Linda Hunt, Harry Hamlin, Michael Clarke Duncan, Oh My!
I know I skipped the bonus disc entirely in my hurry to get Kratos onto my television screen, but luckily a certain recently self-outed Kotaku editor (although you might know him as Fruit Brute) took the time to check out some bonus interviews with the excellent voice actors of God of War II. He also points out that while bad voice acting gets trounced routinely, we rarely take the time to applaud great VO work, for which the God of War franchise should certainly qualify.
While I can't, in all honesty, say that I'm surprised that the voice of the Narrator/Gaia, Ms. Linda Hunt, isn't a gamer herself, I had no idea that she'd won an Oscar for playing a Filipino man in The Year of Living Dangerously!
No stranger to voice over gaming work, Michael Clarke Duncan lends his gravelly, distinct voice to Atlas, while Clash of the Titans hottie Harry Hamlin is aging well as he reprises the role of Perseus more than 25 years after his first muscled debut as the classic hero. Oh, Ray Harryhausen, thank you for sating my love of both mythology and manflesh, which thrives to this very day!
Returning to the voice of Kratos, T.C. Carson is a serious gaming voice over champion, having voiced Jedi Mace Windu on at least three Star Wars games and lent his manly timbre to games like Icewind Dale II, EverQuest II, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror and Saints Row, to name a few.
So check out the bonus disc, if you've got the stones to tear yourself away from Kratos for a moment. It took an Olympian effort and a Herculean will, but I managed. Just...barely.
God of War II: The Voices Behind The Masterpiece [Kotaku]
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Posted to Video Games on 17 March 2007
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While I don't feel that the series is perfect (the voice acting and story are blah to me), the extras in both GoW1 and GoW2 are fantastic! When buying GoW2, I was disappointed to find that it was a first party Sony game priced at $50, but the extras make the game a deal.
The only thing missing is something similar to the first game where you were given access to the soundtrack. Even if this game isn't your cup of tea, it's worth picking up to see the process and detail that went into it.
Duncan sounds like he's reading his lines for the first time out loud, but everyone else is great especially Hunt & Carson. I don't quite like the story as well as the first one but GoW 2 is a fantastic piece of gaming.