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So im playing through ME2 again and when I realised the Illusive Mans voice sounds familiar im like hmmm....

 

Then when i get to the credits I was looking through the voice actors and came along the name Martin Sheen, and im like yeah that explains the familiar voice, the main actor in Apocalypse Now,( or that guy from two and half mens' brother ) if you dont know.

 

Anyone else pick it up? Or was I left out of a circle in which everyone knew?

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As soon as I heard the voice when watching pre-release videos, I knew right away that it was Martin Sheen. Sheen is one of my favorite actors and starred in one of my favorite movies; Apocalypse Now. Classic!

 

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end..." :biglaugh

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So im playing through ME2 again and when I realised the Illusive Mans voice sounds familiar im like hmmm....

 

Then when i get to the credits I was looking through the voice actors and came along the name Martin Sheen, and im like yeah that explains the familiar voice, the main actor in Apocalypse Now,( or that guy from two and half mens' brother ) if you dont know.

 

Anyone else pick it up? Or was I left out of a circle in which everyone knew?

 

LOLZ! Wow, either Martin Sheen got a lot younger for his roles in those two pieces or he got a lot older for his voice in Mass Effect 2.

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So im playing through ME2 again and when I realised the Illusive Mans voice sounds familiar im like hmmm....

 

Then when i get to the credits I was looking through the voice actors and came along the name Martin Sheen, and im like yeah that explains the familiar voice, the main actor in Apocalypse Now,( or that guy from two and half mens' brother ) if you dont know.

 

Anyone else pick it up? Or was I left out of a circle in which everyone knew?

 

I'm loving this comment... Yes Martin & Charlie Sheen look similar but thats not because they are brothers... I wonder why they would look similar.

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Martin Sheen ... that guy from two and half mens' brother
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Martin Sheen is Charlie Sheen's father, not brother! Charlie Sheen being the guy from Two and a Half Men, of course.

 

Maybe a tangent, but one of my favorite commercials ever is still this one commercial about either a credit card or a check card... Charlie Sheen goes into a store to buy something, and tries to pay for his stuff with a check. The clerk at the counter is taking forever with the check, of course, asking for ID and whatnot. Then it cuts to the part about "use our card instead", then it goes back to the clerk holding up Charlie Sheen's driver's license. He says "this doesn't look like you", and then pulls down the license so the audience can see that Charlie has been replaced with Martin, who says "It did when I came in here." :D

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Martin Sheen is Charlie Sheen's father, not brother! Charlie Sheen being the guy from Two and a Half Men, of course.

 

Maybe a tangent, but one of my favorite commercials ever is still this one commercial about either a credit card or a check card... Charlie Sheen goes into a store to buy something, and tries to pay for his stuff with a check. The clerk at the counter is taking forever with the check, of course, asking for ID and whatnot. Then it cuts to the part about "use our card instead", then it goes back to the clerk holding up Charlie Sheen's driver's license. He says "this doesn't look like you", and then pulls down the license so the audience can see that Charlie has been replaced with Martin, who says "It did when I came in here." :D

 

lol i remember that commercial. needs to be brought back now lol

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Martin Sheen is Charlie Sheen's father, not brother! Charlie Sheen being the guy from Two and a Half Men, of course.

 

Maybe a tangent, but one of my favorite commercials ever is still this one commercial about either a credit card or a check card... Charlie Sheen goes into a store to buy something, and tries to pay for his stuff with a check. The clerk at the counter is taking forever with the check, of course, asking for ID and whatnot. Then it cuts to the part about "use our card instead", then it goes back to the clerk holding up Charlie Sheen's driver's license. He says "this doesn't look like you", and then pulls down the license so the audience can see that Charlie has been replaced with Martin, who says "It did when I came in here." :D

 

 

That's awesome! I never saw that one but after reading this, I can picture it pretty well in my head. LMAO

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Sheen was cast perfectly for his role as The Illusive Man. But by far, I think my favorite voice actor is Nolan North. Seriously.... if you consider yourself any kind of gamer and don't recognize at least 5 characters on his resume, then you should be checking yourself for a pulse.

 

Just to name a few....

 

Hades in God of War

Sgt. Randall in Call of Duty 2

Ghostrider AND Hawkeye in Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Desmond in the Assassin's Creed series

The Prince in the latest Prince of Persia

Sgt. Forge in Halo Wars

Romeo in ODST

Drake in Uncharted

Not to mention various roles in games like Gears of War 2, Unreal Tournament, Halo 3, the SOCOM series, Ratchet and Clank, Resistance, and even Avatar: The Last Airbender.

 

Disregarding that last one.... I'd say that's on damn impressive resume.

