Mafia 2 Deemed Racist

[SyphonX]

As they say, if you oppose a product, then you vote with your wallet and not buy it.

So in that case, UNICO and other uptight busybodies, and those who don't play games won't buy it. Vote counted.

In other words, everyone that wants this game will buy it, and it will be successful, dur hur. At least 2K Games is providing a service of entertainment to those who demand it. What does UNICO accomplish? I mean really.. do they or have they done anything for humanity at all?

 

[Carlston]

Well most sterotype games get called racist. Then people only focus on the one thing that upsets them.

But then again WW2 games are nothing but killing Japanese and Germans and that's ok...

As part Guido myself, I say F it. Least it puts us back on a list of having a history not just, all white people look a like crap...

Think i'll buy this game just for the up your value to whiny morons.

"Resident Evil 5 is set in Africa, how can having black people in Africa be racist? What do you want? Eskimos?"

 

[antidonkey]

Itailian is a race now? Silly me for thinking it was a nationality.

 

[_Cake_]

I would be surprised if a game set in the 40's wasn't racist.

 

[danintexas]

Lawyers looking for paydays

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I want to say this: The world is mean and racist. Why shouldn't a game be?

Oh right, it's "young audience".

Spoiler

 

[Dango]

Every game now a days is considered racist, even Castle Crashers was considered racist, I really don't get it (except for Red Dead Redemption, that actually was kind of racist).

 

[Varrdy]

Isn't Mafia an Italian word... and didn't the Mafia originate from Italy/Sicily?

Yep. In fact, as far as I know, the word "Mafia" is actually an acronym and stands for "Morte alla Francia, Italia anela" (not sure if I have nailed the spellings quite right) which roughly translates as: "Death to France is the cry of Italy" although I understand this theory is thought to be myth.

I can't claim to be an expert but I'm damn sure it started in Italy and then was "copied" in other countries. I'm guessing that "mafia" is now a term tacked onto any organisation with similar practices to the Sicilian Mafia.

Whilst I can understand UNICO not wanting everyone to assume every Italian / Italian American is a vicious, racket-running, kneecapping mobster but there is a clue about the game's content in it's title: Mafia. It's not called "Italian Rampage!" or anything to do with pasta and scooters. It's about the Mafia and they are widely understood to be rather brutal chaps when they want to be.

Wardy
PS Off topic slightly, I read a preview about Mafia 2 a while ago. Once screenshot showed two Mafia thugs shooting up a restraunt(?) already on fire and the caption: "Whaddaya mean, ya don't serve eggy-bread?" made me chuckle.

PPS I love Italy and would love to visit one day. I mean, a country that gave the world Ferarri, Lamborghini, Pagani, Bugatti, Maserati, Alfa Romeo and Peroni gotta have a lot going for it!

 

[Shale_Dirk]

See this Konami? This is how you back up a team that has made a game that can be perceived as controversial.

http://www.next-gen.biz/news/konami-drops-six-days-in-fallujah

I fear the day that the makers of any creative art form become too afraid of backlash to create. Of course this is all even more stupid because these titles are set in an actual historical period, but that won't stop Americans from defending their right to prevent other people from having the right to create.

 

[TastySurvivor]

wasnt the real mafia mostly Italian?

What do you mean by mostly? The real Mafia was Italian only, Sicilian preferably. If you weren't part of a connected Italian family, then you didn't get very far. If you weren't Italian, then you didn't get anywhere, you were an associate to the connected family, at best.

There were probably some instances of "Mafia related" gangs becoming so disorganized that they accepted non-Italians into their ranks, but that would be a fluke. They would be a disheveled crew, not part of the Mafia any longer, probably occurring after a war in the ranks.

UNICO is apparently an organization with interests in revisionist history. So pathetic, and absurd. Talk about a veiled evil. It precedes thought crime on the "Checklist of things to avoid before a nation becomes Orwellian".

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Anyway, who else pre-ordered the Collector's Edition? I did, and I'm psyched. I feel like I'm investing in the future of narrative in video games.

If they did accept non-Italians, then they were mostly italians. I do get your point though. What I meant was there were some non-Italian mafias. Then again, those arent the ones the game is talking about, so my point is moot. oh well