Death_Korps_Kommissar said:
Though I disagree with taking the game of the shelves, that's censorship.
But seriously that whole game is just the American's jerking off on our face.
All throughout the story it's just them demonising Russia and communique for shit they've done to an even worse degree!
For example: [sarcasm]
Oh noes the Vietcong are shooting civies?=o we've never done that
The Russians hired Nazis who did horrific things to other humans?=O We didn't do that...
The Russians tested weapons an other crazy shit on their own people?=O we never did that
/sarcasm
Yeah...
Yeah I agree completely. The Cuban mission almost made me quit the campaign then and there. It's picking up now that I broke out of the Russian prison, but it was so bad before.
While this "grassroots movement" sounds like the same incredibly lame SOCIAL JUSTICE club I had in my high school, I can see where they're coming from.
Fidel Castro is not the bad guy. He gained power through a successful revolution of the Cuban people against an American-installed dictator. Now Cuba has free health care, free education, and could pretty much be an island paradise. Except for one problem. The American embargo on Cuba crippled it's economy. It's not communism's fault that there are malnourished people, or that the country is relatively poor. It's America's.
Cuba has a memorial, a group of black flags, to commemorate all of the Cuban lives that have been lost due to American terrorist attacks.
I felt like a royal asshole during the opening mission. You're playing one of the CIA goons who was in the Bay of Pigs assassination, America's attempt to put another puppet dictator in Fidel's place. One of its terrorist acts against Cuba.
You start the Cuban mission in a bar and end up slaughtering masses of police officers. You end up at Fidel's house, shoot your way through his bodyguards, ruin his house, and then eventually find what looks to be him in his room.
Treyarch felt the need to make Fidel into a Mickey Mouse villain. His double takes what appears to be his wife at gunpoint and shoots at you. You shoot him in the face, the woman pulls out a gun, and your squadmate kills her. He remarks something along the lines of, "His followers are fanatic in their devotion." Really, Treyarch? That's the biggest, most bullshit line I've ever heard in a video game. The ass hat proceeds to shoot up Fake Fidel's body. You then get captured and see Fidel's snickering, smoking a cigar, and twirling his moustache before blacking out.
This game just managed to condense most of the reasons people hate America into one mission.
If someone made a game where you start in a bar, then pull out an assault rifle and shoot your way through masses of police officers until you reach John F Kennedy, then proceed to shoot him up in his car, I'm sure people would react differently.
I'm not a communist. On the contrary; I think it's usually a bad system. But it has worked for Cuba. I've been there. Not many people that constantly say that Cuba is a hell hole can say that, since they're usually fat, suburban, American ignoramuses.
The only thing holding Cuba back and harming it's citizens is the great ol' U S and A with it's lovely trade embargo and terrorist policies against the country. This mission in the game glorified this terrorism and it really hit a nerve with me.
