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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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Sean Bean – Hitman 2

Genre: Stealth

Developer: Io Interactive

Platforms: PC, PS4, XONE

Sean Bean recently decided to break with the portrayal of the spoiler-man, whose character always dies. It's memic, but also burdensome. However, before the actor known for his roles of Boromir (and Ned Stark) made the decision, he had an affair with a real professional, the master of his craft, the real artist of assassitnation -- Agent 47.

We all know how visits from the barcode guy end. It's irreversible, inevitable. The power of the meme and the abilities of Agent 47 combined will burry everyone. However, the path to the goal is unpredictable and fraught with obscure jokes and nods to the player. It's better every time. Suffice it to say that the character, Mark Faba, is nicknamed "The Undying," because in the world of the game, no one has ever been able to send this bastard to the other world.

Faba meanwhile behaves like a Bond villain, with wicked gadgets and plans to harm the whole world. It brings back memories of, you guessed it, the role in which Sean Bean dies as Alec Trevelyan, the main villain of Golden Eye. To make it more fun -- we can finish him off with an exploding pen, a gadget that also was in the movie. Poetry. Poetry of quotes and references. And black humor, characteristic of the series. Chapeau baix to Sean Bean and the immeasurable distance he has to himself.

Bruce Willis – Apocalypse

In general, this picture reflects well the current appearance of Bruce Willis. - The Godlike Keanu Reeves and Company – Movie Stars in the Games - dokument - 2019-11-04
In general, this picture reflects well the current appearance of Bruce Willis.

Genre: action-adventure

Developer: Neversoft Entertainment

Platform: PS1

There was a time when Bruce Willis still had volition. A former movie star of Die Hard and Unbreakable eventually began to behave like a bear, who reluctantly wakes up from deep slumber to get to the plan, quickly do the job and return to the den. Apocalypse was released on the good old PlayStation, before the transformation of the actor was fulfilled.

And guess what? You could see it and hear it. In the cut-scenes and in Bruce's voice. Apocalypse takes us to a space colony controlled by a crazy sectarian scientist who predicts the end of the world of technology. Only his former friend, Trey Kincaid, can stop him. He's is a walking firing squad and a one-person demolition crew.

Apocalypse is slightly reminiscent of the Fifth Element in terms of the atmosphere (which also got a video game adaptation, albiet an awful one) – on steroids. We break our way through the colony and wreak havoc in this nostalgic journey through waves of textures from Sony's first generation consoles. If you survive the freaking platformer moments, there's a real mayhem waiting for you. But you're as strong as Bruce Willis. You can handle it.

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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