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Character Race in Games

They just can't take all the whites in the games

By Filip Truta, Games Editor

12th of February 2007, 14:24 GMT

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It is true that when you play an action/adventure game with a great hero that does all that super-natural stuff, you want to identify yourself with that character, especially when you're a kid. The thing is that the super-hero is generally white, and some are frustrated by this very issue, or so says Kotaku's Chris Kohler.

Now, let's say that Lara Croft were black (honestly all Core would have to do is change texture color, her big lips and big everything could easily pass for a black girl's), would
anyone mind? I and all the men in this world would definitely dig a black Lara. But hold on, it has been reported that girls sometimes engage in computer games too, and even succeed at finishing a stage or two. I'm just kidding.

Really now, what if we think about it this way? Is this a possibility?

So:
-black girl comes from school;
-she throws the schoolbag on the floor, grabs a bite to eat and then rushes to her room turning on the computer;
-she's been thinking all day long of her new Tomb Raider game that she has bought on the way home and how much she wanted to get home and play it;
-she pops in the CD and installs the game, but just as the game starts she realizes that Lara is white, again, and the little girl is not comfortable with that;
-trying to defeat some opponents she becomes more and more distracted because Lara is white, white, white! and she can't even finish the first stage.

Come on...! Does that happen? Give it a rest with all this nonsense. Isn't there anything else better to pick on, like baseball or unsuccessful handheld titles?
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