Greatest Voicework in a Game, EVER!

[mikeli4194]

- James McCaffrey as Max Payne. His narration pretty much held all three games together.

- Robert Clotworthy as Jim Raynor

- Whoever voiced Gay Tony in GTA IV: BOGT. Actually, all of the GTA games have fantastic voice actors. Gay Tony was just one of my favorites

 

[Anthony Corrigan]

Did you work out who the Illusive man was? That bugged me for hours before I realized it was Martin Sheen and at that point it really destroyed the character for me actually because I kept seeing him as the president. Sometimes its better to chose an unknown than a well known actor because that can interfere with the character

I don't really keep up with many actors, so I probably wouldn't be able to tell anyone by voice alone. Though when I found out it was Martin Sheen, it honestly made me appreciate the character more.

Personally, I think playing against type is great, at least for villains. Simply because some part of your mind associates the actor with a good human being, that the idea of them being a villain is almost like finding out one of your friends is in the mafia, it makes a villain much more intimidating when you think you know them, and you see such a sharp change from their usual routine.

There seems to be a really limited number of voice actors or they pick celebrities. Sometimes it works for me, Captain Jainway from voyager as Flemish was cool, Claudia Black as Morrigan but Martian Sheen bugged me for some reason, think it was more the visual than the personality, he didn't LOOK anything like Martin Sheen and yet was speaking with his voice.

Actually I kept getting thrown quite a bit with Mass effect because so many of the voice actors are from Dragon Age and I kept thinking of there characters in that when I was playing Mass effect and it was quite distracting.

Could say the same would happen in TV or movies but it doesn't really, just see an actor is the same and go "oh thats cool" and then shrug it off but voices in games, i don't know, it just tends to be more distracting and jarring to me