Ultima Forever, Despite Its Canadian Soft Launch, Has a German-Language Option
As noted in various places, it isn’t hard to tweak your iTunes or iOS settings to download apps that are ostensibly available only in certain regional App Stores. Downloading paid apps is still problematic, as these typically require a payment method with an associated address that is in the same region as the App Store in question. But for free apps, Apple isn’t quite as strict.
Nemisis Dragon, over in Germany, certainly had no issue getting his hands on a copy of Ultima Forever, and discovered something interesting, which you can see in the screenshot above: despite being available only in Canada, Ultima Forever already has a German-language option for, at least, its interface.
The First Age of Update: It isn’t just the interface, as Nemisis points out in a comment below…it would seem that the entire game has been translated thusly. Here’s a few more screenshots from Nemisis’ collection:
Apparently, the game auto-selects a language based on the system language you have set in the main system settings. If you’ve encountered another enabled localization (French, Spanish, Korean, whatever…), drop a comment and let us know!
Achtung baby, too cold. I don’t know if it’s standard procedure to localize games upon launch, but it’s good to see Mythic appears to be doing so. A long way from the days of Japanese imports or “the truck have started to move” (hopefully!).
It’s not just the interface, he also poste screens of dialogues in German.
The complete game is in german, not only the interface. I would rate the translation quality from good to perfect. Oh, and it’s “Nemisis”, not “Nemesis” 🙂
Oh, that’s cool too. I may have to grab another screenshot or two from you to show that!
And I’ll get that name fixed up presently.
Sure, use the screenshots as you want!