Joel from The Last of Us Booker from BioShock Infinite and Samuel Drake from Uncharted three massive video game characters one thing in common they’re all played by the same actor Troy Baker now he’s adding one more and possibly the most iconic of them all Indiana Jones regardless of your familiarity with this character or this IP the thing that is universal is that there is somewhere in all of us an adventurer and that is something that everybody can relate to and what all of us have tried to make over the last almost four years of.
making this game is something that speaks to that adventurous Spirit our whole thing is turning you into Indiana Jones to bring out the adventure in you we have to make haste I just saw Father Ventura with a black shirt on his way to the Castello people will have probably worked it out from the hat and from the jacket but you are playing Indiana Jones what’s it like stepping into such an iconic role I actually brought this from home by the way this is mine um it’s going to sound so cheesy but it’s the truth it’s truly a dream come.
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true I said who is Father Ventura we call him the man in Black a friend of musolini before I ever even thought about being an actor or working in games this is a character that I’ve looked up to um my my whole life and so so much so that I thought it was impossible for me to play it because when I was when I was offered the role I was like No And I turned it down cuz I was scared Indiana Jones and the great circle tells a new story for Indie on PC and Xbox first a PlayStation 5 versions coming out next year something Microsoft.
originally said wouldn’t happen and while it might look like Harrison Ford here the voice and face and body movements are all Troys how do you see the landscape as being different now from when you first started I think that there are more opportunities for more actors from all walks to be in this and the reason why I love games is because again it’s this partnership between the player and the actor and we both get to inhabit this role and I believe that these are machines I believe that there is there’s nothing like thinking about a.
character and then I can watch that character and and they can have this beautiful dramatic emotive moment and then all of a sudden I moov that left stick and that character moves and now I have agency and control in what they’re doing in this environment in my choice this is the evolution of the story is how can I let you know what my experience has been and if I I can tell you what my experience is and more so you can experience what my experience has been well now we have empathy and I think that if we were to able to walk in.
each other’s shoes just a little bit might be a little bit Kinder it sounds you know sunshine and rainbows but I think the world would be a better place actors have never played more of a role bringing their virtual characters to life and big Global launches are so big now they can make stars of their heroes and villains this time that includes Marios Gilles and his new villain Vos part of my work was to create a new character from scratch but at the same time remain in the context in the tone of uh the realm of
Indiana Jones it’s no rocket science you can’t reinvent the thing right you have to kind of match the tone of it but it was a lot of fun man I can tell you that you know very often we’re referred to um as voice actors what we’re actually doing with the peap thing is is full-on acting this is something people forget like we’re we’re not just doing the voice it’s the entire body it’s the entire it’s the entirety of her performance that’s being captured um what do you make of this kind of.
movement for actors and games having much more of a celebrity status than they might have in the past you got to understand this is a big industry so um uh somebody like Troy Baker he is up there deservedly so so um he he build up his credits over the years uh you know playing some of the most remarkable characters in The Gaming in gaming history this whole celebrity thing and kind of like proof of concept is that they’re asking aers from Hollywood play in games Norman Reas uh um and and uh uh K Reeves all all these guys it’s no.