Favorite actors in the Tex games?
Posted: March 19, 2008 • 7:32 pm
I think each Tex game had remarkable actors in it, that did a great job.
To me Chris Jones is the one who tops everyone, but we all know Chris is a master of arts, don´t we
The non professional or semi professional actors all did a great job in helping to create characters that you care about. But how about your preferences when it comes to the big names?
I think my top position when it comes to big names has to be shared by Michael York as J. Saint Gideon and Kevin McCarthy as Gordon Fitzpatrick. They both completely blow me away each time I play the games ( No, they´re not the only ones of course )
The funny thing about Mc Carthy is the following thing: When i was a small boy, I loved to secretly watch old horrorfilms from the 30s till 60s. One of the films that scared the heck out of me when i was small was the original invasion of the body snatchers starring Kevin Mc Carthy.
So when i bought the pandora directive in 96 and started it, i immediately recognised him and i was very pleased, because he is great. In the game ( after Tex informs Fitzpatrick about Malloys death, and the dialogue between Tex and Fitzpatrick is done) Tex says something like , There´s something about Fitzpatrick that makes me completely trust him , even though i probably shouldnt´- That was funny because that was one on one what I thought, he just had that old gentleman charme, that you just had to trust. ( By the way i felt a bit like that about Gideon as well, and even though he was planning some not so nice things, he wasn´t really a bad guy in the actual sense, especially therefore i think the ending of overseer - the plotline from the past- was really touching)
Plus i really like the charismatic appearance of both York and Mc Carthy.
But beside that there were quite a lot of other great big names.
I didn´t know Richard Norton before Overseer, a friend of mine who played overseer as well recognized him from some martial art films, but since I don´t watch that type of films i wasn´t familiar with him, but I think he was one hell of a evil guy, very charismatic as well.
Oh and Barry Corbin was absolutely stunning as well, another great bad guy. I don´t know but everytime he was on the screen, I had this really ungood feeling in my stommach ( just like Tex), especially the dialogue with him, after finding the first box.
Concerning Barry Corbin: I wrote a classic review on pandora recently, and I did some research on the IMDB for the actors section in that article. On IMDB i read that Corbin was in No country for old men and in the valley of elah as well. I haven´t seen the films yet but hey that´s impressing, great to hear. Did anyone of you see him in there? On the IMDB his name comes on spot 6 of the actors in the valley of elah. So i guess that means his role wasn´t just a short appearance.
There are other known actors in the games, but i guess these ones are my favorites ,even though I´m pretty sure i forgot someone of my favorites list right now
To me Chris Jones is the one who tops everyone, but we all know Chris is a master of arts, don´t we
The non professional or semi professional actors all did a great job in helping to create characters that you care about. But how about your preferences when it comes to the big names?
I think my top position when it comes to big names has to be shared by Michael York as J. Saint Gideon and Kevin McCarthy as Gordon Fitzpatrick. They both completely blow me away each time I play the games ( No, they´re not the only ones of course
)The funny thing about Mc Carthy is the following thing: When i was a small boy, I loved to secretly watch old horrorfilms from the 30s till 60s. One of the films that scared the heck out of me when i was small was the original invasion of the body snatchers starring Kevin Mc Carthy.
So when i bought the pandora directive in 96 and started it, i immediately recognised him and i was very pleased, because he is great. In the game ( after Tex informs Fitzpatrick about Malloys death, and the dialogue between Tex and Fitzpatrick is done) Tex says something like , There´s something about Fitzpatrick that makes me completely trust him , even though i probably shouldnt´- That was funny because that was one on one what I thought, he just had that old gentleman charme, that you just had to trust. ( By the way i felt a bit like that about Gideon as well, and even though he was planning some not so nice things, he wasn´t really a bad guy in the actual sense, especially therefore i think the ending of overseer - the plotline from the past- was really touching)
Plus i really like the charismatic appearance of both York and Mc Carthy.
But beside that there were quite a lot of other great big names.
I didn´t know Richard Norton before Overseer, a friend of mine who played overseer as well recognized him from some martial art films, but since I don´t watch that type of films i wasn´t familiar with him, but I think he was one hell of a evil guy, very charismatic as well.
Oh and Barry Corbin was absolutely stunning as well, another great bad guy. I don´t know but everytime he was on the screen, I had this really ungood feeling in my stommach ( just like Tex), especially the dialogue with him, after finding the first box.
Concerning Barry Corbin: I wrote a classic review on pandora recently, and I did some research on the IMDB for the actors section in that article. On IMDB i read that Corbin was in No country for old men and in the valley of elah as well. I haven´t seen the films yet but hey that´s impressing, great to hear. Did anyone of you see him in there? On the IMDB his name comes on spot 6 of the actors in the valley of elah. So i guess that means his role wasn´t just a short appearance.
There are other known actors in the games, but i guess these ones are my favorites ,even though I´m pretty sure i forgot someone of my favorites list right now
