There’s no doubt that Epic’s Gears of War has high production values across the board, including a great voice cast. But is it the best in the biz Gears of War 3‘s Executive Producer Rod Fergusson seems to think so.
“I think people don’t realise the calibre of acting that can be in videogames, and how much they push it,” Fergusson recently told OXM. “Our cast I think is probably the best cast in videogames, but obviously I’m biased.”
Fergusson went on to explain that actually being a part of the process, from writing the lines, to recording them with the actors, and finally to mixing them into the product itself, can be a very intense process.
“One of the things for me is, I see [Maria’s death scene] and I don’t just see Dom, I see Carlos in the studio, having that effect. We have an editor who types things up, so when the actors ad lib we can resolve it with the script, and she was crying too.”
“It can definitely get pretty intense, when you’re trying to get those kinds of emotional scenes,” he said. “In certain cases there are those argument scenes, like when they’re trying to work out whether to go save Maria or not – we brought both actors in to have that fight in person.”
“It’s hard to do that back and forth when you’re saying ‘OK, now listen to what he recorded three days ago and match it’. So having them both in the studio having that fight was really strong too.”
Source: OXM UK
