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Ed Harris, Gary Oldman Lend Voice To CoD: Black Ops
If Black Ops falls short in the storytelling department, it won't be for lack of voice talent. Activision announced today that veteran Hollywood actors Ed Harris (Apollo 13, A History of Violence) and Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight, The Book of Eli) will play two of the headlining characters in its upcoming first-person shooter, Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Harris, who you'll remember as Bad Guy (Usually With A Military Background) from dozens of films, will have to struggle to find a niche within Black Ops' melodramatic Cold War suspense-thriller atmosphere. He'll voice CIA operative Jason Hudson, who definitely won't double-cross the player when his true loyalties are revealed.
Oldman is once again playing the role of Viktor Reznov, who is returning from Treyarch's last Call of Duty game (World at War) following his imprisonment at the hands of soul-leeching specters for a crime he didn't commit, and is probably going to give his life to save you even though everyone thinks he was the monster who killed your parents when you were just a baby.
Writer David S. Goyer's involvement has also been announced. Goyer, whose crowning achievement professionally and personally is his writing credit on Blade (though it is unknown whether or not he penned the immortal Snipes line, "Some motherf------ always trying to ice skate uphill," which Blade pronounces with the gravitas of an octogenarian archbishop before drop-kicking a syringe of vampire-exploding chemicals into the bad guy's forehead), is also credited on some hack's laughable attempts to revive the Batman brand.*
Black Ops launches November 9. Over/under on the number of related news items on the GI feed per day until then: 2. I'll take the over, and use my winnings to procure sanity-restoring items for when I start to go entirely mad from spending roughly half of my professional career writing about the franchise.
* Not sure if they make
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