Racism and video games Essay

Video games are not what most people would go to when they think of racial controversy, unless every media medium has had their own form of controversy one that happened most recently was the release of a game called Resident Evil 5 which is concentrate on round a bozo named Chris Redfield who is basically in a FBI like group centered around killing zombies. As you may have customer this is not the first in the series of the game the series has been around for about 15 years and has had been set in slicey different countries and such(prenominal) killed many a different zombies.The creators wanted to set this particular game in Africa when the trailer was released the was a racism claim against the game because Chris is white guy going around killing portentous zombies it was so bad the game release date was pushed backed and slight changes were made Chris was given a black side kick named Sheva Alomar. The second trailer for the game, released on May 31, 2008, revealed a more racially diverse group of enemies, as salutary as Sheva, a BSAA agent who assists the protagonist. However, designer Jun Takeuchi denied that complaints about racism had any effect in altering the design of Resident Evil 5.Takeuchi commented that the games producers were surprised by the controversy. In an interview with MTV, he explained that Capcoms staff is racially diverse, and acknowledged that various cultures may have had different opinions on the trailer. In an interview with estimator and Video Games, producer Masachika Kawata also commented on the issue, stating, We cant please everyone. Were in the entertainment business were not here to posit our political opinion or anything like that. Its unfortunate that some people felt that way. Well personally as a person of African American decent while me personally is not pique I can shoot the breeze where some people can be somewhat offended but its set in Africa what type of zombies do you think Chris is going kill. Ther e just zombies not salves and he is not going around raping and lynching people. I personally think as far as video game African Americans are more or less symbolically annihilated rather than video games having racist tendencies toward us as a race of people. And what I mean by that is you dont really see that many black people in video game as main characters.There are a few, Cj from Grand theft Auto 3 San Andreas Is one that comes to mind but his game is full of stereotypes about the Hood And Im not going to sit here and lie I played this game and enjoyed it back in middle school. As far I know there are only a few authentically without a doubt racist games one them being Custers Revenge In the game, the player controls the character of General George Armstrong Custer, depicted as a man wearing nothing but a cavalry hat, boots, and a bandana, sporting a visible erection.Custer has to overcome arrow attacks to reach the other side of the screen. His terminal is to have sex with a naked, large-breasted Native American woman named Revenge. (And Yes This Game Dose Exist but it was released back on the Atari 2600 in the 80s here a wikiapiea link http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Custers_Revenge ) Even with this game its was not licensed by Atari and nor did Atari have anything to do with its production.The video game medium has break down a very big part of media and I do not think that anyone in their right mind would even think of releasing anything racially offensive to anyone if they want to keep making the multimillions that they continue to make. As I stated earlier I would say that video game would more in all likelihood be a candidate for social annihilation more anything else I would like to more black people in video games kicking prey and taking names and so far we have a few but not as much as I would like well I guess its just more of a personal preference than anything else.