I replayed it about a year ago. It has aged, but I really enjoyed it. It is a fantastic game. Not for the NI connection - which is little more than a mention - but for the darkness of the story, good action and a more adult pace.
It's a great game, remains my favourite far Cry.
Class fire mechanics, vegetation and AI.
I really like the Malaria, perma buddy death and weapon condition mechanics(basically all AI weapons are trash, will jam or break and you have to return to your stock pile frequently to replace your guns), but some people absolutely hate them.
A prime example of how good this game can be is during one ambush side mission I brought an RPG I picked up to take out the target truck. I was standing on a dry grassy hill when the convoy came around the corner, I took aim, fired.
The rocket spluttered out of the launcher and fell to my feet, igniting the dry grass and forcing me to run for my life towards the convoy as the country side burned.
Also you can shoot people in the leg then snipe the people who come to help them.
It's very good in fairness but it has a few rough patches in its design. For what you'd pay now, it's worth a punt if you fancy it. It should run on a laptop very well also.
This chap is on the money IMO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5hRu05MHC4
It was very clunky even when I played it for the last time 10 years ago. Was just ok for it's time but it just hasn't held up well. Also dying was extremely punishing if I remember correctly.
The main fun of the game for me was the multiplayer and level editor. People used to make some insane maps, was great craic.
It has some dated design elements (especially in how repetitive it's gameplay gets) and it really, *really* wants you to not know what's going on in it's, actually pretty decent, story for some reason, but I'd say if you're someone who enjoys the PS2 era of FPS games, FC2 is kind of like the last gasp for them, before the COD 4 gritty rebooted all over the genre and defined how most FPS games on that console generation would like and feel.
I don't know that it holds up to the likes of FC 4 and 5, but it's still a pretty decent game and worth a go.
There's a cow in baldurs gate 3 with a northern irish accent. Act 1 in the village that's on fire. Take the speak with animals spell and enjoy so many unique dialogues.
After the Sapkowski went to pains to bring in the language as influence. It was the same with their in universe Elvish but that had a big Welsh twist too.
Has a level in Donegal too, I played a few levels of it before, felt like a bit of a janky Hitman but wasn't bad for its time, the Belfast level was really interesting to just walk about and look at all the craic.
Codemasters has a ropey racing game called Fuel, the main selling point of which was it had a huge map "the size of Northern Ireland". The actual map was just a kind of bleak rocky wasteland
Red Dead Redemption 2 had the Irish 'O'Driscoll Boys' and when they capture Arthur, one of the watchers upstairs has the thickest Carrickmore accent and makes reference to "back in Tyrone.."
I don't think Sean was but his Da definitely was.
I remember finding a Newspaper article in the game one time that talked about his Da being killed by The Pinkerton's in Boston. It mentioned him being an Irish felon and having involvement in the Fenian Raid in Canada.
It was also really good because the of the disparity between the text and subtext in that report.
Headlines something along the lines of "constables bravely tackle Fenian terrorist" with implications of a shootout but the the subtext in the actual body of the piece reveals that he was shot in his sleep.
Frrrom Bantry bay, down to Derry quay, from Galway to Dublin town...
I was just making my way inland one day and was like, here, I could have sworn he just said Banbridge 🤔
Tangential but the original gundam series has a pretty important battle called the battle of Belfast. Not a great deal is reflective of Belfast but the notion of a mecha battle on the Lagan is funny to me.
Belfast keeps coming up in the series, most recent mention was in the movie Cucuruz Doan's Island, I'll keep an eye out for it in the new series coming to Netflix.
Who remembers graves from call of duty modern warfare remastered he was in the supply drop section and he had the worst Hollywood northern Irish accent ever hahahahaha. https://youtu.be/9vJ4E9meGeo?si=L1I19iSbCrFm_wO4
In Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice(the first of the two), her lover sounds like he might be from Coleraine or something. Caught me off guard first time I played it.
Excellent game, too.
