Zut Alors! Canadian Gears 2 LE ships with art book in French only

by Ross Miller on Nov 7th 2008 11:30AM

Ayoye! Les joueurs Canadiens qui parle pas le français sont en criss. D'après les bonhomme des forums d'Epic, ceux qui ont acheté l'édition limitée de "Gears of War 2" ont découvert les manuelle d'instruction ont été écrits completement en français. Capoté, osti! C'est vraiment pas cool, pis ya pas un mot d'Epic.

Update: New, more "Quebecan" translation thanks to Lysdexia. Original post, translation and another translation after the break.

[Thanks, Jeremy]

Translation: O, mon dieu! Canadian gamers who don't speak French are quite perturbed. According to people on the Epic Games forums, those who purchased the Gears of War 2 Limited Edition discovered that the hardcover art books were written entirely in french. Incroyable! It's an unfortunate situation. No word yet from Epic.

Original Text: O, mon dieu! Les jouers Canadiens qui ne parle pas le français sont très en colère. Selon les personnes sur les forums du Epic Games, ceux qui ont acheté l'édition limitée de "Gears of War 2," ils ont découvert les livres d'art ont été écrits entièrement en français. Incroyable! C'est un situation le plus regrettable. Il n'y a pas de mot du Epic.

Cybik's Interpretation: O, mon dieu! Les joueurs Canadiens qui ne parlent pas français sont très en colère. Selon certaines personnes sur les forums de Epic Games, ceux qui ont acheté l'édition limitée de "Gears of War 2" ont obtenu des livres d'art écrits en français seulement. Incroyable! C'est un situation très regrettable. Il n'y a présentement aucun commentaire de Epic à ce sujet.

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Tags: canada, epic, epic-games, french, gears-of-war-2, gow2, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (75)

Was the game voice work only done in French too? :P

That could actually be pretty entertaining, especially if it was done with the really absurd, over the top French accent.

Didn't you hear? Marcus' and Dom's voices in the Canadian version are done by the Masked Avengers.

Marcus: Aww OUI!

And for some weird reason, there is no hinge between their heads and their jaws.

Votre maman est une dame de classe!

Sacre Bleu!

yea i am pissed off about this... why the hard cover has to be in french, however my copy had the english non hardcover version of the book

Marcus Fenix, now with "Outrageous French accent!"

They wrap the english one to the back of the box which isn't a ahrd cover but the french one inside the box is in French and it's a hardcover

Your grasp of french canadian culture is astounding!

/sarcasm

:o) all in good fun

Not a bad translation, but a little bit robotic

Wow so many french mistakes...

for someone that probably dont speak french that much I think it's pretty good..

I know, but you can't fault a whole country.

Doug: Congrats on making me spit my water all over my keyboard. +1

Nicely done Dougman.

After how MS borked up Fable 2's LE (no metal box, no download code, I've yet to receive the code after 2 weeks) and now this, I'm never buying a 360 collector's edition again. I hope this gets resolved shortly

For a few days now I have been thinking that I must be the only person who has not received their code yet.

Don't have mine either, but then again I'm one of the folks who bought the standard and signed up for the code anyway via a gaming blog.

I would gladly accept some free downloadable goodies to correct this oversight.

It wont cost epic anything to distribute (like it would to mail us all an english version).

But hopefully it would be something really GOOD and exclusive to Limited Edition Versions. ie Exclusive Character, or how about gold plating ALL our weapons ;)

I'd also take a credit for the next map pack free.

That's some great french writing bud! lol!!!

Anyhow... I have the french version of GoW 1 and damn does it take away that hard and rough feel of war soldiers in the line of duty... it really doesn't sound good.

(I'm French Canadian)

French soldiers...hard and rough feel...sigh I will pass.

Machine translations FTW!

http://translate.google.com if you want to give it a shot.

the entire french language is a mistake.

fuck quebec.

you're cool, I wish I was cool like you

Pssst. Your ignorance is showing...

No, Quebec is awesome...it's just the arrogant population of staunch frenchmen that live in the province... Montreal is my favorite city in the world, but they aren't as stuck up about language there

To Argggg:

You piece of ignorant sh$t! I hope your computer caches on fire and your entire house burns down.

You are the reason why Quebec's separatist movement was so strong a decade ago. If you were to visit our province you would see that it is far from what the 'west' make it seem like. We are much more open and tolerant to the English language and you my friend are an assh@ole!

Poor pathetic soul.

OMG How could you be so redneck, I bet 100 bucks that he voted republican and another 50 bucks that's because there no neo-nazi party in his state.

SACREBLU!!

Sacrebleu!!! You beat me to it.

Marlie's right, they wrap the English one is included but it's not a hardcover. I really don't think it's a big enough deal for the internet to get up in arms about. If anything I blame the french Canadians and their poutines.

Hey, looks like I still remember some high school French.

You're mixing your Parisian with your Quebecan

here lemme help you:

Ayoye! Les joueurs Canadiens qui parle pas le français sont en criss. D'après les bonhomme des forums d'Epic, ceux qui ont acheté l'édition limitée de "Gears of War 2" ont découvert les manuelle d'instruction ont été écrits completement en français. Capoté, osti! C'est vraiment pas cool, pis ya pas un mot d'Epic.

That's more authentic

you can thank me later

Replace Manuelle d'instruction with: Pochette de jeux

No edit makes me cry le tears

TABARNAK!

You are so right! That is hilarious!

Looks like Le Gears of War 2 is going to bust a myth.

Oui! we did get the artbook in french (the hardcover) but we also got the artbook (paperback) in English. I thought it was because i lived way up North... i'm happy to hear it wasnt just me who got f&%$ed by the french.

Microsoft's just been a real jackass with their stuff lately, that's all.

this makes me miss jeuxfrance...

That p-shop looks like a dead Jamie from Mythbusters...
Creepy

Haha! Those were my thoughts exactly.

"So that's what Jamie Hyneman from Mythbusters is going to look like in 50 years."

Its all really French propaganda in the art book don't let is take over your mind before you know it you'll be eating horse and be irresistible to women

Holy crap, I read that before the jump and could understand it! Guess all those years of French in high school came back. I figured I had destroyed those braincells with all the alcohol abuse over the years!

This is clearly a tribute to the great French website JOYSTIQ!

It's a French magazine, and it's the one named "Joystick".

Yeah, the Americans get the one with the funny spelling. Odd, that.

Heck, even on the regular edition the back is in French first and then English. There are more Chinese than French people here in Canada anyway to enforce our dual languages. Damn Bloc Quebecquoi.

There are more Chinese people than French in Canada? Because last time I checked there were about 1 million Chinese.

I like comment like that it make me proud of what I am and where I live. So if you, like I see, don't like the Quebec just help bloc quebecois seperate the quebec from canada.

(Vive le Quebec libre) (Canada is a redneck country)

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