Mark Hamill Praises Batman Arkham Trilogy For Letting Him Be A “Whole New Joker”
gameranx.comVoice acting in video games has grown leaps and bounds over the years. At first, it was a “luxury” to have voice acting in video games. Then, it was something you did, but you didn’t always need the “best voice actors” to get the job done. Fast forward to now, and you are almost required to have top-notch voice acting and potentially bring in A-List actors to be certain characters to add clout to the game. In the case of the Batman Arkham Trilogy, they had numerous voice acting talents, making the game emphatically good. But few will deny that one of the best of the bunch was Mark Hamill as The Joker.
As many of you know, Hamill has been the voice of Joker for decades. It started out with the Batman TAS show from the 90s, and he’s played the character off and on ever since. However, the Batman Arkham Trilogy allowed him to take his role as the “Clown Prince of Crime” to new heights. He said so himself in a tweet honoring the second game of the trilogy:
12 years & a day ago today.
Freed from the constraints of television's Standards & Practices Dept. (TV censors) & aimed at a more mature audience, the Arkham trilogy was dark, gritty & extremely violent. This was a whole new Joker for me.
