Privateer hero's voice sounds like John Travolta!

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I finally managed to get Privateer to run on my old 486 or is it a Pent II PC? Hm well anyways, not only does it run but I also got the speech option on as well!

So I played around for abit, amassing wealth in the Troy sector, just enough to buy an Orion and equip it with mid range parts (level 2 shields, level 3 engine etc) and then took a break to watch HBO, which was showing "The General's Daugther" starring John Travolta (excellent movie if your into murder mysteries involving the military e.g. A Few Good Men - Tom Cruise. So after watching the movie I booted up Privateer and let the intro play out cause' I was typing out an email when I heard the Privateer hero's voice which to me sounds almost just like John Travolta (his tough guy persona fits him afterall).

What do you guys think? Or am I just hallucinating?? Anyways get back to me if your playing Privateer with the speech option on.

Jag here, over n out

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
- Nathan Hale

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I bought a Origin dual pack offering of Privateer with Rigtheous Fire n Strike Commander with the Tactical Missions around... hmm 7 years ago more or less.

Now if only I can find the damn manual, cause' I enjoyed reading the Privateer story of the Retro attack on the science base as well as the Strike Commander glue assassin story :)
 
If you can get ahold of the Priv manual, Jaguar, the voice credits are probably in it.
No offense to EA or Origin, but I doubt that they would've been able to hire Travolta at that point; I mean, they weren't really known for movie-making 'till WC3, when they hired Hamill, McDowell, etc..
 
We know he didn't voice it... Apparantly people think brownhair sounds like him.

TC
 
I downloaded the Priv manual from a abandonware site by the way

I didnt really think Origin was able to get Travolta to do the voice of the guy anyway since during that time period he had yet to act in the movie "Pulp Fiction" which ressurected Travolta's status as a movie star ever since Grease n Saturday Night Fever. So Trav was in sort of 'hibernating' at the time ;)

Correct me if Im wrong but did Mark Hammill actually decided to play Blair in the Kilrathi Saga n the future WC games due to him nolonger being a bankable movie star? As far as I know the Star Wars trilogy was the only thing that really made him famous and he did act in other movies after that but they never got much attention.
 
I think you guys have it backwards. The guy from Privateer doesn't do the voice of John Travolta. ;)
 
Mark Hamill worked on WC3/4/P because it was a job -- same reason other movie stars (McDowell and John Rhys Davies, for instance). It's no less 'degrading' than all the voice work he does...

... still, you have to remember that 1994 was a different time. Everybody was hoping that interactive movies would be the *future* of Hollywood -- and everybody was excited to be able to be part of them.

Once again I ask -- *which* voice of Brownhair are we talking about?
 
Last I heard, Mark Hammill has a perfectly viable career on the stage; he does voice work because he likes to do voices, and he does cheesy space fantasy because he's in demand for it.

Personally, I thought he was a strange choice for Blair. Yeah, there's the whole Star Wars connection and all, but he doesn't have that "rugged, strong-jawed" look that Blair had in WC1 and 2. (OTOH, Malcom Macdowell doesn't have that "tea-sipping fop" look that Tolwyn had in WC2 either, so what the hey. ;) )

-The Gneech, not quite a tea-sipping fop
 
Last I heard, Mark Hamill was on the Simpsons. Good stuff.

LOAF, I think they're talking about the voice in the Privateer Gold Edition (at least, the one in the Origin Classics package). I can kinda see how that sounds like Travolta.

EDIT: And McDowell was Tolwyn because he IS Tolwyn.

[Edited by Nep Parth on 07-06-2001 at 10:50]
 
I agree. McDowell personifies Tolwyn.

Hamill, I'll have you know, is still around. Besides being in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back", he gained huge critcal acclaim for his Broadway performance of the title character in "Amadeus" and also gained very, very good marks for his stage performance in "The Elephant Man" and in the 1989 movie "Slipstream".

Hamill has been phasing out of work to, quite possibly, concintrate on his screenwriting the movie "The Black Pearl" and trying to get in the director's seat for it. He's been working on that damned thing since before WC4.

Although Hamill has been in a lot of B-movies since his heyday in the Star Wars trilogy, he does get work, though not in the roles I'd cast him in. He plays a wonderful villian like in "Slipstream" and "Hamilton".

I'll also have you know that Hamill was originally casted as Maniac in WC3 but Roberts bumped into Tom Wilson in a drug store in Hollywood and asked him to play the role instead. Hamill said he was disappointed when he was recast as Blair, since Hamill wanted the chance to play a loon and not the straight-man, square jaw hero for once.
 
I know, but still, I cannot picture anyone but Tom Wilson as Maniac. Maybe Hamill in a pinch. Now there's an image... :)
 
Heh, if I hadn't seen the Batman cartoon or the Spiderman cartoon, I'd have said that Hamill is incapable of playing someone as maniacal as Maniac :).
 
I haven't seen either, so I'd be downright afraid thinking of Hamill as Maniac. Of course, would it be so bad if Hamill and Wilson had the switched roles? I've only seen Wilson in Back to the Future, but if he lost the mean streak from Biff, I think he'd be a capable leader as Blair.
 
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