Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Genre: Action
Sub-Genre: Survival Horror
Release Date: Mar 13th, 2009
Additonal Info: Also known as Biohazard 5 (J...
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Genre: Action
Sub-Genre: Survival Horror
Release Date: Oct 25th, 2005
Additonal Info: None
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Genre: Action
Sub-Genre: Survival Horror
Release Date: Aug 21st, 2001
Additonal Info:
Criticism about the content included in games is nothing new, as developer Rockstar discovered about Manhunt 2 and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. However, the gaming industry may be facing its first public outcry over a game being racist even before it has been given a release date.
The blog Black Looks, which comprises of primarily African American women, blasts the 2008 game Resident Evil 5 by commenting:
"The new Resident Evil video game depicts a white man in what appears to be Africa killing Black people. The Black people are supposed to be zombies and the white man’s job is to destroy them and save humanity…
This is problematic on so many levels, including the depiction of Black people as inhuman savages, the killing of Black people by a white man in military clothing, and the fact that this video game is marketed to children and young adults. Start them young… fearing, hating, and destroying Black people."
Capcom has not issued a statement yet about the blog post. However, the reprecussions of the blog are sure to send shockwaves through the gaming community as game developers employ more and more mature content in their games.
Source: GamePolitics

Resident Evil 5
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That's a funny thing to say
OMFG your kidding im black and i didnt find it racist. personally i think their blowing this out of proportion Snap man stop pulling the race card
They need to stop this crap, weren't most of the zombies in the other games white people, don't they beleive in voodoo alot down there, and bringing back the dead.(ZOMBIES).
What an ignorant comment to make. The game takes place in Haiti, not 'what looks to be Africa'. This blogger obviously knows nothing about the game other than the fact that "omg black people" are in it. Obviously the goal of this game is to eradicate all blacks... Give me a break. If the prospect of dead black people is such a disturbing thought for these bloggers, perhaps they should stop their arm chair quarterbacking on video games over a year from release and focus their efforts on preventing, get this, REAL LIFE violence on black people in our cities.
That's funny, because I'm sure nobody would make a big fuss if the game were set somewhere else and you're a black man killing white people...
Great, another game that could be black listed due to mature content. My question is the whole race thing is always questionable, and based on perspective. In this case it's someone from the black comunity voicing out because of a "white guy in army gear killing black people in africa." First, what if it was a black guy killing white people. Or if it was a black guy killing black people. It all comes down to people killing people. I don't get why we still have to have race involved. If people keep pointing it out then people will continue to be racist. Don't get me wrong, I have not seen why this game is where it is, it may have a good reason for the setting, but you never know mabey it is.
Dude, Gorillanuts, don't you know that gorillas have the smallest junk for their size out of any primate?
lol
"gorilla are generally small. The penis cannot be seen even. with an erection. Gorilla testes are approximately. 70%. the weight of human testes ..." - doi.wiley.com/10.1002/pros.2990050605
Yeah, that's right. Smaller than ours
Ha ha ha dumb ******.... What about the previous resident evil games ,your killing whilte boys.... im not racist ,so ill put this in a different way..What if one day your son is playing resident evil and he saw a zombie get burnt so just because he's black the kid is going to say it a black guy ...next thing you no there ,going to say "in assassin creed it is a kkk guy killing jews....
just to start off im black, i see what most mean if u think about it really hard but i dont personlly think its racist but i dont know i think its something new for this franchise but realisticly it does look alittle weird, but would the affended party think it would be better if the main character was black killing other black people?
redsock hahahaha kkk guy kill jews
opps i mean tzilla
tzilla do u hear ur self u sond alittle kramer to me
I could see it was going to come up, it was just a case of when. People will attack games for anything and everything, making excuses for immorality in society is nothing new. It'll blow over.
Now i know why i dont like alot of black people, they always complain if something has to do with a black person that isnt a good thing. Alot of black people complain, and they will get there way, but if it was a white man, or white women, they would not care at all. They would say absolutely nothing. Unless they had a good reason.
Im so proud to be white. Not saying im racist though
it is a little racist to me im black but its a video game
lmao, what a douch'e. idk what i kill as long as its fun. lmao. We've killed white people before! OMG RACIST!! its an epidemic in africa. get over yourself you self concious retard.
Anyone who finds this racist has more problems than just an inferiority or superiority complex. Some people need to get a grip of reality and that's the cold hard truth of it all. It's funny since no-one complained about GTA: San Andreas being racist. Double standards anyone?