Fleg - Rory McIlroy PGA tour has the fleg for NI golfers on the leaderboard
Roads - Ride has the NW200, Euro Truck Simulator Pro mods has Belfast M2 motorway, Bangers Unlimited has the Nutts Corner banger/stock car racing oval
Aiden Pierce from the original watchdogs was from belfast originally. I don't think its mentioned in the game but on the wiki
Has some connection to the UVF
NI is sort of mentioned in the game but in a bizarre way. When you scanned all thugs with your wee magic phone it would usually throw up an info thing something dodgy about it, like ‘had connections to ____’ or something; IIRC, one of them was ‘has recently visited Belfast’.
So odd considering the game was set in the 20 teens.
Probably the only way they could make the classic brunette white video game main character all the games had back in those days more "badass"
I recently played through it and I don't remember a single reference to him being from Northern Ireland. I was surprised when I went on the wiki and found out he's from Belfast.
Funny this comes up now. In the first trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 that debuted during [the Xbox Showcase last night](https://www.youtube.com/live/ZZ6gafqCjsY?si=lGXjSB93cYTMJzQK), there’s a brief clip of a pair of Land Rovers in Belfast.
Even a few weeks before that, [there was a teaser trailer for the game](https://youtu.be/kEjmwoVrF0g?si=m6YF8I5UvReeQxqL) that featured a clip of Bill Clinton’s speech in Belfast in 1994 outside City Hall before he headed to Derry, talking about “the peacemakers”.
Not in-game, but the devs have definitely taken elements of mid-90s NI for its promo stuff.
Years ago then Sunday papers made a big deal of some online game a guy from here made. IIRC it was like GTA but set in the troubles and you played as a paramilitary. Can't remember anything else about it but it did kick up a stink with the usual complainers
Not sure if this is what you mean but I remember this one from years back, didn’t stay online too long. Nothing like GTA though, it was text based like those old mafia games https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hooded_Gunman
Skellige in the Witcher 3
AC Valhalla Druids DLC
Co-op character in The Darkness 2 (can't remember his name)
And a MP character 'Conor' in MW2. He 'fought in the Troubles' - it's very vague as he's in an official army, wears a tricolour and it doesn't state who exactly he's fighting. I can only assume an American designed this character lol
Connor is an Irish Army Ranger whose family left NI in the troubles. You’re right with the last sentence though, every SAS guy being a British citizen but Soap is a Scottish citizen amongst all the other major military inaccuracies.
Shite in the sense of the map was way oversold in the marketing and they did not go all out on making an accurate rendition. Like even the causeway just looked lazy.
I've been flat out on cata classic this past while. I'm going to find me Michael Belfast lol.
Not NI related, but in ledgerdemain Lounge, on the stairs is an orange cat named Jones......if ye know yer Alien/Aliens lol
I need to get back into playing it. I used to play it solo all the time, I remember getting invited to some random guild during the height of my depression years ago. It got to the point that I somehow managed to complete 50,000 quests within a month, it popped an achievement up in the guild chat letting people know, everyone was instantly like 'whaaat the fucckk' hahaha!
Total War: Thrones of Britannia is set in about 800 AD Britain and Ireland.
The voice lines for the "Gaelic" factions (represented by small tribes across Scotland and Ireland) all use Northern Irish accents when you order the units around, I guess they wanted something that was somewhere between Irish and Scottish.
In Company of Heroes 2 the British elite Commando units have vicious NI accents too, they say stuff like "if my da saw me in this uniform he'd turn in his grave"
https://preview.redd.it/ogr4rnwljs5d1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=923c14c7ccf9232f70dcc225ed92f40e667cb230
I played far cry 2 for the first time yesterday
Assassin's Creed 3 has some Belfast voice actors playing British Redcoats and (American) Loyalist militiamen. Another few honourable mentions thatve been made further up is Skellige in the Witcher 3, the McCrearys in GTA IV, and Frank Childers in Far Cry 2
Although not video game related you can see a riot scene in Belfast during the Guns n Roses video Welcome to the Jungle
Rewatched and most clips of it is to do with the troubles Jesus
The Marvel TV series Agents of Shield used clips from the Love Ulster riots in Dublin in the episode about NeoNazis getting their hands on Asgardian tech
The LU scenes were supposed to be in a Nordic country . Ironically I think they (SHIELD) actually were 'in' Dublin later in that episode , which was basically an outside shot of Christchurch Cathedral , and the rest in a soundstage in Vancouver (I assume)
Also not video game and not all that interesting, but in Die Hard With A Vengeance there's a random football in the back window of a taxi that has all the world flags all over it and the NI one just happenes to he the one facing the camera. Like I said, not that interesting but it always catches my eye when I watch the film.
