<p><br /> Cuba has strongly criticised the launch of the Call of Duty: Black Ops video game in which players try to gun down former Cuban President Fidel Castro.<br /> </p><p><br /> They say the game, which is not available in the country, glorifies assassination attempts.<br /> </p><p><br /> Cuba expressed outrage on Thursday at the latest US-developed game that lets players try to kill former Cuban President Fidel Castro.<br /> </p><p><br /> Call of Duty: Black Ops, some of which is set during the Cold War, was launched earlier this week and sends players fighting their way through Russia, Vietnam and Cuba.<br /> </p><p><br /> While battling in the streets of Havana, players fire away at enemy combatants while in pursuit of Castro.<br /> </p><p><br /> Cuban officials there have been more than 600 attempts by the United States to kill Castro since he took power in a 1959 revolution and turned Cuba into a communist state.<br /> </p><p><br /> On the government-run website Cubadebate.cu, Havana said the game glorified actual US attempts to kill Castro and "stimulates sociopathic attitudes" among American youth.<br /> </p><p><br /> "What the United States government did not achieve in more than 50 years, it now tries to do virtually," said the online story.<br /> </p>
