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Cuban Video Game Recreates Revolutionary History
Hugh Pickens writes writes "The Guardian reports that Cuban programmers have unveiled a new 3D video game that puts a revolutionary twist on gaming, letting players recreate decisive clashes from the 1959 uprising in which many of their grandparents fought. 'The player identifies with the history of Cuba,' says Haylin Corujo, head of video game studies for Cuba's Youth Computing Club and leader of the team of developers who created Gesta Final – roughly translated as 'Final Heroic Deed'. 'You can be a participant in the battles that were fought in the war from '56 to '59.' The game begins with the user joining the 82 rebels who in 1956 sailed to Cuba from Mexico aboard the Granma. Players then fight their way through swamps shoulder-to-shoulder with bearded guerrillas clad in the olive green of Fidel Castro and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara to topple 1950s Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. The game lets you pick from three player profiles, one in an olive hat similar to the one Fidel Castro was known for, another wearing a Guevara-style beret and the last with the kind of helmet worn by the ill-fated Camilo Cienfuegos in many revolution-era photographs. Rene Vargas, a 29-year-old gamer who tried his hand at 'Gesta Final' when it was presented at a technology fair in Havana last week, says the graphics were surprisingly sophisticated. 'Bearing in mind the level of technical support there is in Cuba, it looks pretty good,' says Vargas. There are about 783,000 computers in this country of some 11 million inhabitants, according to government statistics from 2011. Private ownership of computers is low, but many Cubans access them at work, school or cyber cafes. 'We developed (it) keeping in mind the purchasing power and reality of Cubans,' says Corujo. 'It doesn't require incredible technological features.'"
And then establish an even more brutal police state where even more people were imprisoned, tortured and murdered without due process? You call other people ignorant when you willfully ignore the crimes of the Cuban communists.
I support the Slashcott and will not be reading or commenting from 2/10/14 to 2/17/14. Beta is steaming pile of dog shit
"Even more" just proves your complete ignorance on the subject, Castro's revolution had its flaws but he never openly tortured or killed his fellow citizens, much less in the scale the old Batista dictatorship did. And whenever they did something unsavory like executing war criminals, torturers or delators, they did follow due process every single time.
Yes, you are not only ignorant, but your ignorance is kind of amusing, taking in account that their prison rate is nowhere close to the US one and AFAIK there is no evidence they ever executed a person that was a minor when omitting a crime, mentally ill and their statistics don't show any racial bias towards capital punishment (that FYI has been in a moratorium for 20+ years except for one single instance of boat hijackers that killed someone while stealing a ship to get to the US).
Make a favor to yourself and inform on a subject before forming an opinion, education gaps, fox news and plain old cold war propaganda won't get you far in life.