idea of wages and profits.

As there is no singular definition of either communism or capitalism they can't 'be' opposites, but in practice they tend to be.

 

[hypothetical]

I think this calls for a game where you get to assassinate the president of the U.S. Maybe a developer in Iran should get that to the market.