Andy Serkis' alien Macbeth: a giddying demo of game characters from the future
Daydream a moment. Pause those critical voices in your head - we'll listen to them in a minute - and watch renowned actor Andy Serkis show us a character performance from a video game of the future.
This is a demo shown by engine-maker Unreal this week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. In it, Serkis recites a monologue from Shakespeare's Macbeth, his face contorting believably in anguish as water pools in his eyes. It's very impressive.
But what's even more impressive is how, a few moments later, the same performance is translated onto the face of an alien. Look at the eyes, the mouth, the facial movement: you can feel the malevolence - there's an energy and a power radiating from it. It's even better than the human Andy Serkis performance if you ask me. Imagine this kind of confrontation in a cinematic, character-driven science fiction game like Mass Effect.
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