GRAW 2 to be seized by Mexican state gov't

by James Ransom-Wiley { Mar 23rd 2007 at 6:58PM }

Chihuahua Governor Jose Reyes Baeza Terraces has ordered the seizure of all copies of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 that are in regional distribution, according to a report in Juárez newspaper El Diario. The governor's order follows Juárez Mayor Héctor Murguía Lardizábal's harsh criticism of the game, which proposes a not-so-distant future in which the citizens of the Chihuahua border city have apparently fled, replaced by sparsely populated pockets of resistance, known as insurgents (not to be confused with terr'ists). "Violent video games ... attempt to divide the good will of the residents of American and Mexican cities," declared the mayor in a carelessly worded blanket statement.

So who's behind this divisive propaganda...? France?! But how do the French stand to benefit from the eruption of the fragile border issue across the Atlantic? Why, Ubisoft Paris? Why rub open centuries-old wounds? Don't you know that the only suitable wargame villains are Nazis and Cold War commies? Best watch yourself lest Chihuahua sic Bono on your ass.

Source: El Dario [Google translation]

Tags: 360, ghostrecon, graw, graw2, mexico, ubisoft, xbox360

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

mrbone @ Mar 23rd 2007 7:09PM

It doesn't surprises me that the goverment takes seriously a fictional game, it surprises me that they even took the liberty to search info of said game.

Normally they don't give a crap whatever gets inside the country (in the videogame area of course).

Screwed @ Mar 23rd 2007 7:11PM

Wow, Joystiq bloggger call mexican chihuahua. BRAVO. A blog site that namecalling other races and country. What has it become.

Chris @ Mar 23rd 2007 7:15PM

Haha, funny stuff. I can see why they'd be upset, maybe a little extreme, but whatever. Oh, and I thinks you talk good screwed. You must be from 'merica! I can tell you're offended, but not really sure why... hmm...

Endejas @ Mar 23rd 2007 7:15PM

Screwed:

Cd. Juarez in the state of Chihuahua which is the state that the governor of Chihuahua confiscated the game. It's in the first sentence for Pete's sake!

Heliophage @ Mar 23rd 2007 7:17PM

@2

It's a state in Mexico. *laughs*

Mr. Clownn @ Mar 23rd 2007 7:20PM

@ 2

You should really, REALLY do your research before you start playing the race card, or you just look like an uneducated ass.

http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/chihuahua/chihuahuaindex.html

Endejas @ Mar 23rd 2007 7:20PM

It's not like the governor has room to talk. Juarez is one fucked up place. All of Mexico is kinda having a dip right now. I just came up from Hermosillo (,Sonora), and their having trouble with a string of murders. They're killing cops over there. A lot of them.

Mexico has a lot more to worry about than wasting resources on confiscating a game.

Larry @ Mar 23rd 2007 7:26PM

What about the first GRAW?

Book 'em Lou...

dark @ Mar 23rd 2007 7:29PM

Yo quero GRAW 2!! Yo quero!! Yo quero! Yo quero!

dark @ Mar 23rd 2007 7:32PM

Ah mi dios!! por qué!! por quéééééééééééé!

Grindstone @ Mar 23rd 2007 7:36PM

Don't mind "Screwed", he's the newest n00b troll to Joystiq. He'll cycled out soon enough.

I bet this has roots in 'el Cinco de mayo', when the Mexicans knocked the crap out of the invading French. But, the French would eventually take over Mexico and establish a puppet government, only to loose it again several months later. Now, in retaliation, the French make a anti-mexican game, and the ol' tensions escalate once again.

In short, this is silly.

Night Elve @ Mar 23rd 2007 7:43PM

Well it seems that the Governor has a big issue with violent video games even if there is other bigger problems to resolve.

As someone said here in Mexico right now we have bigger problems to worrie about like all the Cops that are being killed.

We have right now a big problem with the Narcotrafico (Don't know how to say this in english) they are killing cops every single day.

So Juárez Mayor Héctor can kiss my ass, stupid politician.

And yeah Natividad Paraz can kiss my ass too.

hvnlysoldr @ Mar 23rd 2007 7:51PM

You may have missed the real perpetrator. I speak of course of Canada. Blame Canada!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOzG7bBylRo

Mario Elenes @ Mar 23rd 2007 8:05PM

Night Elve, you're my new best friend.

I really don't think this will have any effect. Mexico is screwed up with or without Cpt. Mitchell shootin' up insurgents and random asshats.... and now that I think of it, it wouldn't be such a bad idea, shooting up the average mexican idiot criminal.

Oh, and just to get on with it, Screwed, do your research. In your defense, however, I did imagine the guv'nor as a bipedal chihuahua dog, which was hilarious.

