it is a game developer trying to get the most out of their game, not racism. We will never get over racism when people try to start fueds like this when there unwarranted. Game developers believe in zombies, mutantsm, and everything else they can come up with, racism is the farhtest thing from their mind. Poeple need to grow up.

Oh shut up. look i'm african (born and raised in Ghana and now living in Australia since '95) and i couldn't care less about the setting and story of the game. Yes i understand that to a newbie of such a game like this they would jump to conclusion and see it as racist.

A white man killing a buch of native Africans is all you basically see. But to fans of the game (a.k.a me) you really see it differently. it's just the way the game is set and the plot of the game. Obviously you'd be scratching your head if you saw a bunch of white Americans being shot in Africa. No it just wouldn't work so i say f#ck the emotional wards and yay to killing scum human zombies.

Usually I love Eurogamer and I like what they say, and I like Dan's articles. However, I was stunned to see this kind of article. I'll just post what I posted in that article's comments on Eurogamer.

"I'm quite speechless. Dan, could you care to explain what were you trying to say in the last batch of the article? That Capcom (or anyone for that matter) can't imagine a story in which there are "black" people turned as monsters, after what, just 15 games of the series (counting spin-offs, of course) in which the only monsters you found were "white"?
You seem to be concerned of what "people" will think of the game from the outside. I happen to think that maybe, just maybe, we (I'm a writer for a quite renown videogaming website in Italy) as journalists should be the ones to ensure uninformed people get to know that this is far from a racist opera or game, that the saga has been alive since almost 15 years all of which spent killing "white" zombies in the US first and lately in Europe; now, the Japanese developers famously known as Capcom have decided that this one will be set in Africa, because of their free willed creative imagination and nothing else, and it just makes sense that many zombies are "black" (and besides, there are quite a lot of white AND arabic zombies mixed in there after the first racism charges, at least judging from the demos). Maybe the next time will be the time we kill "yellow zombies", who knows? And should WE care?"

There were asian zombies in the demo. Automatically excludes RE5 from being racist.

I guess there should be british people with big top hats walking around African villages... oh wait.

I think the general black television show is a lot more racist.
Whenever you see a white or asian person in those shows (almost never), its always a dumb, or uncivilized person, or a jackass.

the main character in the game is white, RACISM!!!

Does anyone know that in RE4 and RE5 THERE ARE NO ZOMBIES!!!! THATS RIGHT!! its something different... its something takes control of the brains of these people... gaining all their intelligence... but being evil. Nothing racist about that.

THAT'S RACIST!

But really now, it's a zombie infection in Africa, not Germany with blue eyes and blonde hair, it's the setting. They added some white people to kill as well (though it doesn't seem to make much sense). But onto breaking this story apart:

"a gang of African men brutally beating a living thing in a sack; they menacingly stare at you walk past"

Perhaps it could've been one of the infected? At a time like this, you wouldn't trust many people, and a person walking past with a gun would seem mighty tempting when it's 5 versus 1.

"The imagery takes a step further with one cut-scene showing a white blonde woman being dragged off by black men."

A path to non-racism would mean holding ZERO grudges about any imagery like this. It would mean that you would look at this scene as a coincidence, nothing more. By analysing it has "3 black men drag off one white woman" you're focusing on the racial differences, and in effect being racist about the situation.

"there's reportedly dodgier imagery later in the game (such as having to kill tribal Africans complete with spears and shields.)"

They're attacking you, and you want to defend yourself. Put two and two together.

If anything, I think not including Africans to be shot in Africa would be racist. It would be like completely ignoring their existence, and their rights to be shot in video games (in which plenty of white, hispanic and asians are)

Would there be any off this?? i really hate this politicaly correct society we now live in.
Right im going back to letting my dog lick my feet.

Capcom please get rid of bigtit,or not have her through the whole game.plzzzzzzzzz

Someone wants it to be racist though. The game takes place in Africa. How many times do people have to be reminded. Africans make up a good chuck of black people. They are not all black all over, but for the most part they pretty much are. So what if black people are getting shot at in the game its Africa!

I do see a point though from the article. The debate will get louder because someone like that racist black guy named Al Sharpton will show up and try to have this game banned or something.

Yeah, what about them? They are shot in almost every single video-game, mainly FPS like Gears, Halos, Resistance, and so on.

No one thinks about those poor extra-terrestrial creatures... but one day... ONE DAY!.....

So let me get this straight, there are complaints about a few "words/imagery" in a game that shows graphic scenes and images of severe gore and horror such as dismemeberment and decpaitations, is it me or does anyone see the irony in this?
What ever happened to the phrase sticks and stones

yep!

lol, back to this topic again are we.... sad.

well i would not worry about any main stream people playing it and seeing this stuff. with the control setup as it is, they wont even get passed the first cut scene...ok, ok i am just taking the p!ss

i just dont like when people write articles who havent even played through the game... The guy is trying to say that some cant be zombies because they drive cars and stuff. If he played hed realize none of them were zombies... they have every intelligence of the people... except they are now under control by monsters in their brains :)

IT IS RACIST...THEY SHUD HAV SENT A BLACK AGENT 2 AFRICA NOT A WHITE DUDE

They are bloody savages. I know i may come across as racist right now, but i'm from Africa, South Africa, and no i'm not White, neither am i black. I hear news stories every week about70 old grannies and 1 year old babies being raped, house robbery victims having their eyes gouged out so they can't identify witness
Folks, im not exaggarating any of this. This crap happens, and yes i sound angry, and I bloody well am.

