I think the situation is a touch more complex than the posters are making out here. No Resident Evil 5 is not racist - but it has potetentially controversial undertones. I think people here are being a touch ignorant at the history of Africa, particularly colonialism for example and the way in which African tribes were depicted to Westerners and their invading armies. No previous RE game to my knowledge has starred a black man massacreing white men for example - so the two situations are not exactly comparable. In saying all that; there is no doubt that it was not the developers intention to spark controversy, there is no hidden message as such - but we should be careful in dismissing the controversy altogether.
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