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Actress Janina Gavankar confirmed as Battlefront II's protagonist Iden Versio

Janina Gavankar on Twitter: “Finally, I can confirm: I have the honor of playing Inferno Squad Commander Iden Versio in @starwars Battlefront II."

Gamers will recognise Janina as the voice of Amita in Far Cry 4.

TGG_overlord2932d ago

Not the band, that's for sure.

leemo192932d ago (Edited 2932d ago )

Shes played the voice of Amita in FC4, shes also has played on the show True blood (Luna Garza), Arrow (Detective McKenna Hall), Vampire diaries (Tessa) and Sleepy Hollow (Diana Thomas).

LucasRuinedChildhood2931d ago

Bioware, take note. She doesn't look like they started off with a Shrek character model and then tried to change it into a woman.

INMATEofARKHAM2931d ago

That's harsh... lol

Also you beat me by 4 minutes... I was going to post something similar.

UCForce2931d ago

Well, you got that right.

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GUTZnPAPERCUTZ2931d ago

Im just convinced that no one will be able to use the Frostbite engine even close to what DICE do with it... -_-

r3f1cul2931d ago

i disagree ... i think she is infinitely more attractive in real life and they have toned down her attractiveness a lot honestly :/

ShadowWolf7122931d ago

She's not wearing makeup, her hair is up, and she's sweaty from, you know, being in a massive battle on Endor in that shot.

Her facial replication is almost spot-on.

MorpheusX2931d ago (Edited 2931d ago )

she'll be WHITE WASHED as a game character, especially as a Lead. You all know it. to pander to the majority rule social class smh, and NOBODY will say anything, its expected by you people.

And anyone who speaks against the white washing will be ostracized , viewed as a trouble maker blah blah etc, your reading into it to much etc......all the excuses, but then everyone wonders why there are so many racial problems in this country.

Why wonder when its all around you everyday all day 24/7 365 days a year ? ,

...the inequality, the vast disparity that so many Americans ignore and take advantage of, and have the advantage because of it.

Its the samething in video games, 1 RACE gets most if not all the attention, all the praise, all the honor and glory......................... ........................and think nothing of it, its been normalized to the point where even most of the oppressed racial groups in America wont speak on it, there afraid.

I'm not. Never have been, NEVER WILL BE, I'm proud of who God created me to be.

I don't feel gamers care and obviously by the Industrys on track record , they don't care either, they ONLY CARE about 1 racial group MAINLY, and you all KNOW who you are.

rainslacker2930d ago

That's a little unfair to the Shrek character don't you think?

LucasRuinedChildhood2930d ago

You have a point. I'll give you that.

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Fist4achin2931d ago

For the disagrees, I'd imagine you are going home after a long day of throwing passes, running up and down the field to your Victoria Secret wives?!

Kokyu2931d ago

Yay femininist push into everything....

yeahright22931d ago

Can't even have a female lead now? You anti SJWs are getting out of hand.

Youngindy212931d ago

Right. Now-a-days the Anti-SJW crowd would be complaining that Tomb Raider was trying to push a feminist agenda. It's like SHUT UP.

NapalmSanctuary2931d ago

True enough, but this is what happens when something besides character and story become more important than character and story, where character and story are concerned. Of course gameplay is more important, but we're not talking about gameplay.

UCForce2931d ago

You anti SJW and SJW are giving me a headache.

TekoIie2931d ago

Honestly both as bad as each other now.

If DICE went through a bunch of different character designs and felt that this is the best, then that's the character I want to play as.

Basically I want the creator to be in control rather than devs bowing to the desires of SJW'S or the anti-SJW'S.

Kokyu2931d ago

Yep Im an anti SJW because I push back against blantant tokenism. Hahaha

Legion212931d ago

When you become worse than those you condemn

bluefox7552931d ago

I'm not sure if feminists had anything to do with this. They very well may have, but unless you have evidence, it makes you look silly to throw out the accusation.

