30 Most Controversial Video Games Of All Time

25. Resident Evil 5

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Back in 2008, when Resident Evil 5 was still being showcased around the world, the game came under intense scrutiny when a journalist reported that it featured very subtle undertones of racial stereotyping and racism itself.

With the reveal of Sheva Alomar as a playable character following this, many took this as an attempt from Capcom to make the cast more racially diverse. Utter nonsense.

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Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.