The voice of Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag's most treacherous pirate wishes "more video game companies would use mocap, because I think the performance stuff in Black Flag is brilliant"

Chales Vane lays on the ground, shouting, face spalttered with blood

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The voice of Fantastic Four villain Galactus, Ralph Ineson – who also voices Cid in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Final Fantasy 16 – took a trip down memory lane so we could peek behind the scenes of his role in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag.

Seeing and hearing movie stars and TV regulars in video games is a lot more common than it used to be. These days we even have actors like Abubakar Salim – from 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Assassin's Creed Origins – creating their own games. But not every acting job within the industry is the same, say Ineson, who performed the role of Black Flag villain C♏harles Vane, in an conversation with Edge.

"Well, that was a straight-up acting job," Ineson says of his time spent portraying the infamous pirate Charles Vane in Black Flag. "Once every month, for about four months, I went out to Montreal with Mark Bonnar and a coup꧅le of other British actors and spent a week in their motion-capture studio."

Andy Serkis did full motion capture and voice over for protagonist Monkey in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, but stars more often than not simply lend their voices to a character, like Patrick Stewart in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Oblivion, Liam Neeson in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fallout 3, and Shohreh Aghdashloo in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mass Effect 2.

Ineson – who is also known for starring in The Witch and the British 🧜version of The Office – prefers motion capture to stand-alone voice acting. "[Motion capture] is brilliant, a completely different acting experience." He says, "I wish that more video game companies would꧂ use mocap, because I think the performance stuff in Black Flag is brilliant."

Unfortunately, both Ineson and his son believe the series has taken a dip in quality the past few entries. "When you compare it to some of the later Assassin's Creeds, there may be a little bit of facial capture, but they haven't got the physical stuff, and I think you can notice that," Ineson explains. "My son – who is more of an exp🌸ert than me – said, 'Dad, the one you did was by far the best one - they've gone downhill from there!'"

I myself am a fan of the most-recent offering, Mirage, especially Aghdashloo's performance as master assassin Roshan, but my favourites are definitely 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Assassin's Creed 2 and Black Flag – maybe because of how much I love pirates. You can check out our official ranking of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Assassin's Creed games and see what place your favourite got.