Before anyone says anything. I'm mexican... and I loved GRAW.

Dan @ Mar 23rd 2007 8:10PM

I like how this mexican dude conveniently ignores the fact that the 'insurgents' you fight in the game are scottish mercenaries (from the sound of their accents) and just as much of GRAW 2 takes place on US soil!!

Oh... and its not real.

qbix @ Mar 23rd 2007 8:22PM

@Endejas: There are politicians in the US looking to ban or put strict restrictions on sex and violence in video games while the federal government is torturing prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, killing civilians in Iraq, and building pipelines in Afghanistan. Things are fucked up in just about every country dude and the job of politicians is not to put all of their efforts and focus strictly on one issue. I understand Mexico's current situation is not the best but neither is the image of Mexicans or South Americans in the United States. If anything, the media just helps in promoting xenophobia through an induced sense of fear and the government proposes building a wall to prevent illegal immigration and terrorism. But hey, they say better fences make better neighbors... right, we'll see. Anyhow, I digress.

All countries have a lot to worry about, including the US, and though I think any form of censorship is wrong and not the best move, I can't blame the governor of Juarez for trying to make his voice heard. Obviously, this won't hurt the sales of the game and the guy is going to be ridiculed by many because it doesn't affect them in the least. However, his effort will be applauded by others plus he got the attention of the media.

Korben @ Mar 23rd 2007 8:31PM

I read a bit about the story Ubisoft put together and it really is ridiculous. More now than ever there's been animosity between the two countries because of the "immigration" issue (a problem all countries around the world has) but seeing as how the game has a definite degree of realism the story is just absurd. Plus most people down there can't afford the video game stuff anyways.

Jonah Falcon @ Mar 23rd 2007 8:40PM

"Plus most people down there can't afford the video game stuff anyways."

You'd be wrong, idiot.

megamanfuzion @ Mar 23rd 2007 8:48PM

@Night Elve:Is it serial killer?

Fernando Rocker @ Mar 23rd 2007 8:49PM

@17 Korben "Plus most people down there can't afford the video game stuff anyways."

What the fuck!? Im from Nuevo Laredo, in Mexico, border with Laredo, Tx. (five minutes from my house)...

I dont know why you people in USA think that all mexicans are poor people. The fucking inmigrant people that cross the border is the fucking lazy people that not the rest of us mexicans wants.

I have my own bussines of graphic design and publicity, my income last year was about $1500 dllsa week.

And about the 90% economy of Laredo, TX, depends of mexicans (and its true, Im not inventing this... just chek the newpapers). Almost all the mexicans buy all our stuff in USA.

I hate the sterotypes... we are not a country in a fucking desert, and our clother are not a "sombrero" and we dont ride in horses and we dont drink tequila in our meals.

Please, open your mind.... 75% of mexicans we are honest, workers, and not fucking lazy like the inmigrants (they shoul be in jail)

And you Korben... I bet I have more games than you, and a better car, and house.

Just investigate before you make a comments.... check pictures of our cities (I live in Nuevo Laredo) they are cities, not fucking towns

Dont judge a country if you havent been in there.

Omar @ Mar 23rd 2007 8:57PM

@korben... mexico has a lot of videogames stores, has E3-Like conventions... even Bill Gates was playign 360 with Rafa Marquez (soccer player)... when I was in San Antonio to get my WIi on preorder 80% we were mexicans... so shut the fuck up

stewie @ Mar 23rd 2007 9:34PM

New game for the xbox 360,its about crashing a plane into the twin towers. Will the US get mad?

fat albert @ Mar 23rd 2007 9:34PM

I had a Chihuahua once; and all that the little s.o.b. wanted to do was run out and bite the poor postman. I got rid of him finally and got an American Coonhound. Guess what? All that stupid s.o.b. wants to do is run out and fuck the postman up the leg! The moral? Either way, you can't win, so lets all enjoy the games for what they are-just games, and develop a sense of humor and lighten the fuck up! My apologies to all the good postmen out there! lol lol

REUYL @ Mar 23rd 2007 10:03PM

No wonder they all cross the border... their whole government is filled with Mexican Jack Thompsons.

aaron @ Mar 23rd 2007 10:20PM

"Please, open your mind.... 75% of mexicans we are honest, workers, and not fucking lazy like the inmigrants (they shoul be in jail)"

I'm glad they're here (I live in the Dallas area) for the cheap labor....too many of them, though, compared to how many jobs there really are. It's good to hear somebody makes good money in one of the most dangerous places on earth. Anyway, keep your head down and and stay inside and enjoy what the 360 has to offer now and later. Then again, you probably already do those things.

carlos @ Mar 23rd 2007 10:34PM

Im Mexican and i think he is crazy.
If the u.s seized every game that has a u.s.a city there will be no games.

