N’Gai is certainly not that man. That’s a pretty big stereotype of who found the trailer insensitive/showing racist imagery.

And what in the hell is complaning going to do? I’m pretty darn sure capcom isn’t gonna scrap the game cause some people don’t like that you are killing black people…. I know Ima get it and kill load of africans!

“There was a lot of imagery in that trailer that dovetailed with classic racist imagery. What was not funny, but sort of interesting, was that there were so many gamers who could not at all see it. Like literally couldn’t see it. So how could you have a conversation with people who don’t understand what you’re talking about and think that you’re sort of seeing race where nothing exists?

There was stuff like even before the point in the trailer where the crowd turned into zombies. There sort of being, in sort of post-modern parlance, they’re sort of “othered.” They’re hidden in shadows, you can barely see their eyes, and the perspective of the trailer is not even someone who’s coming to help the people. It’s like they’re all dangerous; they all need to be killed. It’s not even like one cute African — or Haitian or Caribbean — child could be saved. They’re all dangerous men, women and children. They all have to be killed. And given the history, given the not so distant post-colonial history, you would say to yourself, why would you uncritically put up those images?”

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/04/10/newsweeks-ngai-croal-on-the-resident-evil-5-trailer-this-imagery-has-a-history/

Moreover, the game’s co=Producer had this to say:

“JT: Well, first of all, in terms of the research that we did before we started making the game, we sent some of the staff to Africa to do a lot of research and they took a lot of photos, saw a lot of things, and we’re trying to put what we saw during that research trip into the game itself. You may have seen in the trailer today that some of the enemies that appeared were not all Africans. Other races appeared. That’s because, when we went to Africa, we saw that people were not all Africans. We saw people of all different races, Arabic and also Caucasians as well. We’re trying to put what we saw with our own eyes into the game.”

http://www.gamedaily.com/games/resident-evil-5/xbox-360/game-features/resident-evil-5-interview-jun-takeuchi/

This is what they rectified in the second trailer, showing that their first trailer may have been the stereotypical one.

Not saying I agree chaps, just trying to give you as much info as possible. Knowledge is power and all that jazz…

Instead of adding white people they should have scrapped africa, it is quite literally a parasite infested hell hole and even though fictional the game touches a little to close to home.

Whats with all the games set in africa all of a sudden?

damned if you do……

You mean the crazed Africans that attacked.. because of the parasites in them? Yeah, that would tend to give you a negative impression of a fellow…. o_O

I hardly think that’s reason to be offended. It would have been a bunch of crazed, psycho Mexicans if this were set in Mexico and that wouldn’t have been racist either.

Sure, there are white people in AFRICA, so what, Like I said, If this was a game that took place in Japan and all of the zombies were Japanese, there would be no whining from the Asian “community” , they would be to busy playing the game.

MAN, I wish I had the time in my life to be up in arms over
every little imaginary slight
that could get me in the news.