Buyers of Valve’s The Orange Box quickly discovered that Team Fortress 2 is one of the best multiplayer games out right now.
Using class-based warfare, players assume a role that they must follow until they die. If they want to be a medic, they must spend their time healing other players. If they want to be a pyro, they’re armed with a flamethrower and they must spend their time burning everything in sight.
Though it makes for great gameplay, it does bring up one question: Why is the only black character in the game a grenade launching drunkard?
Games aren’t necessarily known for their racial sensitivity, but this seems to go a bit beyond mere oversight.
What do you think? Was the black player’s role intentional, or did someone just press the black button at the wrong time?
[The Montoya Herald - Playing Offensive]
[Valve - The Orange Box - Team Fortress 2]
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