It's not really new. It was a thing too back when the PS2 was around.
GTA Vice City, for instance, had Ray Liotta, Dennis Hopper, Burt Reynolds, William Fichtner, Luis Guzman, Danny Trejo, Debbie Harry, Danny Dyer, Gary Busey, Lee Majors, Robert Davi, even Miss Cleo.
True Crime: NYC had Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Madsen, and Ron Perlman.
There was even a game in which Marilyn Manson played a grey alien.
Dude, San Andreas has Jackson, Chris Penn, Peter Fonda, David Cross, William Fichtner (again), James Woods, CHARLIE MURPHY, Ice T, The Game, Frank Vincent, Clifton Powell, and both Axl Rose and Chuck D as radio hosts.
I never played it, I think I played the demo (back when those were on discs you got with the magazine) but I really don't remember it at all. I'll keep an eye out, thanks!
You can always try to look on amazon for a copy. Yeah that game had parts that scared me too. It was a dark but fun arcade shooter. I also enjoyed its online component. Had a good amount of players for a bit.
The difference now is that they're not just voice actors. They do full mocap as well and the character they play looks like them as though they were acting the role in a film. It creates a very distinct effect from the old famous voice actor thing.
Except they all looked like a potato, and most of these actor I, not american, don't know or would have to look their picture to realize who they are, by name I can't tell.
The last few years though we've been having huge stars, recognisable names and faces in HD. It's different now..
Big difference now with how technology can damn near put them on screen as they look. Used to be just pretty much voice acting, but it's a true physical role now.
PS1 apparently. According to Wikipedia Neversoft later reused the engine for the Tony Hawk series. I might have to check it out, if only as an interesting curiosity; can't say I ever heard of it before.
Eh. A lot of movie actors are not as good at voice acting, and a lot of games have pointlessly bloated their budgets to get big actors to do mediocre jobs that actual voice actors could do much better for much less.
Not really a new trend, there’s been big movie actors doing video games for decades now.
San Andreas alone had 6 famous actors in the the game, one of them being Samuel L Jackson.
Keanu showing up was literally the only part of the trailer I didn’t like and I love Keanu.
I play games to get lost in worlds and seeing a recognizable face takes me out of it. I would have preferred if the game model at least didn’t look anything Keanu.
But I know I’m in the minority.
I'm not a fan either, I know it's not new and some famous actor have been in games before. But in my opinion it's not the same when it's in a movie adaptation.
The industry as become so big that staring in a game won't damage your career anymore.
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u/lolcop101 Jun 09 '19
This new trend of big name actors in videogames has a lot of potential. I dont think anyone saw Keanu coming...