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THE ELDER SCROLLS® IV: OBLIVION™ VIDEO GAME
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion to Feature
Voice Performances by Patrick Stewart, Sean Bean, and Terence Stamp
September 30, 2005 (Rockville, MD) - To create the perfect
tone and timbre for its upcoming epic role playing game, The
Elder Scrolls® IV: Oblivion™, Bethesda Game Studios
announced today an all-star voice cast of British stage and screen
legends. Developed for both the Xbox 360™ videogame and entertainment
system from Microsoft and PC platforms, Oblivion is one of
the year's most highly-anticipated games and sequel to the best-selling
role playing game of 2002, Morrowind®.
Leading the lineup is Patrick
Stewart, playing the role of the Emperor. Stewart is best known
among genre fans as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek: The
Next Generation and as Professor Charles Xavier from the X-Men feature films.
Providing the voice for the Emperor's lost son and heir to the
throne is Sean Bean.
Bean skyrocketed to the public's attention as Lord Boromir in the
Academy Award-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy. While Oblivion will be his first video game role, Bean is well known for starring
in a variety of films, including memorable roles in National
Treasure, Goldeneye, and Patriot Games.
"Oblivion is something unique, an epic entertainment experience
unlike anything I had seen before," said Bean. "I decided
this was a project I really wanted to work on creatively and I hope
fans of the game enjoy the results."
Terence Stamp will
lend his talents to the game's heavy plot, a sinister force bent
on the destruction of Tamriel, the game's geographical setting.
Stamp starred in Star Wars: Phantom Menace as Supreme Chancellor
Valorum and as General Zod in the legendary Superman films. Oblivion is Stamp's first foray into voice work for a video
game.
"Having never done voice work for a video game before, I really
had no notion of what to expect," said Stamp. "Bethesda
did a great job in providing the tone and theme for the character
and it was fun to give life to the villain in the story, who is
a very thoughtful man from a different line of kings who seeks to
realize his own vision for the empire."
Bethesda had previously announced that Lynda Carter would also
be lending her voice talents to the game. Best known for her starring
role as the crime-fighting superhero, "Wonder Woman,"
in the hit television series, Carter has appeared in more than 50
television shows and films, including this summer's hits, Sky
High and Dukes of Hazzard.
"We wanted to work with voice talent that really captured
the emotion and drama of the game's story," said Todd Howard,
executive producer for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. "Quite
honestly, we wrote the parts with these individual actors in mind.
It's an honor to have them lend their talents to the project."
As the next chapter in the highly acclaimed and best-selling Elder
Scrolls series, Oblivion is a single-player game that
takes place in Tamriel's capital province, Cyrodiil. Gamers are
given the task of finding the hidden heir to a throne that sits
empty, the previous emperor having been killed by an unknown assassin.
With no true Emperor, the gates to Oblivion (the equivalent of hell
in the world of Tamriel) open, and demons begin to invade Cyrodiil
and attack its people and towns. It's up to the player to find the
lost heir and unravel the sinister plot that threatens to destroy
all of Tamriel.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has not yet been rated by
the ESRB.
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