Here is the trailer for Resident Evil 5, which is not yet on the market:
The player is the sole white person in a dismal, threatening city, apparently in Africa. The locals engage in torture (which we see in some detail) and gleefully cheer at a hanging. At one point the hero is accosted by an angry mob, all of whom just make gutteral, animal-like sounds. In a beleagured voice he tells us he just doesn't know "if it's all worth fighting for. Who knows?" Oh, the white man's burden, indeed!
Thanks once again, Patrick C.!
5 comments:
April 11, 2008 at 11:04 AM
As a fan of this series (of which this is, I think, the 13th game), I want to rush to its defense. But this topic has been covered already in some depth at the racialicious blog:
http://www.racialicious.com/2007/10/12/moving-gaming-forward-having-meaningful-conversations-about-social-issues/
I'd check that out.
April 11, 2008 at 12:52 PM
pretty sure it's set in haiti
April 11, 2008 at 2:46 PM
This made me a little uncomfortable, but given the game title all the violence is most likely related to a bad case of the ZOMBIES.
Resident Evil zombies have always come in all races, creeds, and colours.
April 19, 2008 at 1:26 PM
They're zombies. It's not an angry mob.
April 26, 2008 at 3:12 PM
I wonder if there was such an outcry from Hispanics over Resident Evil 4.
I, for one, would like to hear from all of the objectified zombies.
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