News: Your units will speak the nations language.

[FrostyBoy]

Quoted from CivFanatics (which quoted from WorthPlaying).

Even better, when you click on a unit, it will respond in the language of your selected region, so it would be cool to know Mandarin if you choose to be Chairman Mao as the leader of your Chinese civilization. This feature really validates the concept of the game in the development of world history, as multiculturalism and the many languages of Earth are often overlooked in games targeted at North America. Who knows, maybe by the time Civ IV is released, it will also include a little tutorial to teach you what each unit is saying and how to say it.

I like this feature, quite cool. Will remind me of Warcraft/Starcraft, where when you click on a unit, the unit responds with the appropriate personality.

[Addled Platypus]

will it give lesson s so you can understand what tey are saying?


but at least death cries are universal !

[FrostyBoy]

you should read the quote properly Platypus Rex

[Imran Siddiqui]

I LOVE this kind of immersive fluff!! Now all we need is for historical voice actors to read famous texts when you research something (like SMAC).

[H Tower]

This may cause me to leave on the audio portion of Civ a bit longer than any of the previous titles. I don't think I can ever again listen to Ode to Joy after having Civ2 play it over, and over and over and over and over and over again. :vomit:

[GeoModder]

I see a good reason for modding in secession for this.

Sire, the cities of xxxxx, yyyyyy and zzzzzz have rebelled against our attempts to force our language on their population. To say a quote, "we don't want those foreign-speaking soldiers from a king who can only speak gibberish to us". Shall we sent a severe punishment force?

[Adagio]

In the beginning this is probably cool, but I believe I soon will turn off the sounds (or at least unit talk) in the game...

[Sabre2th]

This is exactly the kind of little detail that I think hurt Civ3 so much. It lacked the ambience previous versions had. The wonder movies and civ2 advisors were especially good

[Trifna]

Originally posted by Sabre2th
This is exactly the kind of little detail that I think hurt Civ3 so much. It lacked the ambience previous versions had. The wonder movies and civ2 advisors were especially good

Well, maybe the units will say things with Civ3-style, humoristic gamish stye

[marcuspeddle]

I think Age of Kings had something similar, didn't it?

[Solver]

Yuh, AoK had unit sounds specific for each Civ. I still remember them!

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Solver
Yuh, AoK had unit sounds specific for each Civ. I still remember them!

Are you sure they where specific to each civ, rather than each "culture group"? I seem to remember them being the same among many different nations.

[Solver]

They were most definitely not same for different civs, not in the original game. In the expansion, the Aztecs and Mayans had matching sounds, as well as Mongols and Huns, even though there were slight differences between Aztecs and Mayans. All of the original civs, though, had different sounds - with Goth and Teuton also only having minor differences.

[SpencerH]

A fun part will be mod-ing the sounds so the units say what we want them to.

[Solver]

*clicks a Tank* "Next version of Yin will suck"
*clicks a Swordsman* "How dare you click Ming the Merciless?"