WTF??, ok they are ZOMBIES, it's not racist in any way, if you look back the other resident evils they kill white people too, and the fact that this man is white has nothing to do with racism, it's all because they haven't played any resident game before, and for those who doesn't know this game is MATURE (NOT FOR CHILDREN).
I'm so sick of having to listen to this crap all the time. We've seen a 5 MINUTE SCENE of the game...for all we know right after this he flies to Alaska and kills eskimos then flies to Japan and kill Asians then to Switzerland to finish off all the white people over there. Such absurd statements like this are what's REALLY dangerous to society. I want to find this blog just to let the lady know what a TARD she is...OMG I SAID 'TARD'!!!
Wow, I guess after discussing this in PS3forums.com, I'm a bit tired...but anyways.
@SonyJunky619119: With your logic, I should hate Christians because of the things a few idiots say (Pat Robertson, Fallwell when he was alive, etc etc.). Really, I hate blanket statements like those. Seriously, it's never a lot of black people who complain about these things. (just look at the opinions of your fellow black gamers) Its usually the same old idiots who "claim" to be the voice of all black people. Don't worry, our pals Jesse and Al are going to get their two cents in as soon as they are done trying to defend Michael Vick!
If that is racist then iresident evil 4 was racist killing innocent spanish poeple!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, why blak poeple alwyas have to complain and moan and act as if they had it the worst, the JEWz HAD IT THE WORST the have been killed and enslaved for thousands of years the have almost been extinct killed continuoulsey, but are they complaining? no?, why cant they just forget the past?
psn id: gingo... lol theres so much wrongf with tihsi don't know where to start. Well first of all have they not played any other resi games...killing WHITE people, second it would be kinda weird if it was in Africa and everyone running around was white and thirdly as i read somewhere else, name one game (shooting humans) that you don't kill black people? exactly
ok, I knew this was gonna happen as soon as I saw the trailer. I'm a 28 year old black man. That trailer is NOT RACIST. This needs to stop as thegame97338 said. It's a video game, they're zombies, get over it.
props to se7enthsign for pointing out that the black people who bring stuff like this are in the minority, most of which just want to find someting to complain about.
Jeez...Oh so you want all the zombies in a game in Africa to be white? well that would make sence...or not! ..what if it was a black man killing white zombies? would i complain? no!! because it's a game...it dosen't matter..
Those girls don't even know the plot of the game!! I don't myself since i haven't searched for if it even has been revealed. But my guess is something that a WHITE american man makes some sort of chemical that infuses all the African that makes them feral and then the player controls this guy who kills all of them and probably gets life needed help by several black people.
Wow, what a suprise some extremist racial group got a hold of this one. See, this is exactly why these kinds of groups are bad - cause they make the REAL issues sound like bulls***. No doubt Capcom will be apologizing in a second, probebly even changing the whole game setting - would.. not.. suprise.. me.
The only racism I see here is the person on the blog who made that comment. Why does it have to be a white man killing black people. Labelling people as black and white is what should be considered racist. It isn't a white man killing blacks, it is a person killing other people (well, zombies actually). If they're going to get upset over the killing in this game, then they should be upset over killing in all other video games too, unless they think that killing is only a problem if the people being killed are black.
no. if the guy was in all white clothing and replicating some sort of KKK acts on the black people. tjhen i woulf find thids racist. africa is full of black people. if in a world war game u had to drop a bomb on japan would that be racist or history. everything now a days is considered racist. im sick of it. and im black and i find nothing wrong with this game. ITS JUST A GAME. stop complaining.
dumb people, do spanish guys said something when they got killed on RE4? no they didnt and so far other country dont said a sh*t about it.
lol F that. I was Leon killing the Spanish (my own people) in RE4 and I didn't mind. I find it darned cool if it takes place in Africa. The environment creates a whole new feeling. Also knowing that voodoo was and is practiced in some areas such as this makes a perfect reason to have zombies.
A blog can be anybody 13-year old kid from texas with nothing better to do/think. so mehhhh.
im from africa myself and i dont find that to be racist in anyway, afterall its only a vidoe game. people r always trying to find ways into silly little arguments over "videogames", i mean come on get over yourselves!
SHE NEED 2 SHUT DA F*** UP. I HATE DIS S***. EVERY TIME ITS SOMETHING WIT A WHITE GUY AND A BLACK GUY ITS SOMETHING WRONG. BUT RE4 WAS KILLIN SPANISH PEOPLE (I THINK) AND IT WASNT A PROBLEM.
This is ridiculous its not racist the first one the white guy shot white people is that better, is it ok to kill white people but not black people and the 4th one is Mexicans (or Spanish people) is it ok to kill them.
