[TalonDJ]

“by including African-American zombies that a player has to shoot, you make the game unpublishable and racist.”

Most zombie portrayals are predominantly WHITE! So it is HIGH TIME we had some even handedness in the zombie area. Don't even get me started on the portrayal of vampires. I for one applaud this game publisher's attempt to being balance to the racist world of the white undead.

[ConservativeWarrior]

I've played the demo of Mafia II.

It's set in the 1930s. Surprise, surprise, most people living in the suburbs are white, have modest homes, drive period cars, and wear nice clothes when walking around town. The men wear hats, the women wear dresses.

Many of the gangsters are of Italian descent. They have filthy mouths.

If you venture into the run-down sections of the cities, there are tenement homes, and the vast majority of the residents are black.

Just like in the 30’s. The horror!

[Celtic Cross]

“by including African-American zombies that a player has to shoot, you make the game unpublishable and racist.”

He is referring to 'Left 4 Dead two'. There are mostly white zombies, with a smattering of black ones. Is it racist bacause there are several races of zombies, not just white ones?

[brytlea]

Well, I don’t see any of this stuff in my Wii Fit! :)

[Boiling point]

To prevent calls of racism, the game writers should make sure all Mafioso and gang bangers are white, blond hair and blue eyed. WWII Nazis can be black or Hispanic. KKK members will henceforth be Asian.

[Syntyr]

Want contrevesrial? Try the airport level in Call of Duty 2 Modern Warfare. You are playing the part of an American Spy infiltrating a Russian gang. The 5 of you go to an airport and slaughter a couple of hundred civilians. Its brutal. Shooting people in the back as they are trying to drag other wounded to safety. I played it once the first time through to see what it was all about. No when I replay the game on higher levels of difficulty I just skip it. Its distasteful. It definitely a no win scenario. Shoot the Russian bad guys - Level Failed start over. Participate and in the end get shot by head Russian bad guy to frame the US for the airport massacre. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NMnnMRWJ-0

[Spike Knotts]

Mafia 2 is a great game. It isn’t PC...because it wasn’t made in America. The “stupid foreigners” who made it weren’t aware of all our PC rules...so they just told it how it was, for the most part.

[goat granny]

Thats OK on violence and sex, but don’t have anyone smoking, it might influence them to start....Hollywood says, and they are too stupid to know they are laughable.

[Drrdot]

Actually, I think the game they were referring to was Resident Evil 5. All the zombies in that game were black...because the game takes place in......wait for it......Africa. Obviously racist *rolls eyes*. There was actual controversy in the news.

[RandallFlagg]

And a Houston Chronicle blogger recently charged that “by including African-American zombies that a player has to shoot, you make the game unpublishable and racist.”

These folks haven't heard about Left 4 Dead 2, I suppose...