Well, we have heard about a new videogame creation deal between the US military and Ubisoft, but never in our wildest dreams did we ever consider that a title could be the fruit of this agreement. Regardless, the North Korean government are clearly unhappy with Ubi's Ghost Recon 2 branding it 'propaganda' (according, that is, to the entirely impartial 'Stars and Stripes' US military newspaper, ahem).

The games plotline sees the tyrannical North Korean regime diverting food from the populous to the military, then invading China, a likely scenario clearly (hmm), which then sees the elite Ghost Recon squad having to enter in China's defence.

"Through propaganda, entertainment and movies," the Tongil Newspaper splutters, "[America] 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." Indeed.

Bravado and sniping aside, a Ghost Recon 2 developer denounced this attack on his game, explaining that "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," stated designer Christopher Allen. "We are focusing the story on a splinter group in the North Korean military that sparks this conflict, not the entire country." More on all this nonsense as we get it.

By Luke Guttridge

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