Our national Elections are coming up, and our number 1 candidate is an accused in Fraud and Corruption Charges. Not only that he was recently acquitted on Rape charges. How's that for our Obama Moment?
His them song is Leta Mshini Wami (Bring My Machine Gun)

To sum up they are savages, and i can't wait to get the game and blow their F****** heads off...

How about: it's absolutely not racist? Are we ever going to get past the colour of one's skin, or is anytime one colour does something to the other colour, it's going to be called racist?

It's ridiculous, honestly, get over yourselves. If it offends you then I suppose we should all just play games or watch movies with only black, or only white, or only Chinese, etc.

We'll finally be NOT racist when we look at these things and don't blink an eye.

C'mon.....

I mean really... who cares?? I D/Led the demo knowing people were complaining about the controls.

I played for 2 minutes and deleted this POS from my machine. What a disappointment.

PS3 fans are really trying to bring this down, as they know it will hurt Killzone 2 sales.

er... No actually i'm a ps3 owner and I am looking more forward to RE5 than killzone 2.
Anyway This website is trying to stir things up, you can hate on RE5 all you want with the controls, the settings, racism but it will have no effect on sales, as I keep saying this one is for RE4 fans, as I recall that is the best selling RE game to date.

White American kills Japanese zombies confirmed.

Chris will have a new partner which is one of those girls from
Onechanbara Bikini.

This way It'll not look like racism.

You know something Guys??? If it wasnt for some Stupid A$$ Redneck Hillbilly Incest Guy this wouldnt even be an issue, I am sick of racism references in this county, why can't we all just be one people, the only DOWNFALL of online gaming is having to run into people like this, i think racist words should automatically be flagged and the people should get suspended from playing online. Someone has to take the first steps into shutting the racist Pricks of the World up, why not start with the Gaming community?? Agree

WHOEVER WROTE THIS ARTICLE IS A GEEK AND IS FULL OF CRAP!!!

Doesn't matter whether you think it's racism or not.

If the MEDIA says it is, then it is.

That's just the way it works.

Come to think of it, the author has a point.

Africa doesn't only presents black people but a nation, a country, cultures, history and a continent.

By using the white-American and an African-American woman to step on it.
It's like crushing their pride and soul.

What about Blood Diamond? Africans were portrayed in that film cutting each others' hands off and shooting up entire villages. Or Ace Ventura, which showed some Africans with spears and shields?

Not that it really matters, because this game is ancient garbage and doesn't need to be played by anyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Best part is 0:35:)

Thats new to me, I don't know anyone who has refered to blacks like that in my whole life. Then eurogamer goes on to say how its not right for blacks to be portrayed as doing something evil or menacing. Why is that, is it becuase all blacks are saints or does eurogamer deep down beleive that that is the way they are and finds it shocking and in bad taste if they would be portrayed as such. Just a real bull **** article.

I'm black and wasn't offended by the original trailer of RE5 at all. But you know this not a News Flash for me. Some people might get offended to what I have to say through my eyes, but for a long as the white man has conquered the world, they have always looked down on other races, especially Black. That is picked up by others that don't understand and they run with it.

Look how the US movies long ago betrayed us, Native & South Americn Indians as savages they no culture, dum all wanting their blonde women.

Is it right, no especially this day and age, but it is what it is.

How the hell can anyone call the game racist, just because it's acion takes place in Africa (and that explains the fact that most of zombies are black)? I mean - if a main character would be black, and the game would be set in some European country, where most of citizens are white, would anybody cry about it? Stuff like this (saying that this game is offensive) only builds racism, makes it stronger! Think about it...

Just remember

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.c...

There is no god

All religion is false. It is a fact now.

Once people open their mind, they'll realise that in all truth, none of it matters.

Racism is something made up, by goverments, for people to hate one another, and carry on hating on one another, Goverments don't want people to unite.

We are all HUMAN.

Im African American and when I first saw Resident Evil 5 I didnt say " O well thats Racist." Some people look for the racism in any thing they see and try to find something thats not there. Look at Call of Duty: World at War and the Japanese are killed by americans left and right. I know its and event that has already happened but someone could've made a big deal. Some people just have to be difficult and ignorant. The world was built on racism and it wont go away so their is no reason to keeping pushing it along.

They're in AFRICA. How is it racist to have predominantly colored zombies?!?!?!? Its like...it's racist to be killing only white germans in ww2 nazi games! No its not, that's just how it is!

