Cuba Rages Over 'Call of Duty'

"Cuba condemns a new video game, where U.S. special forces must try to liquidate the revolutionary hero Fidel Castro.

Cuban state media believe that the video game "Call of Duty: Black Ops' trying to 'legitimize murder and attacks in the entertainment name'..."

[saint_john_paul_ii]

LOL i think we all expected this to happen when we saw the trophies/achievements leaked the part were you're suppose to assassinate him.

When in Fact, ***SPOILER ALLERT*** He Cheats Death Anyway LOLOLOLOL

I guest that Black Ops trailer was right, A lie is a lie.

[Nitrowolf2]

Hey if America can complain about it being Okay to play as American Soldier killing other but not okay to play as other Killing Americans then why not right? Just saying

[AtatakaiSamurai]

yup, better not see anyone from the US crying when a game comes out about trying to assassinate an American President.

[Bathyj]

Too late.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Fan Tastic]

Cuba can suck my coke laced grapes.

[lovestospoodge]

yeah that's not gonna happen..
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Varodor]

in next cod we will assassinate Putin))

[Calm Down Sunshine]

They can try...
It'll take more than bullets, missiles & explosives to kill that man.

[Motorola]

But the game makes him look SMART because he has the double....He should feel good

[badz149]

there's so many dumbsters commenting already! freedom of speech? yeah, keep it to yourself and to your country! No matter how crazy Castro is, maybe his country is not labeling him the same as other countries calling him! why stick your nose in other country's business? is it ok for a game to have a mission killing your president? if any company ever tries to do that, I'm pretty sure it will get shut down the next day! freedom of speech when it only suits yourself ha?

[madjedi]

Yes and in some countries china for instance, saying anything bad about the government usually results in a prison sentence, if not worse.

Well when cuba modernises itself and has video game developers they can make codbo clone where you kill l.b. johnson. Till then stop whining over a video game, if it isn't big brother government closing the studio down the relevancy is what again?

"why stick your nose in other country's business?" Gee i don't know to make sure the people in power, aren't committing genocide, violating human rights, like china does daily dumbass and a whole other list of reasons.

Funny you think your right or excluded from being a dumbster(whatever the hell that means), because your opinion is the opposite of their's.

What you are is simple, just another asshole voicing his opinion, like me and everyone else on this page did, like in every article on here.

[tacosRcool]

Their just jealous that they cannot make any good games!

[awiseman]

didnt hitler say the same about cod 1-3?

[toaster]

Germany losing WWII? He did Nazi that coming.

[spicelicka]

lollllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllllllllll

[HolyOrangeCows]

Hitler offered Mussolini part of the newly acquired land.
"Grazie, Nazi"

[Lovable]

I love how they use the word liquidate. Lmao

[DARK WITNESS]

lol, spy talk for "Merc-off"...

[emk2004]

HEY CUBA!!!!!!

umad?

[rezzah]

Easy to make fun of something else when you have no relations to it.

If you are american, I wonder if you said the same about america during the bs about killing "american" solders.

[TrollFace]

cool story bro

u mad Cuba?

[rezzah]

ignorance is bliss. nice responce btw, i can tell youre very smart.

U mad cuba?

See, I can do it to.

[nevimkdojsem2]

comparing american soldiers with disgusting repressive dictator ruining a whole country and depriving milions of basic human rights. As someone who grew up in a communist country I'd have welcomed any American (or alien from space) to kill every single communist that hold the regime alive. I hope that Castro lives long enough to be publicly executed by Cubans like Ceaucescu in Romania in 1989.

[Dave1351]

screw cuba! hell id go to actual war to kill 1 or 2

[Da_Evil_Monkey]

typical propaganda induced bullcrap. The idea of communism is nothing to do with a dictatorship. It is just easily turned into one. For example the USSR was meant to be communist, however when Stalin came to power he became a dictator, and the USSR was not longer communist, even though it was still called communist. Communism looks good on paper, but when put into practice it fails due to human nature. Someone always wants to control everything.

[Bathyj]

Jesus tapdancing Christ.

It seems you cant kill anyone these days without them getting all upset over it.

[skip2mylou]

yup and fox didnt take too long to report this on their website http://www.foxnews.com/scit...

[Moonboots]

I bet they wish they could storm into Activision take it over and squash any resistance that doesn't bow to the dictator.

Sorry pal, we have a little something called freedom of speech which many of your citizens tread water till they die to get to.

PS: Happy Veterans day to all those US service men and women who have served fighting for the freedoms I enjoy every day. THANK YOU.

[rezzah]

What we knkow to be freedom of speech is a false reality.

If anything, we do have more freedom than they do. But people gotta stop making out to be as if we can literally say anything we want without consequnces.

[Shepherd 214]

that i can go out into the street and scream that i hate President Obama, democracy, etc to the top of my lungs and i dont have to worry about my family being condemned, my possessions being auctioned, and me being imprisoned and/or executed.

[Elven6]

Freedom of Speech? Yeah, that worked out great for Medal of Honor.

Not related to the topic but Freedom of Speech doesn't mean you can do what ever you want contrary to public belief. There are rules and limitations.

And do people even bother keeping up with public events let alone reading the news post? This was something the State media said, not Castro personally (he hasn't given a public speech/statement in quite some time).

