THE LAST OF US Star Troy Baker Voices Indiana Jones in INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE Game
The first trailer recently dropped for the upcoming video game Indiana Jones and The Golden Circle. That game looks like it will be a really fun adventure game, and we now know who provides the voice of Indiana Jones: Troy Baker, who played Joel in The Last of Us.
I thought the voice of Jones in the trailer was really good, and now we know why. Baker does his best channeling Harrison Ford’s portrayal of the character in the game.
The game’s lead designer, Jerk Gustafsson, talked with EW about Baker and said: "He really brings forward that charm and sense of humor in such a good way. He's also a very big Indiana Jones fan, which is super cool. So he's also very invested in the game."
Ha added that Baker flew out to MachineGames' headquarters in Sweden early in the process to do all the motion-capture performance stuff. "He's not only a very good actor, he also contributes quite a lot to actually make the game better. When we go through with those, there's a lot of adjustments and changes, not only to the script itself, but also to how we set up the scenes, how we set up the cameras. Troy is much more a part of the development team than we usually see just because he's in those blocking sessions."
The game comes from executive producer Todd Howard, and the story takes place about one year after the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark and before The Last Crusade. Gustafsson says that, "He has separated from Marion. We know that he is sort of lost again after that. He is adrift."
The synopsis for the movie reads: Uncover one of history's greatest mysteries in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, a first-person, single-player adventure set between the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Last Crusade. The year is 1937, sinister forces are scouring the globe for the secret to an ancient power connected to the Great Circle, and only one person can stop them – Indiana Jones.
When talking about the significance of the Great Circle from the title, Indy says in the trailer: "Throughout history mankind has built sites of great spiritual significance. If you were to draw a line through these sites around the globe, you'd get a perfectly aligned circle."
The confirmed locations in the game include the Forgotten Temples of the Sukhothai, the pyramids of Egypt, and the snow-peaked Himalayas. As for some of the other members of the cast:
Marios Gavrilis portrays the game's main villain, Emmerich Voss. "He is searching for those major mysteries and those things that are unknown to the rest of the world. That's a big part of what's driving him. So when it comes to that obsession, they are very much alike. I think that that's the key element here that makes this a very, very interesting antagonist for Indiana Jones."
Another character is Gina Lombardi, who is voiced by Alessandra Mastronardi (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent), and she is an investigative journalist. Gustafsson teased: "I don't know how deep I want to go into that at the moment. I would say that she is also somewhat of a resistance journalist, and that has been an important part as well for shaping this character to make sure that Gina has her own goals."
Gustafsson wants The Great Circle to feel like gamers are in the midst of a long-lost Indy film from the 1980s, which is really cool! I love that they approached the development of the game with that goal.