As a black man I don't think that the game is racist but I know a lot of people who will think it is. All of them will e people who are not familiar with the Resident Evil story but Capcom could have helped this by making the main character black and having Chris come in as support. The player could then pick Chris if they wanted. Sheva somewhat plays that role but I don't think you can pick her in single player. Have anyone heard if you can? Still, it doesn't matter what the main character race is, some people will still call it racist because of the negative portrayal of the region.

When we don't resolve or acknowlegde history accuratly and honestly, we do not resolve the right to impose our jugdement, or our ideas on a people we've historically been destructive to.

Africa can tell a convincing horror story, but when "you're applying the concept of people being turned into savage monsters onto an actual ethnic group that has long been misrepresented as savage monsters, it's hard to see how elements of race weren't going to be a factor," says Eurogamer.

--you see, some of you roaches are just plain ig'nant, sitting in your little corner, arms crossed with that mad @ss look on your faces, refusing to touch the crumbs and some of you are taking the crumbs and thats good, but we really gotta open our eyes to these things.

Some people here make me sick, firstly I do not believe that the game is entirely racist, but trust me when I say there is some ounce of racism in there.

I know some of you idiots are oblivious to the truth, but the truth must be said.

Black people and the black race have been treated like animals, and considered savage by people in generations gone before us, when portrayed in a game to be savage creatures, they are igniting the beliefs of before, don't fool yourselves any longer, White people have never been treated as second best, never been seen or depicted as animals or in-humane people, never. however the black race has, not only through slavery but the general imagery of the time was that blacks were savage creatures.
for a game to then have you shooting Black people, who relatively just like normal black human villagers do, would be seen as outrageous to many.

"if they were Spanish/white, no one would care"

of course no one would care, the point is mute and void because whites have never been subjected to such harsh treatment, once again Black people were actually once considered to be nothing but animals, don't let your stupidity get the better of you...

I just hate how people say out of ignorance "it's Africa, there are blacks"

yes, and black people have been subjected to violence just because they were black, I keep saying it is not the same for every race, I think that Capcom were unbelievable stupid to have used the African setting, and yet still keep the enemies looking just like humans.

take a screenshot of a Resident evil 5 shanty town level, where there are no chanisaw weilding guys or huge monsters, look at it...

the picture or still image of a strong, burly white man, shooting into a crowd of black thin villagers...because that is exactly what it looks like.

Keep living in your own fantasy world, seeing everything as a joke, sometimes if you look deeper into history you will find out why people get offended by this game.

overall a totally idiotic show by most of you ignorant fools on N4G

How come when zombies are white, no one complains. From RE1-RE3 and every game in between, zombies where predominantly white and no one cared. RE4 the "zombies" were South American (Latin Americans) and were getting killed by a whiter than white guy, Leon Kennedy. Again no one cares. Now RE5 takes place in Africa and the "zombies" are black people getting killed by a white guy and all of a sudden it's racist. SO, it's perfectly acceptable to kill white people. It's perfectly acceptable to kill Latin people. But killing black people is racist. This is just dumb. I think if they replaced all the black people with white ones, they would still be hit with the racist card. They would Say, "How come Africa is filled with white people?" It's just a lose lose situation.

Oh yeah and echochrome was racist because a light figure chases after shadowy figures. Please. This is rediculous.

if the media wants to talk about racism, then what about the movie gran torino that came out a couple weeks ago.

he says some really horrible stuff about asians, but that movie is getting rave reviews about how great it is

im not saying this movie sucks but its a double standard

This whole thing reminds me of Black Hawk Down

But honestly, anyone who thinks this is racist is just an over sensitive whiner.

You could always look at it another way if you want to be that stupid about it: Here we have a poor African nation predominately populated by one race that has been victimized by a big evil corporation... I say this because the same people that will whine about "racism" will absolutely buy in to this line of nonsense too.

Me? I'm just going to blow away hordes of blood thirsty monsters trying to kill me and I'm not going to care if they're African, European, Asian, or anything in between.

I think this only becomes racist if allow to. If people would quit over analyzing and just play the game as entertainment I don't think this would be a problem.

from what i understand, and i may be wrong, the concept for this game was from japan and while they like every sociaty suffer from racism but it isnt as much of a problam in japan as in westen or african countries.

on a lighter note

I dont discriminate i dont care if its man or women, white, black, chinese, african, asian, indian or even french, if its a zombie i am going to blow its f@?%ing head off

Its not racism its just plain ignorance.
Everyone knows that the Japs have a strong view of black people.

RACISTS ARE GOIN 2 ENJOY PLAYING RE5....THEY GON BE KILLNG BLACK PEOPLE ALL DAY.

Re5 getting a remake is still...gunna be a tough one lol. I do still want that and 6 remade. Well, 6 needs a reimagining more like and I believe the current Capcom can make it into a great game.

Let’s wait till Q4 ;)

Wait I thought the guy had already said that Code Veronica and Zero were the next remakes?? Now it's CV and 5?!?

didnt the voice actress of Sheva hint at something this year?

we'll see.