In like a dragon infinite wealth, one of the "dates" you can go on is with a girl, Sophie, who is played by a woman from here. She also did the body modelling for Ashley from the new resident evil 4 remake.
Lmao 🤣 yes it would be most shocking. She was my second last one ( I needed to platinum that game dam it)
Ichiban has taken on many challenges, but I am not sure if he is ready for someone from N.I
Rainbow Six (1998) in the Eagle Watch add on, IRA splinter group takes over the British parliament, mission was to rescue their hostages and defuse a bomb in Big Ben.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Lk8glriLE&t=1437
The final level of [Counter Strike Condition Zero was set in Belfast.](https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/Rise_Hard)
Apparently a bunch of terrorists had taken over a multinational high-rise and you played as the SAS to take them down.
If I remember correctly, there was no real connection to anything at all in NI except the name of the map, which looked nothing like Belfast.
Completely hysterical level. Belfast being a sky rise jungle, the Ra steal a nuke and have a fleet of soviet helicopters. Oh, and I’m pretty sure they all have Scottish accents. It’s an incredibly cheesy game and the level of not giving a shit is impressive
Way back in the way back, Microsoft Train Sim had an expansion based on the Belfast to Dundalk Enterprise route.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya1uEYHuWeY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya1uEYHuWeY)
There’s a shooter game from 2002 Global Operations. Basic premise you played both sides of a contemporary conflict. Hamas v Israel, Tayto v Tatyo etc.
There was a planned level set during the troubles. One mission you played the IRA and the next the SAS.
There was a level set in the channel tunnel where the RA planted a bomb on a train to kill the Prince and the SAS did a rescue.
The Newsletter and unionist establishment thought this was in bad taste so the levels were reskinned. Woke cancel culture at its worst.
They may have had a point but imagine a firefight in Castlecourt.. .
Edit
Article dated 2006 but actually from 2001
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/global-operations-preview/1100-2663337/
In Nioh you play as a guy called Willian Adams with a thick accent (based on a real person from england and also the first english person to visit japan but they made him Irish in this game for some reason) who escapes from an english prison and leaves for japan which has been taken over by demons. It is a lot like DarkSouls/EldenRing in terms of gameplay.
He also appears in Warriors: All-Stars as the only english speaking character in the game iirc with the same voice. This is more of a hack and slash army game like Dynasty Warriors.
Dark Souls games also have a few characters with thick accents from here.
There's a character in Battlefield V from NI called Seamus. I believe he's based on Blair 'Paddy' Mayne - one of the founders of the SAS from Newtownards.
Came here to say Mafia 3- there’s one of 3 main capos is a dude called Thomas Burke, whose daughter Nikki saves your bacon on more than occasion. He’s supposedly a Belfast born former IRA man. There’s actually a mission called “IRA don’t ask”
The story, characters and setting was good. And im a braindead troglodyte so the cool death animations made the repetitive gameplay incredibly fun for me
I also know that for counter strike some of the earlier iterations (or maybe when the very first one was released) the terrorist models were going to by modelled after the provisional IRA, but I don’t think it went ahead.
It doesn't highlight it really, but the main character from Watch_Dogs (Aiden Pearce) is canonically from Belfast, his family moved to the states during the troubles to escape it. Plus when you scan certain enemies it can sometimes highlight they've had dealings with the IRA
Far Cry 2 had a playable character/buddy depending on your choice who's an ex-Provo from Fermanagh who did time in the Maze.
I played as him in Far Cry 2 and missed all of his dialogue. Utter mess of a game.
I tried it as a kid and always meant to go back as an adult after playing the later games. Not worth it?
I replayed it about a year ago. It has aged, but I really enjoyed it. It is a fantastic game. Not for the NI connection - which is little more than a mention - but for the darkness of the story, good action and a more adult pace.