Kokyu2931d ago (Edited 2931d ago )

The reason the new trilogy has a female lead, rogue one's story was changed and this game has a female lead is Disney hired a female head to run LA and its part of their big diversity for the sake of diversity. Its why Thor is now a women, war machine is getting a movie and the Xmen; first class, Apocalypse, days of futures past and Logan were all about strong female leads. Have strong female leads just stop shoe horning them into stuff that wasnt written or designed for them because then its not diversity its plain tokenism.

MorpheusX2931d ago

EA is all the evidence needed.

EA has a political Agenda, keep watching, outside of sports , every game EA publishes will FORCE FEED female leads down the throats of gamers , a hobby still dominated by males.

And when this does happen, some will still pretend they don't see the evidence.

Keep watching , EA IS GOING to do just that.

ShadowWolf7122931d ago

Yeeeeah, the new Trilogy has a trio of central characters, similar to the original, and like then, only one is a woman. The next movie is focused on Luke Skywalker. There are a TON of comics and novels with male leads, as well as the current TV series.

If it really bothers you that maybe ten out of thirty pieces of media have a female lead, you might have some issues.

And FYI: Marvel is run independently, Joe Quesada and Axel Alonso are the ones making hiring choices and many of the current progs there worked there pre-buyout, and Disney kinda putting their foot down is why we're getting much of the old status quo back in and politics out come this fall.

P.S. Kathleen Kennedy has been at Lucasfilm since before the buyout, and was made co-chair of LFL by Lucas.himself.

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Rob_Ko2931d ago (Edited 2931d ago )

well as a hetero man, I prefer watching nice butt of a woman, nothing feminist in that.

MorpheusX2931d ago

Rob_Ko

Watching Entertainment ie: watching a movie and playing INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT ie: playing a game....are 2 totally different things.

How hard is it to use just a little bit of your brain to EASILY COMPREHEND the distinction ?

A child could understand the difference.......smh anyways, I prefer what is REAL about women, like my girlfriend, but maybe digital boobs is all the female interaction you get on a regular basis (oops)

smh, Whats the next lame excuse by you SJW apologist>?

yeahright22930d ago

There's nothing SJW here Morpheus. you just go looking for that stuff at every opportunity. The ONLY th9ing here is a female lead and you start crying SJW. You got some serious issues dude. Seeing conspiracies that aren't even there. You're in tin foil hat territory.

Bathyj2931d ago

You dont have to be so scared of girls. Cooties are not a real thing.

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toddybad2931d ago

Out of ten....I'd give her one.

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gangsta_red2931d ago

Damn...a one? Only girls that are broken, with bugs and glitches deserve a one.

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toddybad2931d ago

Honestly. I'd give her one.....you don't understand what I'm getting at there?

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Tacoboto5d ago

Bungie at that time became the most wonderful bunch of hypocrites in the gaming industry. Knowing this now, gosh the entitlement they felt was out of this world.

Nothing like buying yourself from Microsoft because you don't want to be the Halo Studio anymore, and the FIRST THING you do is sign your next IP over to Activision, for a DECADE, while they are in the middle of ousting the heads of Infinity Ward so they can exert even more control over COD while screwing out the devs at IW...

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Profchaos5d ago

Tti their credit they praised the technical abilities of 343 and I remember at the time thinking halo 4 was a huge graphical leap above reach everything else was rubbish when I actually got to play it but there was no doubt it looked good for the 360 and is probably the best looking game on the system.

But ultimately I think bungie has always had a leadership problem and going independent ultimately proved this it's only getting worse with studio heads being outed by Sony for abuse allegations seems like all bungies past success has been in spite of management not because of it.

But really I think the bungie we have today is not the same one we had in that Xbox era of Bungie

PhillyDonJawn5d ago

I liked the artstyle change. For the most part. Something looked worse but most of everything else looked better. Weapons and vehicles for sure. The wraith come to my mind instantly.
And how can they get mad when the bungie changed it with Halo Reach?

Sciurus_vulgaris4d ago

I know a lot of people dislike Halo 4’s arts style, but there’s thing about it I like and dislike. Personally, the Halo 4 design of Master Chief’s armour is my favourite depiction of the character’s armour.

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