Todd Howard was initially against casting Troy Baker as Indiana Jones in the forthcoming MachineGames title.
While the game will feature the visual likeness of Harrison Ford, who starred as the live-action Indiana Jones in all five feature films, Troy Baker will provide the voice.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, Bethesda Games Studios executive producer Todd Howard and actor Troy Baker spoke about the casting process for the game.
Baker claims that when he first met Howard via zoom, Howard told The Last of Us star that he didn’t want Baker in the role at first.
“We felt for this project and the time period it was set in, we cast a pretty wide net,” Howard said.
After auditioning hundreds of people, Baker was chosen at the end. During the Zoom call, Howard told Baker, “I’ll have you know, we did a blind taste test, and people chose you every time.”
The title will be released first for Xbox Series X/S and PC on December 9, 2024, before coming to PS5 in spring 2025.
VGC recently got the chance toplay three hours of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. We called it “the Indiana Jones adventure the franchise deserves.”
“So far, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle isn’t just the Indiana Jones adventure that fans have waited 40 years for, it’s the video game that the franchise has truly deserved,” we wrote.
“MachineGames seems to be a match made in heaven for the franchise, and we left our demo extremely keen to play more.”
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