Call of Duty developer Infinity Ward has been criticised for its use of the Arabic language and cultural misrepresentation in Warzone 2.
Vlambeer co-founder Rami Ismail was among those who spoke out about the game, and who shared a detailed thread of criticism posted on ResetEra.
“Why don’t you for once just hire some Arabs [and] locals to ensure the places you seem to insist you gotta blow us up in would at least pass the critical gaze of say, a three-year-old,” Ismail wrote on Twitter. “This is embarrassing to game development as a whole.”
In the detailed ResetEra post shared by Ismail, user Dance Inferno began: “I made a thread a while ago about how Modern Warfare’s reboot frustratingly had non-Arabic speaking actors performing Arabic-speaking roles, which meant that as a native Arabic speaker I had to resort to reading subtitles to understand what the fuck a supposedly Arabic speaking character was saying (their accents were horrendously unintelligible).