The Resident Evil 5 racism issue was revived again last week, but what do the people who helped make the game think of it all? LA Times asked two of the game's black voice-actors Karen Dyer (who plays Sheva Alomar) and T.J Storm (who plays Delta commander Josh Stone) what they thought of the whole racism issue. Here was their response ...

Karen Dyer, the Sherman Oaks actress who plays Sheva Alomar, the heroine in the story, said, "When the clip came out, Sheva wasn't in it because she hadn't been created yet. Once people get to hear the whole story and meet Sheva, I think they'll see that there's nothing racist about it. In the game, she gets together with Chris Redfield to try to help her people. I think it's a balanced portrayal" of black people.

T.J. Storm, who plays a Delta commander in the game, said the decision to set the story in Africa allowed developers to pull from a "completely different mythology."
"In the game, you have what are called majini, which means evil spirit' " in Zigula, a language spoken in Tanzania.

"Resident Evil 4 was located in Spain, so there were Spanish zombies," Storm said. "Now we're in Africa. And guess what? The zombies are African."

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