Category: Voice Acting/Motion Capture
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Tacoma
Developer: FullbrightPublisher: FullbrightRelease Year: 2017Platform: Linux, Mac, PS4, WIN, Xbox OneGenre: AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Narrative Themes, Mechanics, Intersectionality Set abroad a high-tech space station, Tacoma, in 2088, you are tasked to recover the station’s AI and find out why the station was abandoned by the crew. interviews and other media scholarship…
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Sunset
Developer: Tale of TalesPublisher: Tale of TalesRelease Year: 2015Platform: Linux, Mac, WINGenre: AdventureTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Politics/Ideology/History, Narrative Themes, Intersectionality You play as Angela, an African-American housekeeper, who is working for the wealthy and politically connected Gabriel Ortega in the a fictional country of Anchuria. Ultimately you must make decisions about…
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Subnautica: Below Zero
Developer: Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Shiny Shoe LLCPublisher: Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Shiny Shoe LLCRelease Year: 2021Platform: Mac, PS4, PS5, Switch, WIN, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|SGenre: Action Adventure, Survival Taxonomy: Development, Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture Taking place two years after the first game, scientist Robin Ayou travels to 4546B to learn the circumstances of…
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Spider Man: Miles Morales
Developer: Insomniac Games, Nixxes SoftwarePublisher: Insomniac GamesRelease Year: 2020, 2022 (WIN)Platform: PS4, PS5, WINGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Black Cultural Traditions, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Narrative Themes, Politics/Ideology/History, Black NPCs, Intersectionality Set in Harlem this game focuses on Miles Morales’ struggles to balance his life as a teenager and his duties as the second Spider-Man,…
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Shaq Fu
Developer: Delphine SoftwarePublisher: EARelease Year: 1994, 1995 (Game Gear, Game Boy, Amiga)Platform: Amiga, Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, SNESGenre: FightingTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Black NPCs, Voice Acting/Motion Capture While heading to a charity basketball game in Tokyo, Japan, Shaquille O’Neal walks into a dojo, talks to a marital arts master, Leotsu, and is transported to…
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Shadow Man
Developer: Acclaim Studios TeesidePublisher: Nightdive StudioRelease Year: 1999, 2013 (PC), 2021 (Remastered WIN), 2022 (Remastered & Switch)Platform: Dreamcast, Mac, N64, PS, PS4, Switch, WIN, Xbox OneGenre: Action Adventure Taxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Black Cultural Traditions, Voice Acting/Motion Capture The Shadow Man, originally Mike LeRoi, was transformed by a voodoo priestess into a guardian of the…
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SEASON: A Letter to the Future
Developer: Scavengers StudioPublisher: Scavengers StudioRelease Year: 2023Platform: PS4, PS5, WINGenre: Adventure Taxonomy: Development, Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Black NPCs, Intersectionality Estelle leaves her isolated home for the first time to create a record of the world for the next generation before a mysterious cataclysm wipes everything away. interviews and other media scholarship Return…
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Resident Evil 5
Developer: CapcomPublisher: CapcomRelease Year: 2009Platform: PS3, PS4, Switch, WIN, Xbox 360, Xbox One Genre: Survival Horror Taxonomy: Black NPCs, Playable Black Characters, Narrative Themes, Voice Acting/ Motion Capture, Anti-Blackness/Regressive Characterizations Chris Redfield, one of the few survivors of the incident, is now working as an agent for the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA). He heads…
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Prototype 2
Developer: Radical EntertainmentPublisher: ActivisionRelease Year: 2012Platform: PS3, PS4, WIN, Xbox 360, Xbox OneGenre: Action Adventure, Simulation Taxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture You play as U.S marine Sergeant James Heller, who seeks revenge on Alex Mercer after the death of his family during a new outbreak of the Blacklight virus which has granted you…
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NBA Street
Developer: NuFX, EA CanadaPublisher: EA Sports BIGRelease Year: 2001 (PS2), 2002 (GameCube)Platform: GameCube, PS2Genre: SportsTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Black NPCs, Black Cultural Traditions, Narrative Themes, Robust Character Creation System, Fandom/Community/Reception, Mechanics, Anti-Blackness/Regressive Characterizations Combining the talent and big names of the NBA with the attitude and atmosphere of streetball, you try to…