BioWare has been peculiarly tight-lipped about the voice cast for the soon-to-arrive Dragon Age, until now. A decision which became more than a little silly at E3 when they played a scene with the voice of a famous actor, and then refused to agree that she was in it. As we reported at the time, Kate Mulgrew (famous for being the guinea pig-voiced captain Kathryn Janeway of the USS Voyager) was providing the voice of a witch known as Flemeth. Yesterday BioWare announced that Kate Mulgrew (famous for being the guinea pig-voiced captain Kathryn Janeway of the USS Voyager) is providing the voice of a witch known as Flemeth. However, there’s many more famous names announced, and people: one of them’s Tim Curry. Footage below.
Other names revealed include Tim “Tuvok off of Voyager” Russ, Claudia “Aeryn off of Farscape” Black and Steve “Nigel off of Crossing Jordan” Valentine .
However, the two bigguns are certainly Mulgrew and Curry. BioWare describes Mulgrew’s Flemeth as “a powerful witch who maintains her immortality through the darkest of means, and who plays a pivotal role in the player’s survival.” Certainly in the clips shown at E3, she put in a superb performance. Everyone’s favourite Tim Curry, meanwhile, provides the snarling tones (we can only assume) of baddie Arl Rendon Howe. He, BioWare explains, “is the calculating villain, cultured and charming, with an insatiable lust for power who never hesitates to harm anyone who gets in his way.”
The story of Dragon Age takes place in the city of Ferelden, telling of the Grey Wardens and their preparations to battle against the Blight, an invasion of an enemy known as the Darkspawn. There’s a surprising amount of information on the FAQ of the official Dragon Age site, which is well worth ploughing through for extra info. The game is due in early November.
So, take a look at the actors at work:
Oh, and clearly:
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Heh heh. Genius!
I’ve noticed Armin Shimerman showing up in a lot of Bioware games too. Hell, I’ve noticed Armin Shimerman showing up in a lot of video games, period.
I know it’s old news, but I’m still baffled by the fact that Andrew Ryan was Quark.
I was a little taken aback when the dude that players Sawyer on lost was in my Command and Conquers 3 lol
One of the things that does dissapoint me with this is that its supposed to be advertised as Dark Fantasy by the devs but everything I’ve seen seems to be just generic High Fantasy. High fanatsy is not dark fantasy.
“Why pay for A list (well C list) stars for voice over when you won’t even know it’s them? ”
1)You’re telling me you wouldn’t recognize Curry’s voice?
2)I’m still waiting for the day, when Bioware wises up, and just hires the entire Legacy of Kain cast, along with the writers.
Except for Tony Jay.
Because he’s dead ;_;
Rene Auberjonois has been the voice of Janos Alderin in three Legacy of Kain games now. It’s just a shame they’ve been nowt but horseshite since Soul Reaver 1.
My failure to notice Armin Shimerman puzzled me but his Wikipedia page says he only did Mass Effect and Jade Empire, two BioWare games I haven’t played.
Regarding the marketing, Jim might have a point: Ocarina of Time played to an audience that wouldn’t be interested in Legend of Zelda whilst at the same time pissin off the feminists(”rescue the girl or play like one”). Heh, wimmin innit.
@Psychopomp
Right on both counts. Curry’s great, his voice work in Sacrifice was brilliant (to take a pertinent game-related example).
And yes, everyone involved with Legacy of Kain’s voice cast was genius. I wish they’d make another one of those, I adore that series.
Kate Mulgrew is a great actress. Her portrayal of evil Janeway was simply awesome (shame star trek does not look like that) Add to this her portrayal of some 20th century woman and her regular Janeway and it is safe to say that anyone claiming that she is anything but great has really no idea what acting is.
the best captain was Shaf… Sisko. Punching God to the face and shooting down spaceships like flies was badass :)
on topic:
I am very curious about this game. i don’t let hype to affect me in anyway but i have great hopes for this game especially since we found out that ME2 won’t be really an RPG but just another shooter.
@Lintman: It’s DRM free! Same for Mass Effect!
Also, I might hyperventilate if they had David Warner as a VA as well
Sisko was a commander not a captain, for the most part ;P Of course when he captain when he was onboard the Defiance ;P He was awesome regardless.
“Tim Curry is Stratos (sacrifice) more than anything else to me. Charnel might have had the best lines but Stratos have a real sense of clinical amorality without ever stepping into pantomime, which of course Tim himself did(step into panto).”
I’m with you here. Whenever anyone mentioned Curry in a video game, I always remembered a certain floating balloon head God..
Also, isn’t “guinea pig-voiced…” implying she’s a, err, certain racist slang ‘pig voiced’ person? Hahaha.
I loved how each God in Sacrifice was utterly unique and I think the voice actors went a long way to create that feeling.
It should be mentioned that I first learned of Tim through movies then voice acting and various things THEN Years latter I watched Rocky Horror and was stunned when I saw WHO was in it (not just Tim Curry but the other actors as well)
I just noticed that he’s also voice acted in almost every cartoon I watched as a kid as at least one character so ;P His voice is iconic to say the least.
So are the darkspawn all part of some over elaborate plan to get revenge on duckman(Sorry I just rewatched a whole lot of episodes and couldn’t help myself)?
And I am going to add my voice to the adoration of the Legacy of Kain series both for the story and its excellent presentation(visual and audio both). On that note isn’t Simon Templeman voicing the adviser/regent/uncle or whoever that Curry’s character is reporting to in the trailer? I seem to recall hearing Kain during one of the earlier trailers(and instantly assuming that the adviser was going to end up backstabbing the prince as a result).
Yep, that’s definitely Simon Templeman as the twerpy king’s second in commmand. And Bioware have used Michael Bell (Raziel) before in both Baldur’s Gate 2 (Haer’dalis) and NWN (random voices), would be nice if they got him for Dragon Age. I see from IMDB that he will be in Alpha Protocol though.
No sign of Jennifer Hale in Dragon Age? I thought she was contractually obliged to be in every video game ever :D
Actually, Railick, Sisko was promoted in the season three finale, so he was a captain in rank for the majority of the show’s run.
Curry seems too old now to play Gabriel Knight ever again :(
Wait.
So Tim Curry did Stratos’ voice in Sacrifice?
…
His awesomeness rose to stratospheric levels.