North Korea Angered Over Ghost Recon 2

Fennario writes "According to Stars and Stripes Pacific's translation of a North Korean government newspaper article, UbiSoft's forthcoming Ghost Recon 2 videogame, which envisions a near-future North Korea/China conflict with US involvement, has already attracted the reclusive country's attention. In a curt review, a North Korean government-run newspaper called the game proof of U.S. warmongering. 'Through propaganda, entertainment and movies,' read a recent online commentary in the Tongil Newspaper. Americans 'have shown everyone their hatred for us. This may be just a game to them now, but a war will not be a game for them later. In war, they will only face miserable defeat and gruesome deaths.' Given the steep learning curve of previous incarnations of Ghost Recon, it's conceivable many may face miserable defeat and gruesome deaths anyhow."

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Re: Games about 20th Century wars

[some guy I know]

Was the Falkland Island War in the 20th Century?

Yes, but it was between G.B. and Argentina, and so was mostly ignored by Americans (USA Americans), and thus by companies making games targeted at Americans.
(It probably would have been completely ignored by Americans if it hadn't been for the fact that Prince Andrew served during the war.
For some reason, many Americans seem to have as much of a fascination with the British Royal Family as the British do.)

As far as 20th century wars not made into games, I was thinking that many civil wars, such as the ones in China or Cambodia, or the many African civil wars, have probably not been made into games.

Some wars in which the USA was involved that may not have been made into games include the illegal US invasion of Panama, the illegal US invasion of Grenada, the failed US invasion of Iran to rescue the hostages, the illegal arming of the Contras in Nicaragua, the illegal bombing of Libya, the illegal blockade of Cuba during the Cuban missile "crisis", the illegal and failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, the illegal repression of Phillipines during the US occupation there after the Spanish-American War, etc.

Some conflicts that were not wars, per se, that may not have been made into games include various clashes between local governments and civil rights workers during the civil rights movements of the 1960s, the incident at Wounded Knee, the Waco Massacre, the terrorist attack now known as "9/11", the various slaughters of innocent Americans, Columbians, etc., that is a result of the stupid War on Drugs, Ali vs Frasier, the retaking of Attica, the Kent State "Massacre", the police riot at the 1968 Democratic Convention, the LA riots, the riots that occurred after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, clashes between unions and police in the early part of the century, the destruction of the American Veterans' encampment by Douglas McArthur, the ugliness resulting from Prohibition, the Oklahoma City bombing, and, of course, Hillary vs Monica.