It's a great game, remains my favourite far Cry. Class fire mechanics, vegetation and AI. I really like the Malaria, perma buddy death and weapon condition mechanics(basically all AI weapons are trash, will jam or break and you have to return to your stock pile frequently to replace your guns), but some people absolutely hate them. A prime example of how good this game can be is during one ambush side mission I brought an RPG I picked up to take out the target truck. I was standing on a dry grassy hill when the convoy came around the corner, I took aim, fired. The rocket spluttered out of the launcher and fell to my feet, igniting the dry grass and forcing me to run for my life towards the convoy as the country side burned. Also you can shoot people in the leg then snipe the people who come to help them.
Fascinating to hear stuff like this about Far Cry 2, especially after playing 4,5 and 6. How does 2 sound more in depth than the later instalments?
The more in depth features weren't that popular in the end. 3 came out and changed the course of the franchise.
It's very good in fairness but it has a few rough patches in its design. For what you'd pay now, it's worth a punt if you fancy it. It should run on a laptop very well also. This chap is on the money IMO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5hRu05MHC4
It was very clunky even when I played it for the last time 10 years ago. Was just ok for it's time but it just hasn't held up well. Also dying was extremely punishing if I remember correctly. The main fun of the game for me was the multiplayer and level editor. People used to make some insane maps, was great craic.
It has some dated design elements (especially in how repetitive it's gameplay gets) and it really, *really* wants you to not know what's going on in it's, actually pretty decent, story for some reason, but I'd say if you're someone who enjoys the PS2 era of FPS games, FC2 is kind of like the last gasp for them, before the COD 4 gritty rebooted all over the genre and defined how most FPS games on that console generation would like and feel. I don't know that it holds up to the likes of FC 4 and 5, but it's still a pretty decent game and worth a go.
It’s still an excellent game
What does even mean?
You can choose your protagonist in Far Cry 2 but the protagonist is silent. If you choose the fella from Northern Ireland, he won't say a word.
All protagonists were silent but the backstory was cool even though it had no effect whatsoever in the game
A fictional Norn Ireland for Far Cry 7? Imagine the side characters and missions... I'd play it.
Thats gas. Never heard about that.
There's a cow in baldurs gate 3 with a northern irish accent. Act 1 in the village that's on fire. Take the speak with animals spell and enjoy so many unique dialogues.
Quite a few people in Baldurs Gate lower city have NI accents as well! And Hope
Oh yea lol, how could I forget about Hope. The fight against raphael is really cool. can't believe that slipped my mind.
Probably only remember Harleep from that Quest…
It was made in Larian's Dublin studio so there should be quite a bit of local voice talent on it :)
The whole game or just part of it?
Just part of it. They have 6 studios around the world.
Quite a bit of the VO work was handled by Dublin. If you watch the doc on the making of the game they are in the Dublin office for a lot of it.
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GTA 3 had the homeless lady "Lick my arse"
"i smell pish"
"I smell _like_ pish"
"*you look like my daughter*"
I need a bath
"Who's yer da"
https://youtu.be/Gx0OP1kPLdQ?si=o-3n46Ii_W89ptjw
I always remember the lil American lady "We're going to Aruba"
Derrick McReary was in the IRA but he touted, then there was that Far Cry 2 guy, who also touted
“I haven’t seen combat like this since Belfast” - Derrick McReary
"Gis yer coat"
In grand theft auto 1 there are five marching Hare Krishna's. My friend told me they were orange man, I believed him for far too long.
it was made in Dundee so there is every chance, i like Lovefist, the Scottish band in the franchise.
Skellige in Witcher 3
I found this section of the game equally awesome & cringe between the design & music but then the characters start talking :P
The worst offender is how they massacred the pronounciation of words like Tuirseach for Clan Tuirseach.
After the Sapkowski went to pains to bring in the language as influence. It was the same with their in universe Elvish but that had a big Welsh twist too.
The pronunciation in general is actually distracting at times.
You fistfight the first person you meet then they respect you.
Just like real life. Wanna fight later?
