good stuff. If you wanted to get someone to play a game perhaps you can do so without giving away so many major moments.

Fighting all those Eastern Europeans. I'm slavic and I just found it distasteful. I swear one of those guys in the rubber boots was my uncle Eli. Couldn't the T-Virus just infect a bunch of Mennonites, then everyone would be happy? I mean, they're never going to know.

I'm kidding, by the way. About being bothered by eastern europeans, not about casting Mennonites as villians.

for being uncomfortable playing as a Caucasian protagonist murdering dozens if not hundreds of indigenous Africans? I wouldn't fault, let alone call someone a racist, for having those feelings. Especially if that person is African or African American.

If RE5 featured a young German soldier killing hundreds of "infected" Jewish people, and even used some scenes touching on some of the horror stories told of the Holocaust, would that make things different?

As I'm sure you're aware, there are certain people and countries that have historically been exploited by other people of different countries. To touch on that in anything is a very dangerous endeavor. If handled responsibly it can result in a very engaging and intellectually stimulating experience. If not, it can open old wounds and maybe even insult some people.

So I don't fault anyone for passing just like I don't fault someone for playing. But to call someone a racist for feeling either way is just flat out wrong.

The "issue" moot.

The game takes place in a tribal area of Africa with Africans in tribal clothing. How is that racist just because the skin color of the protagonist is white? Sure if they were not ZOMBIES and were just minding there business and Cris just walked in there shooting them for no reason, I would consider this racist. But they are frikin ZOMBIES and they are ATTACKING HIM.

This over sensitized anti-racism is just as bad as racism it self.

How come no one is calling the zombies in COD:W@W racist against Germans? What if Germany made a game about killing American zombies? I bet that would make some people scream "RACISM!"

P.S.

I think Ben Yahtzee sums up how pointless this is in his Zero Punctuation review of 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand. It's also pretty funny.

I guess you have not experienced racism in your life. Because if you have this comment: "Racism will never disapear until people stop calling every little thing racist. End of story." You'll be eating it back and sh*t it out of your ass!

Miss the point much? Someone walks up to u and calls a racist word, call them on it, DUH.

What I am talking about is that no one can even make a little tiny point about anything without it somehow being turned around into a racist or derogatory remark. A game set in Africa calls for black people. A zombie game set in Africa calls for black zombies. If that means that black zombies are going to be shot by a white guy than so be it because no matter what the zombies must be shot and more importantly, IT IS JUST A GAME.

As for the zombies dressed in traditional tribalwear, that is explained in the game, if you had actually looked beyond your nose and cared to investigate the so-called racism of the game.

Racism comes from ignorance, on both sides. On the racist side they just don't know how else to interact with anyone they don't immediately identify with. On the victims side are the ones who are ignorant of the fact that they can stand up for themselves (race riots are a prime example of no one standing up for themselves until the rage just boils over). Also, and this goes for both sides, if you don't like what is going on, just leave. Go somewhere else where you are free of what is bothering you. Trust me, that is almost always the better solution, that way if what is bothering you follows you you then have the right to fight back with whatever means you see fit.

Someone walks up to me and calls me a racist word and I should call them back? It shows just how much you've learned in retaliation.
Because that's how violent starts, and that's how racism just breaks loose or even worst. I am not racist, some racist idiots calls me the N word, and you are suggesting I should call him the C word??? That would make me an hypocrite and also racist.

From your logic, I see where this is going from, you might as well support the Rapelay game being made.