British actor David Warner, who voiced darkish wizard Jon Irenicus in basic CRPG Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows Of Amn, has died on the age of 80, the BBC experiences. The actor additionally appeared in different video games through the late Nineties and early 2000s, totally on PC. You may hear Warner’s evocative efficiency as Irenicus within the trailer for Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Version under.
Warner’s most up-to-date position in video video games was a return to the character of Irenicus in 2016’s Baldur’s Gate: Siege Of Dragonspear. Beamdog, builders of Dragonspear together with the Enhanced Version revamps of Baldur’s Gate and its sequel, managed to coax the actor again to document new traces for his or her model of the second sport too. Andrew Foley, who labored with Warner on Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Version, mentioned in 2016:
Everybody within the workplace, however particularly me, had been form of in awe/borderline frightened of him, however he was simply the sweetest man, with an incredible sense of humour. I might given him some notes for a pick-up session, asking for him to tug again on the emotion in a particular line, to do a extra “Spock-like” supply.
“I am simply curious what you imply by this notice, what’s ‘Spock-like’?”
I’ve labored with him (remotely, he was in London, we had been in a studio right here in Edmonton, however nonetheless) for 4 hours now, however he is nonetheless DAVID FREAKIN’ WARNER, and that is the primary time we have talked in a couple of months, so I say, “Uh, effectively, Spock was this character in Star Trek who spoke in a measured, emotional tone–“
“Sure I find out about Star Trek, I’ve solely finished three of them. I simply needed to make sure–you don’t desire me to do a Leonard [Nimoy] impression, do you?” After which he began chuckling.
As a classically skilled actor who’d performed Hamlet and Henry VI in Royal Shakespeare Firm productions, Warner helped make Baldur’s Gate 2 into probably the greatest RPGs of the 2000s. It’s a sport RPS nonetheless charges as probably the greatest RPGs to play on PC even in the present day. Exterior of video games, Warner had acted in the whole lot from basic ’60s cop present Z-Vehicles to James Cameron’s Titanic, together with style movie and TV roles in Tron, Star Trek V: The Ultimate Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Nation and episodes of Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology.
Warner’s voice-over work in video games consisted largely of PC releases. The actor performed Morpheus within the authentic Fallout, and contributed to Privateer 2: The Darkening, Descent 3, and Star Wars: Drive Commander. Memorably, he reprised his film position as Chancellor Gorkon from The Undiscovered Nation in 2000’s FMV house flight-sim Star Trek: Klingon Academy.