supplementscene: Yes he's essentially Gene Hunt isn't he? And I can understand it being difficult for a none native English speaker picking up the accent, nevermind the dialect/slang. Which is probably compounded by the fact it mixes in American English.
It had loads of scope for further adventures though. But I guess it didn't sell enough.
MarkoH01: Exactly Gene Hunt, that was the one I meant. And yes, it was nearly impossible for me to understand the dialect in the series but still I refused to watch a dubbed German version (yes, there acually IS one - at least from Lif On Mars) because imo the dialect is part of the atmosphere and it is just fitting. It was not THAT difficutl for me to understand Hector but still some of the cutscenes ... I am glad someone at the Telltale forums did make a transcript for them even though I already had finishged the game at that point.
BTW: This is my desktop background :)
http://markoh01.lima-city.de/LOM169.JPG There was actually a variety of accents with the different characters that would of made it more difficult for a none native speaker.
I loved Life on Mars, and spoiled going out on valentines day to watch the first episode of Ashes to Ashes but I couldn't really enjoy Ashes to Ashes. Sam Tyler was a great balancing character and both had seemingly had the background of working class northerners (ie industrial cities) and it was set in Manchester. When they moved it to London and had a middle class woman to balance with Hunt, it didn't have the same grittyness.
Anyway my friend if you like adventure games there appears to have been a few added to this giveaway. The AGON games maybe being the best and Amerzone, Egypt and Experience 112 look interesting and worth a play to.
Out of interest it seems many German's can speak/understand English, what percentage would you estimate this is and why is it so high compared to other countries? Do you learn languages at an early age?