The government of Cuba has taken great offense to Activision’s latest first-person shooter, calling it "perverse." A Cuban state-run news website, Cubadebate, posted an article filled with angry criticism of Call of Duty: Black Ops on November 9, the game’s global release date.
"This new video game is doubly perverse," the Cubadebate article reads. "On the one hand, it glorifies the illegal assassination attempts the United States government planned against the Cuban leader … and on the other, it stimulates sociopathic attitudes in North American children and adolescents.
In the first mission of the game, set several months prior to the Bay of Pigs Invasion of ’61 and the Cuban Missile Crisis of ’62, players are tasked with finding and assassinating Castro. He also appears as one of the playable characters in the game’s popular "Nazi Zombie" mode.
"What the United States couldn’t accomplish in more than 50 years, they are now trying to do virtually," Cubadebate concludes.