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post #1 of 31
12/13/02 at 6:05pm
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If there's one thing that's guaranteed to put a great big Cheshire Cat grin on my face, it's when I find out that game makers have used a really cool/quirky/badass "known" actor to do a voice. I was just messing around on imdb, and discovered that Michael Ironside is the voice of Sam Fisher from Splinter Cell.

Another one that surprised me recently was discovering that Donald Love from GTA III was none other than Kyle Mclachlan (sp)

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post #2 of 31
12/13/02 at 6:11pm
It is great when it just "is" like GTA or Splinter Cell. The game sells itself but the voice work is a cool extra. When the actors name is bigger than the games title on the box it is usually shit. A Bruce Willis voiceover game that I gladly can't think of the name of that came out for PSX comes to mind.
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post #3 of 31
12/13/02 at 6:15pm
On the Splinter Cell disk is a fairly decent video interview with Ironside. You guys should always check out the bonus features...
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post #4 of 31
12/13/02 at 6:22pm
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I don't actually own the game yet, does he say anything interesting?
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post #5 of 31
12/13/02 at 6:34pm
Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver for all you amateurs) was Killian in Fallout. That was the height of my MacGyver syndication love, so to see him doing the a voice in there excited me to no end.
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post #6 of 31
12/13/02 at 6:42pm
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otisthecat:
A Bruce Willis voiceover game that I gladly can't think of the name of that came out for PSX comes to mind.
That game is Apocalypse. A game I enjoy greatly, although it's hard as fuck-all in the last few levels.
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post #7 of 31
12/13/02 at 6:47pm
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Adam L. Blacksmith:
I don't actually own the game yet, does he say anything interesting?
Actually, it's pretty cool. They also include a few outtakes from the recording sessions.
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post #8 of 31
12/13/02 at 7:03pm
Clancy Brown gets around the industry. he was also in Fallout, along with the Spyro and Crash Bandicoot games. he most recently did Star Wars Bounty Hunter and the disappointment Run Like Hell (with fellow rumble-voiced actors Lance Henriksen and Michael Ironside).

Kurtwood "Bitches Leave" Smith did voice work on the excellent Freespace 2, along with Robert Loggia, Ronny Cox and Stephen Baldwin.

Bruce Campbell gave his voice to the 3D Pitfall update, the recent Spider-Man and Evil Dead games, and the sadly overlooked space shooter Tachyon: The Fringe.

Keith David, who probably has one of the greatest voices ever, worked on Planescape: Torment along with a ton of guys, including The Pretender Michael T. Weiss, Mitch Pileggi and Homer Simpson himself Dan Castellaneta.

there are surely loads more i'm not thinking of.
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post #9 of 31
12/13/02 at 7:16pm
Willis did not only do a voice for Apocalypse but he was also the hero of the game.

Earl Boen (Dr Silberman in both Terminator) also seem to do a lot of voice work. He was LeChuck in the last two Monkey Island and Sergei Gurlukovich in MGS2.

Mark Hamill is another obvious one, with his stints in Full Throttle,Soldier of Fortune 2(which also featured Keith Szarabajka, Earl Boen and Michael Gough. Check the IMDB pages of these three, you'll find they did a lot of VG voicework) Icewind Dale and of course Wing Commander 3 and 4.

While we're talking about LucasArts games, Robert Patrick was the hero of The Dig and Billy Dee Williams reprised his Lando role in Jedi Outcast.

Dwight Schulz also mainly does games now, having done voices in Spider-Man: the movie, both Baldur's Gate, Blood Wake, Arcanum and Final Fantasy X.

And of course, there's David Hayter as Solid Snake but that was before he wrote X-Men.

More as I find them.

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post #10 of 31
12/13/02 at 7:26pm
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gravedigger41:
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otisthecat:
A Bruce Willis voiceover game that I gladly can't think of the name of that came out for PSX comes to mind.
That game is Apocalypse. A game I enjoy greatly, although it's hard as fuck-all in the last few levels.
So you were the one who bought that game, I was wondering.
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post #11 of 31
12/13/02 at 7:28pm
No, I bought Apocalypse too and dug it quite a lot. I'm a sucker for Contra type games.
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post #12 of 31
12/13/02 at 7:31pm
There were two of you! Well I'll be damned!
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post #13 of 31
12/13/02 at 7:33pm
Just found out that the Blade Runner video game not only featured voice acting from Brion James Sean Young and William Sanderson in their respective roles but also from Mark Rolston, James Hong, Vincent Schiavelli and Stephen Root. Makes me regret I never played it.
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post #14 of 31
12/13/02 at 7:35pm
it's actually a pretty cool game, forgot about that one. you can probably find it around for real cheap.
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post #15 of 31
12/13/02 at 8:00pm
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An obscure-but-cool one is Roger Jackson (that great "phone voice" from Scream 1-3). Has tons of games to his credit, including Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within, and some Star Wars stuff.

