BBFC doesn't note racism in submitted Resident Evil 5 scene

i don't remember re4 being called racist. the only difference is that instead of mexican zombies you shoot african zombies. oh wait... http://www.wiiliving.com/resident-evil-4-racist/

I hear that there are monsters in this game. Monsters who occasionaly have vagina-faces. And in the end, isn't that all that really matters?

The funny part about is that even if you switched the roles around so that it was a white guy dragging around and "impregnating" a black woman, it would still be racist towards blacks.

There's literally nothing you can do.

what if the white blond was just a whiney little... and you just wanted to impregnate her with a virus so she would spit anything with her genes out would it still be racist meh its a bs argument

I think that had the zombies been replaced with african babes that want to touch and caress you, and you have to allow them to or deter them with your pistol, less people would be complaining....males anyway.

Can we please stop giving this subject attention?!

Lyrics from Avenue Q. I have underestimated you Joystiq

i think we are gonna see a lot of upvotin' 2day.

Lot of really valid points in these comments. I have nothing to add of any value. Clearly the game isn't intended to make any racist connotations. However, it would be funny if one of the mixedmate.com trolls posted here.

it does sound like a scene out of "birth of a nation" though

well when I played the demo I really found it a little strange when the zombie leader began his inflammatory speech. I never knew zombies had the brains to do that! And then, under his command, the horde of zombies start *running* like crazy.. but as soon as they jump that fence, they slowly limp towards you, like good old zombies. Racist or not, this game is crap.

btw, where can I get that TTF font used in the comic balloons?! =]

Nobody (at least, no one who's even remotely reasonable) is saying this game is racist. I know for a fact that there is not a guy in Capcom's comfy business chairs wringing his hands saying "muah ha ha, I'm going to show those Africans a good what for... also, I'm going to make sure this game's controls are antiquated!" If there is, I motion that we get our pitchforks and torches and then we march.
However, typically games from Japan, where their entire race is homogeneous, their pop culture doesn't tend to take into consideration sensitivity of other races. It's pretty easy to forget "the other guy" then he's not walking past you as you head to work.
And even if for some reason that we can get past that... It still is a little unsettling. The Africans are depicted with a sense of "otherness" in that, they're universally evil. We can't relate to them, they're not even human. Does that sound familiar to anyone? Considering the target of your ire as less than human, if not outright considering them not even a human at all.
To sane rational people, it may be easy to shirk all this off as just a game... To people who already have the seeds of racism sown, seeing a black man prey upon an innocent blonde woman, that just reinforces stereotypes they already have, and makes them all the worse.

Again, I know there's no agenda at Capcom, I know they're not trying to bring the black man down. I know this takes place in Africa, and there are black people in Africa. It's still a little bit unsettling to be a white man, mowing down hordes of black men, even if they're not black men, they're zombies. Would it be different if the protagonist were black, and the zombies were white? No, it wouldn't.
Even their attempt at showing a black person in a positive light (Chris' new side-kick), she's a very fair skinned depiction of a black woman. She could very easily be passed off as a very tanned white woman.

Kudos on the Avenue Q reference in the picture.

I agree, it's time to get past this.

For the last time, it doesn't matter if "players will see and understand what it is all about" or not. Even if 70% of whites and 100% of blacks thought RE5 invoked racist, that doesn't make it so.

Because the game. Was made. By JAPANESE. People.

Not to say that Japanese people don't engage in racism, but it's not even close to the same thing as what people mean in this country when they invoke the word and its legacy. I don't recall any Japanese involved with slavery or J. Edgar Hoover.

Better title: Joystiq begging for comments and hits, continue to push ridiculous non-story.

I'm only surprised you didn't find a way to fit Obama in here to get even more hits.

Best way to fight this stupidity is just buy the game, folks. You don't have to convince irrational people they're irrational.

Of course the BBFC wouldn't see an issue (not that I'm saying there is one, I don't believe there is) but have you looked at some of the recent black characters in games developed by UK game companies? As an example, look at killzone 2's lead AI cohort "Rico". Very stereotypical.

what a sorry world we live in, where we are too politically correct do say anything, racial jokes are the funniest. not everything is a psa with a kid from every color.

screencaps or it didn't happen

had no idea that the entire CPAC convention were RE fans