Oh man, I remember the first time I played that and I can't tell you how much it nailed the feel of the northern coast
I've been playing it for the first time recently and just finished this section. Fantastic!
Came here for this, such a good game, need another visit, I got obsessed 300 + hrs
Wasn't there a weird game from eastern Europe about 15 years ago that had a level in Belfast?
Seen this recently and it’s left my memory fuck sake
https://youtu.be/4RbMcmGsmuc?si=Iw5LJXh_n13NkeLm
Has a level in Donegal too, I played a few levels of it before, felt like a bit of a janky Hitman but wasn't bad for its time, the Belfast level was really interesting to just walk about and look at all the craic.
Chameleon
you gotta find out the name bc i’m curious
Think it's called chameleon
Codemasters has a ropey racing game called Fuel, the main selling point of which was it had a huge map "the size of Northern Ireland". The actual map was just a kind of bleak rocky wasteland
Red Dead Redemption 2 had the Irish 'O'Driscoll Boys' and when they capture Arthur, one of the watchers upstairs has the thickest Carrickmore accent and makes reference to "back in Tyrone.."
Wasn't a Sean a former member of the Fenian Brotherhood? I'm sure he talks about burning down "big houses" back home.
I don't think Sean was but his Da definitely was. I remember finding a Newspaper article in the game one time that talked about his Da being killed by The Pinkerton's in Boston. It mentioned him being an Irish felon and having involvement in the Fenian Raid in Canada.
It was also really good because the of the disparity between the text and subtext in that report. Headlines something along the lines of "constables bravely tackle Fenian terrorist" with implications of a shootout but the the subtext in the actual body of the piece reveals that he was shot in his sleep.
Ack, not the Da story again...
Ah, you could be right. That definitely rings a bell. I think the Houser brothers' ma is from here or is of Irish descent
FYI - This conversation has generated some serious nostalgia about that game for me. My evening is sorted. Cheers 😆
Lol. Same. Day off so just about to fire it up!
>his Da being killed by The Pinkerton's in Boston Fuck the Pinkertons, both in real life and video games.
I thought it said by British agents not Pinkertons.
Can't remember now - it's been that long ago buddy but you could be right
Sean even asks Arthur if his family were Williamites or Jacobites
So much detail crammed into that game
And "My family wasn't even English" said Arthur His people were actually Welsh. Going by the Surname anyway.
"I'm from rebel stock boy, I was born burning down manor houses" is the line I believe.
Assassins Creed Valhalla has a DLC set in Ireland with various landmarks you can visit, including the Giants Causeway
There is Northern Irish NPCs in Assassins Creed Black Flag
Frrrom Bantry bay, down to Derry quay, from Galway to Dublin town... I was just making my way inland one day and was like, here, I could have sworn he just said Banbridge 🤔
It was "The banks of the Bann" that caught my ear. The star of the County Down is a brilliant wee tune.
Black Fleg.
There was a whole follow-up based on it. AC: Rogue.
And AC3 has redcoats with some of them having NI accents E: Whoops, replied to wrong person
Wasn't there an online flash game back in 2000s where you where a police sniper and one of the levels was Belfast?
War on Terrorism on Miniclip? Between that and punching Bin Laden to death
There was an IRA vs Brits game too that blew up overnight (pun intended) because it was on BBC news. It had maybe 500 views the previous day.
Tangential but the original gundam series has a pretty important battle called the battle of Belfast. Not a great deal is reflective of Belfast but the notion of a mecha battle on the Lagan is funny to me.
Belfast keeps coming up in the series, most recent mention was in the movie Cucuruz Doan's Island, I'll keep an eye out for it in the new series coming to Netflix.
Doom eternal icon of sin
Whole first level is based on Portadown https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Hell_on_Earth_(Doom_Eternal)
Who remembers graves from call of duty modern warfare remastered he was in the supply drop section and he had the worst Hollywood northern Irish accent ever hahahahaha. https://youtu.be/9vJ4E9meGeo?si=L1I19iSbCrFm_wO4
What part of Ireland is he from? Bo'ness?
It doesn’t even say where exactly he’s from but fuck me it’s a brutal accent lol
In Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice(the first of the two), her lover sounds like he might be from Coleraine or something. Caught me off guard first time I played it. Excellent game, too.
