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16 Movie Stars You Didn't Know Appeared In Games
We've come a long way from Pong
If you've recently played Fallout: New Vegas, you'll no doubt have been surprised to meet a character called Benny Gecko, played by Matthew Perry, and another, a decrepit, rotting, zombie-like mutant by the name of Raul – voiced by Danny Trejo. That’s right, Danny Trejo, as in Machete Danny Trejo, otherwise known as the world’s greatest bad guy. So in honour of his gaming voiceover work, and his first leading role as Robert Rodriguez’s Mexpoitation knife obsessive, here’s some of Hollywood’s finest who’ve appeared in non movie tie-in video games.
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Liam NeesonBiggest movie role: Oskar Schindler in Schindler’s List (1993)
Biggest gaming role: James, the protagonist’s father in Fallout 3 (2008)
Gaming Oscar-worthy? Though the game boasts other big name voice-acting talent, such as Ron Perlman (The Narrator), Malcolm McDowell (President John Henry Eden) and, um, Odette Yustman (Amata), Neeson outshines the whole sorry lot of them. Why? Well, he’s Liam Neeson, and his particular set of skills set him out from any voice-acting crowd. Or any crowd at all, actually. In reality, his character is the driving force behind the whole game, as the aim (to begin with) is to find him in amongst the barren wilderness of Fallout 3 – in fact, Executive Producer Todd Howard went as far as to say: "This role was written with Liam in mind, and provides the dramatic tone for the entire game." The first voice you hear, and the first face you see, is that of Neeson’s and it’s his growling Irish burr that stays with you throughout your adventure.
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| 1 | RE: hello everyone,im wholesale supplier online | Knowing nothing about Rogue Warrior I wanted to find out what it was about it that got such a drubbing so off to the Wiki page I go. Now I know that wiki isnt a reliable source all the time and I could well do my own research on the subject but giving them the benefit of the doubt in terms of reviews et al are you quite sure that this game was panned?
Seems the game sites gave it universally awesome scores and gave the game credit for being LONG rather than short.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_Warrior_%28video_gam e%29
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Posted by Evil_Bob on Tuesday November 30, 2010, 01:38 |
| | 2 | RE: Samuel L Jackson | Empire, we all know these stars appeared in these games. Stop being so bloody patronising. More
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Posted by Kilo_T_Mortal on Monday November 29, 2010, 14:51 |
| | 3 | RE: Samuel L Jackson | If you check a cached version of the article, you'd notice where you're wrong.
Nice first post.
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Posted by dannyboy8704 on Saturday November 27, 2010, 17:27 |
| | 4 | RE: How could you forget... | Why call it '16 Movie Stars You Didn't Know Appeared In Games' and then name all the huge games where we know stars appeared? As if voice acting in a Call of Duty, Fallout or Mass Effect game goes unnoticed by millions? Not much in the way of in-depth research here.
How about Jason Statham in Red Faction II, Jean Reno in Onimusha 3 or Willem Dafoe in 007: Everything or Nothing? Only worth writing this article if the examples are a bit more obscure.
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Posted by jmr1909 on Saturday November 27, 2010, 09:33 |
| | 5 | RE: Samuel L Jackson | Haley Joel Osment, Hayden Petettire and David Boreanaz from The Sixth Sense, Heroes and Angel were in Kingdom Hearts More
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Posted by white mage on Saturday November 27, 2010, 01:10 |
| | 6 | RE: Samuel L Jackson | It's mentioned in the text for Samuel L Jackson if you'd read it :-)
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Posted by hazy on Friday November 26, 2010, 23:55 |
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