Jayne Cobb, Commander Worf, The Arbiter, Trinity, and Chris from Family Guy will all embark on a galaxy-changing journey come January 2010. That’s right — Bioware will play host to Hollywood’s finest in the newest installment in the Mass Effect series. Let’s all hope the developer’s script writers live up to the intimidatingly talented actors the company has employed.
The cast of Kingdom Hearts, which boasted the voice of NSYNC’s Lance Bass, has finally been bested. Luckily, Bioware doesn’t employ former boyband stars [via Gamespot]:
Believe it or not, Jen Taylor — the voice of Cortana — made only $1000 for her work in Halo 2, which sold 8.46 million copies worldwide. But that was 2004, and since then the circumstances of voice-over artists have changed immensely. Acting in video games is no longer a simple side business for unemployed stage performers. It’s becoming increasingly clear that as developers continue to fabricate more intriguing and complex stories, more and more actors are drawn away from Hollywood scripts and toward ones written in Silicon Valley. Bioware is here to prove that.