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Mid of \"Gesta Final\" (Final Heroic Deed) game on computer screen2. Mid of computer programmer playing game3. Close-up of hands on keyboard, game on screen 4. Close-up of game on screen 5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eHavana, Cuba - 28 March 2013\u003cbr/\u003e1. Mid of \"Gesta Final\" (Final Heroic Deed) game on computer screen\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of computer programmer playing game\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close-up of hands on keyboard, game on screen \u003cbr/\u003e4. Close-up of game on screen \u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Haylin Corujo, Head of Video Game Studies, Cuba Youth Computing Club:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The children and youngsters of today like this type of product the most, so we tried to reflect the history of Cuba in a video game. In 'Gesta Final' we primarily enact revolutionary deeds from 1956 to 1959.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: 1950s, exact date and location unknown \u003cbr/\u003e6. Various black and white footage of Cuban rebels with Fidel Castro, then a young lawyer and activist, in Cuban mountains\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eHavana, Cuba - 28 March 2013\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Haylin Corujo, Head of Video Game Studies, Cuba Youth Computing Club:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the video game we do not recreate nor identify any specific hero from Cuban history. They are simply created, imaginary, profiles.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: 1960s, exact date and location unknown \u003cbr/\u003e8. Close-up of Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary, smoking cigars \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eHavana, Cuba - 28 March 2013\u003cbr/\u003e9. Various close-up shots of video game main menu on screen\u003cbr/\u003e10. Pan across research room\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close-up of game on screen \u003cbr/\u003e12. Close-up of hands on keyboard\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close-up of game on screen\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Haylin Corujo, Head of Video Game Studies, Cuba Youth Computing Club:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We have had the opportunity to test the game in certain circles. The product if very well-liked by history teachers and young people alike. They themselves have said it helps to know, play, and deepen their knowledge of Cuban history.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Various exterior shots of \"Central Palace of Computers\"\u003cbr/\u003eComputer gamers are getting the chance to try to topple a Cuban strongman. \u003cbr/\u003eA new 3-D experience allows players to recreate decisive battles from the island's revolution in the 1950s.\u003cbr/\u003eThey get to fight alongside bearded guerillas clad in the olive green of Fidel Castro and Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara.\u003cbr/\u003eThe mission, if gamers choose to accept it, is to help overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.\u003cbr/\u003eDeveloped by island programmers, \"Gesta Final,\" or \"Final Heroic Deed,\" gives young people an insight into the 1950's uprising, which involved many of their grandparents and which led to the ouster of Batista in 1959.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The children and youngsters of today like this type of product the most, so we tried to reflect the history of Cuba in a video game,\" says Haylin Corujo, of Cuba's Youth Computing Club, who lead the development team.\u003cbr/\u003e\"In 'Gesta Final' we primarily enact revolutionary deeds from 1956 to 1959.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe game starts off with the user joining the 82 rebels who in 1956 sailed to Cuba from Mexico aboard the Granma, a creaky and now-iconic yacht that has become synonymous with the revolution. \u003cbr/\u003eAfter a brief description of the historic landing, gamers find themselves wading through the wetlands of southeastern Cuba surrounded by fellow guerrillas, identifiable by the black-and-red armbands of Fidel and Raul Castro's revolutionary movement.\u003cbr/\u003eDark-helmeted Batista soldiers and mustard-yellow rural police pop out from behind trees and open fire from trucks and farmhouses.\u003cbr/\u003eIf you are hit three times, it is game over.\u003cbr/\u003eThe keyboard-operated game has five levels, most named after historical battles like \"La Plata\" and \"El Uvero,\" and the scenery is full ancient vehicles and mountain trails typical of the Cuban countryside. \u003cbr/\u003e\"We have had the opportunity to test the game in certain circles. The product if very well-liked by history teachers and young people alike,\" says Corujo.\u003cbr/\u003e\"They themselves have said it helps to know, play, and deepen their knowledge of Cuban history.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe game allows gamers to pick from three bearded player profiles.\u003cbr/\u003eOne is clad in a olive hat similar to the one Fidel Castro was known for; another wearing an Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara-like beret; and the last with the kind of helmet worn by the ill-fated Camilo Cienfuegos in many revolution-era photographs. \u003cbr/\u003eBut programmers say they are not meant to be exact likenesses of the three famed rebel commanders. \u003cbr/\u003e\"In the video game, we do not recreate nor identify any specific hero from Cuban history. They are simply created, imaginary, profiles,\" says Corujo. \u003cbr/\u003eIt is not Castro's debut in pixels: 2010's \"Call of Duty: Black Ops,\" a US-made game, elicited howls of protest in Cuba because the plot included an assassination attempt targeting the bearded leader. \u003cbr/\u003eIsland critics also savaged \"Black Ops\" for its violence.\u003cbr/\u003eCorujo declines to draw a parallel between the two, and noted that the bloodless \"Gesta Final\" is relatively tame next to the goriest games on the wider market. \u003cbr/\u003eVideo games have been booming in Latin America in recent years, and programmers from countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico are increasingly getting into the business.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Cuba Youth Computing Club has also designed six other games, most of them 2-D and designed for children. \u003cbr/\u003eIt plans for \"Gesta Final\" to be the first commercial Cuban-produced game.\u003cbr/\u003ePricey gaming consoles like the X box are 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