Category: Voice Acting/Motion Capture
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NBA 2K (Franchise)
Developer: Sega Sports, 2K GamesPublisher: Sega Sports, 2K Games Release Year: 1999-2023Platform: Android/Dreamcast/GameCube/iOS/Mac/PS2/PS3/PS4/PS5/PSP/Stadia/Switch/Wii/Win/Wii U/Xbox/Xbox 360/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/SGenre: SportsTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; voice acting/motion capture; Black NPCs; Black cultural traditions; Narrative themes; robust character creation system; fandom/community/reception; mechanics You control the players of NBA teams where the objectives coincide with the rules of basketball. interviews…
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NBA Jam
Developer: Acclaim Entertainment, MidwayGamesPublisher: Acclaim Entertainment, MidwayGamesRelease Year: 1993-2011Platform: 32X/Android/Arcade/Atari/Jaquar/Game Boy/Game Boy Advance/Game Boy Color/Game Gear/Nintendo 64/PS/PS2/PS3/Sega CD/Sega Genesis/Sega Saturn/SNES/Wii/Win/Xbox/Xbox 360Genre: SportsTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; voice acting/motion capture; Black NPCs; Black cultural traditions; Narrative themes; robust character creation system; fandom/community/reception; mechanics This game teams from the NBA against one another in a 2-on-2 basketball gauntlet.…
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Grand Theft Auto V
Developer: Rockstar Games, Rockstar NorthPublisher: Rockstar GamesRelease Year: 2013Platform: PS3/PS4/Win/Xbox 360/Xbox OneGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black NPCs; Voice acting/motion capture, politics/ideology/history, Narrative themes, Anti-Blackness/ regressive characterizations; mechanics; fandom / community / reception Grand Theft Auto V is an open world game set in Los Santos, a sprawling sun-soaked metropolis struggling to stay afloat…
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Mafia III
Developer: Hangar 13Publisher: 2K GamesRelease Year: 2016Platform: Mac/PS4/Win/Xbox OneGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Development; Playable Black characters; voice acting; Black cultural traditions; politics/ ideology/ history; Narrative themes; Black NPCs; Intersectionality; fandom/community/reception; Anti-Blackness; mechanics Set in New Bordeaux that is surging with change in response to the Civil Rights movement, Lincoln Clay is double-crossed and left for dead…
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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…