Video games as an entertainment medium, have changed over the years. Over the past decade, AAA developers have breached into a truly unknown place. With some games taking a page from Hollywood blockbusters by crafting more intricate, detailed, and expansive stories. Along with this, technology has advanced to the point where for an actor, auditioning for a for a video game might be more akin to auditioning for a movie or TV show. The talented people over at Striking Studios wanted this to ring true for their ambitious first game, The Callisto Protocol.
Headed by one of the original co-creators of the Dead Space franchise, Glen Schofield, the game aims to recapture the damp and dark survival horror aspect of his previous titles. Being offered Sony’s Visual Arts Services Groups help along with their massive motion capture studio, they knew they had to bring a certain amount of acting prowess to their characters. Let’s break out of prison and take a look at all voice actors in The Callisto Protocol.
All voice actors in The Callisto Protocol
While there are defiantly way more voices from great actors and actresses in this game, we are going to be focusing on the main characters announced so far. These are the main characters and their actors portraying them:
- Josh Duhamel as Jacob Lee
- Karen Fukuhara as Dani Nakamura
- Sam Witwer as Captain Leon Ferris
As our main protagonist that players will take the control of, freight transporter Jacob Lee is voiced and modeled after Hollywood actor Josh Duhamel. Who made his first credited appearance in an episode of Ed before scoring a breakout role as William Lennox in the Michael Bay directed Transformers films. As voice acting goes, Duhamel has voiced his fair share of characters in Hollywood as well as video games. Lending his voice to movies and shows such as Batman: The Long Halloween, Blade Runner: Black Lotus, and even Wings. Besides one other actor on this list, he has previously voiced characters in hit games like Skylanders and Call of Duty WWII.
Karen Fukuhara is making her debut into the world of gaming with her voice and face being used for her performance as Dani Nakamura. The leader of a supposed terrorist organization called Outer Way who meets our protagonist early on into the game. Being the one with the least amount of acting credits, Fukuhara has definitely made her mark on every role she has performed in. Her first role was a pretty major secondary character in Suicide Squad, before being cast as a main character in the hit Amazon show The Boys. She has also done a bit of voice acting for Star Wars: Visions and Robot Chicken.
Rounding out all voice actors in The Callisto Protocol is the ever talented Sam Witwer, lending his voice and face to the character of Captain Leon Ferris who seems to be the human antagonist of the game. Witwer is no stranger to the world of voice acting in video games as mentioned earlier. Portraying the beloved and terrifying Starkiller in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, he has also voice acted for many Star Wars games as well as leading other games like Days Gone. First making his acting debut in an episode of ER before going on to many other TV shows and movies big and small. A few notable performances are his roles in Being Human, Battlestar Galactica, and Once Upon a Time.
Acting credits for all three of these stellar performers could go on forever. These are just a few of the things you might have seen them in. Regardless of if you know them or not, you can bet that players are in for some spectacular performances from these three along with the rest of the cast. Consequently, a developer boasting as many acclimations from their fans as the actors, you’ll be in for a spooky and surreal ride when The Callisto Protocol releases on December 2nd, 2022.
