KwaggaDan said:
Maybe I am blowing this out of proportion, but I'm getting tired of Africa and Africans being misrepresented in games. And yeah, there are incidents where it happened, so why didn't the Chernobyl section have attack bears or wolves? That's happened before?
And Africans can afford dogs. This is just simply something that looked cool, so they signed off on it, but they'd never do the same for a European section. And that's my issue.
TBH, I can't entirelly sympathize . . . I don't really see a lot of exaggerated material in games regarding Africa and it's people . . . a few titles here and there, but they're few and far between.
. . . but, on the other hand, I'm quite sickened by the exaggerated views taken of baltic and slavic peoples in games (mostly Russians, but occasionaly their neighbors - and a lot of this has to do with my heritage), and the fact that they're heavily used for antagonists. They've been more of a source for "the bad guys" than any other nationality (expect, perhaps, the Germans). I personaly think you're blowing this entirelly out of proportion.
In regards to your comment about Russians and wolves/boars/bears . . . really?! I've never heard of such a thing, at least in real life. There've been a few games that've thrown out such nonsense, but it's still in context of a game. Perhaps there've been a few odd cases of such animal usage in the real world (especially with bears and the circus), but the logistical overhead for attempting to use such animals in a defensive/offensive role would simply be outrageous. Trained dogs are and would be much more affordable.
All-in-al, to ***** and complain about any such exaggerations, though, is simply pointless: it's a game.