Games Are 'Poison,' Says Hugo Chavez

[Cobra Commander]

And I can't take any dictator seriously who thinks the US has a weather machine that can cause earthquakes.

Only Cobra and Destro possess that kind of power.

[GarrettCRW]

Or, to be exact, G.I. Joe, since they kind of took care of the Weather Dominator.

[Robocop2]

Or possibly OCP since they "practically are the military"

[Ro-J]

The Red Dawn remake is about China invading the U.S. Undoubtedly there will be a video game tie-in.


Propaganda pamphlet from the movie.

[hbkprm]

horseshit on chavez

[Push Upstairs]

The Red Dawn remake is about China invading the U.S. Undoubtedly there will be a video game tie-in.


Propaganda pamphlet from the movie.

So there will be another "Red Alert" game?

[Mimi Nakamura]

Well, technically there have been some games of that nature. In the WWII strategy game Iron Storm you were able to invade the US playing as the Japanese or Germans. Battlestations: Pacific had a Japanese campaign mode going up to an invasion of Hawaii. Turning Point: Fall of Liberty was a fictional history setting of the Germans invading New York.

I doubt any of those games are portraying an attack on America as a good thing / the right thing though.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Well, that's the problem. Initiating a war is never the good or right thing. Defending from an invasion is completely different.

China 'liberating' the US... That smacks of irony no?

[Robocop2]

It kind of reminds me of the radio broadcast for the Peoples Republic of America on Fallout3

[Mimi Nakamura]

Well, that's the problem. Initiating a war is never the good or right thing. Defending from an invasion is completely different.

What about defending from an invasion by initiating a war? It's the weak excuse often given in REAL LIFE! Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction!

BTW, I'm not defending Chavez's attack on games, games all too often get the blame for social wrongs. BUT, I can fully understand why he's angry.

I think this blog says it better than I can about the amount of propaganda in war sims:

http://www.gamespot.com/users/Fioth/...m-100-25505986

[Push Upstairs]

I honestly always took whatever locations used in games as less of some political statement and more of a "where is someplace besides the standard middle east/eastern Europe stuff that would make a plausible setting?".

And call me "naive" or whatever, but these "war" games pretty much boil down to setting up a basic "vs match" survival game where the enemy is interchangeable. It doesn't matter if the bad guys are terrorists, aliens, or zombie farm animals...the gameplay remains pretty much the same.