Call of Duty Warzone 2.0 faces backlash over cultural misrepresentation and Arabic translation errors
Dance Inferno noted the developer has shied away from having the city's billboards written in Arabic. Instead, they are predominantly written in English, something Dance Inferno stated is unlikely in an Arabic speaking country.
Meanwhile, the Arabic that does appear in Warzone 2 has been poorly translated. Dance Inferno highlighted the Airport here, acknowledging the two signs for 'International Departures' and 'Local Departures'. While Dance Inferno stated the translation for the International Departures is"passable", they called the Arabic translation of the Local Departures sign"a blunt force bastardization of everything that is holy".
The user finished their post by comparing this setting with the game's Mexican map."What makes me even more sad is that their treatment of the Mexico map looks so authentic and they clearly had hispanic devs working on this map," they wrote."[Infinity Ward] clearly has the resources to do an authentic representation of a foreign country, it's just a shame they didn't bother applying that effort to their main Middle Eastern map.
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