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The South Korean Media Rating Board has refused to approve Ghost Recon 2 for release in their country, stating that Tom Clancy’s story for the game goes “way too far.”
With the game being set in 2007 and 2011 (PS2 being the earlier, Xbox and PC featuring the latter year) and featuring missions based around a fictional conflict in North Korea, it is not really much of a surprise that the game has been refused release – what with the small matter of a war between North and South Korea still technically ongoing.
North Korea were even less impressed by the game, with a post-E3 article in one of their newspapers saying: “Through propaganda, entertainment and movies, [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.” Lovely stuff…
Ubisoft were quick to issue the usual ‘we didn’t mean it!’ statement, saying: “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.” Though this doesn’t seem to have convinced either the North or the South to allow the release of the game.
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon 2 is, however, scheduled for a release on these shores today (the 26th) on PS2 and Xbox, with the PC version following in the first quarter of 2005.
