Actually, I’ve not seen much of this kind of setting being portrayed in videogames, african landscapes, human beings and villages are just as fictionally used in this videogame as the church was in Resistance… it is fiction people!

If a black person watches the trailer and feels offended, that person should go and cry to his mother for help. I mean WTH???

By being offended they are segregating themselves and having that sentiment of inferiority come out.

Boo hoo, Im black and I dont like watching black “people” being killed in a VIDEOGAME. Stop being so full of yourselves. Germans, latin americans, japanese have all at some point depicted as killed before in a game, now it turns out black people are inmune to that just because.

But I do have very close black friends who were legitimately offended when I showed them the trailer. And they really aren’t the types that are overly sensitive about race issues at all. Even when I saw the trailer (I’m caucasian) by myself, I felt part of my brain say “uh-oh”.

I don’t think the game itself is racist at all. Of course I haven’t played it, but just like RE4 wasn’t racist towards Spaniards, this isn’t racist either. I also don’t suspect any subversive or semi-conscious racist undertones. However, I can completely understand and have sympathy with some blacks that are offended by the superficial look of the game.

But that has no bearing on the game at all. What is really dumb in all this is that the game is probably so far off that we don’t know if the final product will be exactly like this. Remember how Resident Evil 4 used to be about a black mist that took control of inanimate objects?

At least wait until the damn thing comes out before saying its “racist.” For all we know Chris Redfield dies 30 minutes into the game and you could start playing as a new character that is black and acts heroically.

And even if the ENTIRE game is like the video, the people are acting like “monsters” because it will have something to do with a virus. Is that really as bad as GTA San Andreas, where as a black character, you can run over and shoot random black people in perpetuity, even after the game has ended?

The amount of crying over a game that is probably 18 to 24 months away and is known for featuring humans infected by some type of virus or parasite and crazy monsters is hysterical.

Is PETA going to get involved next if you can shoot elephants and lions that are infected too?

I’m still waiting for Tom Cruise to complain about Resistance portraying aliens in a bad light

Slavery and racism isn’t of this time anymore, no matter where your spot on the world map is, we all live in a multi cultural community. So what’s the big fuss about? I, for instance, live in The Netherlands and about a third of the people I see/meet during the day aren’t Dutch. These people come from everywhere, the most are either North African (Morocco for instance) or black (Suriname mostly). So why need I be shocked or in any way uncomfortable with black people as zombies in RE5?

So what if ALL the zombies would be white? Wouldn’t that be racist and unethical too in the way the all black zombies are (according to some)? Of course not.

Maybe it’s because I’m black, from Suriname and people accept me as I am? Bacause if we go a little back into history, you can see Suriname was a Dutch colony and used Surinams as slaves. That is however, way back into time, so Dutch and Surinams are treated as equals both in Suriname and The Netherlands. Maybe that’s because we think a little bit different than predominantly white countries. I don’t know, all I know is that it’s stupid to even think about it being racism or unethical. Just accept the fact we are citizens of the world, we come in different colours and we all have different beliefs. In the end we’re all the same.