To be honest this game would be called 'Racist' if the game was set in Africa and all the infected were white.

They would complain there are no black people. People can twist anything just to get a story.

if there's a resident evil 6 which i doubt for sure! will killing zombies in Israel consider racist? will killing Jewish or rabbi zombies upset the Jewish community? and will the game be Anti-Semite and bigot to race and humanity?

There's a black agent helping you. That seriously can't be racist. Think of the setting, is all that needs saying.

is RE4 racist against Spanish people? I heard no-one complain when it came out.

Yeah i like how all the racism comments exist with Sheva as a main character. Of African descent.

I think this game is amazing, and despite racial comments, it seems to be doing quite well.

Resident Evil 5's 2007 E3 trailer was questioned for its depiction of a white protagonist killing black zombies in an African village. Newsweek editor N'Gai Croal began the criticism, stating, "There was a lot of imagery in that trailer that dovetailed with classic racist imagery." He acknowledged that only the preview had been released.[42][43]

The second trailer for the game, released on May 31, 2008, revealed a more racially diverse group of enemies, as well as Sheva, an African agent[44] who assists the protagonist.[45] However, designer Jun Takeuchi denied that complaints about racism had any effect in altering the design of Resident Evil 5.[46] Takeuchi commented that the game's producers were surprised by the controversy.[47] In an interview with MTV, he explained that Capcom's staff is racially diverse, and acknowledged that various cultures may have had different opinions on the trailer.[47][48] In an interview with Computer and Video Games, producer Masachika Kawata also commented on the issue, stating, "We can't please everyone. We're in the entertainment business - we're not here to state our political opinion or anything like that. It's unfortunate that some people felt that way."[49][50]

In Eurogamer's February 2009 preview of Resident Evil 5, Dan Whitehead expressed concerns about the controversy the game may generate, stating that "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lust of its inhabitants that you'd swear the game was written in the 1920s" and "there are even more outrageous and outdated images to be found later in the game, stuff that I was honestly surprised to see in 2009." The article also states that the addition of the light-skinned Sheva "compounds the problem rather than easing it."[51]

Glenn Bowman, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent, Canterbury,[52] has stated that he does not believe Resident Evil 5 is racist. Bowman added that the game presents an anti-colonial theme.[53]

One particular scene in the game, said to show black men dragging off a screaming white woman,[51] was submitted for evaluation to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), which deemed it not to be racist. Sue Clark, Head of Communications at the BBFC, stated, "We do take racism very seriously, but in this case there is no issue around racism."[54][55]

hey
when i took place with the spanish people
they didnt complain

I didn't know racism consisted of killing hordes of black, mindless, mind controlled zombies. Oh wait, that's what Racism is. (BTW, I don't agree with that it's racist, just making a point).

racist wtf its just a game, i mean cmon get real.

if capcom made a game about KKK or something like that, thats racist. but your in africa HELLO, what is africa mostly filled with, if re5 was set in japan then the majority of enemies would be japanese. common sense.

Why do people think it is racist, does that mean those people think a shooting game can't be situated in Africa. And they are being shot because they are zombies, not because they are black. This game is not racist.

The big man looks like Martin Lawrence. When uatemymonkey and I fight him, we make sure to tell him how much Big Momma's House 2 sucked. =(

In all seriousness, Resi is racist. Just racist to all races. xD. I mean, no one is spared. Spanish people, black people, white people. I bet there were tons of Jews and Arabs and whatever else in the original Resis, but how were we to know at that point? They just look like zombies to us. xD

There isn't any discussion here.

The fact that most of the zombies are black, is due to the percentage of black people in Africa.

Resi Evil is racist to zombies. That's all.