Liam Neeson to do voicework in Fallout 3

[CptStern]

new concept art

http://fallout.bethsoft.com/

We received a press release from Bethesda, announcing that actor Liam Neeson will provide voice work for the upcoming Fallout 3. Neeson will play the father of the player character, appearing throughout the game.

..hopefully Neeson will have a much larger role than Patrick stewart's 5 minute cameo in Oblivion, which it sounds like he does

 

[Bob_Marley]

Cool, cool. Should be good.

 

[Tagaziel]

Baby, you forgot to mention that the action will take place on the east coast of the United States. Quite nifty.

 

[brink's]

Darkman is epic, Neeson is unappreciated imo.

 

[StardogChampion]

Good news.

 

[Bob_Marley]

Baby, you forgot to mention that the action will take place on the east coast of the United States. Quite nifty.

This has been known for some time. Dont you check the Bethesda forums?

It'll be an odd fallout though. No Super Mutants, no BoS, no Harold, etc, etc...

 

[Tagaziel]

This has been known for some time. Dont you check the Bethesda forums?

It'll be an odd fallout though. No Super Mutants, no BoS, no Harold, etc, etc...

We got confirmation of it on NMA.

 

[angusNUBangus]

You know they got the five Captain's voices for there Star Trek Legacy
game, but that thing is a piece s**t.
They have stated they're not comming out with any more patches & the communnity is not even sure they'll be releaseing any
scripting\sourse code tools. The Star Trek Franchise has been adversely effected by Bethesda.

It will be intersting to see how they handle this franchise.

It doesn't matter who you get, it matters how it plays!

 

[CR0M]

The cost of signing a professional actor outweighs by far any benefit to any game, all it does is buff up the paint job while taking away valuable funds from the elements that need it most. Oblivion = example.

Remember kiddies, all that glitters is not gold.

 

[Direwolf]

That argument would hold more water if Oblivion wasn't awesome.

(And not just because it has Sean Bean)

 

[Asknoone]

Neeson is awesome.

 

[ivisak]

The cost of signing a professional actor outweighs by far any benefit to any game, all it does is buff up the paint job while taking away valuable funds from the elements that need it most. Oblivion = example.

Remember kiddies, all that glitters is not gold.

NB! Bethesda is awesome, so I can truly hope something good for a while

 

[VictimOfScience]

I do like the Neeson quite a lot. This bodes well indeed.

 

[CR0M]

That argument would hold more water if Oblivion wasn't awesome.

(And not just because it has Sean Bean)

You wouldn't be confusing 2-year-old-well-seasoned-and-user-modded Oblivion for out-of-the-box-bland-as-air Oblivion would you?

 

[Jintor]

A great game shouldn't need mods to make it awesome. It should be awesome without the mods, and even more awesome with the mods.

 

[Kadayi]

I bet his role is to be the guiding figure you meet who will be struck down later on (Liam seems to specialise in that role)

Also voice work earns Actors some cash..but it isn't mega bucks. It's good publicity for them as well generally.

 

[Cerpin]

This is awesome news. Neeson is a badass.

 

[Shadow-warrior]

Neeson will probably be the noob tutor/father, chipping in every step of the way on the Pipboy to advance the story.

"Go left NOW!"
"Kill him NOW!"
"Talk to him NOW!"
"The force is strong in this one NOW!"

 

[CR0M]

You made me laugh snot out of my nose. How dare you.

 

[SAJ]

Professional voice acting is no stranger to the Fallout series.....

Fallout's ability to create a believable world was a combination of great design and a good script. That Interplay shelled out the money to get good actors to read the script was an excellent bonus. The cast of Fallout has more recognizable names than virtually any other game.

The cast included Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver) as Killian, Ron Perlman (TV's Beauty and the Beast, City of Lost Children) as the Narrator, and David Warner (Time Bandits, Tron, Titanic, Straw Dogs) as Morpheus. Also in the cast were Richard Moll (Night Court's Bull), Tony Shaloub (Barton Fink, Galaxy Quest), and voice-over staples like Clancy Brown and Kath Soucie.

Fallout would have been a great game regardless of its acting, but the universally great voices only helped to make the game that much better. Black Isle Studios, Interplay's role-playing game division, would go on to create a number of games with excellent voice-acting and impressive casts, including Baldur's Gate II and Planescape: Torment. But Fallout was the first and, to us, still the best.

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[CR0M]

Put Professional Voice Acting and McGuyver in the same room together and you end the universe as we know it.

Clancy Brown on the other hand would take Professional Voice Acting's head and rape his woman before his blood was even cold.