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Voice Talent Brings True Crime: NYC To Life |
by Coola
9/19/2005 |
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Further bringing True Crime: New York City’s authentic cop drama to life, Activision, Inc. has signed on a cast of seasoned actors to lend their distinct voice talents to the game’s main characters. The cast includes Christopher Walken as FBI field agent Gabriel Whitting; Laurence Fishburne as drug kingpin Isaiah “The King” Reed; Mariska Hargitay as New York Police Lieutenant Deena Dixon; Mickey Rourke as New York Police Detective Terrence Higgins; Esai Morales as New York Police Organized Crime Unit chief Victor Navarro; Traci Lords as madam Cassandra Hartz; and up and coming actor Avery Waddell as former gangster turned cop Marcus Reed, the game’s main character and Isaiah Reed’s son.
“With a voice talent roster of this caliber, we are bringing drama to videogames on an unprecedented level that is on par with movies and television shows,” said Will Kassoy, vice president of global brand management, Activision Publishing. “True Crime: New York City was developed with the help of two former New York cops who advised us on real-life police scenarios which were then brought to life through the rich characters portrayed by the voiceover talent.”
Former policemen Bill Clark, who also served as the executive producer of “NYPD Blue,” and Tom Walker, author of Ford Apache: The Bronx, consulted on the storyline for True Crime: New York City which puts players in the role of Marcus Reed, former gang member turned cop. Through the game, players use and abuse their authority to hunt down the murderer of Marcus’ mentor while also cleaning up Manhattan neighborhoods from Harlem to Chinatown. Undercover investigations weave players through a murderous web of gangs and deceit as they battle crooks, Marcus’ past and everything else the city throws at them.
True Crime: New York City will be available this fall for the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox video game system from Microsoft and the Nintendo GameCube and has been rated “M” (“Mature” – Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Strong Sexual Content, Use of Drugs) by the ESRB.
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XBOX365 Says
To be honest, I just don't care about voice talent. I mean I surely care it's good but I won't go forking $50 bucks because "oh man, that voice actor is the shiznite, I must get that game." - Hell. No.
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blackmath
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They should take the money they're paying to hollywood actors and instead spend it on their programmers in order to make sure the game DOESN'T TOTALLY SUCK LIKE THE LAST ONE.
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grandaddygame
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this is a $19 game right? if not it had better have some major improvements over the original.
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without a vision the people fail
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videogamer
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Big dea. They got actors to do voices. The bigger question is, will the lips move with the voice? How will the game play?
If the answers are No, and No. Its a waste.
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videogamer
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What would be bigger, is to get their likness in the games. imagine Pamala Anderson as Cortina... Ok, scratch that.
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