Cuban government site deems Call of Duty: Black Ops 'perverse'

@danielsloan Uhh, I think they played it which is why they are complaining about it. lol

@danielsloan
I think we all need to be a little mature about this, the US doesn't like little old Cuba for one reason and that is because of there government ideologies that is against the US's interest.

@danielsloan

The're just jealous because we whop their ass online.

But i'm sure thats what you meant to say.

@Streeks1984
Cuba is one of the things that's disappointed me about my country. The so called "democracy" America backed before the revolution was corrupt and was doing nothing for the cuban people. As much as I dislike communism, it has made Cuba united and prosper.

@Bewoulf


And why was Bewoulf downvoted? Derp...

@Streeks1984 And there was this thing that happened once called the Cuban Missle Crisis. Just sayin'.

@Bewoulf
Um, though Batista had a secret police, that police only targeted the ones that were trying to overthrow him. Batista's Cuba made it the tropical parade it WAS. In the 1930s, 40s, and early 50s it was the richest city in Latin America and the Caribbean. With the Bacardi company taking over and making quite the name. Once Castro's regime took over Cuba fell into a terrible hole. For you to say that it made "Cuba prosper and united" do you not understand why Cubans constantly flee? Why there was a mass exodus of the islands in the 50s and 60s? Those people lost everything, the ones that made the country. People who owned any type of company or building it was taken away by the government. Those people lost everything. They came to our country to better themselves. And now hold powerful seats in this country after watching their parents and grandparents rebuild themselves.

Unlike those now in jail for political reasons. Or the people who have disappeared and have been killed indiscriminately during Castro's regime, since the first minute of the revolution. I imagine those wouldn't like to play this game. The ones who are alive after decades in jail for expressing their opinions would probably like to actually pull the trigger. I can't blame them. Cuba controls its own media.

In any case, the fact that Castro's dictatorial regime—in which individuals have no right to freely express themselves and could be arrested without warrant in the middle of the night—is criticizing a game scene that simulates a fantasy black-op is so hypocritical that it's nauseating

So relax guy. I mean you're name is Beowulf, stand up to a tyrant.. The worst thing we ever did was fail the bay of pigs.

@Sylath According to Cube, if it didn't make the game it MUST have commissioned Treyarch to make it. Best way to deal with things that you wanted to accomplish but never did. Next up: Healthcare Reform: The Game!

@Trojan

Where do I pre-order Healthcare Reform? Can I play as a gynecologist?

@Sylath

Wait a minute... if Treyarch made a game about slavery where you had to enslaved people, wouldn't the united state gov. or Arnold do all in there power to prevent that game from being release? Considering U.S gov. long history with Cuba, someone from the government should have raise their voice unless they liked the fact of seeing Fidel getting shot. Blaming the U.S gov. for the release of this game is not fair but they do have the power to stop game production and release. Just saying.

@monkey with glasses Except the government and Arnold could do nothing to stop the slavery game. We have little laws written into our Constitution like Freedom of Speech.

Besides, the game is FICTIONAL. The US will never confirm that they attempted to assasinate Castro. And, I'd have to be believe that if they wanted him dead, he would have been. He wasn't a lunatic hiding in uninhabitated mountains on the other side of the world. He was a lunatic of a very small nation in our back yard.

@DocBooch OK so after googling, the US' attempts on Castro are pretty well documented. Paint me blue and call me a smurf.

@FlashJS

Damn Joystiq interface won't let me upvote you to five hearts.

@copa

Watch. Next it'll be Call of Duty 15: Civil War Stories and we'll have Abe Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Jefferson Davis, and John Wilkes Booth back in action as vampire hunters, as if we need to be reminded of THAT time in our history.

@copa
You can't believe everything you read on the internet. That's how WW1 got started.

@AltairtheAssassinwhokillstuff

HA! +1.

@AltairtheAssassinwhokillstuff

lol XD

+3

Sorry, Valve already did that.

http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/0/07/BluTeamOriginal.jpg

That's the original BLU, according to the Valve.

From left to right, that's Abe Licoln, Nikola Tesla, Davy Crockett, Billy the Kid, Fu Manchu, John Henry, Alfred Nobel, Stonewall Jackson, and Sigmund Freud.

@Drakkenfyre

Yea but I'm talking about a game based on real historical events, bro, not some fictionalized superteam that would never have worked together!

@MLS

Yes, and everybody mentions this literally every time this picture is shown. As I understand it, that's a stand-in for whatever 3-letter clantag you want to put there.

@MLS
Get over yourself. Seriously.

@MLS

You can buy in-game, gun emblems, PWN is one of them.
As that is a shot from MP

@MLS
No, that's in game. You can put your clan tag on the back of your gun.

@MLS

Yeah, what that guy said. It's a clan tag.

@Dalrint

It'll sell. In the United States. The party system and incredible attachment to political groups within radical elements of the United States will ensure that it will sell to at least one group. Assassinate former President Bush, last I checked, he was pretty unpopular. Assassinate President Obama? I can see the Tea Party doing that.

@Dalrint

Hmm... The current leaders are a separate matter. I think the equivalent would be if you had to assassinate JFK or something.

@Dalrint The funny thing is, I can see a game like that happening in the future!!

@Dalrint

If it has solid gameplay, good level design, and a good story, I'd buy it. It's just a video game. Besides, plenty of games on the market involve presidential assassinations and the destruction of the USA and no big problems happened yet.

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2

*cough* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK:_Reloaded *cough*

@LaughingTarget
Yeah, but that's because they're made in the US to begin with.

@ovenmittman

I think that was actually in reference to them "nailing it" by adequately making fun of themselves, which I believe they pulled off quite well.

@grumpyzrp

Don't be too excited. Trying to keep the spoilers to a minimum (there will be some just because that's my entire point so be warned)...

You don't kill Castro. You kill his body double. Then he captures you and taunts you.

@WMcPete

They should be mad, they're such a joke of a little nation, how we still find them threatening enough to keep them embargoed is kind of silly. Meanwhile we send all sorts of aide to corrupt governments in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Then again, as soon as Cuban tourism opens up to Americans, we're going to trample the dook out of that place. I cannot wait to eat some of the rare fish that only survived in their little enclave.

@WMcPete Please just last month the US army or whatever was up in arms over a side being called the Taliban, a game got banned from army stores and all that jazz.

But here we have the assassination of an alive leader, and everyone is like so what? People can be such hypocrites.

@MrAhh

Yeah, you are right. That is why I prefer sci-fi / fantasy stuff over these modern realistic conflict themed games anyway. at least it would take light years before we heard any bitching from aliens over political ethics and the like.

@MrAhh
*americans

@Assmar

You're a horrible person.

@pluupy I know, I'm sorry.