I can’t remember the last time I played a game that didn’t feature Nolan North’s ‘everyman’ tones. With his invasion of video games complete, he’s now moving on to blockbuster movies, featuring in JJ Abram’s Star Trek 2. Apparently Abrams and his son are massive fans of Uncharted, and that’s why he got the part.
Actor Nolan North is the voice of 1000 video game characters, most notably Uncharted’s Nathan Drake and Assassin’s Creed’s Desmond.
Any way you slice it, it’s been a good year for Nolan North. At this time last year, the ever-present voice actor had become something of a go-to joke — people had cottoned to the fact that his voice was featured in 50 per cent of the video games that had been released that year (slight exaggeration), and had started to give him some good-natured jibes.
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Nolan North, the real world voice of Uncharted’s Nathan Drake, Shadow Complex’s Jason Fleming and Assassin’s Creed’s Desmond Miles is in a lot of video games. But it may be Mafia II that has the most North you’ve ever heard.
Don’t know who Nolan North is? Play Uncharted. Or Prince of Persia. Or Halo Wars, Lost Planet, or Assassin’s Creed. He’s without a doubt the most recognisable voice actor in video games today, and in 2010, he will be busy.
Why do gamers seem to like the sometimes un-heroic Nathan Drake of Uncharted fame? One of Drake’s creators explained in a comment on Gamasutra.
