Voice Acting in Video Games
Across many of the main game manufacturing countries, in the USA, UK and Japan, there are actors who lend their voices to characters in games and have often made a career out of it. Their names have sometimes been linked to a particular character they have voiced. Among the many noted video game voice actors and actresses are Maaya Sakamoto (the Japanese voice for the Final Fantasy XIII character Lightning), Tatsuhisa Suzuki (the voice of Noctis Lucis Caelum in Final Fantasy Versus XIII), Troy Baker (English Snow Villiers, Joel, Batman in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes), Steve Downes and Jen Taylor (Master Chief and Cortana from the Halo series), Nolan North (Nathan Drake from the Uncharted games and Desmond Miles from the Assassin's Creed game series), Liam O'Brien (the voice of Caius Ballad in Final Fantasy XIII-2 and War in Darksiders), and Jonell Elliott (the voice of Lara Croft from 1999-2003). Other actors more linked with the film or television industry have also voiced video game characters. These actors include Mark Hamill (The Joker, Wolverine and the Watcher from Darksiders), Michael Dorn (various characters from World of Warcraft and Gatatog Uvenk from Mass Effect 2) and Claudia Black (Chloe Frazer from the second and third entries in the Uncharted series).
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