I will have to put on Beethoven when playing the game now.

SilverFireshot

I guess they paid him in booze. Just sayin.

SigmundTheSeaMonster

Bring me everyone....EVERYONE!!!!!

Silverbackne

Oh, and one more..my favorite actually from the Professional. "I like these calm little moments before the storm."

It's strange seeing him play a good guy in Batman. He's one of the best villians out there.

Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.

Call of Duty, great. Gary Oldman, great. Life right now? Great.

7ucky

"Tell you what I do like though; a killer. A died in the wool killer. Cold blooded, clean, methodical and thorough. Now a reall killer? When he picked up the ZF1 he would have immediately asked about the little red button at the bottom of the gun."

I heart Gary Oldman so much.

Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.

I've purchased games before solely on the voice cast. Consider this one purchased!

thebetamax

So these two guys are awesome, but I feel they are trying to compensate somewhat for the lack of having anything truly amazing in their follow up to the best FPS of 2007. Yeah it will be good most likely and better than the abysmal COD 3, but still, Infinity Ward, they are not.

Itri

Oldman is awesome, can't wait.

DigitalHero

Every time Kiefer says, "You've got to trust me" take a shot. You'll be drunk before the second act.

Lazlo

Gary Oldman is my hero. Fifth Element, anyone? Anyone?

Sakilla

If they can't make the game quality then they at least the got some quality talents. lol

Stikasasn

People used to say I looked like Gary Oldman all the time. Back in the days when I went outside of course.

Pangolin

Yay, more fake Russian accents.

affenkopf

@Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.: Damn, you beat me to it. I've been known to say that before starting a boss battle in games :D

brainwav

Russia ...?

That's No Country for Oldman.

cordsie

Gary Oldman rules,he was great in 'Leon'(The Professional)

Fifth Element was good as well

i am very much looking forward to this game,big name voice actors or not..i have loved all the COD games,including COD3

metallicorphan

I think they're wasting this wonderful voice cast on the Treyarch game.

Mascott

Seeing as I am completely gay for him, I guess I'll have to buy WaW.

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Mister Adequate

btw, why not let Gary Oldman do a Russian voice in COD? the only time i've heard his real voice is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

geekgrrl

@Dajmin: drawing a blank.. who'd he do on the Simpsons? he wasn't the principal of the military school Lisa & Bart went to, was he?

geekgrrl

Leon is one of my favourite films of all time. I recognised the scene from the thumbnail :) Been a fan for so long my copy of it is on VHS.

But yes, it may well be a waste of time getting these guys in for the Treyarch game, but it will sell on the strength of the co-op play alone. I probably won't pick it up though - I'm so sick of WW2 even co-op won't save it.

I want to know if they're going to have Keifer say "General infantry" at one point though, as a hark to one of his parts in the Simpsons :)

Dajmin

Heh, checking his imdb it looks like he's already done a few videogames, including a legacy character in the Spyro series (I wouldn't know).

traced

Holy shit, Oldman is an incredibly talented actor. Like one who probably studies theory and nuance to multi-layer his characters. I can't believe he's doing a videogame, and I don't say that to be condescending, just that typically those types of actors have kind of a holier than thou attitude about their craft.

traced

The photo of Gary Oldman is one of his best performances in a film and one of my favourite films, namely Leon. His other notable part was as the pimp Drexel in True Romance.

CartBlanche2

HOW DID THEY GET GARY OLDMAN? He's one of the world's greatest actors!

Bernoulli

@Dajmin:

"Frontline Infantry!"

Meohfumado

@Bernoulli: He might be fantastic, but he'll be in just about anything. I think it's a U.K. thing: a lack of pretension about which roles you choose. (I feel the same way you do about Alan Cumming.)

beeporama (brian.j.parker)

Goddamn I loved him in The Professional.

Witzbold

@Itri: Geez man, get that IW cock out of your ass. LOL, but seriously, just enjoy the fact that Oldman's genius skills of acting are going to contribute to the game. Glass is not half empty.

Shabat0ge

Gary Oldman owns.

Holapanda

A few celebrity voice actors do not make the game. Animation does this too as a way to interest the ambivalent crowds (what's more awesome, a cartoon shark or a cartoon shark voiced by Robert DeNiro?) but film actors != voice actors and it can lead to some weak performances. Didn't Yahtzee make a point of this with Ron Perlman in what's-that-game?

Miss-Anthropy

*Claps like Joker*

Paradyme

Man I love Gary Oldman! So why do I hate it that he's in a CoD game?

Games don't need Hollywoood actors to voice their characters. I don't really want to be able to recognize the voice cast, as it totally breaks the fiction and immersion factors of a game.

When it's Patrick Stewart playing a Emperor, and he's dead less than ten minutes into the game, it's fine. It's a great setup.

Kiefer Sutherland and Gary Oldman (presumably) in my squad, chewing my ear off for the entire game? No fucking thanks. I sincerely hope Treyarch handles this better than I expect them to (I have absolutely no faith whatsoever in their work, regardless of who's engine they use).

