Wall-E becomes first Arabic-language game for current-gen consoles

Finally I'll get some use out of my current gen systems.

I am surprised though that it is the first.

Huh, well that was unexpected. I guess crappy movie-games can be "Enjoyed" no matter what language you speak.

Are the consoles themselves even released there? I haven't heard about that happening.

I think Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End for DS, is one of the very few current gen games available in Russian though.

Whoa, awesome! I really hope this is a sign of things to come, 'cause we're shafted by the gaming industry 24/7 despite the fact there's 300+ million of us.

All right, so it's a movie-game and apparently not that good, but still...

What a waste of time Disney!!!... 2 bad 99% of Arabs that got PS3 speak English and prefer the English language when they play video games.

For anyone wondering, the yellow thing says it's the first game for PS3, PSP, and Xbox 360 in the Arabic language, or something to that effect.

I know Kratos is Greek, buy could you imagine how much more bad ass Kratos would be if he spoke old style Arabic? (fus-ha)

Too bad most gamers around here actually prefer speaking English over Arabic.

So that's why the game is being advertised so much here. I just thought the thing in the yellow meant watched the movie now buy the game.

Now kids can get a substandard game based on a good film as an Eid present as well as a Christmas or hannukkah.

Maybe Diwali? Did they translate it into Urdu?

i want a copy to help my nephew with his arabic. this is pretty cool.

Some games fit, others dont. For example, games like spore where you play "god" and create creatures might face trouble, god of war, where you are a god and beat up gods, gta where all you learn is beat up people, visit strip clubs, then beat her up to get the money back are not really welcome.
Other games like halo, gears of war, mario galaxy, call of duty, Gran turismo, MGS, are no problem and quite popular. Despite all of this, all games are selling in local markets as long as they dont get popular and brings attention of the media. There was one time a spread of warning about god of war that no one should play it, because you get to fight god, like the god. It was the part where he fights zeus, mythological god. And you thought people understood english!

For who ever said that 99% speak english obviously u r exaggerating, but a lot are extremely weak in english they don't play with english speakers online because they cant communicate. They prefer the english version of any game because the the localization and translation is sooo bad that it actually ruins the game. there is online game with good translation i think its villagers or something like that, and hence the arabic version is quite popular on that.

If you ask me, and I know you wont believe this, but the game that should definitely should be localized is winning 11(pro evolution soccer). People bought ps3 with no HD tv just to play the next version of it, people break ps2's playing it, there are A LOT of ps2 that are dedicated to playing only this game, football clubs hold tournaments with prizes for winner in this game, not only that but home-brew localization gets done and updated like every 6 month with local teams and arabic commentary , which amazes me, they are selling faster than hot cakes. I heard about one saudi guywho thought a playstation 2 only plays winning 11, he thought you cant buy other games to play on this system, its THAT popular.

The problem with the area here is that people dont understand there is original games to buy and they dont understand why they have to buy them. They think games are not supposed to cost more than $3! but what do you expect them to do when the box of wii no bundle costs 468 cheapest price, maybe you get 1 shovelware game, ps3 40 gb version costs around $598 . Games are averaged priced at $83, and for $60 you are getting a hell of a bargain for an 8 month bad selling game. One guy bought GTA4 for $124! It was not that no copies were in supply, or he bought it at auction, that was the price!!
Not to mention, no rental, hardly price dorps(I was offered gta3+vice city for $93 current price!! thats 2003 game!), hardly used games market, not to mention no support or marketing.

it costs you shipping price of at least $100 to send your xbox 360 to america to get fixed if you get RROD. Most people rather buy a new one!

I thought Wall-E's head was half of a Milky Way in that pic...

If the world's largest superpower invaded you, killed 600,000 of your people and sat around on your streets for two years, I bet you'd be pretty pissed too.

No amount of oregano could freshen your nonsense, noamkat.

"If the world's largest superpower invaded you, killed 600,000 of your people and sat around on your streets for two years, I bet you'd be pretty pissed too."

Because they prefer killing 20 million of their own on their own? Good call.

Dirt talks shit; are we surprised?

Hang on a bit - doesn't WALL-E have almost no dialogue, thus making this a bit of a cheap claim?

I like how Joystiq had to provide Wikipedia links to "barbeque" and "fireworks", for the basement-dwelling gamers who don't go outside on the 4th of July.

It's ignorant people like DiRT and noamkot that make us Westerners look like idiots with no understanding of other cultures except our own.

But will the game play on US consoles? Because that's from whom 90-something percent of Iraqis get their systems.

I doubt that this game would attract that many audience. Soccer, racing and perhaps RTS are most popular genres in Arabian markets.

However, it could attract the kids, since Pixar movies are popular among them.

@ benny boy

Imho, I'd much rather blame the government and media(tabloids).They created the stereotype and thanks to them,loads of Americans assume that people from Middle-East are all terrorists and Koran tells you to kill a bunch of people in the name of Allah.

I loved the Pixar Short before wall-e, it looked completely portal inspired

which is funny since the bible tells you to kill people who disobey the ten commandments...