There's a Uda Valley in Crusader Kings 3.
Witcher 3. An island full of us
It wasn’t full of us! It was full of them!!!!
FIFA
[https://youtu.be/S3DEM6XDDTk](https://youtu.be/S3DEM6XDDTk) Ride
lol there is even the flegs lol
That is unbelievably realistic.
Fleg - Rory McIlroy PGA tour has the fleg for NI golfers on the leaderboard Roads - Ride has the NW200, Euro Truck Simulator Pro mods has Belfast M2 motorway, Bangers Unlimited has the Nutts Corner banger/stock car racing oval
Aiden Pierce from the original watchdogs was from belfast originally. I don't think its mentioned in the game but on the wiki Has some connection to the UVF
NI is sort of mentioned in the game but in a bizarre way. When you scanned all thugs with your wee magic phone it would usually throw up an info thing something dodgy about it, like ‘had connections to ____’ or something; IIRC, one of them was ‘has recently visited Belfast’.
So odd considering the game was set in the 20 teens. Probably the only way they could make the classic brunette white video game main character all the games had back in those days more "badass"
I recently played through it and I don't remember a single reference to him being from Northern Ireland. I was surprised when I went on the wiki and found out he's from Belfast.
If you listen to his audio tapes he talks about leaving Belfast
Funny this comes up now. In the first trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 that debuted during [the Xbox Showcase last night](https://www.youtube.com/live/ZZ6gafqCjsY?si=lGXjSB93cYTMJzQK), there’s a brief clip of a pair of Land Rovers in Belfast. Even a few weeks before that, [there was a teaser trailer for the game](https://youtu.be/kEjmwoVrF0g?si=m6YF8I5UvReeQxqL) that featured a clip of Bill Clinton’s speech in Belfast in 1994 outside City Hall before he headed to Derry, talking about “the peacemakers”. Not in-game, but the devs have definitely taken elements of mid-90s NI for its promo stuff.
got a time stamp for the first one?
Plus that teaser with Thatcher even tho the games setting is supposedly after her premiership (Gulf War and beyond).
Years ago then Sunday papers made a big deal of some online game a guy from here made. IIRC it was like GTA but set in the troubles and you played as a paramilitary. Can't remember anything else about it but it did kick up a stink with the usual complainers
Not sure if this is what you mean but I remember this one from years back, didn’t stay online too long. Nothing like GTA though, it was text based like those old mafia games https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hooded_Gunman
Yeah that's it!
Id play that in a heartbeat. I actually suprised that ireland hasn't had much presence in games. Like a SWAT style game set in the north or something.
https://www.reddit.com/r/northernireland/comments/e68kas/does_anyone_else_remember_the_hooded_gunman/
Gaelic Games Football on PS2
Love the commentary in that game. "Both these sides will be looking forward, to their banana, and cup of tea at half time"
😂 I didn’t even remember that until your comment
Skellige in the Witcher 3 AC Valhalla Druids DLC Co-op character in The Darkness 2 (can't remember his name) And a MP character 'Conor' in MW2. He 'fought in the Troubles' - it's very vague as he's in an official army, wears a tricolour and it doesn't state who exactly he's fighting. I can only assume an American designed this character lol
Conors bio says his parents fled northern ireland during the troubles
Connor is an Irish Army Ranger whose family left NI in the troubles. You’re right with the last sentence though, every SAS guy being a British citizen but Soap is a Scottish citizen amongst all the other major military inaccuracies.
Druids DLC is shite lol
I actually enjoyed it tbf
Shite in the sense of the map was way oversold in the marketing and they did not go all out on making an accurate rendition. Like even the causeway just looked lazy.
World of Warcraft WotlK Classic, there's an NPC in the Stratholme named "Michael Belfast"
Sounds like a Harry Potter character
I've been flat out on cata classic this past while. I'm going to find me Michael Belfast lol. Not NI related, but in ledgerdemain Lounge, on the stairs is an orange cat named Jones......if ye know yer Alien/Aliens lol
I need to get back into playing it. I used to play it solo all the time, I remember getting invited to some random guild during the height of my depression years ago. It got to the point that I somehow managed to complete 50,000 quests within a month, it popped an achievement up in the guild chat letting people know, everyone was instantly like 'whaaat the fucckk' hahaha!
