Last summer there was a big commotion over the Resident Evil 5 video played at E3 '08.  The video showed the white protagonist shooting down several black men in a setting that looks like a shanty town in Africa.  Some people felt that it was a return to the 40s and 50s of depicting blacks as savages.  This demo has two levels and one of them takes up the action from that first video at E3.

In the demo it is very clear that all of these people are infected with some sort of virus.  They more slow like zombies but are not like zombies I'd expect from a movie like Dawn of the Dead.   Now I've never played the Resident Evil games before so I know little about the back story except what I've seen in the movies.  It does appear these people are being lead by one man so they aren't traditional zombies.

From a pure game play point of view the game doesn't jump out at me as something I must play.  For the most part the zombies are slow moving but there are lots of them.  The camera angle is very Gears of War but the fact you can't move and aim at the same time is kind of stupid.  I'm not a big fan of the aiming system at all either.  Instead of a reticle you have a laser sight on your gun which I found difficult to line up.  There are two missions on the demo and neither of them jumped out at me as compelling game play.