A few months ago Hollywood actor Nolan North – shiny chestnut hair, porcelain teeth, gym-honed pecs – was flying out of Los Angeles International Airport. As he passed through security he turned to the guard and asked what to do with his laptop. The security man winked. “We’ll let it slide for Nathan Drake,” he said, beaming broadly: “I’m a huge fan.”
This security guard had not identified Mr. North by his looks, handsome though they are, but his voice. For he provides the voice and movement for Nathan Drake, the action hero of Uncharted, Sony’s massively successful PlayStation video game.
Mr. North’s recognition in LAX, via his avatar, is a mark of the game’s wide appeal and the gradual encroaching of the virtual into the real world. The series (parts one and two) sold more than 7.2 million copies in Europe alone, and the highly praised Uncharted 3, released this month, is also expected to sell well.
Andrew Duncan of GameGrin chats with Nolan North about DIRT 5, Deadpool and more.
Nolan North and Troy Baker share their experiences working with Codemasters on Dirt 5 and its story-based career mode.
I don't really play racing games, but do people really cary about story modes in racing games? I thought need for speed in the past did a good job of it, somewhat cheesy, minimalistic story but it did the job imo. Just so there was some context in the game.
like you said, the cheesy Need for Speed stuff kind of made racing a bit more worth doing over and over again because of the story, but I don't think anyone actively goes out of their way to buy a racing game for the story.
Voice Over juggernauts Troy Baker and Nolan North are lending their talents to the latest installment in the Dirt franchise, as Dirt 5 was revealed during Microsoft’s First Look Xbox Series X Gameplay presentation earlier today.
Nolan's going to voice the engine and Troy will voice the tranny. 😏
Got to seem them a couple years ago when they were part of a live reading of Princess Bride in various voices.
https://youtu.be/iSS0yOoiCH... - Joker from Troy and Nolan as Mickey Mouse shortly after.
Not going to lie...looked like a poor man's Forza Horizon. I hope it turns out good though. The dev speaking on the game talked about no loading times...sounds great.
I think it looks as good as any other modern racer, and it's quite detailed.
Why the "poor man's Forza" dig? Surely that wasn't necessary, even if the games look similar in some respects.
The festival aspect instantly reminded me of Forza Horizon...but the environments wasn't quite up to par to me. If you look at that NY track on the river...the buildings in the background looked very current gen. But like I said, I hope it turns out good. Will be interesting to see where the voice acting stuff goes...could be pretty cool.
I should say I love racers and play just about all of them.
I mean that's cool and all but the Dirt series isn't really known for its voice acting and dialogue.
Uncharted 2 brought me back into quality gaming!