I'm no historian but...

[Tox Laximus]

I'm pretty sure romans did not speak modern english?

[Riesendurcheinander ™]

xD the game should speak old latin? u know the game Realed for English speakrs coz english is wide known ^_^

[Tox Laximus]

But why english from the the UK, why not american english?

[akhv]

It's your choice, they can speak French, Spanish, Russian etc

[Tox Laximus]

Even english from those times is compleatly different to now, I can't understand any of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fxy6ZaMOq8

[Dragunov]

It's still a game, and the voice acting is just great!

Even in modern films, Germans speak English to each other in a WWII movie, except in Der Untergang

[Unregistered Hypercam 2]

I mean, I kinda want to know what theyre talking about w/o reading subtitles.

[Daisuke Hanata]

So might get hate but speaking on a Technical Term.
Translation, localization. A very good example, get Eternal Darkness on the GCN, play through the beginning. Roman soldiers will speak Latin, then slowly switch towards english. This is just how game design is. Yes, I would love it if they spoke Latin and read subs, but some game companies want to keep it simple. Another example, Metro 2033/Last Light, real language is Russian, but language used is English in the US, which is for Localization. You can change the language to the language the game is supposed to use, based on Localization. So, yea. I don't work in a company, but this is the best I can come up with based on what I personally think it is. Take it or leave it, that's up to you.

[Tox Laximus]

If I let historical inaccuracies stop me playing games then I would be watching blank screen all day.

But why in movies and games romans and bad guys always have a english accent, is it because american and australian accents are not menacing enough?

[HatefulMother]

Originally posted by Tox Laximus:

But why english from the the UK, why not american english?

It's sort of the Lord of the Rings effect. Any story, whether fictional or based on reality, that has a pre-firearm level of technology has to have british accents for some reason. It's sort of a "lingua franca," but instead of language it's accent. It might have something to do with standards that were set by british theater.

[Tox Laximus]

Originally posted by kirtanloorii:

Originally posted by Tox Laximus:

But why english from the the UK, why not american english?

It's sort of the Lord of the Rings effect. Any story, whether fictional or based on reality, that has a pre-firearm level of technology has to have british accents for some reason. It's sort of a "lingua franca," but instead of language it's accent. It might have something to do with standards that were set by british theater.

Makes sense, speaking american would sound stupid in ye olde films seeing as america is just over 200 years old.

[HONG-]

Just like all the people in JP Anime would speak Japanese XD. Just a game, don't be so serious

[Halcyon]

Basically, it's best to just think of the story as alternate history or else the all of the odd inaccuracies will drive me crazy.

[Secretcodrin]

i bet you didn't play assassins creed 2 where italians spoke more english than italian.

[BRUTAL BUNDY]

1) French/spanish/english and italian language are build on latin base. You can find the spirit of this dead language in all west europe languages.
2) Crytek is an european studio, thats why they choose british accent. + british sound more classy than american redneck potato accent.

[lux0r]

Originally posted by Bundy CorpseGrinder:

1) French/spanish/english and italian language are build on latin base. You can find the spirit of this dead language in all west europe languages.
2) Crytek is an european studio, thats why they choose british accent. + british sound more classy than american redneck potato accent.

no my friend english not build on latin base, spanish/french/italian and portuguese are build in latin base english & german are other build