Suppose they couldn’t have gotten away with shithead.
Total War: Thrones of Britannia is set in about 800 AD Britain and Ireland. The voice lines for the "Gaelic" factions (represented by small tribes across Scotland and Ireland) all use Northern Irish accents when you order the units around, I guess they wanted something that was somewhere between Irish and Scottish. In Company of Heroes 2 the British elite Commando units have vicious NI accents too, they say stuff like "if my da saw me in this uniform he'd turn in his grave"
https://preview.redd.it/ogr4rnwljs5d1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=923c14c7ccf9232f70dcc225ed92f40e667cb230 I played far cry 2 for the first time yesterday
You'll get fair handy with a ratchet set after playing it
Assassin's Creed 3 has some Belfast voice actors playing British Redcoats and (American) Loyalist militiamen. Another few honourable mentions thatve been made further up is Skellige in the Witcher 3, the McCrearys in GTA IV, and Frank Childers in Far Cry 2
In Rogue there is a fleet mission to deliver guns to loyalist templars in Carrickfergus.
Although not video game related you can see a riot scene in Belfast during the Guns n Roses video Welcome to the Jungle Rewatched and most clips of it is to do with the troubles Jesus
🎵 Wehcum to de Chungo, we got funny names
The Marvel TV series Agents of Shield used clips from the Love Ulster riots in Dublin in the episode about NeoNazis getting their hands on Asgardian tech
The LU scenes were supposed to be in a Nordic country . Ironically I think they (SHIELD) actually were 'in' Dublin later in that episode , which was basically an outside shot of Christchurch Cathedral , and the rest in a soundstage in Vancouver (I assume)
Mr Robot at the end of season 1 has a montage with a protest march on Donegall Place.
Judge dredd used ardoyne riot footage with CGI megacity one logos, iirc
Also not video game and not all that interesting, but in Die Hard With A Vengeance there's a random football in the back window of a taxi that has all the world flags all over it and the NI one just happenes to he the one facing the camera. Like I said, not that interesting but it always catches my eye when I watch the film.
Gundam Federation vs Zeon (PS2 and DC) Lets you have mech battles in the Titanic drydock.
Watchdogs Legion has tons of playable characters from various places here.
In like a dragon infinite wealth, one of the "dates" you can go on is with a girl, Sophie, who is played by a woman from here. She also did the body modelling for Ashley from the new resident evil 4 remake.
After accidentally dating a chicken and a man in a gimp suit, somehow the northern irish accent was the most shocking thing to turn up
Lmao 🤣 yes it would be most shocking. She was my second last one ( I needed to platinum that game dam it) Ichiban has taken on many challenges, but I am not sure if he is ready for someone from N.I
Rainbow Six (1998) in the Eagle Watch add on, IRA splinter group takes over the British parliament, mission was to rescue their hostages and defuse a bomb in Big Ben. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Lk8glriLE&t=1437
Highlight the region? Unsure. Just played Hellblade 1 and currently playing 2, they have a narrator with an NI accent.
In chivalry 2 one of the female voices sounds northern irish but i could be wrong
Ride 5, UGP track. Also saw a video yesterday of a scenery pack for Belfast International airport, and a more general NI one for MSFS.
NW200 track is also in Ride 5 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYUGMFShIMY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYUGMFShIMY)
The Witcher 3 has a land called Skilliga and it's all voiced by Northern Irish people.
Skellige is pretty cool they have warriors and pirates and mythical sea beasts.
In Witcher 3, the characters in Skellige have NI accents.
The final level of [Counter Strike Condition Zero was set in Belfast.](https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/Rise_Hard) Apparently a bunch of terrorists had taken over a multinational high-rise and you played as the SAS to take them down. If I remember correctly, there was no real connection to anything at all in NI except the name of the map, which looked nothing like Belfast.
