Despite the devastation of nuclear war and ravages of time, Wayne Newton is still alive during the events of the game Fallout: New Vegas… in a form. He’ll be a programmed DJ with a dark sense of humor named Mr. New Vegas , which is a riff off of his current nickname, Mr. Las Vegas.
“Even in the post-apocalypse, there’s still Wayne Newton,” says the Bethesda Softworks producer Jason Bergman. “I think he got a kick out of that.”
He joins an all star cast of TV, movie and internet personalities, like Matthew Perry (Friends), Zach Levi (Chuck), Kris Kristofferson, Michael Dorn (Star Trek: The Next Generation) and Felicia Day (The Guild). Ron Perlman (Hellboy) will be back as narrator for the game.
The role was created for Newton, “because he is Las Vegas,” Bergman explains. “He really brings that extra touch of Vegas class to the game. … And whether he’s reading news stories about super mutants or introducing a Dean Martin song, his personality comes through.”
“I have never been in a video game before and, frankly, have never played, simply because I have been working my whole life,” Newton says. He noted that when he did his mostly zippy, short dialog lines, he was asked to “do them just a little bit different, each one, until we hit on what it was the guys wanted … where it is Wayne Newton, but it’s not Wayne Newton, you know ”
Source: USA Today
