During a recent visit to High Moon Studios, Ausgamers was able to confirm several of the voice actors for the upcoming Transformers: War for Cybertron video game.
The biggest reveal is that Leonard Nimoy returns to Transformers, providing the voice for Zeta Prime. Leonard Nimoy was the voice of Galvatron in the Transformers: The Movie animated film from 1986. Also confirmed is actor James Remar as the voice of Megatron. James can currently be seen on television shows such as Flash Forward and Dexter. Doug Parker also returns to Transformers, providing the voice of Starscream. Doug voiced Starscream in Beast Wars along with voice Terrorsaur. He voiced Tidal Wave in Transformers Armada and Transformers Energon, as well as Mirage in Transformers Energon upon Tidal Wave’s conversion.
Update: Activision Reps dropped us a line later today and let us know that the above information is FALSE. They said that the only confirmed voice actor right now is Peter Cullen, and that more VO information should be coming down the pipeline soon.
E. C. R. Former
I agree. To me this seems more like a cover up than an April Fools joke.
Xaddion
Sorry if this is a dead thread, (6 days is probably not old) but obvious cover up is obvious.
SPLIT LIP
Over fifteen years ago?
And granted Tom Kenny sounds enough like G1 Starscream, but Adler sounds even less like him than Parker.
Also, I just like Doug Parker, THAT'S why I'm glad he's (most likely) in the game.
AniProwl
Tom Kenny or Charlie Adler
Chris McFeely
Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't OBJECT to Parker in the role, just to the notion that he was somehow doing a bang-on Latta impression, when he really wasn't.
SPLIT LIP
Who would YOU have picked, then? It's not like they had a huge choice, and Parker didn't exactly get the job for that ONE bit as Starscream.
Fit For natalie
I still say this sounds more like Michael Bay-style heavy handed damage control. Why would a gaming site post false info? If it were April Fools, they would fess up to it, that's the point of April Fools, to say "HA YOU GOT SUCKED IN", not quietly remove text.
Voiceroy
I see the frontpage news item got a correction, but could we get a fix on the subject title for this thread?
Transformed
I think Dr. Smoov does the best Starscream/Cobra Commander voiceovers around. I would love to hear him voice Starscream in WFC.
I hope whoever's voice Zeta Prime knocks the character out of the park. This day early April fools crap has made it pretty tough to top a voice as good as Mr. Nemoy's…
Chris McFeely
I didn't find his Terrorsaur annoying, but I'll second the Starscream emotion. Simply shrieking your lines does not a Chris Latta impression make – something that nobody, not even people who try to do the voice in fandubs, seems to understand.
Voiceroy
I for one, am glad this turned out to be false.
And I'm amazed at the support for Doug Parker in this thread for Starscream. Back when BW was still on the air, a repeated complaint from fans was Parker's poor performance as Starscream and even moreso about how annoying his voice for Terrorsaur was. I didn't care for either — I thought his attempt at imitating Latta was (to quote a Nimoy line as Galvatron) "bad comedy."
SPLIT LIP
Agreed. It really doesn't make any sense.
Fit For natalie
I find it hard to believe that a games site (a day (or two, depending on where you are) before April Fools) would post false information, as Activision claims, and then proceed to rewrite their article to remove all information about the voice actors.
Anybody remember in 2008 during ComicCon when it was revealed that The Fallen was the villain of Revenge of the Fallen? When Bay learned of this, the articles that revealed this were swiftly edited to remove this information and almost everything regarding the 13.
Besides, what kind of Aprils Fools day joke is it to say "HEY! A guy from Star Trek and two actors most of you have probably never heard of are in this game! GOLD!"
optimusprime42
nooooooooo
AniProwl
Maybe it was too early for Acticvision to reveal this just like those leaked images of strange landscapes we saw a month ago.
Keroshino
ahh!!!…
thygriever
Aw ******ed! FALSE?? That's lame. Nemoy doing a tf voice again would be so awesome since last I heard he didn't even recall doing Galvatron when a fan asked him about it lol
silverbolt00
I agree about how little info we've had on this game is really poor but isn't UFC the 2nd game in that series to be cranked out so they already had the main game engine and what not built, they just added all the new stuff so you can see why that would be talked about and hyped/demoed. They're talking about WFC like it's something fresh and new which we all know we've played games like it, just not TF so maybe they feel justified in holding everything back until right before launch? You're right though, stupid it is!
Mechafire
Son of a bitch.
AniProwl
Great marketing this game has. Am I right?