WARNING: This post blatantly violates the rules.
As you make your way through the magnum opus that is GTA IV this week, be sure to listen to the voices of the various people who run in terror from your waves of destruction…one if those could be yours truly.
Yup, about a year ago (when I was still living in New York, obviously), I recorded a pedestrian voice for GTA IV. Sadly, this perk of working for Take-Two disappeared when I left for the lesser coast, but I’m glad I managed to sneak in there at least once.
In any event, I’m just one of many, many, many, many, many pedestrians in the game. You could play for a hundred, even a thousand hours and never once encounter me. But hey, it’s still cool, right?
So if you happen to bump into a neurotic jew who sounds like he’s just left his therapist in your travels around Liberty City, there’s a good chance that’s me (or one of the other dozen identical characters, that for all I know are actually in there). And if you need further proof, just check the manual. I’m in there, buried among the other thousand pedestrian voices. How cool is that?
Incidentally, this pretty much cemented my respect for actors of all kinds, but particularly those who do V/O work. That’s some hard stuff right there. All I did was stand in a closet and yell for about twenty minutes…I can’t imagine how weird it would be if I actually knew what I was doing.