Josh Keaton has always been a gamer. In his youth, he whiled away the hours on Atari and Nintendo, enthralled by interactive stories spun in pixels. There was one element, however, that always broke the spell. "It stuck out to me when I was younger how bad a lot of the voice acting was in video games," he says with a chuckle. "They were just getting into technologies that would allow them to even have real voices. Before, it was all text-based. It was almost like the beginning of film, where everybody was just figuring out what to do." Since then, of course, technology has advanced far beyond the back-and-forth paddle-swinging of Pong. Today's games are elaborate cinematic opuses, and they require talented actors to bring them to life. Keaton, who has voiced characters in such popular games as Metal Gear Solid 3, Spider-Man, and God of War II, is one of those actors.
- 10/16/2008
- by Sarah Kuhn
- backstage.com
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