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What’s up people. For Black History Month, we’ve decided to cull together a list of the Top 20 Black Characters in Gaming. Counting down from 20, we’ll be hitting you with a new one each week day until we get to number 1. Let’s get to it:
#2 on TGH’z Top Black Video Game Characters list is Kratos – God of War
Kratos is a Bad Mot^#$ Shut Your Mouth!
YUP I said it. Kratos is Black. Deal with it. There have been many an argument on the internets when this has been brought up, but he is. In God of War 2, you see a flash back of Kratos before his skin was white. (I won’t spoil it for you here) But when you looked at him he was black, so was his wife and kid.
What’s up people. For Black History Month, we’ve decided to cull together a list of the Top 20 Black Characters in Gaming. Counting down from 20, we’ll be hitting you with a new one each week day until we get to number 1. Let’s get to it:
#3 on TGH’z Top Black Video Game Characters list is Drebin – Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Got to give it up to our boy Hideo Kojima for his Metal Gear Series. He’s also given us an actually interesting Black character on many levels. Not only that, Drebin has more dialog in this game than all the other characters combined! Too bad you don’t get to play as him.
What’s up people. For Black History Month, we’ve decided to cull together a list of the Top 20 Black Characters in Gaming. Counting down from 20, we’ll be hitting you with a new one each week day until we get to number 1. Let’s get to it:
#4 on TGH’z Top Black Video Game Characters list is Coltrane (aka Trane) – Getting Up Contents Under Pressure
The second Coltrane on this list but a bit higher up on it comes from the under rated joint from hip hop fashion legend Marc Ecko’s – Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure.
What’s up people. For Black History Month, we’ve decided to cull together a list of the Top 20 Black Characters in Gaming. Counting down from 20, we’ll be hitting you with a new one each week day until we get to number 1. Let’s get to it:
#11 on TGH’z Top Black Video Game Characters list goes to Mike Leroi AKA Shadow Man
Awww snap. We’re really digging in the crates for this one ya’ll. For the number 11 Black Character we had to go deep. Before I continue, I gotta say, this is a helluva list. For all those out there that really think that the majority of black characters in gaming are stereotypical, just peep this list for variety for your ass. Any one of these guys could’ve been played by a caucasian character, but the devs took a chance.
Granted these joints are sleeper hits, but they are ALL Quality. That’s at least a step in the right direction. Now just so you know, Shadow Man was a popular comic book before being a game. This one could’ve turned out so bad, but thankfully it didn’t.
We pick up this joint shadow man not knowing what to really expect. And right off the bat, we are treated to some Jack Da Ripper demon ritual and you already know that you are about to be in for some ish. Next we roll on the Man right after doing the deed, with what looks to be the local witch doctor. (Think the jamaican chick in Pirates of the Caribbean) She actually has to do it with him to receive voodoo power from him and remain youthful lol (look it up here).
What’s up people. For Black History Month, we’ve decided to cull together a list of the Top 20 Black Characters in Gaming. Counting down from 20, we’ll be hitting you with a new one each week day until we get to number 1. Let’s get to it:
#13 on TGH’z Top Black Video Game Characters list goes to Torque of The Suffering
For a little stretch on the last gen of consoles, Midway had a bit of a run at out of the box sleeper hits that didn’t have a “Kombat” or a “NBA” in the name. One of those sleeper hits was a title by the name of The Suffering.
Now I’m really reaching down in this deep bag of tricks for these titles, because you almost never hear about them in the mainstream press. But The Suffering was one of the best survival horror games to ever come out. The premise is that you are locked up (yes another black man in jail lol) and all you know about the main character Torque is that he’s on death row for killing his wife and kids. Now once again before you get all riled up, the story is a bit deeper than that you see, because Torque claims he has no re-collection of doing the deed. But all the evidence points to him.
What’s up people. For Black History Month, we’ve decided to cull together a list of the Top 20 Black Characters in Gaming. Counting down from 20, we’ll be hitting you with a new one each week day until we get to number 1. Let’s get to it:
#16 on TGH’z Top Black Video Game Characters list goes to Zack of the Dead or Alive Series.
This cat Zack… what can we say about this guy? He went from a pretty Non-descript dude in the first version of DOA on the Sega Saturn, to an outlandish punk-rock emo typ guy in DOA2. That’s where the connection to the at the time all over the news Dennis Rodman comparisons came about. Not to be outdone, famous (former) Tecmo developer Tomonobu Itagaki, decided to fully convert this Zack guy to a Dennis Rodman clone.
What’s up people. For Black History Month, we’ve decided to cull together a list of the Top 20 Black Characters in Gaming. Counting down from 20, we’ll be hitting you with a new one each week day until we get to number 1. Let’s get to it:
#17 on TGH’z Top Black Video Game Characters list goes to Louis of the Left 4 Dead
This character made the list as our first “playable” character. This game is fairly new but it is oh so good. What we like about Valve’s latest game is that it is multiplayer at heart. Four protagonists trapped in a Zombie movie scenario that forces them to work together to fight their way out.
Sup folks. With 2009 blazing by we are right on the eve of an important month for Black people, Black History month. With all the change that has come and the many more to go, TrueGameHeadz have decided to take a look at the state of the gaming industry and see how black characters are being represented in the industry. Read the rest of this entry »
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