It's been almost a year since the claims that Resident Evil 5 is racist died down. Fans everywhere breathed a sigh of relief when the issue was finally forgotten about.
But with the recent release of the demo, it seems there are a few game-sites that aren't too happy with the racist themes and imagery that appear in the game.
And so, once again, the racism debate rears it's ugly head.


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Just when Capcom thought it might be able to release Resident Evil 5 without seeing this debate rear its ugly head yet again, Eurogamer has published a preview of the game that makes some pretty alarming claims about the game's arguably racist imagery.
Writing that "there's imagery in here that goes beyond the general air of foreign menace that caused a ruckus in the first trailers,"

Eurogamer's Dan Whitehead goes on to describe a scene where protagonist Chris Redfield comes cross a gang of men beating something in a sack. These men are not the "infected Majini," they are "ordinary Africans, who stop and stare at you menacingly as you approach...where Africans are concerned, the game seems to be suggesting, bloodthirsty savgery just comes with the territory."

Whitehead goes on to describe a moment later in the game where a white blonde woman is violently dragged off by black men, a scene he says is completely irrelevant to the plot, that plays "so blatantly into old cliches of the dangerous 'dark continent'...you'd swear the game was written in the 1920s."

Later on, Whitehead says, there are even more "outrageous and outdated images." He also remarks that the image of Sheva, Redfield's partner in the game and a light-skinned, English-speaking African, fits into accepted Hollywood standards for black heroines, and "compounds the problem rather than easing it."

Miss Razz via escapistmagazine.com »