Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times'
Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times'

Idris Elba: Actors in video games like Phantom Liberty is 'sign of the times'

Idris Elba, who stars in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, sees a future where films and games converge.
Kristen Bell was in Assassin's Creed II and that was 14 years ago... Fuck I feel old.
But still, it's been slowly happening for quite a while
Sean Bean also voices most of Civ 6 and it's glorious. Say what you will about it from a mechanical perspective but I can't find fault with his voice lines. He gets to read some of the greatest quotations from history and for the most part he nails it.
I often see people shit on Keanu Reeves for wooden acting in Cyberpunk, but I honestly thought he was great as Johnny. Knocked it out of the park imo
TESIV Oblivion is 2006, Tachyon The Fringe is 2000... 1994's Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger has a whole IMDB page, with the likes of Mark Hamill, John Rhys-Davies, and Malcolm McDowell playing main characters.
And there's earlier games with less stellar casts, like 1991's Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum. Actors in games have been a thing for quite a while.
Sean Bean was in Oblivion, that's even older.
Patrick fuckin Stewart was in it as well but he dies in the tutorial.
Batman Begins (2005) had an all-star voice cast from the movies:
Bruce Lee was in Bruce Lee in 1984, if you really want to get down to it. And he wasn't even the first.
He's also in civ 6 but I know that's newer. I just love his soothing voice
Oblivion is TESIV.
There it is. This was a big deal at the time because it wasn't just voice acting but a character built around his likeness too. The game was meh
Matthew Perry was Benny from FO: New Vegas
Ron Perlman provided opening and closing narration for all the numbered Fallout games.
And Fallout 1 was very much a “budget” title for Interplay, so it’s not like the studio was just splashing money around because they could.
And before that, Liam Neeson was the player character's father in FO3.
This kind of thing has been going on for at least 30 years. One of the earliest examples is Night Trap starring Dana Plato. You may not know who that is, but anyone who grew up watching Diff'rent Strokes certainly does. If you want a more mainstream example, look at Ripper from 1996 which features Christopher Walken, Paul Giamatti, Karen Allen, Burgess Meredith, David Patrick Kelly, Ossie Davis, and John Rhys-Davies.
Wing Commander III a 1994 release had Mark Hammill, Malcolm McDowell , and Tim Curry. Video game actors , voice actors and mainstream actors have intertwined for many years.
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