There just trying to make it sound racist if your killing zombies in Africa then the people are guaranteed to be black there I dought there are any white people tribes or small town in afreica (not including south africa) but this is just rediculas.
Hopefully the media doesn't get a hold of this one, it could kill the game or might sell many because of its controversy. Key word of the day, "Double Standard".
jee makein a big deal already i knew this would happen god man shut the f@#$ up im latino ok i love all my ppl no matter what f@#$in color they r u kno look at re4 it was with spaish ppl so what they are sayin that we r inhuman 2?????????????f@#$ u its game its not meant to offend ppl its meant to have fun killin zombies dammit no what f@#$in color they r so stop bashin games man damn try to find another excuse to hate on a game
Yea It's not racist... People have to know the fact that their zombies first off. 2cd it's a mature game dont let U kids or younger family members see it. I can understand why most black people would think it's racist but if you're a true gamer like me you should be able to understand that this isn't a racial issue. To the guy who was talking about black people complaining it's not all of us, it pisses me off to somethings that black people complain about...
O yea i'm black
this thing depends on the situation, the AC comment was stupid, if you think of it, its war and between 2 groups, in RE:5 if the story takes the dude to africa cause they killed all the zombies in the other parts then ok, but if its just about location and having the same characters just new continent then u can call it racism since why would you be a white man in africa killing zombies besides the devs wanting that same character?
the chance of meeting black dude in america and eu is much more then white man in africa, the chance of white man beeing in african army is minimal or even any kind of freedom or anti zombie group, but its not rare to see black dude in army when u live in the us or eu.
i havent seen the trailer, but if its kinda like white man joining a group or team of black guys fighting there then it could be something else but if he flew to africa just to kill zombies that doesnt threath his life then thats weird
Ok so I can easily say its prejudice to be killing spaniards in RE4, and its inhumane in GTA. These women should seriously have their mouths gorilla glued shut so they don't piss anymore people off.
Ok so let me just ask rite! Sooooo say for instance there was an outbreak virus that turned african people into zombies rite an the americans white soliders go over there an kill them does that make them racist becoz they r saving the plant? emmm wtf stfu blogger an seriously get a life its called a game in previous games it was white zombies now there black its suddenly racist stfu!
for god´s sake thats bull****, so in RE4 leon was killing spanish ppl and noone said anything.
and now chris is kiling africans and the world stats to fall apart? wtf is that? its not capcom fault that in africa 90% of the ppl are black ,what if in the next RE claire go to german and start killing blonde-blue-eyed zombies???
I've said it numerous times already ever since the first trailer appeared that this was going to happen. The gamers aren't going to be bothered, it was always going to be the non-gaming public that attacks it. Capcom isn't racist regardless of how racially insensitive it is. Capcom is a bunch of Japanese people not White people, but of course just as I predicted, it's going to catch hll for it. I really wished capcom had a few people that would have told them earlier that White on Black racism is something they needed to be careful of before the trailers came out. They really screwed the pooch on this one.
Ok, so if they change them to white zombies its ok? What a bunch of idiots. Who cares, its a game, get over it. This is why there is still racism in the world......because people like this keep bringing it up. If people stopped making issues of nothing, there would be no more racism.
Sadly that's not really the case, there's always going to be racism, as long as their are people with closed minds and there's a lot more of those people than there will be of anyone else. Actually wasmt Jill already killing european blone blue eyed zombies in code veronica? But anyway like I said if hispanics felt the same type of racism that black people have been generally exposed to they might have been pissed at RE4 but they don't feel the same way. Black people are always going to be more sensitive than other races it's just a fact of life.
I found a list on the web that accurately portrays how I feel about this issue.
Resident Evil 1 - white people are zombies
Resident Evil 2 - white people are zombies
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis - white people are zombies
Resident Evil Code: Veronica - white people are zombies
Resident Evil Survivor - white people are zombies
Resident Evil Gaiden - white people are zombies
Resident Evil: Survivor 2 Code: Veronica - white people are zombies
Resident Evil Zero - white people are zombies
Resident Evil: Dead Aim - white people are zombies
Resident Evil Outbreak - white people are zombies
Resident Evil Outbreak File #2 - white people are zombies
Resident Evil 4 - white people are zombies
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles - white people are zombies
Resident Evil 5 - AFRICANS ARE ZOMBIES?! RACISM
they r so f**king dumb man s**t they need a life of course they dont have 1 so they go around tryin to do bash because it kills time 4 them they have a borin a** life re5 is gonna rock so they need to shut the f**k up and if they dont like it then dont buy it its common sense mature games r always gonna exist because we dont wanna play lil kiddy s**t so deal with it
HA! The game doesn't come out until 2009, jokes on them!
