Voice Over Video Sunday

Two video game related VOVS in a row?! I know. I love it too. This week Gametrailers.com brings us an interview with Michael Ironside, in the booth recording Sam Fisher. The Splinter Cell games, and undoubtedly Ironside’s performances, easily are my favorite character acting in any game to date. I’m sure that man’s 30+ years of acting may have had some help in the matter as well.

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Image Credit: Michael Nagle for The New York Times

Michael Hollick has voiced the most well-known character in the year’s biggest blockbuster game when he took on the role of Niko Bellic in Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 4. Now Michael was paid for his work and at a little over union scale he took home roughly $100,000. Not nearly as much as a famous-faced screen actor would have netted for a large role such as this, and Mr. Hollick will most likely never see another dime for his work. No residuals or royalties will come his way at all even after his voice will be heard by millions in online campaign and television commercials due to the current structure between union contracts and the game developers and publishers themselves.

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Michael Douglas Lands Role As NBC Nightly News Announcer