Resident Evil 5 trailer whets our appetite for 'zombie' destruction

i probably wouldnt have voted you down if you just said 'uno', but the 'numero' and the caps just made it annoying -1

HEEEY AFRICA,

What about these evil zombies?

Wait till Al Sharpton sees this trailer. He's going to have a coronary.

trulz,

your sarcasm is not subtle or funny - considering that I can honestly see Al Sharpton arguing that black people have zombie flesh octupus arms is very racist indeed (even though we all have been shooting white ppl for our whole RE lives)

lord bowser...seriously, why are you playing the god role right now... it makes me want to beat you over the head until you stop being such a douche bag. Not only do you make ridiculous assertions about this game being insensitive SIMPLY because the villains are black (no different than killing russians in goldeneye), but you also insult peoples parenting because of "profanity" that is being used in response to your comments. Who do you think you are? seriously... get over yourself...

have no idea how my reply ended up here, probably my fault...my bad

Black, white or blue, Zombies don't care who you are.
I Actually applaud capcom for taking a new step forward in the series.

why is it racist? we have engaged with (as gamers) wholesale slaughter of men, women, destroyed cities and planets, fought in the name of good/evil.

how or why is this racist just because the baddies are black? if the game is Africa and the baddies were all white then that would be political correctness gone too far and would be racist.

What will happen when far cry 2 comes out (set in Africa) and you have to go and off some warlord? will you think that is racist? bad people can be black too, just look at Robert Mugabe ffs.

Ok, I just lost three more paragraphs and I didn't get to proofread because I pressed refresh by accident.

I have no words for your stupidity.

It's a videogame. It's not meant to be taken seriously. So why do you! People need to lighten the hell up.

Okay I thought of some words- Think of a game like Saints Row. I think that does far more damage to ANY ethnicity than an obvious game of fictional horror like RE5.

Pimping Ho's, dealing drugs, and shooting rival gangs is apparently far more socially acceptable than a zombie infestation. People like you are grasping for straws, trying to find controversy where there is none, meanwhile glazing over subject matter that widens the divide in *relevant* parts of the world. Newsflash: those 'poor africans' aren't going to be playing RE5, so they will not be influenced by it. But what about a 10 year old who manages to get his hands on Saints Row or GTA4? Get over it, it's a fucking game.

It's set in Africa, what would you expect to kill? Badgers? Rampaging choc-ices? Killer tomatoes?

Following your arguement, no game should ever be set anywhere, lest we offend the people who live/come from there.

Reply system is acting weird...

Saints Row has awful imagery, as does GT4. I don't support those games with my €s.

"Newsflash: those 'poor africans' aren't going to be playing RE5, so they will not be influenced by it."

Yes, but millions of suburban Americans and Europeans will be. I don't have faith that most people can separate fantastical imagery from real life situations and as such we should just refrain from controversial locales until we can deal with the subject matter at hand in a proper, adult way.

Simple solution to all of this. If by some insane reason you're offended by this...don't buy it.

But do the majority of us who are buying it a favor and shut the hell up with all of this "racist" BS talk.

I never used the word racist, and neither did I allude to it. I would use the words 'insensitive' and 'short sighted'. I can see tmac must have had a wonderful mother judging from his brilliant use of profanity.

Wow, if all those atrocities you mentioned in so much light-grey text are true, and that's what they intended for the game's plotline, then Umbrella could be perceived as an evil corporation...

What a twist!

Bowser: I see your point.. I know if I ever personally visit africa I won't be able to shake the feeling that a zombie is right behind me..

WTF are you on about? Separating fiction from reality.. nobody in their right mind will have ANY difficulty separating the impoverished nations of africa with a video game depicting over the top zombie horror. I think the only one having problems separating fiction from reality is you.

Don't you think it would be more "insensitive" and "short-sighted" to have the game take place in Africa(I heard Carribean Islands at one point) and have it be full of white people? Why is it that every time a minority is used as a villian when it is regionally approriate to use said minority, the first thing out of everyone's mouths is "RACISM"??

Are you seriously saying you didn't allude to it? What the hell is the point of your first post then?

