{"id":4226,"date":"2009-08-04T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"left-4-dead-writer-comments-on-racist-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/4226-left-4-dead-writer-comments-on-racist-accusations","title":{"rendered":"Left 4 Dead writer comments on racist accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Left 4 Dead writer Chet Faliszek has responded to recent accusations by the Houston Chronicle that the game is racists,  referring to the idea as “Utter insanity”.<\/p>\n

Faliszek told Detructoid<\/a> yesterday that “There are mixed races of zombies, there are all different races of zombies that you shoot, and since we placed it in New Orleans, that makes it racist? I honestly re-read the paragraph about five times but when two of the characters in your game are African-American, it’s a weird thing to be accused of. We’re like, ‘how does this work’?”<\/p>\n

In mid July the Houston Chronicle’s Willie Jefferson wrote that he was “disturbed by the growing trend of racist undertones that are cropping up in video games.”<\/p>\n

“One of the games that comes to mind is ‘Left 4 Dead 2’. Though the game isn’t out yet, it’s already causing an uproar. Set in New Orleans, players will have to fight their way through hordes of zombies – with several of them who appear to be African-Americans,” said Jefferson.<\/p>\n

“When I saw the first trailer for the game, all I could think about was Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath. Setting the game in a city that was scene of dead, bloated bodies floating by so soon afterward was a bad call”<\/p>\n

Faliszek has responded by saying that “As far as Katrina goes, if you go down to New Orleans, Katrina’s still going on. This is a videogame, those are real people’s lives, we are not trying to make a statement with that. We would not cheapen it. It’s not a brick-for-brick representation of New Orleans; it’s a fictional version, and I love that city.””<\/p>\n

Read MyGaming’s response to L4D2 racism accusation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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