Im from mexico city and im getting this game for my ps3 soon to show him he is crazy.

De parte de un mexicano de Corazon.

PD: THE WORD "QUERO" DOSENT EXIST AND THE PHRASE
O MI DIOS! IS NOT USED.

Antes de hablar español aprendanlo.

robert @ Mar 23rd 2007 10:36PM

"QUOTE"23. I had a Chihuahua once; and all that the little s.o.b. wanted to do was run out and bite the poor postman. I got rid of him finally and got an American Coonhound. Guess what? All that stupid s.o.b. wants to do is run out and fuck the postman up the leg! The moral? Either way, you can't win, so lets all enjoy the games for what they are-just games, and develop a sense of humor and lighten the fuck up! My apologies to all the good postmen out there! lol lol

Posted at 9:34PM on Mar 23rd 2007 by fat albert "QUOTE"

lol You're new dog's breed name sounds like a slur.

aaron @ Mar 23rd 2007 10:52PM

LaughingTarget @ Mar 23rd 2007 10:54PM

I'd like to, on behalf of the American citizenry, apologize for korben. He isn't like the rest of us. Just like the normal American doesn't assume Mexicans are lazy and looking for an easy way out, we're not all like old korben there and get our information on foreign nations from South Park episodes.

Night Elve @ Mar 23rd 2007 11:08PM

14. Mario Elenes
Nice to know ;)

19. megamanfuzion
Huh? A serial killer?

fat albert @ Mar 23rd 2007 11:05PM

#27 Ha ha good one robert! See, like I said....ya just can't win, just gotta enjoy those games! lol

aaron @ Mar 23rd 2007 11:05PM

Arturo @ Mar 23rd 2007 11:24PM

Fernando Rocker:

First of all, fuck you. Secondly, I'm an immigrant and I am not lazy and neither is any of my family. We have all finished school or are still in school, have NO criminal records whatsoever, and treat everyone with respect. "I hate the sterotypes... "..."75% of mexicans we are honest, workers, and not fucking lazy like the inmigrants (they shoul be in jail)", what a very hyprocritical statement. If you're a mexican, you're a very shitty excuse for one. People like you make honest, hard working immigrants look bad. People come to this country for a better life and although it may be illegal, some of us (such as myself) are stuck in the middle being brought here as infants without a choice in the matter. Being a hardworking immigrant without the same rights as others and being forbidden to see certain people or do certain things and having serious limits in life isn't being lazy.

dark @ Mar 23rd 2007 11:57PM

Yo quero taco bell!!

mrrookie @ Mar 24th 2007 1:31AM

Actually there are a lot of hard working mexicans there, they go there and leave their families alone because you can do a lot here with the money you get paid for a shitty job in USA.

By the way, many many people can afford a game system here, its just not the priority for most of us and thats why gaming isnt THAT popular over here.

By the way, Taco Bell sucks, try eating some real mexican good ;)

ssuk @ Mar 24th 2007 8:10AM

el fredemo of spechio el gonio!

Geo @ Mar 24th 2007 8:55AM

I`m agree with # 11 mexicans kicked french asses to get them out of the new continent, Hay,hay,hay yo quiero patear el trasero a los franceses......

Geo @ Mar 24th 2007 9:13AM

Please taco bell sucks, go to a real mexican restaurant and you will taste a real mexican taco once you tasted you can play GRAWF2 and you see why the AI is very smart, by the way some developer should make a game where mexicans kick French asses with the pancho villa and Zapata revolution,
quiero patear el trasero a los Franceses....

El macizo @ Mar 24th 2007 9:51AM

Come on people you know that USA and Mexico have very good relations why dont we take our hands and be good friend has we always been a game will not separate our cultures somos amigos maybe France developer is kind of mad because mexicans kick their asses on the mexican revolution by the way USA had to help them on Wold War 2 that way their people can live free of Nazi domination and one last thing i`m from latin America and i live in USA i love this Nation because of their protection and many good things this country have and love my country too;amigos por siempre los amo a todos adios.......

rick @ Mar 24th 2007 10:23AM

# 24 what that means....?

Mr.BONE @ Mar 24th 2007 5:24PM

megamanfuzion:

Narcotrafico is drug trafficking. (Or at least came that way in the dictionary.

Besides being crooked, now the politicians became aware of the "problem" that is portraying a fictional situation in a videogame. Nevermind the drug trafficking, violence, corruption, etc. A videogame is far more important and must be dealt with inmediatly.