Video games and politics are just not getting along this year. First Medal of Honour sparked outrage with its Taliban characters and now Black Ops is whipping up a fuss in Cuba
Unsurprisingly it's the fact that players are 'encouraged' to assassinate former Cuban president Fidel Castro which has provoked an angry response from the communist country.
“What the United States government did not achieve in more than 50 years, it now tries to do virtually,” said a government-run cubadebate website. It went on to say that the game glorified real US attempts to kill Castro (of which there have been 638 attempts including the infamous exploding cigar.)
Controversy aside reviewers of Call of Duty: Black Ops, which retails at around £50 in the UK, have been dishing out positive reviews.
Is the game in bad taste or are Cuba overreacting? There's plenty of games which draw on historical wars and battles. At the end of the day you've got to think a game is just a game and no one is going to finish Black Ops then fly to Cuba with a poison dart gun. Though if anything it shows that tensions between the US and Cuba are still there. Let's hope this game about the Cold War doesn't start another Cold War. That really would be something wouldn't it.
Source: Guardian
3 thoughts on “Cuba angry at ‘Castro mission’ in Black Ops.”
God! people are so uptight about things. It’s just a game!
so what would happen if you had to murder kennedy instead?
i think we all ready know the answer, cuba is not overreacting.
i think cubans like fidel castro just like americans liked kennedy.
Who cares you you dont even really kill him its just a double you kill.