Comments on: NONE SHALL PASS – Monty Python Sound Effects in Sid Meyer’s Civilization II

By: Gillz

Gillz — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:06:01 +0000

I actually also found it out after playing loads of Civ II then watching Holy Grail – the sounds were so familiar to me that my attention was immediately aroused.

By: Okthav

Okthav — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:09:38 +0000

Crazy stuff, I’m posting here because it’s 2 a.m. and I just discovered the same thing! And yes, there are another “contributions” of Monty Python in games…
In Worms Forts Under Siege, if you choose the medieval audio for your worms and one of them gets hurt, it says “It’s just a flesh wound.”
And in Stronghold, when you send your pikemen to attack, they say “none shall pass”.

By: Lesbiche

Lesbiche — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:11:03 +0000

Nice site you have!

By: Donelle

Donelle — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:57:40 +0000

Good for people to know.

By: oancitizen

oancitizen — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:59:47 +0000

Not only that, but the sound of the Civ2 fighter jets are taken from Apocalypse Now.

By: piratebeaver

piratebeaver — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:35:58 +0000

Linus, stop uploading BMP images, have pity on the dial-up-ers

By: linus

linus — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:45:48 +0000

That could be very true. I guess it was mostly just amusing to me to recognize the Civ II sound effects as I was watching Monty Python in the wee hours of the morning

By: Dougal

Dougal — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:17:20 +0000

Mabye not, but he could buy a stock audio pack for “swordfight sounds” from a studio. I’ve heard the same sound you’re commenting about on various shows on the History Channel too.

By: linus

linus — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:40:41 +0000

Thanks to everyone for contributing.

I doubt they are from the same stock audio purchase to be perfectly honest. Eric Idle couldn’t exactly fire up google when he needed a sound effect.

Either way I don’t think it’s terribly scandalous that Civ II borrowed the sound. Just goes to show Monty Python’s influence is even broader than we thought.

By: Dougal

Dougal — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:52:21 +0000

Please Google “Stock Audio” and also observe that hundreds of movies and videogames share the same gunshot and bullet impact sounds.