Resident Evil Villain Wesker Does the Old Spice Guy

[John Funk]

Resident Evil Villain Wesker Does the Old Spice Guy

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Look down, now look back up. You're on a volcano, with the man your man could kill like.

It's no secret that we here at The Escapist love the Old Spice Guy commercials [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/tag/old+spice]. A bunch of us love Resident Evil, too - which is why this video makes us laugh so much.

It's Resident Evil's Albert Wesker doing his own take on the Old Spice commercials, only instead of espousing the benefits of manly (yet refreshing) deodorant, he's trying to convince all of us to inject our bodies with the Uroboros strain. Oh sure Wesker, it might give us godlike powers, but it doesn't give us anything to protect us from rocket launcher strikes, does it?

The best part of this video is that it actually features the voice of D.C. Douglas, Wesker's real-life voice actor. So yeah, that's actually Wesker giving the spiel. It's pretty effective, in a way.

The video itself is a little over a month old, but it's just now making the rounds here - and I certainly hadn't seen it, which means it's still news to us!

(via Capcom Unity [http://www.capcom-unity.com/snow_infernus/blog/2011/01/31/if_albert_wesker_did_old_spice_commercials])

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[RatRace123]

I just saw this for the first time. That is goddamn brilliant!
The fact that it's Wesker's actual voice actor doing it too, that just sells it.

 

[John Funk]

Damn, you guys took awhile to find that. You should probably mention the other one too.

Spoiler: Wesker out-takes.

Yeah, you'd think the Capcom Unity guys would have seen it earlier.

 

[AngelicSven]

The jingle just totally sells that, good work to whoever did that.

 

[BlueSinbad]

FULL.OF.WIN.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

Meh.... This meme is dead in the water.

 

[Jeralt2100]

Hilarious, too bad they killed him off. Here's hoping he is still part of the rebooted franchise.

 

[Jumplion]

Damn, you guys took awhile to find that. You should probably mention the other one too.

Spoiler: Wesker out-takes.

Spoiler: I see your out-takes, and raise you one Complete Global Saturation-nnnnnghhhhhh

OT: That's funny. Awesome that they got the actual voice actor to do it!

 

[Green Ninja]

Hilarious, too bad they killed him off. Here's hoping he is still part of the rebooted franchise.

If you look really close and wish really hard the missles actualy miss his head and detonate behind him.

Just saying. ^^

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

Hell yeah, this makes Wesker even more awesome then he already was

 

[Jamboxdotcom]

that was pretty brilliant i mean, granted combining two of my favorite things (Old Spice commercials and Resident Evil) couldn't possibly fail to entertain me, but still!

 

[Rad Party God]

That took a while Escapist, I watched this video for the first time just yesterday and just because of that video, I wanted to play RE5 again and I haven't played it since it launched for PC back in september '09.

"Look at yourself, now back to me, I'm eating rockets."

 

[Ringwraith]

He does like to mess around for entertainment purposes doesn't he?
I think it's simply great that he took the time and effort to do all of that, even the small print is funny.

 

[Polock]

I hate to say things like "full of win".

...

This is full of win.

 

[Madmanonfire]

That's enough. No more. This meme is becoming overdone. The horse has been beaten within an inch, nay, a millimeter of its life. Give it a rest.
The lack of lip-sync doesn't help either. It's good, but not great.

 

[ddq5]

Another of the many reasons I love D.C. Douglas. He's up there with David Hayter for actually cool game VAs.

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

I'm eating rockets

 

[Nouw]

This is hilarious, an awesome video.

Good to see him taking his time to do something funny like this.