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Voice cast for The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon is mighty impressive

4:07 PM on 10.29.2008, Samit Sarkar 19 comments

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It’s not often that a non-high-profile videogame, especially a non-licensed title, will feature an A-list voice cast. But while The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon seems to have become lost in the shuffle of all the other triple-A releases this season (your Fables, your LittleBigPlanets, your Fallouts, etc.) -- if you look at Metacritic for the PS3, 360, and Wii versions, there’s only one review up at the moment -- the game employs a collection of top-tier voice talent. You can check out the wide range of said voice talent in the trailer above.

Voicing the title character, you have Frodo Bagg--uh, Elijah Wood. As for his magically linked co-op partner, Cynder, Kat Harv--I mean, Christina Ricci--does her voice-over. Then there’s Commissioner Gord--that is, Sirius Bla--dammit, it’s Gary Oldman who does the voice for Ignitus, a “sort of father figure” for Spyro. Hunter of Avalar (a cheetah who isn’t yet confirmed to be the same one from Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage!) is voiced by Simon Eld--um, Blair Underwood. Finally, The Jok--wait, no, Luke Skywalk--er, Mark Hamill voices Malefor the Dark Master, while Wayne “choke a bitch” Brady provides the voice for Sparx, Spyro’s sassy dragonfly companion.

If that group of venerated voice actors doesn’t get you excited for The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, then perhaps you’d be interested in a trailer that was posted a couple of weeks ago, or Hamza’s preview from April. If not, well, then, I don’t know what to tell you. Either way, I’m pumped to play the game, and I’ll be doing that soon for a Destructoid review -- so keep an eye out for that. For more information, head over to the game’s official Web site.


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PappaDukes's Avatar
PappaDukes at 10/29/2008 16:15
does anyone besides me find Elija Wood pretentious? I hate his goddamn "accent". Hey, Elija you grew up in freakin' IOWA! Douche.
VTchina's Avatar
VTchina at 10/29/2008 16:17
Sad thing is Spyro comes off as more heroic than Frodo.
Still not as heroic as North though.
Imako's Avatar
Imako at 10/29/2008 16:17
I'd try it if it wasn't so ridiculously serious.
vexed alex's Avatar
vexed alex at 10/29/2008 16:19
@PappaDukes

What accent? Am I missing something?
PappaDukes's Avatar
PappaDukes at 10/29/2008 16:20
@vexed alex

[sarcasm]
You haven't!? Where the hell have you been?
[/sarcasm]

I think the game looks sweet, and I can't wait to at least give it a shot.

Oh and ElijaH FTW
Dexter345's Avatar
Dexter345 at 10/29/2008 16:48
This is a pretty impressive voice cast. Now if only Insomniac were developing it...
PappaDukes's Avatar
PappaDukes at 10/29/2008 16:53
@vexed alex
Seriously?!? You can't hear it? It's ever-so-slightly British. He's so smug.
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Sam Spectre at 10/29/2008 17:46
Wow. I wasn't even considering this game until now. Maybe not worth $60 but definitely a rent somewhere down the line.
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LordGloom at 10/29/2008 19:01
hunter isnt a new character ffffffffffffffffffffffff
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vexed alex at 10/29/2008 19:05
@ PappaDukes

Mmmmno. I think you're just trying to find an excuse to call someone pretentious.

I understand it's the trendy thing to say. It's the new "emo".
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RAB at 10/29/2008 19:31
and emo was the new homo
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar
Kyousuke Nanbu at 10/29/2008 19:47
Excellent example of beating an unfunny joke into the ground.

I didn't know this was out, looks damn impressive.
RAB's Avatar
RAB at 10/29/2008 20:30
wat


game looks pretty good nonetheless
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar
TrailerParkJesus at 10/30/2008 01:48
Whoever the publisher is, they've done a horrible job of marketing this game. I remember when this was listed on the "New Releases of the Week" someone posted a while ago and it snuck completely under the radar. I'll be waiting on your review.
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whormongr at 10/30/2008 01:56
incredible cast- I will prolly never play it though- so far I have hated every spyro game
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Remoraz at 10/30/2008 08:05
I got it for two big reasons, it's $50 on the PS3/360 and it has 2 player offline co-op.
The gameplay's a tad shakey, and the graphics aren't top notch, but there's so much to do in it. It feels like it'd take forever to find all the armor/experience/whatever and get maxed out. Plus you can "fly" pretty much whenever.
They couldn't have picked a worse time to release it - it could've been huge over the summer/fall drought...
Don't write it off, is all I'm saying.
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