Pac-Man krijgt praatjes!
In Pac-Man World III, dat we hier in Europa pas in 2006 te zien krijgen, zal Pac-Man de hele game door praten. Zo zal hij achtergrondinformatie over het verhaal vertellen en kan hij praten met andere in-game characters. Volgens Sherman is Pac-Man de leukste, maar ook moeilijkste stem die hij ooit heeft moeten inspreken. "I mean, what is a yellow, ghost-eating circle supposed to sound like? Me, apparently!" Martin Sherman is al bekend met stemmen voor games. We hebben hem al kunnen horen in Conflict: Desert Storm II, Driv3r, Second Sight en TimeSplitters: Future Perfect."[...]
It's been a privilege to create a voice for one of the world's most loved and enduring gaming icons. We've thoroughly enjoyed the process of working with Namco and Blitz in finding the voice for Pac-Man and to my mind he sounds just like he should!Casting a voice for such a gaming icon was a challenge. I was expecting to just deal with his half eaten cheeseness, 'wocka wocka' and his icon status but thankfully we were given a well-written and crafted script with lots of character to base the casting on. This gave the yellow fella lots of scope to identify with. We whittled down 300 possibles to a short list of 15. Then working from the script we auditioned all the actors we felt could bring Pac-Man to life. The holy grail of casting is to find the voice that energises the character within the context and makes the character easy to identify with. Martin nailed him from the get go.
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Pac-Man World III komt naar GameCube, PC, PSP, PS2 en Xbox. Er is ook een DS-versie onderweg, die naar alle waarschijnlijkheid iets later gereleased zal worden.
