British Video Games

So, anything by Molyneux (or his teams, current and former)

Look at games from Lionhead Studios, Bullfrog, Mucky Foot.

Fable is the prime Slap Stick game that gets SOME Monty Python stuff in there. Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital, some parts of Populous, all of that really channels it.

Weirdly, early Lucas Arts games also manage to have a rather British humour sensibility. The Monkey Island games really get it.

Lucas Arts games are American though.

Also, I don’t just mean British humor but the culture in general.

edited 27th Nov '17 12:03:35 PM by DS9guy

There was the 1969 London expansion of the the first GTA game. Doesn't get much more British than that.

That one has me torn as it was entirely parody of British culture, but then again depreciating humor of that style is... very much... British culture. So in essence it was very British by not actually resembling the UK accurately.

Yeah, Giants: Citizen Kabuto gets the culture to a certain degree (by Shiny).

Not many games set here or referencing our culture as much that spring to mind. Assassins Creed Syndicate did, partially - it showed an era of the UK which you see a lot of in TV but we don't explore much in games.

And the upcoming Vampyr looks like it could explore that too.

Fable is the quintessential game for "getting" british caricatures and humour I'd say- the village lifestyle, Darling Buds Of May attitude, Northern humour, accents etc.

The London based Driver game wasn't too bad.

Hellgate London whilst set here gets it ALL wrong. Especially if you read the tie in book which just assumed UK police were tooled up like the US lot and you can travel from Parliament to Windsor in ten minutes...