GR:AW 2 a big no-no in Mexican state
Not Germany this time, and not a rating board either. Nope, the Governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua has stated that all copies of the game are to be seized, after the storyline of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 depicts the Mexicans in a bad light, and features the rather controversial US/Mexican border.
The game came under heavy fire just recently from Juarez Mayor HĂ©ctor MurguĂa Lardizábal, who believes that games of GR:AW 2’s nature “divide the good will of the residents of American and Mexican cities”. Let’s not forget that the game is fiction, ay?
Hearing such wise words, Governor Jose Reyes Baeza Terraces acted and has ordered that all copies of the game are to be seized in the Chihuahuan state. It seems a bit extreme to go as far as to seize all copies of the game. It’s not like Germany ban all World War II games because they see their own people being portrayed in a bad light. But alas, if you’re in Mexico, you might want to give up your copy before it gets taken from you by Government officials.
lol people take things way to seriously
damn this is just as stupid as making Call of Duty 2 get an 18 certificate (in Germany)…but doesn’t affect as many people, not too many gamers in Mexico I guess
It actually doesn’t depict all Mexicans as bad. Just the ones hiding nukes in supermarkets.
Haha, I actually laughed out loud because of you
Bad German WWII analogy, the Germans WERE bad back then and deserved to portrayed as they were. There’s no proof that Mexicans are hiding nukes with which they plan to blow up the US.
On a side note, the game is great I just completed it.
The Nazis were “bad”, not the Germans.
yeah not all Germans were Nazis, most actually just joined in but hated doing it
Lot of gray area there.
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Sometime someone should make a game with evil americans i want to see their reactions and the judge the rest world.
Free Duane ‘Dog The Bounty Hunter’ Chapman you mexican bastards
that would be pretty cool tho, a game where ur Iraqi n u have to kill all invading americans any way u can…pretty good idea there, lets see how long til that one gets banned.
It’ll be immoral, as it is a sensitivity issue.
nobody would be happy with that, most games are either fiction or set a while back
Dunno if you’re being sarcastic, but it happened actually and it did get banned
Wasn’t that the game made from the same engine as CS, like a mod or something?
Yep, Iranian government funded it too.
Meh whatever. Their loss.
What I don’t understand is why UBISOFT isnt responding to this stupid situation. That dumb Mexican dude is bringing more bad attention to his country than the game. If the fool had actually played the game he would realize that Mexican soldiers work with the US soldiers to get rid of the Mexican terrorist in the game. Someone need to slap this dude with a burrito.
consider it done
I think a taco hits harder than a burrito actually.
Depends on th filling.
I think you could concentrate the packing more in a burrito giving it greater weight when filled.
However the crispy texture of the taco may crack on contact and you could get the satisfying scenario of some sharp taco shards entering into the guys optical orbit.
Nice.
Can’t we use Guacamole or something? Wouldn’t want to waste a good Burrito.
Yo quiero tu madre.
Y yo quiero tu hermana lol
Yo quiero tu Hermana y tu mama y tu Perro.
Thats why this increases the fun of the game. I get to kill people who are represented by retards
Wasnt the game made by the French, but yet the poor americans get flammed for it.
“It’s not like Germany ban all World War II games because they see their own people being portrayed in a bad light.”
Interesting conclusion, but I can assure you it has nothing to do with seeing oneself in a bad light.
It’s just that the use of nazi symbols is prohibited by german law. As a result, we germans get WWII related games, but without the nazi symbols.
Learn something new everyday.
But thought they have a habit of making blood green?
So you get world WWII games with aliens which show no apparant affiliation to any political party?
Wow, vauge games.
Green blood is a different story. To bypass the very strict Youth Protection Act in germany, some game publishers started to bend game stories in a way that your opponents became robots or cyborgs. Apparently this won’t work with WWII games, so the game developers are forced to show less blood or even no blood at all, depending on the desired rating.
As a conclusion, we get WWII games with allies and axis powers, but with less blood and no nazi symbols.
Pretty stupid, isn’t it?
quintessential…Who are you? and why is your name the thing stupid people call me when they dont read my gamertag properly? WHO ARE YOU?!
Now if it was a new UBI Soft BORDER PATROL game that had you hunting illegals crossing the Rio Grand… a sniper level on the Arizona border… a FPS level in California raiding a sweatshop Rainbow style… a level in Wyoming getting intelligence from migrant sugar beat farmers in the Splinter Cell Style … you could even have a level flying a patrol plane over the Canadian and US border! Now then, then I could understand a little more hostility towards a video game!
thats genius…
i like nutts
Actually, the US/Mexican border is not “controversial”. I think few could deny that there really is a border there.
There is a fence isn’t there?
Does that count?
If so the next time some little shit crosses the border in my back garden I surely have the authority to shoot him dead being that he is crossing the border illegaly.
Seriously, if a game came out portraying homosexuals in an awful light, would not the game be banned?
I understand their is deep under belly of gamers who believe the “games is art” but not everyone adheres to that belief. So when a game so that characterizes a small mexican city as being terrorist rebels they are naturally going to be abhored by that notion.
There is a lack of cultural sensitivity in games, maybe there should not be, but it is quiet obvious if a group of people are insulted they will do whatever means they can to abolish it.