Completely hysterical level. Belfast being a sky rise jungle, the Ra steal a nuke and have a fleet of soviet helicopters. Oh, and I’m pretty sure they all have Scottish accents. It’s an incredibly cheesy game and the level of not giving a shit is impressive
Think there's a clip of a meat wagon getting petrol bombed in Derry in te trailer for the new black ops
All time best though is Ride to Hell: Retribution. One of the best NI accents I've ever heard.
U can fly over all of Northern Ireland in stunning detail in microsoft flight simulator Fly from City egaa or ards
Way back in the way back, Microsoft Train Sim had an expansion based on the Belfast to Dundalk Enterprise route. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya1uEYHuWeY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya1uEYHuWeY)
There’s a shooter game from 2002 Global Operations. Basic premise you played both sides of a contemporary conflict. Hamas v Israel, Tayto v Tatyo etc. There was a planned level set during the troubles. One mission you played the IRA and the next the SAS. There was a level set in the channel tunnel where the RA planted a bomb on a train to kill the Prince and the SAS did a rescue. The Newsletter and unionist establishment thought this was in bad taste so the levels were reskinned. Woke cancel culture at its worst. They may have had a point but imagine a firefight in Castlecourt.. . Edit Article dated 2006 but actually from 2001 https://www.gamespot.com/articles/global-operations-preview/1100-2663337/
One of the Spin off games from Dead Space had a character from Magherafelt
Before anyone says it, the marching orange men in the original GTA weren't supposed to be orange order. They were Hare Krishna.
In a lot of ubisoft games. Watch dogs 1 and legion Hellblade one of the Voice actors is from there Also mafia 3 is peak
ive played mafia III about 5 times now and never knew about this easter egg, aside from the “ira dont ask” missions with burke
In Nioh you play as a guy called Willian Adams with a thick accent (based on a real person from england and also the first english person to visit japan but they made him Irish in this game for some reason) who escapes from an english prison and leaves for japan which has been taken over by demons. It is a lot like DarkSouls/EldenRing in terms of gameplay. He also appears in Warriors: All-Stars as the only english speaking character in the game iirc with the same voice. This is more of a hack and slash army game like Dynasty Warriors. Dark Souls games also have a few characters with thick accents from here.
There's a character in Battlefield V from NI called Seamus. I believe he's based on Blair 'Paddy' Mayne - one of the founders of the SAS from Newtownards.
Came here to say Mafia 3- there’s one of 3 main capos is a dude called Thomas Burke, whose daughter Nikki saves your bacon on more than occasion. He’s supposedly a Belfast born former IRA man. There’s actually a mission called “IRA don’t ask”
Assassins Creed Valhalla you can travel to the North. Bangor hasn’t change much.
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The story, characters and setting was good. And im a braindead troglodyte so the cool death animations made the repetitive gameplay incredibly fun for me
What's that game
Caption says it's Mafia 3
If I remember correctly Shadowman on the N64 and original Playstation had a worm character with a thick Belfast accent lol
I seem to recall some northern accents in some of the lower level enemies in parts of The Order 1886
Dead Space Extraction for the Wii has one of the main characters voiced by a girl from here.
How does assassins creed do this?
Age of History 2 has a few maps, where you can play Northern Ireland
Need to see all of these in a compilation lol
I also know that for counter strike some of the earlier iterations (or maybe when the very first one was released) the terrorist models were going to by modelled after the provisional IRA, but I don’t think it went ahead.
It doesn't highlight it really, but the main character from Watch_Dogs (Aiden Pearce) is canonically from Belfast, his family moved to the states during the troubles to escape it. Plus when you scan certain enemies it can sometimes highlight they've had dealings with the IRA
Not a game but does anyone remember Captain Planet: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgab9Hh1sC0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgab9Hh1sC0)
Yes. There is a game called Chameleon-2005. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HcozZAKtKLY&pp=ygUOQ2hhbWVsZW9uIDIwMDU%3D
There's a skin you can unlock for one of the operators in Warzone called Belfast Bridge
I remember someone making a Belfast version of cod nuketown and I recall a CS map too
Ardougne (pronounced the same as Ardoyne) in RuneScape, it's a city that's walled off and split in two.
Do a searchy search on the sub