The Well-Spoken Horror Of Video Game Novel Audiobooks

If you need help sleeping tonight, why not curl up and listen to a man with a very proper accent read you a novel based on a video game about men with giant necks shooting monsters in the face.

If Gears of Wars’ Jacinto’s Remnant doesn’t do it for you, you could try Halo: Cryptum, which is read aloud in the revered tones normally reserved for the likes of Moby Dick. Or Mass Effect: Revelations, which makes you realise the game’s universe is a drab place without neon lights and punching reporters.

And if they don’t work? Get to the end of the gallery and listen to chapter one of BioShock: Rapture. It’s not an official audiobook. It’s something better.

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(2 Comments)
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    Aliasalpha

    Friday, February 3, 2012 at 4:53 PM

    Why does he mispronounce jacinto? Has he not played the games???

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      os42

      Friday, February 3, 2012 at 5:13 PM

      Couldn’t listen to the GoW one – everytime I heard “Hacinto” I cringed. The Halo one made me want to read the book… I had no idea that anyone had written a book about the Forerunners’ history with the Flood.

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