When's the last time you heard someone say something GOOD about Resident Evil 5? People are upset with this game, and for valid reasons. Some don't like the straight-out-of-1996 control scheme, others are rubbed wrong by the forced co-op gameplay, and the select few are get this...offended by the games supposed racist overtones.
Eurogamer's recently went hands-on with the final build of RE5 and came away with some pretty condemming accusations.
"Later on, there's a cut-scene of a white blonde woman being dragged off, screaming, by black men. When you attempt to rescue her, she's been turned and must be killed. If this has any relevance to the story it's not apparent in the first three chapters, and it plays so blatantly into the old clichés of the dangerous "dark continent" and the primitive lust of its inhabitants that you'd swear the game was written in the 1920s. That Sheva neatly fits the approved Hollywood model of the light-skinned black heroine, and talks more like Lara Croft than her thickly-accented foes, merely compounds the problem rather than easing it. There are even more outrageous and outdated images to be found later in the game, stuff that I was honestly surprised to see in 2009, but Capcom has specifically asked that details of these scenes remain under wraps for now, whether for these reasons we don't know."
It's a shame that the successor to Resident Evil 4 has become such a hotbed for controversy. To be fair, I'm reserving judgment on the matter until I actually play the game in it's entirety.
Eurogamer's recently went hands-on with the final build of RE5 and came away with some pretty condemming accusations.
"Later on, there's a cut-scene of a white blonde woman being dragged off, screaming, by black men. When you attempt to rescue her, she's been turned and must be killed. If this has any relevance to the story it's not apparent in the first three chapters, and it plays so blatantly into the old clichés of the dangerous "dark continent" and the primitive lust of its inhabitants that you'd swear the game was written in the 1920s. That Sheva neatly fits the approved Hollywood model of the light-skinned black heroine, and talks more like Lara Croft than her thickly-accented foes, merely compounds the problem rather than easing it. There are even more outrageous and outdated images to be found later in the game, stuff that I was honestly surprised to see in 2009, but Capcom has specifically asked that details of these scenes remain under wraps for now, whether for these reasons we don't know."
It's a shame that the successor to Resident Evil 4 has become such a hotbed for controversy. To be fair, I'm reserving judgment on the matter until I actually play the game in it's entirety.
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