Ghost Recon 2 plotline irks North Korea

  • By Benjamin Golze, GameSpot
  • Posted Jun 25, 2004 4:42 pm PT

Government newspaper lashes back at American "propaganda"; no word on whether Kim Jong Il enjoyed the first game.

Red Storm's upcoming mutliplatform tactical shooter Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 has North Korea up in arms, according to the American military newspaper Stars and Stripes. Apparently the North Korean government is miffed about the storyline and setting of the game, wherein a North Korean general diverts food to the military, eventually taking power of the country and invading China. Players join the elite Ghost Recon force as they intervene on behalf of China to repel the attack.

Scenes from videos of the game, debuted at this year's E3, caught North Korea's attention. “Through propaganda, entertainment and movies,” read a recent column 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.”

Such strong words did not seem to deter Christopher Allen, a designer on the Ghost Recon 2 team. “When we developed the story background, we aimed at staying away from key current or specific events while still having a reasonable setting for a conflict,” Allen wrote. “We are focusing the story on a splinter group in the North Korean military that sparks this conflict, not the entire country.”

Despite North Korea's protests, development will continue on Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2 for all consoles and the PC. All versions are set for release in November 2004. Check out the GameSpace for more information on the game.

11 Comments

  • VolcanoMan001

    Posted Mar 11, 2007 5:38 pm PT

    Hmm... and why didn't they have a problem with Mercenaries 1 game? The games entire plot was to topple the NK government. Hahaha. "Miserable defeat and certain death" eh? Well if that is the case then there has been nothing stoping them from firing that first shot since the 1950s. Go ahead and do it! They need to just go ahead and make an assassinate Kim Long Dong game (or whatever his name is).

  • l-town4l

    Posted Mar 10, 2007 8:57 am PT

    So is he saying that NK would defeat us in war?

  • umbaquaw

    Posted Mar 10, 2007 8:56 am PT

    Wow... ITS JUST A FICTIONAL GAME!!! You know, they are threatening war with us saying "The US will face defeat" yet the country still has to build a actual Nuclear Bomb. *LMFAO* Dude! They try **** all we have to do is fire a Hydrogen Bomb at them and they will be wiped off the face of the world. Those propagandadist, whining gits need to learn a lesson in just plain everything.

  • Lonelynight

    Posted Mar 9, 2007 11:12 pm PT

    NK sucks

  • Shinso-Zangetsu

    Posted Mar 9, 2007 3:33 pm PT

    "In war, they will only face miserable defeat and gruesome deaths."
    ...what, what, whaaat?! Such strong words. North Korea looked at the game the wrong way. It's fiction..

  • SpaceMoose

    Posted Mar 3, 2007 12:44 am PT

    I guess if anybody would know propaganda, it would be Kim Jong-il.

  • Whitsel

    Posted Jun 7, 2006 8:32 am PT

    LMFAO....U.S. would face defeat. Ohh NK...your so crazy, you are so crazy, but funny too, lol.

  • chinaguy2003

    Posted May 30, 2006 11:28 pm PT

    Too bad Ghost Recon 2 didn't come out on the PC.

  • gameloverx

    Posted May 30, 2006 3:11 pm PT

    bad ubisoft bad

  • sir_kenny

    Posted May 29, 2006 8:05 am PT

    Old news lol

  • kevo14

    Posted May 26, 2006 2:49 pm PT

    sweet i can't wait =)

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