Voiced.
BuzZz Killer asks: Now the the SQ42 shoot is “in the can”, how will our characters communicate during the campaign? Will we have a selection of voices we can choose from? Will we only speak through text? Or, will we just be the silent protagonist, as the original Saints Row and the early Grand Theft Auto games?
CR: No, you will definitely not be a silent protagonist. So, we shot the whole SQ42 with someone playing the player, and we recorded their voice, and we recorded what their face is doing. We have plans, because you can choose who you’re going to be, you can choose whether you’re a male or a female, you can actually choose what you look like, so we have a whole bunch of base heads or faces that you can sort of choose and blend between, so you can sort of customize your look to how you want to look, whether you’re male or female. And then we are going to do additional voice work beyond the default player character that we recorded. We’ll do a female PC, and I’m also toying with the idea of having some localized, even localized accents, so imagine if you were playing the game, and you’ve got an English IP address, and we use the English voice pack for the player instead of the American voice pack, if you’re in America. Don’t know about that, but that’s one of the ideas, and I think it’d be pretty cool to sort of personalize that. And of course if we did that you’d be able to choose if you want to have an English accent when you’re in America, or an Australian accent, or whatever it would be. But you’ll definitely hear yourself speak, and think. And if you cut out to a third person, you’d be able to see your mouth, your face. We captured the players face in the same sort of fidelity that we’ve been doing all the other actors, so it’s going to be pretty awesome. So there you go.