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'Resident Evil 5'

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'Resident Evil 5'

Format of choice: PS3

Released: Spring 2009

The full game has yet to be released but the trailer for the fifth title in the zombie shooting franchise has caused a media frenzy, even being brandished racist.

It appears to show the game's white hero slaughtering an indiscriminate number of black zombies. AlterNet.org declared that the game's trailer looks like "a training video for a white supremacist race war."

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