Victor Walch Michnowicz

Updated 2011-3-24 with Castle Crashers, Dead Nation, Heavy Rain, and Killzone 3. Updated 2011-3-27 with Crysis 2. Updated 2011-5-30 with LA Noire and Portal 2. Updated 2011-9-23 with Batman: Arkham Asylum, Bulletstorm, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and Resistance 3. Updated 2012-2-12 with God of War Collection, God of War Origins Collection, Mass Effect 2, Metal Gear Solid Collection, Rage, Rayman Origins, and Uncharted 3.

My History With Foreign Language

Foreign language has never been my forte. I took two years of Spanish in high school and did not do that well. I decided to try again with German in college — that turned out really bad. Third time is a charm, however, so I'm gonna give German another try.

How Does One Learn German?

I am guessing that my poor grades in college German we because I was playing video games in English, not German. This time things will be different. I went through my PS3 game collection to see which ones supported German. All my games are region 1 and my PS3 is a US system. Make sure to set your PS3 language to "German" as well.

The Games That Work

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Batman: Arkham Asylum supports German everything — menus, subtitles, and voice work.

Bulletstorm

Bulletstorm supports German everything — menus, subtitles, and voice work.

Dead Nation

The PSN game Dead Nation supports German menus and subtitles, but no German voice work.

Grand Theft Auto IV

GTA 4 supports German menus, subtitles, but no German voice work.

Heavenly Sword

Heavenly Sword supports a ton of languages, and German is one of them. It supports German menus, subtitles, and voice work.

Killzone 2

The German support in Killzone 2 is great. This makes sense as the developer, Guerrilla, is a European company.

Killzone 3

Just like Killzone 2, the German support in Killzone 3 is great. It supports German menus, subtitles, and voice work.

LA Noire

LA Noire supports German menus and subtitles.

Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect 2 supports German menus, subtitles, and voice work.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Metal Gear Solid 4 supports German menus and subtitles, but not voice acting.

Portal 2

The German support in Portal 2 is great. It supports German menus, subtitles, and voice work.

Red Dead Redemption

Red Dead Redemption, much like the other Rockstar production (GTA IV), supports German menus and subtitles, but no German voice work.

Resident Evil 5

Resident Evil 5 supports German menus and subtitles, but not voice acting.

Resistance: Fall of Man

Resistance supports German everything — menus, subtitles, and voice acting. Very impressive for a PS3 launch title.

Resistance 2

Resistance 2, like its predecessor, supports German everything — menus, subtitles, and voice work.

Uncharted: Drakes Fortune

Uncharted supports German everything — menus, subtitles, and voice acting. Too bad #2 wasn't the same…

The Games That Have no German Support

The lack of German support for most of these games seems reasonable. However, I was really expecting it in God of War 3 and Uncharted 2. Both of these games are published by Sony and do quite well overseas. How hard can it be to shove some German subtitles on a 50GB Blu-ray?

• Assassins Creed 2 (only supports English, French, Spanish and Italian)
• Bioshoc
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
• Castle Crashers
• Crysis 2 (This one is quite lame as Crytek is a German studio. Crysis 2 only supports English, French, and Spanish)
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
• God of War 3
• God of War Collection
• God of War Origins Collection
• Heavy Rain (only supports English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish)
• Metal of Honor
• Metal Gear Solid Collection (only supports English, French, and French)
• Rage
• Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time
• Rayman Origins
• Resistance 3 (So lame! The previous two supported German)
• Uncharted 2 (only supports English, French, and Spanish)
• Uncharted 3 (only supports English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese)