Category: Playable Black Characters
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Afro Samurai
Developer: Bandai NamcoPublisher: Bandai NamcoRelease Year: 2009Platform: PS3/Xbox 360Genre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Development; Playable Black characters; Black cultural traditions; narrative themes; voice acting/motion capture Loosely based on the manga and anime series, Afro Samurai is a 3D brawler with platforming elements where you follow Afro Samurai, a master swordsman, as he fights to become the Number…
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50 Cent: Bulletproof
Developer: Genuine Games, High VoltagePublisher: Vivendi UniversalRelease Year: 2005Platform: PS2/PSP/XboxGenre: Third Person Shooter, ActionTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black NPCs, Voice acting/motion capture; Black cultural traditions Set in New York City the story revolves around 50 Cent’s search for vengeance against the hitmen who attempted to murder him leads him to take on dangerous criminal organizations.…
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50 Cent: Blood in the Sand
Developer: Swordfish StudioPublisher: THQ/Vivendi UniversalRelease Year: 2009Platform: PS3/Xbox 360Genre: Third Person Shooter, ActionTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black NPCs, Voice acting/motion capture; Black cultural traditions; Anti-Blackness/ regressive characterizations Set in an urban warzone, after 50 Cent and G-Unit perform a rap concert, they are robbed of their cash, paid in a diamond skull, which is stolen…