Take a swing with a cricket bat in Left 4 Dead 2

This is getting ridiculous. Via the ironicly titled blog “Game Hacks”, the Houston Chronicle took aim at Left 4 Dead 2, calling it racist. Now Valve’s writer Chet Faliszek fired back!

“Utter insanity. “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’?

“… As far as Katrina goes, if you go down to New Orleans, Katrina’s still going on. I mean, it’s messed up, it is crazy that the city is still in the state it’s in, and we treat that with the utmost respect. Our CEDA thing is not some subversive commentary on anything. This is a videogame, those are real people’s lives, we are not trying to make a statement with that … It’s a place we love, it’s dear to our hearts. 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.”

Unreal that this is an issue. Obama should call this guy stupid!