Peaky Blinder’s Bad Boy Cillian Murphy is to be cast as the central antagonist of Far Cry 6.

What is your opinion of Hollywood Actors starring in VideoGames over voice actors?

It’s nothing new for games to have actors from the silver screen play roles on our rigs and consoles. Famously Ray Liotta lent his talents in GTA: Vice City as Tommy Vercetti cementing his gangster image in gamers as well as movie buffs, Matthew Perry (RIP) told Ellen DeGeneres he played Fallout 3 so much he needed pins in his hands (Chandler and Ms. PacMan anyone?) leading to his role as Benny in the follow up Fallout: New Vegas, and Bond’s virtual likeness has always followed the big screen counterpart down to the voice (media synergy baby!)

On the flip side, voice acting is a different skill set from acting and there are some that can do it and some sound like they are contractually obligated. Tobey Maguire sounded flat and uninterested during his stint in the Spiderman movie tie-in games, and the less we hear about Christopher Walken in True Crime Streets of LA, the better.

Voice acting is so integral to videogames now that it has curated it’s own list of celebrities whether prolific actors such as Troy Baker, Nolan North, or Jennifer Hale to actors we just cannot dissociate from their virtual characters like Charles Martinee (so many Nintendo characters but famously Mario), Doug Cockle (Geralt of Rivia), and David Hayter (Snake, apart from that one).

The last example is interesting as David was not asked to voice Snake when the last two MGS games instead was replaced by Hollywood Action Star Kiefer Sutherland. Although there is a ‘story’ reason for this, this didn’t go down well for fans and might have been writing on the wall for videogame actors being replaced by Hollywood stars.

What are your thoughts about this?