This all needs to stop. I don't care if you're black, white, hispanic or whatever. I've lost my patience with all races of people who bring up racism at everything for attention or personal gain. SHUT THE FUCK UP!!

And that's not all directed towards you bowser. That's towards everyone who's brought this shit up so far like N'Gai, that one columnist lady, you, and future people that we all know are going to run this into the ground when the game is close to release like Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and probably lunatics like Obama's pastor.

"Don't you think it would be more "insensitive" and "short-sighted" to have the game take place in Africa(I heard Carribean Islands at one point) and have it be full of white people?"

This man speaks the truth.

"t's a videogame. It's not meant to be taken seriously. So why do you! People need to lighten the hell up."

Games CAN be taken serious, just like you can take a novel seriously...it just depends on what it is, don't generalize.

Lord Bowser,

Excuse me, but where were you when all the other Resident Evil/Biohazard games were released? So now that they are shooting black people it is seen as insensitive?...what about when they were shooting people from antartica, spain, canada, and russia?

Dude, you know whom are as bad as racist people? the ones that call everything racist in a way to "defend" others...

"Newsflash: those 'poor africans' aren't going to be playing RE5, so they will not be influenced by it."

That's not the point, they just simply wont care, after all, its fictional....hell, if I was them I would be grateful that a game is taking in mind their area that is usually not use for stories (this is MY opinion btw)

Bowser, its a game, insensitive it may be, its still a game, compared to the likes of GTA:SA which depicts blacks as gangsta thugs with no intelligence, or 50 Cent games, this game is nothing.

Besides, nobody was moaning when all the zombies were white.

Maverick stop being an apologist, you're better than that. I know you can see fallacy of these paper thin arguments these people bring up.

Stop playing the Morgan Freeman role.

And I already said, though it may be whited out, that I despise GTA as much as I disapprove of the imagery in this game. And to all the people saying

Let me be blunt; when I see the Resident Evil Zombies in this trailer I see this:
http://www.sterlingtimes.co.uk/golliwog.htm
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/images/200803/ape_330.jpg

But if you don't see it, you don't see it.

You get more and more stupid with every post...it's quite remarkable actually.

I can see with my own two eyes whats going on, and I'm not disregarding it by any means. I still think the game could have been done better in terms of plot, and I've said that in many a RE5 article, thread etc

But personally, I love the fact it takes place in Africa, the last game to do that was Halo 3, and it didnt do a very good job of it ¬_¬ The only thing they could have done really was make the main character black or people helping him black or African. But how would that have been any less racist. It still black on black violence.

Theres not much that can be done about it, Capcom didn't do it with the intention of causing racial hatred towards them.

Personally, I find games that depicts Americans going into arab, russian and german countries to kill them all off racist, but then noone complained about them, so why start now, if it offends you so much, start your own company and change the way we depict groups of people in games, but from where we stand, all we can do is look at the game for what it is, and its a good game, the trailer shows that, and just disregard what may be posed as offensive. Complaining in a Joystiq article is hardly going to change things is it. All you will do is stir up more unneeded racial tension that the likes of me will have to try and clean up ¬_¬

Oh so that's what the big fuss was about that lebron james cover. I really couldn't figure it out. Guess I should have turned my racist vision on.

That's funny though Bowser, cause everytime I see a post from you I see something along the lines of this

http://www.slapyo.com/wp-content/thumb-owltards.jpg

"Personally, I find games that depicts Americans going into arab, russian and german countries to kill them all off racist, but then noone complained about them, so why start now"

What's with all these assumptions. I complained, I hate it. It's horrid, absolutely horrid. And that "why start now" comment is so defeatist. It's like you don't want to better yourself and you'd rather wallow with the pigs in the filth. We can do better.

No bowser, what he was saying is no one cared that in the other RE games you had to kill white zombies and then spanish zombies. The fact that you only care that black zombies are being killed is actually pretty racist

Who said I only cared about black zombies? Whatever that means. Nobody asked my opinion on the subject, they just downvoted me and insulted my character.

