10 Celebrities You Couldn't Take Seriously In Video Games
These celebrities were totally distracting in video games.
It's impossible to deny that video games are now the dominant form of entertainment, with the industry being worth more than film, TV, and music combined.
As such, we've seen an increasing bevy of celebrities lending their voices and perhaps even their likenesses to video games over the years, to the point that it's basically just expected nowadays.
All the same, not all actors are well suited for all video games, and as we've seen time and time again, sometimes developers favour hiring a name talent over landing someone who actually makes sense for the part.
And that's absolutely true of these 10 video games, each of which hired celebrity voices for parts to which they weren't well-suited at all.
Maybe the actor gave a lifeless, disinterested performance, or their star stature made them a distracting presence throughout - whatever the reason, these actors stuck out rather than disappeared into their characters.
With there being so many brilliant non-celebrity voice actors out there, there's a solid argument to be made that the games industry needs to lean less on celebrity worship, because A-lister involvement rarely guarantees better sales...
10. David Duchovny - XIII
Even accepting that David Duchovny's well-honed acting brand is firmly off-the-cuff, the man sounds like he was shot with a tranquiliser dart before recording his lines as protagonist Jason Fly in cult fave FPS XIII.
Duchovny's permanently flattened vocal delivery makes it painfully clear he's just sleepwalking his way through the gig for an easy paycheck.
His work only comes across even more lifeless and disinterested given the game's heightened comic book-y style and the fact that he's starring opposite Adam West, who gives a decidedly more spirited performance as General Carrington.
Simply, it's hard to take Duchovny seriously in this role when he clearly isn't taking it seriously himself.
The man has built a career from playing laid-back characters, and so it was a poor choice to cast him as an individual who needs to, like, emote and seem interested in unraveling the central mystery.