Call Of Duty: 10 Huge Controversies Activision Wants You To Forget

It seems an impressive achievement to piss off an entire country with a video game, something Activision have managed on multiple occasions. Call of Duty: Black Ops' main controversy saw hatred and condemnation from the island of Cuba.

The nation's beef with Activision's 2010 release came from the game's fictional assassination attempt on their former President Fidel Castro. In the mission, players, who actually end up killing a body double, gun down opposition fighters in Havana in pursuit of the revolutionary politician. Needless to say the climax of the opening level turned heads in the Caribbean republic, with a government-run pro-Fidel Castro website saying, "What the United States did not achieve in more than 50 years, it now tries to do virtually."

The statement went on to accuse the game of glorifying the 636 (surely it wasn't that hard!) real attempts to kill the leader, of which according to the former Cuban head of intelligence, ranged from an exploding cigar to a poisoned wetsuit.

Activision's in-game assassination plot sees players enter Castro's bedroom, where the young activist tries to protect himself with a woman he happens to have on hand, a cowardly response that wouldn't have helped to avoid the Cuban government's tirade. Who knew Activision would become such a hinderance for diplomatic relations?