Posted Mar 09, 2007 at 06:31AM by Karl B. Listed in: PlayStation 3, PSP, Xbox 360, Games for Windows Tags: Tom Clancy, Mexico
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 - Image 1Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 is not a game, but a criminal act against the intellectual capacity of the people of Juárez. That's what Juárez Mayor Héctor Murguía Lardizábal said to the media as he condemned the aforementioned next gen FPS.

The El Paso Times reports that in an interview with the media, the mayor said that federal authorities should act immediately to prevent children and teenagers from being exposed to a clearly xenophobic idea that has nothing to do with the reality of the country or Mexico's best border region.

The Juárez mayor also emphasized that video games that feature violent images involving Ciudad Juárez and its residents are "attempting to create a conflict between sister cities." Much of the combat in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 takes place in Juárez.

"Violent video games instill values which are upside down, and these actions are despicable because they attempt to divide the good will of the residents of American and Mexican cities," he said.


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   by guess what ... (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » FiRsT

FiRsT!!!! OMG!!!!!!




Just kidding. But thats a funny story.


   Re: Jack 'n Los (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » Wtf

GRAW 2 is a short ass game. You blink and you're in El Paso. You blink again and you beat the game.
   by mr x (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » hmmm

Its just a friggin game!!

You dont see VEGAS complaining about rainbow six:vegas do you.


   Re: Karl B. (QJ. NET Staff) - 2007-03-09
 » actually...

http://www.qj.net/Las-Vegas-Mayor-Not-Happy-With-Rainbow-Six-Vegas/pg/49/aid/58946

   Re: Seoulfood (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » hahaha yea

they already did.

   Re: myself a mexican (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » hahahaha

POWNED +(

But yea they complain, infact some time before i saw that the goverment of the US was complaining about a game made in middle east where the US was the enemy. I think it would be great a game were u actually can fight versus the US, im tired (and bored) of fighting versus nazis and mexican terrorists.
   by Snarg (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » .

What a jack ass. I saw we send in a recon team to take him out.


   Re: SHUT IT TRAMPS (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » AHHHHHHHHHH

"as he condemned the aforementioned next gen FPS"

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT, ITS A TPS, NOT A FPS, STFU GUINI MOFO

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   Re: some random guy (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » re

It's a tactical FPS. not a TPS. FYI.

   Re: ***** (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » nope

No the random guy is right, its a tps on the consoles just like the first one, the pc version of the first was a fps.
   by Kyorisu (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » lol what?

Uh no Mayor this is a video game, people can figure it out they what takes place in the game isn't necessarily true about the real world location.


   Re: memoHDCV (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » i'm a mexican +D

Yea, but the problem is that not much people think that way, and that is bad publicity for the city. I think thats what he is worried about.
   by European antiyank spirit (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » WWW III

Is incredible to see how many games make apology of the american patriotysm with flags and comments
Many times racists, xenophobe, arrogant, ridiculous, and for the other side..... pathetic

Curiosly in other web pages mixes graw2 trailers with US army sponsors "join the army"
Incredible ..... really.....
Are we the videogame community stupid or what?

P.D.Yeah, I know your answers... Is only a videogame, not reality.... not for me

   by tterbed (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » He's Mad because part of it is True.

The mayor is mad because he knows that certain stereotypes shown in the game are REAL in his city. Here in the US we don't really care if our dirty laundry is aired: Mafia, gang bangers, dangerous driving, drug and alchohol abuse, and many more.
Besides, this will be great publicity for GRAW-2.

The sad thing is that the people in his city probably suffer under his totalitarian viewpoints. "the mayor said that federal authorities should act immediately to prevent children and teenagers from being exposed".
No wonder people are running from Mexico.


   Re: memoHDCV (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » u are wrong

In fact i think mexico is cursed for being neighbor of the US.

And its the same thing of LAS VEGAS mayor and also here weren't problems about the "hot cofee scandal" and i think thats worse so STFU.
   by unluckyeddie (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » Wow

I like the Buy link right under the story.

"This is not how our people are!, this game is BAD!'

BUY: GRAW2


   Re: PS3Rider (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » HAHa

HAHA thats advertising for you

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   Re: Seoulfood (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » hahahahah

for real
   by AzumiUehara (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » wtf!!!

somebody need to put him in a gas chamber with jack thompson... lol whiney ass old men that never ever played vidoe games in their whole life

   by MickMog (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » stoopid focker

lol, hes just tryin to get in the news, he got this far ....an got laughed at...cool !
stuck up mayoral prick!

   by Scythe (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » Haha but it's more truth then they want you to think

I want this game even more now, this game will be future training for border patrol.

The reason they are so mad is because they don't want the mexican's to get a bad image because they want the USA to take in all their Citizens and drugs and criminals.

Don't think this is real read this:

Violence along the U.S.-Mexico border is undergoing what U.S. law-enforcement authorities call "an unprecedented surge," some of it fueled by weapons and ammunition purchased or stolen in the United States.



Federal, state and local law-enforcement officials from Texas to California, concerned about the impact of illegally imported weapons into Mexico, say they already are outmanned and outgunned by ruthless gangs that collect millions of dollars in profits by smuggling aliens and drugs into this country.


"These gangs have the weapons and the will to protect their lucrative cargoes," said Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr., the sheriff of Zapata County, Texas, who founded and served as the first president of the Texas Border Sheriff's Coalition. "With automatic weapons, grenades and grenade launchers, they pose a significant danger."


Last month, Mexican military officials in Matamoros, just south of Brownsville, Texas, stopped a tractor-trailer containing weapons and ammunition, along with a pickup truck fitted with armor and bulletproof glass.

More here http://www.numbersusa.com/news?ID=7524


   Re: killem (Unregistered) - 2007-03-10
 » Kill all the mexicans

I think maybe we should start killing all the Mexicans.
   by lol (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » hahaha

i think its so funny that first u see the article about how bad the game is but at the bottom u see "Buy: Graw 2 for xbox360" lol i thought it was funni

   by ha (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » hahahahahaha

removed my post yea tea drinking wuss because ii spoke the truth.

   by Mike (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » Im mad too

Maybe the Mayor should complain about the screwed up service after the NOwhere map download. It took almost an hour and 4 servers to get 16 people in the same room. We were trying to play as a team and couldnt get the people in. Now thats something to complain about

   by wtf (Unregistered) - 2007-03-09
 » fhmg

yep he's jack thompson jr

   by Temprix - 2007-03-10
 » Ignorant

First of all, the game takes place in the future. Sure, not that far into the future, but it just plays on today's current issues in Mexico and expands it to the point that terrorists have taken over at least one city. This is an overreaction, a common response that can be expected from an outsider, that is to say someone from the public masses who does not see video games as both harmless yet artful. It would be a scary thing to see this game predict the future of Mexico...

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   by douche (Unregistered) - 2007-03-10
 » Guessing

that douchebag might say it bad for kids teenager etc, but he just mad cause his kids payed more attention to that game then school n him together, beside, could this world go on with people banning or not selling video games? hell no without it, PEOPLE, we are not standing here with a bunch of systems in our homes for nothing. who ever voted for him is like voting for bush.



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