I bugs me enough when I recognize Keith David or 'generic protagonist voice guy' for the umpteenth time in every other game I play these days. Even companies known for imbuing story into their games make the mistake of overusing stock VO talent and misappropriating known talent for overly familiar and archetypical character roles.

Seriously- how many game universes populated with space Marines does Kieth David get to be in? Regardless, there's gotta be more than three voice actors out there capable of sounding generic enough to be the players' in-game voice. Let's go find them for chrissakes!

stranger

*Poiting shotgun at Gary Oldman* We got you now you son of a bitch!

AnotherGamer

Oldman! Hell ya! I just hope they add a little pill popping action to get him in the mood in the game to reference The Professional. lol

dgchatterbox

@cordsie: You f*cking win.

plaidman

Gary Oldman is awesome.

AnujSuper9

@Shockadin: and where the hell is my KOTOR III?!?!??! How long does a man have to wait...

Shockadin

@Itri: Think of it how KOTOR II was to KOTOR I as COD5 will be to COD4. Wasn't the same experience, still you'd love the other, but was NOT a crappy sequel by all means and still a quality game.

Shockadin

Wait... Russian Portion? Treyarch you are absolved of all your sins against me.

Rurik

Isn't he also Dumbledore now in the Harry Potter series? He's great, talented. He usually only takes good projects so I'm assuming there was something else besides money that made him want to do a voice for this game. Let's hope it was quality.

kylo4

Oldman (as Stanfield): "EEV-REEYY-ONNNEEE!!"

I dig The Professional.

crashlanding

Oldman was pretty bad ass in Dracula.

LeLoi

I'm kind of surprised nobody has mentioned him as Sirius Black from Harry Potter... Him being cast as Sirius is what got me into the movies and subsequently the books. He's amazing, flat out. And I'm with Sakilla...

Zero stones... ZERO CRATES!

amazinglarry

Sid Vicious
Ludwig van Beethoven
Joe Orton
Stansfield
Dracula
Lee Harvey Oswald
Sirius Black
The Devil
and a clunky old dragon in the later Spyro games :/

Pangolin

@Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.: My favorite line from Léon was "I win" in the Russian Roulette scene... I'm also

I'm one of those obsessives that refuse to call things by the names their altered versions receive... It'd Braindead, not Dead Alive. It's Gunnm, not Battle Angel Alita. It's Léon, not the Professional.

@kylo4: Dumbledore? How the hell is Oldman supposed to play Dumbledore? Way too young... Though he'd have probably made a better Dumbledore that Michael Gambon, anyhow. Man... I sorta wish he'd been the new Dumbledore now... Though, I'm sure there has to be SOMEONE tehy could have found to really replace the late Richard Harris...

bobtheduck

Uh! He ruined my suit!

Oh god, Gary Oldman is up there with Malcom McDowell for greatest bad guys. So awesome. Man, I almost had a heart attack in DK, what a close call for one of the best characters. And Leon? Such a great movie. Great cast, story, acting, Oldman, action, Oldman, Oldman, and spectacular Oldman.

I really hope this is good though. I know it's Treyarch, but if it turns up bad, don't say "I told youuuu..."
@cordsie: Haha, wow, I have to applaud a pun that good.
@SilverFireshot: Nah, you're a Mozart fan. I love him too.

Erwin

Hooray! Oldman to the rescue!
"You saved my life, and in return, I'll spare yours... for now. "

Ra is on Its Always Sunny in Philly

@Pangolin: The Devil

...is that a reference to the appearance he made in that Guns and Roses video way back in the day? ^_~ That's an obscure role that'll I'll totally applaud you for noticing.

But don't forget to add Drexel from True Romance to your list. OMG...so good. "Sit down.. Have yourself an egg roll."

mkillerbear

@bobtheduck: My mistake, he was Sirius Black. I don't know why I got that mixed up there. He was great in the Dark Knight too.

Regardless, the man usually takes quality projects, hopefully this is one of them.

kylo4

@Erwin: The suit scene reminds me of a bad injury I had with my leg also involving my favorite pair of shoes.

"Oh my god your knee has a hole in it!"

*notices the hole on his left shoes toe*
"Oh fuck me! My favorite shoes!"

"What about your knee?!"

"Fuck my knee it will grow back, the shoe wont!"

conversation ends right there with the other person.

Ah good memories indeed. Cept thanks to that my left knee is still a bit screwed up at times even to this day about 11 years later.

Witzbold

@cordsie: Haha, fantastic :-)

@Witzbold: Yeah, knees never heal, it just gets worse. I broke my knee cap about eight years ago. I hope at some point in the future I can replace that and become BIONIC MAN!

L_K_M

Fucking A! the voice acting in this game just went from top shelf to out of this world!

GARY FUCKING OLDMAN?!?! That is too awesome. I just went from skeptical about Treyarch to needing clean undies!

boringjob2