To be honest, most game that requires physical acts of violence is a no go for me. There are exceptions, MGS for one, but I believe, for the most part, without being wishing to generalise, these games are the equivalent of 80s action movies and in a few years we'll all look back on these violent games with great embarrassment.

Can we bowser? Explain how? By moaning about it in here? And by doing that you are achieving, hmmm, what exactly? You do realise that a high majority of Joystiq users are of different races, if anyone cares about your complaints, its certainly not them. Whos being defeatist? Look how many COD games have been made, how many MOH games made, how many GR games made, and to top that, GTA etc etc etc, and yet they they still sell, why? God knows, but if you think by you and I complaining in here its going to change things, you're horribly wrong, until you get into a position of which you can lead the gaming industry towards the rightful place it should be, your complaints will go unnoticed.

If anyone should be offended by this, its me, I'm black, I have african family members although I was not brought up there myself. And yet, while it does bother me, what can I do to change it, this is not the first game to cause a stir like this, nor will it be the last.

And you can moan to all the white gamers here about the game, all they will do is tell you to shut up, why? Because RE5 has gone through several games all shooting at white zombies, now that its changed to black theres an uproar? Dude, it may be deemed as racist, but you have to think about all parties involved, if people didn't complain when white zombies were shot, why would they care what you have to say now that the race of the zombies has been changed.

I've said it already, they could make the game more subtle, but what does subtle entail, basically you are asking for the game to be finished and stopped completly, thats the only way it can avoid racial issues, and I think more people will be annoyed at that then you and your complaints.

And bowser, if you really want to talk violence and racial discrimination, you are highlighting pretty much 90% of games.

Even something such as Mario, silly yes, but it could be deemed as racist, or Halo, or MGS, isn't Snake an American shooting at, hmm, who? Russians? Oh yeah.

And Mario, is he not jumping on the heads and eliminating other races in order to find a blonde blue eyed princess?

And Halo, is he not on a genocidal rampage taking out and entire colony of aliens, the other race.

And Final fantasy, how many blacks have you seen in them.

And Lord of the rings, what black person was in that?

Bowser, sometimes, unless it really is called for, like the PSP advert with the white and black PSP, its best to just let things be. Because by moaning about this, in order to achieve your pretty world of non violence and no racial issues whatsoever, we would have to remove 90% of games and movies on the market.

I agree with you bowser, and I think it's despicable that the general users of Joystiq suppressed your thoughtful comment with negative votes and unintelligent responses. N'Gai did a great article on this, and everyone should read it.

The game's not even out and everyone's jumping on the rascist bandwagon. It's obvious that there's a larger enemy than just the town's folk that are infected that chris keeps shooting.

I think it would be very interesting for plot and gameplay if they used some real life scenarios and worked something into the story about chris going up against atrocities like the ones that happened in Rwanda(with some sort of zombie back story) or maybe something like the tutti and that other tribe. You know where millions died and they could turn the story from being so negative into something more positive.

I think it's a shame that Bowser was making a point in a fairly articulate and polite manner, and that so many just argued back insulting him. I disagree with most of your points Bowser, but I wish more people would make the effort to explain them in the way that you did.

As an African American I just don't see whats wrong with this trailer...

Wii60Warrior: You have to be white to be offended by stupid shit like this. It's that whole separation anxiety thing.. they're trying so hard not to be racist that they become what they hate.

I'm still confused, what is bowser complaining about?

Violence in video games?
Different races in video games?
Fictionious Drug-teseting operations in Africa?

It's all so hard to read!

you have no idea what your talking about do you

I personally would like to see a return of the umbrella corporation as well as more mutated monster-like creatures to go up against, ala the earlier installments of the series, instead of just wave after wave of infected/zombie-esque people and guys weilding chainsaws. I liked the campy horror nature of the originals better myself. Looks good though.

@ eldee
I believe his last partner was his sister, claire. I am wondering where she is, because in code veronica, they escaped together, i believe. but what else could it mean, do you think?

ewww... r u saying he and claire... ?

I'm pretty sure he meant Jill Valentine from the first game.

Legend has it that it IS the RE4 engine, just rebuilt for 512 MB of RAM and the vast new array of lighting techniques available