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post #16 of 31
12/13/02 at 8:04pm
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Dave Davis:
it's actually a pretty cool game, forgot about that one. you can probably find it around for real cheap.
Yeah, it was pretty good. I think I got it for like, 10-15 bucks and that was more than 3 years ago.
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post #17 of 31
12/13/02 at 8:21pm
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For some reason I had it in my head that Dennis Farina was in Kingpin: Life of Crime... but imdb says otherwise.

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post #18 of 31
12/13/02 at 8:53pm
I've been playing Kingdom Hearts currently, and that voice acting in that isn't too bad. Osment certainly has it down (actually, he's been doing a lot of voice work lately, anyone know if he's become terribly disfigured?). David Boreanez did a good job a voicing Squall, and of course all the Disney characters are spot on. I FEAR, however, what Lance Bass will sound like as Sephiroth.
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post #19 of 31
12/13/02 at 9:08pm
Bass didn't sound bad, from what I heard.

But all the voices in KH are gold. I thought Osment was great, and whatshisname playing Sora was good too.
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post #20 of 31
12/13/02 at 9:21pm
Osment DOES play Sora.
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post #21 of 31
12/13/02 at 10:35pm
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Blunt:
No, I bought Apocalypse too and dug it quite a lot. I'm a sucker for Contra type games.
I enjoy this game, too. Great mindless fun.

Unrelated, Gary Coleman did the voice of a dishonest lemonade stand owner in Monkey Island 3.
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post #22 of 31
12/13/02 at 10:40pm
Lance Henriksen plays the voice of Molov in Red Faction 2.
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post #23 of 31
12/13/02 at 10:45pm
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Matt Goldberg:
Osment DOES play Sora.
Shite...don't know why I got the names confused.

I meant Riku. And remembered that his name is David Gallagher.
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post #24 of 31
12/13/02 at 10:48pm
Tony Jay (the voice of Frollo is Disney's Hunchback), John Kassir (the Crypt Keeper), and David Ogden-Stiers (MASH) all did various voices in Icewind Dale.
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post #25 of 31
12/13/02 at 11:53pm
Earl Boen also had a very small role in Star Trek Elite Force.
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post #26 of 31
12/14/02 at 12:10am
Apocalypse with Bruce Willis... one of my fave psx games! I loved the (albeit pointless) metal music videos (live version of System Of a Down's "War") thrown throughout the game.
Loved this one.
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post #27 of 31
12/14/02 at 12:17am
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Apocalypse was good, but One was better. Just a great "vent" game.

One man.

One solution.

One state of mind.
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post #28 of 31
12/14/02 at 1:42am
I fucking loved Michael Madsen in GTA3. Too bad he's done a lot of straight-to-Cinemax movies lately.. Does anyone know if Jason Statham did a voice in Red Faction 2? I believe the guy that sounded like him was named Smyth in the game, but I might be mistaken about the character's name, or even Statham in the game. Just wondering...
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post #29 of 31
12/14/02 at 7:33am
Bruce Campbell did voice work as the lead character in the underappreciated Broken Helix for Playstation....give that game a chance, it's cool as hell.

Apocalypse was great, funny how they had the System of a Down video for War playing on one of the levels...it was weird to see them in a game when they were still underground and relativly unknown to everyone else.

And One was incredible....it's a shame that game didn't sell more, I loved it.
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post #30 of 31
12/14/02 at 1:02pm
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One never really took off because it had kind of a tricky control system and some graphical slowdown issues. However, let there be no doubt that it rocks absolutely.

Dig that PERMANENT STATE OF RAGE.
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post #31 of 31
12/14/02 at 1:09pm
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Adam L. Blacksmith:
Apocalypse was good, but One was better. Just a great "vent" game.

One man.

One solution.

One state of mind.
One is awesome. My all time favorite PS1 game.
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