Synchronization in Video Games: the Dubbing of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate
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https://doi.org/10.24310/TRANS.2018.v1i22.2966Keywords:
dubbing, audiovisual translation, localization, video games, synchronization, lip-syncAbstract
The aim of this article is to describe video game localization
from the new perspective of dubbing. More specifically, we
will focus on analyzing the types of synchronization in an
adventure video game localized from English into Spanish.
First, we will review the types of synchronization in cinema
and television described to date and proceed to use this dubbing
in movies and TV as the model to compare and analyze
the new interactive audiovisual product of video games.
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