May 18 2008
Resident Evil 5 Not Redesigned After Race Criticism, Says Producer
Tagged Under : capcom, re5, Resident Evil
When Capcom first showed Resident Evil 5 at E3 2007, there was a collective sense that what we’d just seen was going to stir the pot, as a big brawny white guy had just done his share of laying waste to an angry mob of Africans. Sure enough, Capcom of Japan received more than its share of criticism from those inside and outside of the gaming press. The first to lobby a notable complaint was blog Black Looks, writing that RE5 was “problematic on so many levels, including the depiction of Black people as inhuman savages.”
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