Cuba says Castro video game tries to legitimise murder

[Judi Lynn]

Source: BBC News

10 November 2010 Last updated at 20:51 ET
Cuba says Castro video game tries to legitimise murder

Cuba has condemned the release of a new video game in which United States special forces try to kill a young Fidel Castro.

State-run media said the game, Call of Duty: Black Ops, attempted to legitimise murder and assassination in the name of entertainment.

The Cubadebate website said it would also turn American children into sociopaths.

It is expected to be one of the biggest selling video games of the year

The BBC correspondent in Havana, Michael Voss, says Cubadebate takes a dig at all the failed real life attempts to kill Cuba's former president.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11731120

[Poll_Blind]

1. And in 5 years, a young Martin Luther King. n/t

PB

[provis99]

2. Call of Duty?

Isn't that the game where you go walking through a Russian airport, heroically massacring women and infants?

[HEyHEY]

3. About time, women and infants have been pushing us around for too long!

[Posteritatis]

4. That's an impressively spun description of it, I guess. (nt)

[Pavulon]

6. Pretty funny to play online..

especially if you played counter strike and the other server moderated games. Some things never change.

[Drale]

5. Funny that they don't say anything about

Castro's body double using a human shield, or Castro basically selling the main character to the russians, both of which I would not be surprised to hear actually happened.

[Posteritatis]

7. Context is anathema to video game moral panics. (nt)