 

Also, I bet most of you didn't know that Marcus Fenix.... is also Bender from Futurama.

 

The guy who plays Baird in Gears of War 2 also plays Tai in the same game. As well as one of the voices behind the Boomers AND he played Saren in the first Mass Effect.

 

And I'm sure most people know that Keith David (Captain Anderson) also plays The Arbiter in the Halo series, and Julius in the Saints Row series.

 

Wow..... I care WAY too much about voice actors....

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Sheen was cast perfectly for his role as The Illusive Man. But by far, I think my favorite voice actor is Nolan North. Seriously.... if you consider yourself any kind of gamer and don't recognize at least 5 characters on his resume, then you should be checking yourself for a pulse.

 

Just to name a few....

 

Hades in God of War

Sgt. Randall in Call of Duty 2

Ghostrider AND Hawkeye in Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Desmond in the Assassin's Creed series

The Prince in the latest Prince of Persia

Sgt. Forge in Halo Wars

Romeo in ODST

Drake in Uncharted

Not to mention various roles in games like Gears of War 2, Unreal Tournament, Halo 3, the SOCOM series, Ratchet and Clank, Resistance, and even Avatar: The Last Airbender.

 

Disregarding that last one.... I'd say that's on damn impressive resume.

 

Also, I bet most of you didn't know that Marcus Fenix.... is also Bender from Futurama.

 

The guy who plays Baird in Gears of War 2 also plays Tai in the same game. As well as one of the voices behind the Boomers AND he played Saren in the first Mass Effect.

 

And I'm sure most people know that Keith David (Captain Anderson) also plays The Arbiter in the Halo series, and Julius in the Saints Row series.

 

Wow..... I care WAY too much about voice actors....

 

He also did Jason Fleming from Shadow Complex and Elliot Salem from Army of Two: The 40th Day

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Sheen was cast perfectly for his role as The Illusive Man. But by far, I think my favorite voice actor is Nolan North. Seriously.... if you consider yourself any kind of gamer and don't recognize at least 5 characters on his resume, then you should be checking yourself for a pulse.

 

Just to name a few....

 

Hades in God of War

Sgt. Randall in Call of Duty 2

Ghostrider AND Hawkeye in Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Desmond in the Assassin's Creed series

The Prince in the latest Prince of Persia

Sgt. Forge in Halo Wars

Romeo in ODST

Drake in Uncharted

Not to mention various roles in games like Gears of War 2, Unreal Tournament, Halo 3, the SOCOM series, Ratchet and Clank, Resistance, and even Avatar: The Last Airbender.

 

Disregarding that last one.... I'd say that's on damn impressive resume.

 

Also, I bet most of you didn't know that Marcus Fenix.... is also Bender from Futurama.

 

The guy who plays Baird in Gears of War 2 also plays Tai in the same game. As well as one of the voices behind the Boomers AND he played Saren in the first Mass Effect.

 

And I'm sure most people know that Keith David (Captain Anderson) also plays The Arbiter in the Halo series, and Julius in the Saints Row series.

 

Wow..... I care WAY too much about voice actors....

 

He is my favorite voice actor of all time. Hell, he is my favorite black actor of all time. My overall favorite actor though is tie between Jason Statham and Clive Owen.

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Alright from what i gathered Martin Sheen Is the father, well I just thought they were brothers but that explains the wrinkles :eek:

Geez I didnt realise that ME2 had such a wide cast of Famous voice actors, when I think about it now Udina Sounds like Julius from saints row

I guess you really do learn something new every day. :p

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This game is like a who's-who list of Sci-Fi/nerdom actors all crammed into one game. Not only from movies and television shows, but other video games as well.

 

The Illusive Man - Martin Sheen (Apocalypse Now, The West Wing, Spawn)

Kal'Reegar - Adam Baldwin (Firefly, Serenity, Chuck, ODST)

Captain Anderson - Keith David (Crash, Pitch Black, Platoon, Halo, Modern Warfare 2)

Joker - Seth Green (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Robot Chicken, Family Guy, Austin Powers)

Female Shephard - Jennifer Hale (Metal Gear Solid, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, Syphon Filter, Mercenaries)

EDI - Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica, ODST, Starcraft II)

Captain Bailey - Michael hogan (Battlestar Galactica)

Jacob - Adam Lazarre-White (Heroes)

Aria - Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix, Memento, Disturbia, Red Planet)

Miranda - Yvonna Strahovski (Chuck)

Uvenek - Michael Dorn (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

 

To be honest, I'm glad they didn't hire Nolan North. There's barely any game you can play nowadays where he's not voicing the main character.

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