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Piranha Bytes secures top talent.

Deep Silver and Piranha Bytes have signed top Hollywood talent to voice upcoming RPG Risen.

Andy Serkis (Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy) will join John Rhys Davies (Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy) and Lena Headley (Sarah Connor in The Sarah Connor Chronicles) at the top of the list.

Complementing them is a strong British cast, which includes Simon Greenall (Michael in I'm Alan Partridge and that meerkat off the TV advert), Stuart Organ (Mr Robson in Grange Hill) and Donald McCorkindale (Mr Forbes in Grange Hill).

Burn Gorman (Owen Harper in Torchwood), Brendan Coyle (Robert Timmins in Lark Rise to Candleford) and Damian O'Hare (Dr Nick Burnett in The Royal) are in there too, as are less well-known speakers Louiza Patikas (The Archers) and Timothy Watson (various roles in East Enders, Casualty, Peak Practice).

Clearly Piranha Bytes wants things done properly.

Risen represents Piranha Bytes' break from Euro RPG super-series Gothic, so plenty of effort has been put in. The results of which we'll see when the game launches on 2nd October for PC and Xbox 360.

Or even sooner, if the FAQ-promised demo arrives in timely fashion.

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- Release date 1/10/2009
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Golgo #1 3 years ago

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Talent? Pfft! They haven't even got Fitty Cents!
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dan13l #2 3 years ago

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That'd be Lena Headey then - http://www.imdb.c om/name/nm0372176/
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ZuluHero #3 3 years ago

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Um.. if its release is on Oct 2nd and they're only just announcing this now, do we still feel optimistic about that release date?
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kangarootoo #4 3 years ago

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This is looking more and more promising.

Same studio that did Gothic (which was ace, as was the sequel), looks beautiful, and clearly has a bit of a budget for decent voice acting.

Hooray says me.
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CrispyLog #5 3 years ago

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@Zulu

There was a video on the Xbox dashboard over a month ago that had the two Lord of The Rings guys talking about their roles in the game with somefootage of Risen too. So they're not just announcing it now, though with so little news and information of the game it might not keep to it's release date.
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miiiguel #6 3 years ago

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These guys also woked on RE5, right?

Edited by 1 at 13/08/09 @ 17:08
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kangarootoo #7 3 years ago

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Really? Piranha Bytes?

Or are we talking about the actors?
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DrMGinius #8 3 years ago

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The game looks promising. Ive seen the artwork, the models, and readed some of the lore... it seems like a good creative work. However, how it plays and how good is the storyline is yet to be seen. Uh, did I just wrote a lot of evident things?

Edited by 1 at 14/08/09 @ 03:35
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mkreku #9 3 years ago

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You can see how it plays here:

[link url=http://www. jeuxvideo.com/gaming_live/0000/00002740/risen_2_2_les_intera ctions_avec_l_univers_f1q1.htm
]http://ww w.jeuxvideo.com/gaming_live/000...[/link]

Apparently every gaming site in Europe EXCEPT Eurogamer has an interest in Risen.
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