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BEST VOICE ACTING
If a videogame character is memorable for some reason, chances are the voice acting for that particular character was so good that you instantly connected with him, her or it. Voice acting, once done by the developers themselves, is now serious enough that developers even rope in big names to voice act for their games and a lot of attention and detail go into making someone sound all that more believable. Here are some of the games that had such top notch voice acting that they drew us completely into their worlds and their lives.
The Nominees
And the winner is…
Unlike most games where the voice is actually associated with a digital character on-screen, BioShock (like System Shock 2 before it) almost exclusively abandons this approach in favor of telling the story of Rapture, its inhabitants and their collective descent into ruin through non-chronological audio logs. Even though you never see Atlas, Diane McClintock and everyone else in Rapture, the fantastic voice acting actually manages to draw you into the story like no other game this year, so much so that you actually care about finding out what happened to all of them, even though you don’t really like what you find most times. A game that completely builds its storyline exclusively on the strength of its voice acting deserves this award more than all the others.
The Runners-Up:
Mass Effect
Like other BioWare games before this, Mass Effect too benefits from some of the best voice acting ever seen in videogames. Even though most of the characters are actually alien, the voice acting actually manages to imbue all the seemingly human traits into those characters as well, making Mass Effect rise from great into spectacular. For a game that has so much dialogue built into it, the spellbinding voice acting is what actually makes sure we view each and every dialogue as important rather than as something that we’d rather try to skip.
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
If there’s one reason Half-Life 2: Episode Two wins over The Simpsons Game, it’s because the cast of the Simpsons show have been doing this for more than 20 years now and they have perfected the art of being their characters. But more than that, the voice acting in Episode Two actually makes the characters come alive in a way that we have been seeing honed ever since the original. Whenever Eli, Dr. Kleiner talk, you never feel even once that it’d be great if they’d just shut the hell up. With a top notch performance from Robert Guillaume. Merle Dandridge, Hal Robbins and the menacing tones of the G-Man voiced by Mike Shapiro, Episode Two comes so close to winning the coveted award, but sadly, has been beaten by a really worthy contender.
Reader’s Choice Award:
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February 20th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
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April 7th, 2008 at 7:35 am
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