Things like this are completely stupid and unfounded. People use the fact that they are a minority to gain pity, and it is exactly what they claim to be against, racism. Resident Evil, up until the 4th game has always had white people, then 4 came along and it was in a Spanish speaking nation, and now it seems to be in an African country. The game has remained the same, but now that it takes place in an African locale, the game is racist. People just want someone to empathize them, so they may get attention, and have people feel sorry for the race they belong to. If you think this way, you are just as racist as the opinion you claim to fight against.
WOW! All I gotta say is; HA HA HA HA HA and umm....HAHAHA!!!
Forget that the dude is white.. He's always been.. Where Capcom F'd up was giving the zombies an actual ethnicity which as never been in any of the Resident Evil.. They always just been Zombies... Stupid move Capcom.. Stupid move..
I am hispanic, and to clear anything up, RE4 does not have zombies, it has cult members who are spanish. I dont recall anyone making a big deal of this at all. Nor did I care, I was glad to hear my mother laguage bieng yelled during the game, also it also does happen to be that the bad guys were also spanish.As for RE5, it seams a bit to premature to start taling crap about rasism when the game is not even out, they dont know anything of the story. And this game is not for children.
If the game was set in the Philippines, and the zombies were asian would they give a s***?? If the game was set in the Domican Republic and the enemy was Black Hispanic zombies would they care then?
Yeah k nice, but I think the people at Blacklooks dont realize that its not that its about black zombies, its about a locale and the residents of that place, like in RE 4 it wouldnt make sense to me if the game was in spain and the zombies spoke german. or if RE5 was in africa or haiti and the zombies were asian.
I don't think the game was intentionally meant to be racist, but is based on location, and the origins of voodoo. I do think some of the ignorant comments "some" of you are making "is" racist. It's always easy for people to make oblivious comments about racism, who have never experience it. Have your opinions, play the game if you want, but don't talk sh*t about things you obviously don't understand.
ffs will you stop the f***** rasist thing please i'm so sick of it f****** makesme puke. First of all it's a game, ah f*** it, can-'t be ar*** i dont give a **** who i kill in a game!!! it dos´nt make me laugh more if i kill a black,white, yellow or what i ever i try to kill aslong as they all drop !!
anyways sorry PSU for all those words just makes mad to listen to such crap.
Such stupidity. If the US doesn't want to have this racist game that's fine. People will just miss out while other can get this masterpiece from Japan or Europe
Since when does gaming have to involve real life bs anyway?
so if it takes place in a white area its not rasist... but if ur shootin black ppl it is??? hmmmmm wooow THE REAL RASIST PPL ARE THE PPL THAT SAID IT WAS RASIST CUZ THEY CANT EXCEPT THE FACT THAT EVERY 1 IS EQUAL AND THERES NO LIL HOLD OFFF ON DIFF RACES WTF... and its in africa... WOW ut oh black ppl.. thats rasist to see black ppl....
UT OH PPL THERE USING CREATIVITY RUN RUN SCREAM SCREAM INSTED OF USA IT TAKES PLACE IN AFRICA!!! O_O OMG RASITS BASTERDS!!!
Im black and dont see this as racist in the least bit. She's totally taking the game out of context, and after reading her comments as well as another person who runs that site, she seems to know nothing about video games (aside from solitaire as one of the second bloggers writes) and belives that all gamers are pre-teens and under.
This is the same way the media always tries to throw the blame on something popular for the worlds problems. Raise your children right, and most likely they'll be upstanding just people. First person shooters, GTA style games, Manhunt, and any other line pushing game does not influence anyones behavior....
I swear RE5 better not get pushed back or banned because of this crap.
OK here is the thing... If this game was racist then would Refield be killing all of them while he is walking through the town and they are all walking by him with out a care in the world?? Then it cut's to a scene where he goes into a house and tries to save a BLACK person but he get's turned in to something ZOMBIESCK and attack's Chris.. So all in all he is defending himself. But like I said in the begining of the trailer he is not killing anyone. Racist I don't think so I just think people want to make a name for themselves at any cost.
Hmmm. Racist, nope never crossed my mind untill i read this! n im Black
Well,this is definitely not the first time Capcom has done something like this.PM me if you wanna know which one it was.And i do think that developers should be more careful because critics will WANT an excuse to attack games.But i still hope Capcom goes Bankrupt or something along those lines
Let me guess, they would be fine if it were the other way round... that wouldnt be racist at all... its a video game, could they be clutching at anymore straws?
haha, thats just rediculous..
yea that is what I thought when I saw the trailer but i thought again... and I realised it is stupid...
it is more like doing the opposite of what they want to do... if we put black people in a video game and we don't care it is better because there is no racist intessions in that game.
