Honestly, Resident Evil would be in a lose-lose situation no matter which way it went. Resident Evil is being called racist for how you had a white character killed Spaniards in Resident Evil 4 and how they'll be killing black people in Resident Evil 5, but yet, if it was a lead black protagonist shooting white people or anyone for that matter, the game would probably be labeled just as equally offensive.

Although the furor over RE5 eventually died down, liberal website AlterNet has fanned the flames with an article posted earlier today.

‘Resident Evil: Extinction’ Flick Based on Racist Video Game Series takes the popular zombie shooter to task, and not just over RE5’s gunning down of African villagers:

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… increasingly populated with very dangerous depictions of non-whites.

…last year’s smash-hit Resident Evil 4… places players in the position of fighting parasitically-controlled Spaniards (called “Los Ganados” or “the cattle”) with stereotypical Mexican accents…

And, in what looks like it could be a training video for a white supremacist race war… 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.

Read the full article over at gamepolitics.com