As they pack into theaters to watch the blockbuster Resident Evil: Extinction this weekend, moviegoers may first want to play one of the many blockbuster video games on which the film is based.
Those that do will likely enter a world little-known beyond the expensive and expansive universe of gaming, a world increasingly populated with very dangerous depictions of nonwhites. The most recent Resident Evil movie is based on extremely popular video games like last year’s smash-hit Resident Evil 4, which places players in the position of fighting parasitically controlled Spaniards (called “Los Ganados” or “the cattle”) with stereotypical Mexican accents.
But, unlike moviegoers, the gamers don’t just sit and watch the accented villains; they get to become the white heroes who blow them to smithereens at an average of about 900 enemies per gaming session or “playthrough.”
Those that do will likely enter a world little-known beyond the expensive and expansive universe of gaming, a world increasingly populated with very dangerous depictions of nonwhites. The most recent Resident Evil movie is based on extremely popular video games like last year’s smash-hit Resident Evil 4, which places players in the position of fighting parasitically controlled Spaniards (called “Los Ganados” or “the cattle”) with stereotypical Mexican accents.
But, unlike moviegoers, the gamers don’t just sit and watch the accented villains; they get to become the white heroes who blow them to smithereens at an average of about 900 enemies per gaming session or “playthrough.”
And, in what looks like it could be a training video for a white supremacist race war or another U.S. military adventure in one of the increasing numbers of deserts on the planet, players of the soon-to-be-released Resident Evil 5 video game are placed in what could be an African country or Haiti as they blow up armies of black zombies.
This means that more and more black, Latino and Asian youth and adults will get to take part in killing more and more black, Latino and Asian zombies and other virtual bad guys in sci-fi and more contemporary and realistic settings.
Gamesters also get to lead heavily militarized members of a vice squad team while yelling, “Take my boys over there, and then we’ll take these Haitians down!” Previous and other versions of the best-selling Grand Theft Auto franchise also include Mexican and Cuban immigrant bad guys in need of restorative violence, which also gets players points for each kill.
Also unlike moviegoers, gamers get to play in the privacy of their homes as well as on their phones and other devices in the rapidly growing mobile market, a market where nonwhites are the fastest-growing consumer group.
This means that more and more black, Latino and Asian youth and adults will get to take part in killing more and more black, Latino and Asian zombies and other virtual bad guys in sci-fi and more contemporary and realistic settings.
Players of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, this year’s most popular video game, will not just see images of drug dealers; they become characters in the virtual world who mouth such statements as “I hate these Haitians” and “Stinking nest of Haitians, we gonna kill ‘em all!”
Gamesters also get to lead heavily militarized members of a vice squad team while yelling, “Take my boys over there, and then we’ll take these Haitians down!” Previous and other versions of the best-selling Grand Theft Auto franchise also include Mexican and Cuban immigrant bad guys in need of restorative violence, which also gets players points for each kill.
Read more at Alternet – ‘Resident Evil: Extinction’ Flick Based on Racist Video Game Series
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