10 Most Offensive Gaming Moments Ever

5. Kung Fu Chaos

A terrible attempt by Microsoft to make a family-friendly party game for the original Xbox, Kung Fu Chaos was more notable for its racial insensitivity than for its poor go at ripping off Smash Bros. There is certainly some attempt to parody old kung-fu movies, but the comedy is clearly based on old stereotypes and racial cliches and the character designs of the seven Asain characters are just awfully racist from their physicality through to their inability to differentiate Ls and Rs. It's not funny - not that that would excuse it - and feels like yet another example of Westerners "spoofing" Asians through disfiguring stereotypes and the furthering of racist ideas. They aren't the only group of people affected by the game's discrimination, as blondes, Mexicans and a blaxpoitation star are ridiculed, but that doesn't make any of the offensive material any more acceptable. http://youtu.be/BO-qUqpyMuA
 
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