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The Breathtaking Keanu Reeves and Co. - Top Movie Stars and Celebrities in Video Games

Keanu Reeves, who charmed the viewers during E3, was not the first actor to perform in the games. Or the last one. In Death Stranding we will meet at least a few stars in the lead roles. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

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Jean Reno – Onimusha 3: Demon Siege

Looks totally alike, no? - The Godlike Keanu Reeves and Company – Movie Stars in the Games - dokument - 2019-11-04
Looks totally alike, no?

Genre: TPP slasher

Developer: Source Next

Platforms: PC, PS2

Leon. This bad guy from Mission: Impossible. Ronin. It's hard to pinpoint a single role that he's most famous for. He's a perfect choice for comedy, drama, and crime, both in a bit more engaged cinema, and in unpretentious, bombastic action. So while his presence surprised fans of the Onimusha series, he fit perfectly in the third installment, Demon Siege.

Not only that – he became of one of the two playable protagonists right away. He not only provided the voice (in the French version of the game), but also participated in motion capture sessions. Reno enacted the first Western hero in the history of the series – Jacques Blanc. This is a professional soldier, a member of the special forces, who becomes involved in the invasion of Asian demons. The adventure will take him across different times and lands.

There has always been an undeniable charm in this iconic, camp setting of Onimusha. Now add to that the charisma of Jean Reno, who performs stunts, kicks asses and swings blades like a character from Legacy of Kain or Castlevania. But don't look – just play.

John Rhys-Davies – Dune 2000

Genre: RTS

Developer: Westwood Studios

Platforms: PC

With the Dune series, an adaptation of Frank Herbert's prose, Westwood actually laid the foundation of the RTS genre, and many of these principles are valid to this day. After the studio had success with the Command & Conquer series, it returned to the desert planet for a brief while, releasing a remake of Dune 2, today known as Dune 2000. In those ancient times, the game stood out with live-action cut-scenes, like in Command & Conquer. It may have not been David-Lynch level of acting, but there was a certain charm to it.

One of the main roles included John Rhys-Davies, known for his role as Gimli in The Lord of the Rings, and Sallah, a friend of Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade. In Dune 2000, he plays Nori Moneo, the Atreides Mentat. He appears in clips during briefings, giving the player mission objectives. Rhys-Davies as Mentat is somewhat nonchalant and self-confident, even when Noree has a knife to his throat.

But no wonder – after all, this is a man who spent half his life searching for archaeological artifacts and smashing orcs in the Middle-earth.

Hubert Sosnowski

Hubert Sosnowski

He joined GRYOnline.pl in 2017, as an author of texts about games and movies. He's currently the head of the film department and the Filmomaniak.pl website. Learned how to write articles while working for the Dzika Banda portal. His texts were published on kawerna.pl, film.onet.pl, zwierciadlo.pl, and in the Polish Playboy. Has published stories in the monthly Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror magazine, as well as in the first volume of the Antologii Wolsung. Lives for "middle cinema" and meaty entertainment, but he won't despise any experiment or Fast and Furious. In games, looks for a good story. Loves Baldur's Gate 2, but when he sees Unreal Tournament, Doom, or a good race game, the inner child wakes up. In love with sheds and thrash metal. Since 2012, has been playing and creating live action role-playing, both within the framework of the Bialystok Larp Club Zywia, and commercial ventures in the style of Witcher School.

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