How the ubiquitous game actor Troy Baker plays Talion in Middle-earth: Shadow of War

Troy Baker is the ubiquitous video game actor. He’s coming back this year as the voice of Talion, the hero known as The Bright Lord in Warner Bros.’ Middle-earth: Shadow of War. He returned to the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) to tout the game in the wake of the release of a new trailer teasing the story behind the sequel to the enormously popular Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor of 2014.

Debuting on consoles and PC on October 10, the sequel promises to be much bigger as an open world, according to creative director Michael de Plater and art director Philip Straub. (That probably means it will take me hundreds of hours to finish it as it took me 80 to finish Shadow of Mordor. And that should yield plenty of airtime for Baker, who returns to the role of the ranger who aims to stop Sauron before the events of The Lord of the Rings. Based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s books, we know that Talion fails.