Need for Speed Underground 2 pc game question

FrankieCrabs · May 4, 2006

Hey, all.

I recently purchased a copy of this game, and it turns out to be labeled for sale in the Asia-Pacific region, and NOT for sale in North America, and other regions. Does this really make a difference, or what? I don't want to open the software and find out it won't work with my pc, and then be unable to return it for a refund. I bought it as a gift for my wife, and was somewhat disappointed when I saw it labeled as the Asia-Pacific Edition. I think it will work, after all, a pc is a pc, but then again...

Thanks for any input,
Frank

Simon Yu · May 5, 2006

It will work, no worries there. The only thing is that if the font settings don't use western alphabets, you may need to tweak Windows to display Asian characters.

FrankieCrabs · May 5, 2006

Simon Yu said:
It will work, no worries there. The only thing is that if the font settings don't use western alphabets, you may need to tweak Windows to display Asian characters.

Thanks, Simon.

I've emailed electronic arts [the games manufacturer] directly, hopefully they'll give a definitive answer. Otherwise, I think back it goes.

I'm not sure how interested my family is in learning to read some Asian language just to play a game.

Thanks,
Frank

Simon Yu · May 6, 2006

FrankieCrabs said:
I've emailed electronic arts [the games manufacturer] directly, hopefully they'll give a definitive answer. Otherwise, I think back it goes. I'm not sure how interested my family is in learning to read some Asian language just to play a game.

I somehow doubt there's much reading to do outside of numbers in that game

I remember during a trip to Taiwan where a relative of one of my friends was playing a NFS game he got . . . in German. I think we were too confused to remember to ask, but it does suggest that you might not have to learn to decipher Asian menus, just some other language you don't know.

huugh · May 6, 2006

Well, check this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvd_region

Some DVD drives can be locked to read only specific regions (but you can remove it by driver tweak)

Simon Yu · May 6, 2006

huugh said:
Well, check this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvd_region

Some DVD drives can be locked to read only specific regions (but you can remove it by driver tweak)

That only applies to watching DVDs. Even when a game company realizes they can make things easier by putting the files on one DVD instead of 37 CDs, they never use region encoding and I don't think they even CAN use the region encoding used on movie DVDs due to the fact that DVD drives use software as players (which can be region locked) for playback and games on DVDs don't.

The most I've ever seen a PC game company do is display an error and not start if Windows isn't set to display a language it's trying to use.