Cuba Criticizes Call of Duty: Black Ops

[Jelly ^.^]

To everyone posting comments along the lines of 'stfu Cuba,' let's take a look back in time to 2004 and JFK: Reloaded and the reactions to it.

 

[Hybridwolf]

Meh. I don't see Britain getting angry over the fact they are shown as Bio-weapon snatchers, and lying to America. Cuba can get grumpy, but it's the least of Black ops problems. Also, the achivement list was released a month before the game came out and that revealed you'd be killing him. So why now, why didn't they kick up a fuss eariler? Nothing they say or do now can directly alter the game, only thing they could do is remove the level for Cuba.

 

[The Journey]

This is silly.

Cuba is trolling. Seriously, it's trolling the world like it has been trolling the US for a long time. I can only shake my head in lieu of this failure of human logic.

 

[Merkavar]

you cant make a game now adays with out annoying someone. just got to make the game and hope for the best.

 

[DTWolfwood]

Again they just assume these are kids games. O wells, it should be something else that the man never got assassinated. One can look at it as fidel being invincible XD

 

[Whoatemysupper]

As do communist leaders, so all of this isn't a surprise to me at all. I can't help but laugh at how they like to stand beside all the other loopy nuts in this country who actually think violent video games breeds violence. We've heard it with Doom, GTA, CoD... what's next?

Club Penguin.

 

[Iron Mal]

I could see why they would be unhappy if it weren't for the fact that

Spoiler

The assassination fails because it was a double that you killed, not Fidel himself.

Ultimately this is another case of the country who happens to be the villains getting arsey over said role (I'm beginning to understand why most games make the antagonists terrorist groups or mercenaries, I would like to see a representitive from the Taliban speaking out about how they don't like all these games portraying them in a bad light).

 

[OneBig Man]

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...

I can agree with this. I wouldnt' want to have a game of me getting assassinated.

 

[brodie21]

shut up Cuba.

 

[Super Toast]

Someone sounds butthurt.

 

[Harkonnen64]

Does Castro gets royalties for the portrayal of him in Black Ops?

 

[e.wlmo4]

So the leaders of Cuba are just as ignorant as the leaders of every other country. Moving on.

 

[Ithera]

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.

Nature huh? yeah, a great option if you don't mind the risk of waiting 60 years for the actual hit. I'll stick with more traditional agencies. Nature, deadly but terribly unreliable.

 

[-Drifter-]

watch out, you gonna end up on FBI´s most wantet with that attitude.

Every form of rule has it flaws, i agree with you on that. But i still prefer our democracy to any form of communism. In a perfect world we would all be enlightned citizens under one fair ruler. Ain´t gonna happen.

You're free to prefer democracy, but keep in mind that that doesn't mean everyone has to. What you or I may view as oppressive may to others be liberating (If I remember correctly, Cuba was a democracy before, and that didn't work out too well for them.)

 

[cobrausn]

The Bay of Pigs involved some 150 marines. Bit much for a rebellion attempt. As for silence and supression, when was the last time you though dispondently about the state of affairs in your own country?
I make no claims that it is better or worse, just that the contries that are closest to it have no issue with it, not nearly as much of an issue as the US always paints there to be.

Ah, you have mistakenly assumed because I have a problem with other countries that I think my own country is an exemplar of government in it's best, purest form.

That would be wrong. I hate my government almost as much as I hate some other governments, and I spent some time in the U.S. Navy. But that doesn't change what I said earlier.

 

[cobrausn]

Nature huh? yeah, a great option if you don't mind the risk of waiting 60 years for the actual hit. I'll stick with more traditional agencies. Nature, deadly but terribly unreliable.

What are you talking about? Life is fatal in all known cases. That's pretty reliable. Just inconsistent.

 

[joes]

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.

communism is an economic system too. as far as government is concerned, Cuba is an autocracy run by a single party.

the municipal council members are actually nominated and voted on by the populace, but from there they need party approval to make it into higher office. and, you know, doesn't that sound just a little familiar...

 

[joes]

This response doesn't really surprise me.

Also, Castro IS dead! Why won't anybody believe it??

he gave a speech a couple weeks ago. televised.