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Essays 25 October 2019, 12:00

Hollywood in games – the familiar faces of Death Stranding

Hideo Kojima will soon unleash his opus magnum, which will feature prominent actors that we've seen in Star Wars, The Walking Dead, Spectre or latest Tarantino's.

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Tommie Earl Jenkins as Die-Hardman

You might not be familiar with the visage of Tommy Earl Jenkins, but you might just recognize his voice. The fifty-year-old American actor, in addition to several smaller roles in individual episodes of How to Get Away with Murder or Law & Order True Crime has mostly duplicate roles to his credit. The greatest popularity was brought to him after voicing Ubercorn in the British animated kids' series Go Jetters! We could also hear him as the narrator in the 2016 Roots miniseries.

Gamers might mostly recognize him as the voice of a few characters in some of the biggest adventure games. He was the voice of director Castola and the male protagonist in Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire. In the infamous Fallout 76, he voiced Scott, Squire, and Schultz, as well as the call-center lottery representative, and also performed in Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire.

In Death Stranding he will enact the leader of Bridges, which is owned by the protagonist of the game, Sam Bridges. Wearing a distinctive mask resembling a skull, he tries to convince the hero to undertake the mission of uniting the cities and thus reviving America.

Michael Grygorcewicz

Michael Grygorcewicz

He first worked as a co-worker at GRYOnline.pl. In 2023 he became the head of the Paid Products department. He has been creating articles about games for over twenty years. He started with amateur websites, which he coded himself in HTML, then he moved on to increasingly larger portals. A computer engineer, but he was always more drawn to writing than programming, and he decided to tie his future with the former. In games, he primarily looks for stories, emotions, and immersion that no other medium can provide - hence, among his favorite titles, are games focusing on narration. Believes that NieR: Automata is the best game ever made.

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