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from what i seen its africans with bloodshot eyes running at u but it looks fun

US, February 10, 2009 - The videogame industry has seen its share of controversy, almost all of which centers around sex and violence. It's a rare thing for a game to be labeled as potentially racist. But that's what it's come to for Capcom's Resident Evil 5. The potty mouth of the main character Chris Redfield isn't an issue nor is the excessive blood and routine decapitations. What's drawing the ire of many outside the industry (and raising the eyebrows of some within it) is who you kill in RE5.

Set in Africa, because (as revealed in Resident Evil: Code Veronica) that is where the Progenitor virus originated, your primary targets are native Africans. With the release of the first full RE5 trailer in 2007, numerous journalists and social commentators raised concern that RE5 depicted Africa as a nation of savages and that the game itself would reinforce unhealthy stereotypes. When Resident Evil 5 releases this March, those concerns won't subside.

I've played the first half of RE5 and through those three chapters gamers spend a good majority of time shooting people with dark skin. There are moments that some will never connect with racism, but that others will see as clear use of racist iconography.

The game begins with Chris Redfield walking through an African village that appears uninfected. He sees some men kicking something in a sack. The implication is that even before the infection, these are bad people. If RE5 were set on another continent and these characters had white skin, no one would give it a second thought. Typical "village full of bad guys" gaming clich?. But these characters are black. And as such the imagery can be perceived to have racist undertones. Later, there is a cutscene depicting a white woman being dragged into a house by an infected black man. In its recent hands-on, Eurogamer criticized this moment in particular for playing into traditional racist fear-mongering. To propagate fear of blacks from the time of slavery and through the Civil Rights movement in the United States, white society was warned that big black men are coming for your daughters.

The demo has a lot of bugs.

Im black i never really thought of it as racism... They taking it a little to far lmao. Set in Africa, so there is usually dark skin ppl in africa...no big deal...


The controls are very sluggish like for the inventory the game doesnt pause, try giving your partner rifle ammo while a mofo with a big ass axe is chasing you. LOL GF.

Im black i never really thought of it as racism... They taking it a little to far lmao. Set in Africa, so there is usually dark skin ppl in africa...no big deal...


The controls are very sluggish like for the inventory the game doesnt pause, try giving your partner rifle ammo while a mofo with a big ass axe is chasing you. LOL GF.

I got it on the 12th, instead of the 13th, great game. I only played the demo shortly, so I can't really compare the both too detailed. I got the controls on default settings, only changed aiming speed to fastest. The controls don't bother me, though. You can't run 'n' gun, but it was already known and is typically RE. On the 360, you can assign items/weapons to the d-pad to select them quickly without using the standard inventory. I don't know if it already was there in the Demo, but you can set Sheva to cover or attack. Game's made for co-op, though.

I can't remember either lol. I played nearly all the RE games but I often mix the controls with the SH games. I really can't recall if they had autorun or not.

RE5 has no autorun feature, regardless of what control type you pick, it's always A + LS. (I got it on the 360, no idea what's it for PS3) Speed is okay, it's not too fast, but not something that bothers me too much. Wesker in Mercenaries mode will make up for that.

Grim we need to play the demo :[

I really want to get this game, or Fallout 3. The only thing keeping me from buying this game is that you can't run and gun