Appearance Peter Parker Sony exclusive changes again in the sequel, making the hero more like a new face model. Someone liked the changes, and someone still cannot come to terms with them. On the eve of the second part, let’s take a look at this question wider, and look at other faces.
Interestingly, many actors Marvel’s Spider-Man gave their characters not only voices, but also appearance. That is, if desired, it would be possible to make a movie by game. It is not clear, however, why, if the game already gives a light in the production of many blockbusters. But a small short film could be built for PR. Anyway, the cinema unit Sony takes off some hat, although there would be some benefit from them.
In general, about those actors whose appearance meets us in the game, and will be about today. By the way, this article also has a video version.
Let’s start with secondary characters.
Josh Kiton, who was voiced by the electric, quite an experienced dubbing actor. Almost one hundred percent that you watched at least one project where Kiton participated in the original voice acting.
So, it was he who sounded for young Hercules in the cartoon from Disney. And during his career, he voiced a lot of soups, including flash, a green lantern and, of course, Spider-Man himself. Josh Kiton voiced Peter Parker in Spider-Man Age of Time. It was precisely his voice that Peter says in one of the best series about the spider, namely Spectacular Spider-Man.
It’s funny that in Marvel’s Spider-Man He got a villainous party, but he not only voiced Max Dylan, but also gave him his appearance. True, it is somewhat difficult to find out in the actor’s game, because he does not have hair on his head.
In turn, Phil Morris embodied in the game the role of Dr. Morgan Michaels, one of the Oscorp scientists, which developed the “breath of the devil”. The actor is mainly known in voice acting, but from the remarkable it was he who played the Martian hunter in the Secrets of Smolville.
Interestingly, Morgan Michaels is one of the pseudonyms of Michael Morbius, which, as it were, hints at us at the vampire future of the character. Who knows, maybe, after the tragic events of the first part, Michaels, fearing persecution, persecution and other attacks on himself, will change the name to his canonical and still shimmer in the sequel.
The image of Martin Lee, he is Mr. Negative, embodied the actor Stephen Jong. It is often removed on secondary roles in different series, but even more often takes part in the voice acting of a video game.
So you could hear it not only in Spider-Man from Insomniac, but also in Cyberpunk 2077. There he played Grayson, one of the assistants of Adam Smesher, from whom you can pick up the keys to the piston Johnny Silly Super. At Gotham Knights, Stephen voiced one of the main roles, namely Jason Todd, he is a red cap.
Norman Osbourne owes his voice Spinscastle casino and face to Mark Rolston. This is not the first to play powerful villains, so the actor often voices Lex Luther. For example, it is his voice that the character speaks in Injustice: Gods among us. You can also say about Daffstrous in the Batman Arkham Games Universe. And although mostly the actor has been in voice acting for a long time, you could also know him from Drake’s roles in “strangers”, Warren Rasa in “House Pick”, Stef in Robokop 2, Boxing Diamond in the “Escape from the Showkens”.
William Sleyers embodied Dr. Otto Oktavius in the game, having fit perfectly into the image of the scientist. And not surprising, because it was he who voiced Salarian geneticist Mordin Souls in Mass Effect 3. Basically, the actor is known in his voice in games and animated series.
Perhaps one of his most famous roles is Rigby in a “ordinary show”.
Actress Nancy Linari played aunt May. It is interesting that initially the developers did not plan to introduce aunt May in the game as a full -fledged character, and this was due to technical difficulties, because the anim of the elderly is quite time -consuming.
Insomniac wanted Aunt May to call Peter on the phone, but did not appear live. Fortunately, the author of the comics Dan Slot, who advised the developers, convinced them to fully introduce May into the game, and the technical problems were left to the aunt May a little younger (the slot cited the last film adaptation of the spider, where May was not a classic gray old woman from comics).
As we know, ultimately the developers listened to the slot and chose Nancy Linari, not only for dedication, but also for the appearance model. Now it’s hard to imagine a game without aunt May, because one of the most sincere parts of Marvel’s Spider-Man is connected with it.
Attention, attention! Those who have not yet passed the game, close your eyes, now there will be a large spoiler for the game.
The author of the “perfect Spider-Man” also advised the developers not to regret important characters in order to make the story more significant. So Dan Slot suggested killing Harry Osborne,
And here the guys from Insomniac listened to him, but only partly, and deprived Peter of another loved one.
