Games with predominantly British voice-acting?

As I continued to make my way through the humongous Giant Bomb backlog, I reached the Xenoblade Chronicles quick look, where Brad and Patrick made a point of saying that's it is not often to come across an English (or localized) game that doesn't have typical American voice-acting. This got me thinking about the games I've been playing lately, and how many of them do predominantly feature American accents. Albeit, it makes sense for Infamous: Second Son or The Walking Dead to have American accents given the setting, but off the top of my head I still struggle to name very many games that represent my own (Scottish) accent or the many varieties on what you could call a "British" accent.

So I put the question to you duders: What games can you think of that only (or predominately) feature British voice acting?

Skyrim?

Dragon Quest VIII.

The Fable series.

Play Dragon Age 2, Hawke talks in a British accent.

James Bond games?

http://www.giantbomb.com/british-accent/3015-2835/games/

Red Alert Have some great British dudes.

Dragon Age and most other medieval fantasy games.

Souls games have british regional accents up the wazoo. Some of the best voice acting in games as well. It's a stand out feature.

The Getaway games.

This is true. Several JRPGs have this because they were localized for Europe first.

Xenoblade Chronicles. And Ni No Kuni. Moreso on the former.

It's funny that humans are British but elves are American.

Elves were retconned to be Welsh (and maybe a bit of Irish?) in Dragon Age II. Though that the dwarves are American is rather peculiar, but ironically enough it's actually a little refreshing from the constant Scottish accents they're fitted with.

Hogs of War is a game that was pretty much single-handedly voiced by Rik Mayall. Though as already mentioned British accents are typically most prominent in medieval fantasy games more than anything.

Anything Operation Rainfall.

Oh, most definitely. It's actually rather impressive at how much of a variety of British & Irish accents can be heard throughout those games.

Conkers bad fur day.

Ether One.

It's actually become cheaper to get voice actors from other countries now it seems like (especially Canada apparently although this isn't exclusive to games). I think also a lot of games only released in Asia and Europe have predominantly "british" voice acting, but I am very much assuming that based on very little experience. I assume I am completely wrong.

These days, though, I have actually noticed less American voice acting- mainly because they use non Americans to play Americans and it's incredibly bad when it happens. It's like when they had Americans do voice work for poorly translated Japanese games only it's people who are pretending to be American and doing it very poorly. As if I won't notice.

Maybe this is only present in Ubisoft games since so many have been coming out recently like this. You could argue that something like Skyrim is not intended to be "American" so I assume they at least somewhat cast based on their needs for more Nordic sounding actors. When I think of something like Saint's Row it's very much American (even with the voices that aren't American).

These days it's all over the map. That's the conclusion I've come to.

The Last Story is another one.

I was surprised to find out Peter Serafinowicz played Pate in DS2. I agree on the quality of the acting. The direction is really good; lots of the characters sound tired/melancholy and it definitely adds to the atmosphere.

Was it just that Project Rainfall games got a specifically European localization first, and then NoA couldn't be bothered to re-localize them for America, so that's why we got a British voice track? That was what I heard.

As a Canadian, I'm unclear on this: is it more common for most games to just use the American English voice track internationally for the "English" option, or if a game gets localized to Europe, does it usually get a British English voice track? I've pretty much never played any PAL versions of games, so I have no idea. Though I don't know why you'd know either, being on the moon and all.

Thomas was alone and little big planet have English narrators. Tomb raider has an obviously English main character.

I couldn't think of a single example of a game that was localised twice for English. There might be one, but I don't know why they'd do it. Other than Fable and Dark Souls I don't know of many games with majority 'British' voice acting. Even in a lot of games the supposed 'British' characters sound like they were voiced by Americans who have only ever watched other Americans do 'British' accents.

Final Fantasy XII uses different commonwealth accents for characters from different regions.

Uh...Inazuma Eleven for the DS? Not sure if the 3ds version has the same dub.

Alice the Madness Returns.

Killing Floor.

Now I'm kinda curious how the whole Operation Rainfall thing happened, since it sounds like in the vast majority of situations, any translation/localization house for Japanese->English would be located in either Japan or America, and then that version would be used internationally. For once Nintendo of Europe must've been told "these games aren't going to come out in North America", so they got to completely call the shots on an English-language localization and use whoever they have and whatever UK voice actors they found.

In Diablo III lots of the characters sound British-y, my Demon Hunter and his companion certainly do!

@bisonhero:

From what I understand, localizing for Europe essentially means you take a little bit more time out to translate into FEGIS (French, English, German, Italian, Spanish). (French only for Canada.) So it's not like Europe's getting a completely different version from America. The only difference for Operation Rainfall, I imagine, is that the perspectives were swapped.

I always thought the Fable games were like a buffet of horrible stereotype British accents. Which is weird, because those voice actors were probably British anyway.

The original Ape Escape was localized twice.

Heavy Rain!

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No different than a US produced work with American actors doing stereotyped or exaggerated southern, New York, or other regional accents. As an example, as a Massachusetts native I find the accents in most Boston based films to be way over exaggerated.

Space Marine, the Harry Potter and James Bond series (for obvious reasons) and a few old Rare games like Perfect Dark & Conkers have a lot of British VO. Ryan and Vinny really knew how to take the mickey out of such games (Shhapyce Muhreens?)

All Codemaster games have British VO too but it's mostly for the menus, tutorials and race commentary only so I'm not sure they count? Before the Fable series, most of the old Bullfrog games, like Black & White, Dungeon Keeper had British VO but again, those games didn't have much voice work anyway.

The Last Story

Forbidden Siren (AKA Siren) for the PS1, and Clock Tower 3. The VO for both is British although some of the accents in CT3 were rather questionable.

The Book of Unwritten Tales

The Bard's Tale? I remember it had Cary Elwes.

Oh, Puppeteer has a lot of English VO in it at least. There's some American in there too, but I'd say its majority of accents lie more on the British side of things.

Skyrim Online

The Stanley Parable if it counts. The Witcher 2 perhaps. Save for Geralt, Triss and Letho, most other characters have non-American accents.

Edit: I think Dandelion and most of the elves were American, so I don't know about The Witcher 2.

Oh, I clicked on this to say Xenoblade: Chronicles, but nevermind.

Did Dragon's Dogma have mostly non-american voices? The only spoken line I remember in that game was "Fire works well!!"

The Testament of Sherlock Holmes is all kinds of British.

Bullfrog and Lionhead games like:

• Fable series;
• Theme Hospital;
• Black and White.

Xenoblade Chronicles is maybe my favorite all British cast in a game. Some pretty good stuff in there from some British-ass British people. And, I mean, REAL British, not Hollywood British. Also, I should have read the actual post and seen that was the one mentioned. Whatever! Still my pick.

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The Wii remake of Fatal Frame 2 (aka Project Zero 2), which was released in Europe but not America. The original PS2 game did have American voices, so it's jarring to go from one to the other as the characters' personalities seem different thanks to the difference voice acting. I prefer the British version though, the actors sound age-appropriate and have a little personality to them, rather than the original which imitated the high-pitched Japanese that made the girls sound like they were much younger. That way of speaking/acting in Japanese often comes off so terribly when actors attempt to copy it in English. Doesn't translate well.

@pekoe212: That's an excellent point. I also think that British pronunciation is much closer in sound to some of the vowel sounds in Japanese. Take for example, a character in Siren called Mrs. Takato. Thanks to the British VO, it sounds like Mrs. Tuh-Kuh-Toh, and not Mrs. Tuh-kay-toh. The former is tolerable while the latter is grating.