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Originally Posted by Doktorwzzerd
Love the game obviously, but has anyone else noticed how much confusion there is in BoP between British and American accents? During the BoB missions we constantly hear American accents in the radio chatter, then during the last Sicily missions we are flying as a USAAF pilot in an early Mustang with British markings and American accents flying around all over the place. Huh?
Is this is a product of the Russian/English language barrier? Was there going to be some explanation for this involving Eagle squadron or something that never got put into the game, or just another sign of the rush put on the devs by the publishers, that they did one set of english language voice overs?
Its not a huge deal, just kind of a weird oversight.
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Considering that all the video "diary" segments were done by the same Russian narrator, it's not surprising. Also there's a recession going on, they probably didn't have the capital to find and hire voice artists from the UK and US. Not so easy to hire when most don't speak Russian.
Also, the radio chatter and wingman responses are a stock set of phrases, and they seem to just get randomized here and there. In BoB the garbled words right before the American says, "you're breaking up, say again?" sound like Russian if anything.
It's not unusual to find Russians who can do good American accents with short lines. I've seen a few Soviet-era movies where the American characters sound almost perfect. They probably just misplaced some of them.