At the same time, as the actor Yuri Lavelental told, Marvel Comics insisted that the developers do not kill Aunt May. But this discussion lasted a long time, and ultimately Insomniac defended their right to the dramatic ending of the game. It is funny to realize that comics with the first appearance of Mr. Negativa behind the authority of the same slot that I read as a child, they found their embodiment in one of the best interpretations of Spider-Man. I would probably go crazy with joy if they showed me such a game when I was a small schoolboy.
Mary Jane in a new game brilliantly voiced Laura Bailey. For those who are not in the know, Laura Bailey is about such a female analogue of Troy Backer. That is, these two, it seems, managed to voice some crazy number of games. Bailey’s voice speaks a black widow in the game avengers, and Abby from The Last of US Part II, and the female version of the heroine Saints Row 3. The model of the face became Stefani Taylor-Johnson. True, in the first game, the developers quite strongly changed her appearance, but already in the sequel Maja will become what she was originally conceived.
Miles Morales is played by actor Naji Jetter, who not only voiced, but also became a prototype of appearance for the hero. His first major role in the Games was The Last of US, where Jetter played the youngest of the brothers who meet in the way of Joel and Ellie. The actor voices Miles not only in Insomniac Games: Morales broadcasts his voice in the 2017 animated series, and also in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3. Naji also appeared in episodic roles in such series as “Anatomy of passion” and “everyone hate Chris”.
And Jetter is one of the ambassadors of the Starlight Children’s Foundation charitable organization, which tries to make the life of seriously ill children in the hospital happier.
Finally, we proceed to the head of the ensemble of costume songs and dancing of the city of New York, namely Spider-Man. Its in the Universe of the Insomniac was embodied at once by three people. The main and main one is Yuri Leventin. It was his voice that says Peter Parker and his spider alter ego. It was from him that the seizure of movements and facial expressions took place.
Yuri is a veteran in voice: behind his shoulders there are many roles in games and animated series. Of the iconic-this is the prince of Persia in the "Pesks of the Time" and the entire trilogy of the 2000s. And Saski from Naruto. In general, he has a lot of work in the voice of an anime, because the actor was the son of the ambassador and once spent a lot of time in Japan. In the game Midnight Suns, the spider again voiced Lavelental, although the developers from Friaxis noted that this is not the same hero as in Sony games.
Perhaps, after the role of the spider, the actor gained great popularity. According to many fans, Yuri is almost the best of spiders, who stably occupies the first or second line among the voices of the character. And this is more than deserved. The game in English is recharging, you can understand how charismatic spider Lavelental came out.
Russian dubbing is also good, voices are perfectly chosen there and all that, but … you know, I’m not an apologist, the original is always better. It often happens that dubbing stretches a bad acting game, and even whole works. But in the case of a spider, the main characters somewhat lost in the subtleties. Therefore, if you are going to recall the game, try to play the original.
A more difficult situation is with the appearance of St. Petersburg. Initially, the actor John Bubnica acted as a prototype, but when the new generation was transitions, the developers changed his face to the appearance of the New York model Ben Jordan. And this still causes the indignation of part of the fans, because over the years after the release of the original game, everyone managed to love that very Peter Parker.
The developers themselves from Insomniac reported that they were forced to take such a difficult step for technical reasons, because a new person in structure is better approached the face of Yuri Laveln, so in future games his facial expressions and acting should become more expressive.
However, such arguments seem unable to players, and many believe that the hero’s face specially made more similar to Tom Holland, and now the hero looks more young and does not fit his image of an experienced superhero, although he has been in this universe for 8 years now.
Honestly, I was also outraged at first by this decision. After all, just like everyone else, already used to the old Peter Parker. And it is precisely with this appearance of the hero who was taken from John Bubniac that the most vivid emotions are connected after the first passage of the game.
It is unlikely that there was some insidious design of the developers to replace the face with Hollandovskoye. Rather, their fault is that the changes in the game were made as if a few hastily. Somewhere, the animation of Peter Parker needs refinement, and somewhere his new face is simply photographed in the photo of the old, and it does not look very neat. But you know, this is the whole thing. The new face model is also perfectly suitable, and if the initially Peter was with such an appearance, then I would have been warmly treated with him, and could not have thought of the hero to some other. Ben Jordan is a new model of appearance, although it looks young, but in fact even older than the previous.
I am sure that those players who first got acquainted with the game on the PS5 or PC, will ultimately also cannot imagine another Peter Parker. Moreover, in the sequel his face was corrected, making Ben Jordan more like.
Well, that’s all. Soon we’ll see what Caste the second part will please us.