[NewsForMe]

"Freedom of Speech? Yeah, that worked out great for Medal of Honor."

EA and Danger Close made a decision to change it, they weren't forced to.

[condorstrike]

"revolutionary hero Fidel Castro"

give me an efing break, he deserved 2 bullets, the real him..."wink"
and the crack whore 2...:)

[dinkeldinkse]

I stopped reading the article after reading that bullshit.

[VandimionX]

same here, ha.

[Gam3s4lif3]

Wow hu cares...
Japan didnt go all defensive with WaW, and germany didnt do anything for 3 CoD games.

IT IS JUST A GAME.

[Elven6]

Germany didn't need to do anything, the games were already pre censored before even arriving in the country. I think they were censored in Japan as well.

Also, this is a duplicate story...

[White-Sharingan]

I don't think they sell 360's/Ps3's/Wii's legally in cuba, so it wouldn't matter anyways.

[NeutralGamer]

Heard of the Medal of Honor controversy?

Well how come everyone wanted it to be banned, but killing of Fidel is okay...

Seriously how sad must it be to see you self get assasinated in a big time best seller videogame?

P.S. I'm not saying he is a good guy...

[Chnswdchldrn]

Freedom of speech bitches

[Rush]

How does simulating someones assassination fall under the freedom of speech act....

Am sure 90 percent of Americans don't understand what freedom of speech even means...

[HurstDarkStar]

speaking freely fucking rox (rocks so much gotta put a X in that shizzz )

[Orionsangel]

I'm getting this game just to virtually kill Castro. Piece a shit communist!

[Orionsangel]

Who disagreed with me? You're pathetic who ever you are!

[Koromaro]

It's a Game Move along

[Crusade]

If there were a game about killing president Bush that would be provocation of war. I'm saying president bush and not Obama because odds are a game about killing Obama would be made by an American, sadly. Nevertheless, Cuba is right to be bothered by the game. Don't play that damn tired freedom of speech card, when everyone knows how America acts when someone says anything about it. I'm American and I know how hypocritical we can be and it's really tiring.

[madjedi]

Congratulations, show me country where people aren't hypocritical and i'll show you a country with no human beings in it.

I'm american as well, and i am not stupid enough to think, other countries in the world aren't also full of the same hypocritical nature and other character faults, that some people seem to think is exclusive to americans.

Yes because billy joe bob is absolutely dying to kill a digital obama for being the first black president. -_-

"If there were a game about killing president Bush that would be provocation of war." Yeah the congress is going to approve going to war, because some country made a video game where you kill president bush. -_-

Whatelse is really tiring, idiots that refuse to use logic or common sense in examples they use, learn the process then comment.

[Orionsangel]

That old fart Fidel Castro hasn't been relevant in 30 years. He should be in a retirement home being fed baby food by a nurse. His 50 year revolution was for nothing! It's so pathetic!

[NeutralGamer]

Taking Obama down? That would be stamped as both un-american and racism -.-

[SolidStoner]

leave me some cigars!

[MidnightWatcher]

It's funny that if he is such a bad guy then why does his country have one of the best health care systems (free), even over the UKs NHS, and one of the best education system. Jesus Cuba must be a shit place to live compared to great America :P

[american_ninja]

"then why does his country have one of the best health care systems (free), even over the UKs NHS"

That is a joke, right? Because it's not funny:

See here:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

http://www.therealcuba.com/...

[supremacy]

I mean medal of honor took heat.for something so small, so i guess this seems fitting. Only i dont see fox or any other news outlet dish dirt on this game like they did medal of honor.

Man...the level of biase in the world is why we have differences that lead to actual wars.

Regardless of what side you are on, doesnt matter. At the end of the day your rights are taken away once the truth is kept away from you.

[american_ninja]

Western world, please, stop feeding the communist troll.

If you pay less attention to him, he will eventually go away.

[dkgshiz]

Its just Cuba. They can keep driving around in there 1940s cars.

[Redempteur]

Next time the mum of fidle castro will rise up to talk to the journalist to say that she is angry that such a game exist . she will go to all the cuban tv shows asking activision to stop selling the game .

.........

wait this remind me of something

[Dayngls]

who gives a fuck about what cuba thinks

[Incipio]

Cry moar, Cuba

[SteveSmith]

Come on, it's normal that you have a mission about killing Fidel Castro. The game is made by Americans, and Cuba is an ennemy of the US. But it is totally wrong to have an option to play as the Taliban like in Medal of Honor. People need to stop relativizing everything. Good and evil really exists : choose your side.

[frostypants]

Cuba's not much of an enemy these days. The embargo continues simply because of a bunch of butthurt Cold War vets in the Pentagon and State Department, and a few activist refugees in Florida.

I mean, we made our peace with Russia BEFORE the fall of their communist system (at least in their own country), and yet we still can't get along with a glorified banana plantation?

Cuba's got some prime resort real estate and some damn good cigars. It's a shame really. It's ironic that we're the free country, yet it's OUR government that won't let us travel to Cuba.

The travel embargo on North Korea makes sense...it's a dangerous place and a hellhole anyways. But Cuba is supposed to be pretty nice.

[frostypants]

It IS kind of unprecedented for a game to simulate an assassination attempt on a real-life political figure who is still alive.

It's a weird situation, brought on by the fact that Castro is older than dirt.