Caltrops - Resident Evil 4





	[quote name="Fussbett"]Turns out that I'm not the only one who noticed that there are a lot of blacks in Resident Evil 5. <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/runninscared/archives/2007/07/zombies_in_afri.php" target="vv">http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/runninscared/archives/2007/07/zombies_in_afri.php</a> [quote]Of course, it’s possible that Capcom is just throwing around novel combinations willy-nilly here (“I don’t know, how about a zombie game in Africa?”).[/quote] It's <i>possible</i>, but let's not let Capcom off the hook until we know for sure that they didn't intend the game to be racist. [quote]And that’s the other issue with setting a zombie movie in Africa. The whole idea of zombies is based on our fear of contamination. Get bitten by a zombie, or just drop a tiny bit of undead blood in an open wound, and you’re a goner. Soon you too will carry the disease of the living dead. Sounds familiar yet? Yup, we could be talking about the HIV/AIDS crisis, which has killed 15 million Africans, and infected 25 million others on the continent. Especially since one of the few sentences spoken in the Resident Evil 5 trailer is, “Casualties continue to mount over the long years I have struggled.” Or maybe we’re reminded of the "one drop rule," concocted by racists who feared miscegenation in the era of slavery and Jim Crow to create a definition of whiteness. Is that what’s lurking behind the premise of this game?[/quote] After typing up her completely incorrect assessment of the zombie gameplay in Resident Evil, she poses a question for us all to ponder, crosses her arms, and puffs on her pipe of corn cob. Then the comments call her a raving loon, mostly, including a kid from Ethiopia who talks about how excited he was to see a game set in his old home. Is is possible a white Village Voice liberal is out of touch with reality? Meanwhile, our <a href="http://microscopiq.com/2007/07/blackface-goes-hd/" target="black">old friend</a> at Microscopiq is also counting hits ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK: <a href="http://microscopiq.com/2007/07/blackface-goes-hd/" target="micro">http://microscopiq.com/2007/07/blackface-goes-hd/</a> [quote]From Birth of a Nation to Black Hawk Down, black folk are apparently responsible for some of the most mindless and evil activities you got.[/quote] If I was someone who liked to argue I'd point out that white Nazis are the number one all-time human video game enemy. They're slightly demonized too. Blacklooks.org, normally so level-headed, also goes a little overboard: <a href="http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/07/resident_evil_5.html" target="blacklooks">http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/07/resident_evil_5.html</a>[/quote]