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Eurogamer notes racism in its Resident Evil 5 hands-on
Joystiq —
... The Resident Evil 5 "racism issue" has reanimated itself in the latest hands-on preview by Eurogamer. The site believes the "debate is only going to get louder" once the game is released. It notes that Chris Redfield's partner, Sheva, ...
Resident Evil 5 Imagery May Generate Renewed Racism Controversy
GamePolitics News —
... Eurogamer, which has a detailed hands-on preview of RE5, reports that there is additional room for concern over images in the retail version: ...
Resident Evil 5 Coverage Reignites Racism Debate
The Escapist : Latest News —
... rear its ugly head yet again, Eurogamer has published a preview of the game that makes some pretty alarming claims about the game's arguably racist imagery. Writing that "there's imagery in here that goes beyond the general air of foreign menace that caused a ruckus in the first trailers," Eurogamer's Dan Whitehead goes on to describe a scene where protagonist Chris Redfield comes cross a gang of men beating something in a sack. These men are not the "infected Majini," they are "ordinary Africans, who stop and stare at you menacingly as you approach...where Africans are ...
Racism In 'Resident Evil 5'?
G4 TV - TheFeed —
... ? According to Eurogamer's Dan Whitehead it is. In a recent preview of the game, Whitehead claimed, "Where Africans are concerned, the game seems to be suggesting, bloodthirsty savagery just comes with the territory." He went on to say: ...
Eurogamer joins Resident Evil 5 racism row
That VideoGame Blog —
... Eurogamer have sensationally re-ignited the racism row over Resident Evil 5, claiming the game contains “outrageous” and “outdated” representations of Africans and blurs the lines between the infected monsters and African civilians. In a hands-on preview of Capcom’s upcoming survival horror title, Eurogamer’s Dan Whitehead identifies what he believes to be racially antagonistic content, including suggestions of African brutality, primitivity and savagery. ...
Resident Evil 5 Producer Denies Making Any Changes Following Racist Controversy
The Escapist : Latest News —
... criticism has sprung up following a preview version of the game that contained the first three chapters. Most gamers seem to be unwilling to engage in the debate about Resident Evil 5 , and many will take Kawata's comments as definitive proof that the game does not discriminate against black Africans, even unintentionally. Me, I'm not so sure.
Resident Evil 5 producer Jun Takeuchi on race, shooting while standing still, and the Wii
The Cut Scene - Video Game Blog by Variety —
... that already have some of us who haven’t played the game – and some who have – wondering how aware of and sensitive to the history of race in the West the developers were. ...
British Ratings Board: RE5 Is Not Racist
The Escapist : Latest News —
... as showing a white woman being sexually accosted by a group of black Majini (the zombie-esque infected townsfolk). Some argued the scene echoed classic racist tropes of black males corrupting white women, but the BBFC saw little of that. "In the version [of the scene] submitted to the BBFC there is only one man pulling the blonde woman in from the balcony, and I can't say the skimpiness of her dress impressed itself on me," she said. "The single man is not black either." So either the BBFC received a different version of the scene or some people were feeling a tad ...
"Expert" Consulted on RE5 Racism Issue: Not an Expert on Race After All
Acid for Blood —
... or an expert on media studies. Yet, the initial critics of the racist imagery in Resident Evil 5 were completely dismissed and often attacked with racist slurs by many gamers because the criticisms came from non-gamers. Many gamers in mainstream communities now feel validated in their view that Resident Evil 5 is not racist. They have rejected perspectives from game journalists like N'Gai Croal, Bonnie Ruberg, Dan Whitehead, and Tom Chick who questioned and critiqued the imagery in Resident Evil ...
REview
Mile Zero —
In February, Eurogamer's Dan Whitehead wrote the preview of Resident
Evil 5, a game that had been under no small amount of scrutiny for
what appeared to be blatantly racist imagery in its trailers. He noted: ...
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