It is getting really bad. There are extreamists everywhere... and they see the bad in everything.
HAHAHAHAHAHA damn that was funny
They're just nucking sh!t up for everyone. When it was Europeans in RE4 it was no big deal, they're killing Arabs in MGS4 and it's no big deal. It's a VIDEOGAME. Next thing you know Anmals and Cars will start complaining about their Nucking rights. And ya, I'm Black and I see nothing Racist about that.
capcom better be carefull rember resistance fall of man
I read almost all the comments about this game. Me I don't find the game racist, and I'm not going to put out my ethnicity becasue that's ignorant to me. One thing most people don't realize it seems is people have been complaining about other games. Did anyone know that GTA: Vice City was changed at one point. Yeah Haitians complained about it they just did it too late, but I could see their point. If you still play VC you remember most of the time. They would come after you for no good reason you didn't even have to shoot them. There are others besides this, but they won't come to light because people aren't that pissed about it.
BTW all this their were "white zombies" crap in the other RE games besides RE4. That's stupid I've played a couple of the games, and last time I checked you couldn't tell the race of those zombies.
Wow that is lame, if it was a black man killing white people it wouldnt be racist, im a proud white smart young individual
I suppose this is another way that the white man is trying to gather up people to kill all the black community. This has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard. First off, why were they looking at video games? Second, GTA San Andreas. Black guy is main character and civilians are of all different descent. I didn't hear a word about GTA being racist, be it killing white, black, latino, etc. Apparently it doesn't matter as long as the black guy is the main character...Hence, Saint's Row. Lastly, this is a GAME. It's not some sort of training video. Not as much as Dead Rising was to stay in a mall and take pictures. I guess Final Fantasy is racist too since almost all of the characters are white.
Playstation3Pride yeah it would be more then likely. This is why I hate when things like this happen. Because people like you try to play out that if blacks are killing whites it's not racist trying to be innocent. Like I said people from all different races have complained about certain videogames. For another example Tony Hawk there was this one guy who complained that their weren't any other black Pro skaters besides Kareem Campbell.
Then they have been German's complaining about the WWII games. They hate the fact that their isn't one single game out over here that lets you kill the americans instead. So it's most people complaining then you think you just don't see it.
Who didnt think of that. I'm black, but i dont even like this game, but if I did... How you think I would feel pretenting to be a white man killing black people? They did go a little over the extreme with this one.
This is such BS. We are in 2007 almost 2008 and this sh!t is still going on. I have allot of black friends and i work in the entertainment industry so i know more blacks then i know whites and they all agree with me. This cr@p about slavery and segragation isn't and shouldn't be an issue. Talk about history fine. The whole Pearl Harbor situation are we racist about Japanese? No, and by we i mean ppl in general im not racist i don't see colors i see people. The Nazi's nearly wiped out all the Jewish ppl, i havnt HEARD ONCE a jewish person complain about anything race wise. Some ppl just can't leave things alone, this isn't a race thing this is a stupid thing that shouldn't be happing in 2007.
Some ppl need a reason to complain, and use history as a means of sitring up cr@p. Leave it alone and for anyone black, white what have you who still use race or history as a reason to hate or cause issues when we have bigger issues to deal with, you need a reality check because your the racists if everything is about color. Sorry about the long rant but this is just too much.
That will be fun jaaj ,agree whit "redsock" ajja
place a black girlfriend for chris redfield then everybodies happy lol
...next thing you no there ,going to say "in assassin creed it is a kkk guy killing jews....
AHAHAHAHAHAH TRUE!
wow this is by far the biggest pile of bull***t i have ever heard within the last few hours or so its not racisist to kill african zombies whats racisist is these people who have nothing better to do but ruin video gamers lives they are pathetic. if someone has a problem with it then they dont have to play it. you know they say that they game is going to make us want to go out and kill african. yeah cause zombies totaly exsist. ITS A GAME PEOPLE DONT BE STUPID. every other game we all killed white zombies were there reports of teenagers killing white people cause they thought they were zombies NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Some people are rediculous
sorry Chris has already killed all the white zombies.
an Leon all the European ones.
like seriously.
wtf?
RE4 was actually spanish with more pale faces, but still he is an officer not a millitary operative. He's trying to save them, but it's probably too late anyways. Also, Umbrella has places all over, eventually we had to go to Africa, and it'll probably South America or Asia next. (RE4 was Europe, the rest were in America)