Apex Legends has been running for over a year and is currently in its fifth – Season , but who are the voices behind our favorite legends?
Sound design and voice acting in video games have come a long way. Yet we rarely notice the voices of the voice-over actors. However, the voice actors in Apex Legends have done an excellent job. The personalities of the individual characters come across all the more. So let’s take a look behind the scenes.
Chris Edgerly – Pathfinder
Edgerly has quite a bit of experience with robot voices. His best known roles include various characters on The Simpsons, TEL in Infinity Blade III, Captain Ventralis/Cole/Powell in Mass Effect, and Aragorn in LOTR: War in the North.
JB Blanc – Caustic
Blanc has lent his voice to several titles including the Spyro Reignited trilogy, CoD: Black Ops 4 and Darksiders 3.
Erica Luttrell – Bangalore
In addition to movies, Luttrell has appeared in triple-A titles like Dishonored. She voices Emily Kaldwin, Cheetah in Injustice 2 and various characters in Fallout, among others.
Shantel VanSantan – Wraith
VanSantan is relatively new to voicing video games, as most of her career has involved acting and television. She has had roles in One Tree Hill, Shooter, The Flash and even the 2009 film Final Destination.
Mela Lee – Lifeline
Lee has done a lot in English anime synchro, but has also appeared in video games. Among them Tiki in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Celice in Xenoblade Chronicles X and some characters in Fallout: New Vegas.
Roger Craig Smith – Mirage
Smith is one of the more famous actors on the list, having played some very prominent characters in hit games. He took on the roles of Bruce Wayne/Batman in Arkham Origins, Ezio Auditore in the Assassin’s Creed series, Sonic in Sonic Boom and Captain America in the Disney Infinity games.
Allegra Clark – Bloodhound
Bloodhound’s voice is really hard to guess. It’s Allegra Clark. She has voiced characters in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, Death’s Gambit, Mass Effect: Andromeda and more. She also voices in anime productions.
Nicolas Roye – Octane
Roye is an experienced voice actor who has worked in titles like Nier Automata, Horizon Zero Dawn, Shadow of the Tomb Raider. He has Spanish roots, which helps his role as Octane.
Darin De Paul – Revenant
Paul is among the most experienced and famous actors on the list. He has voiced Reinhardt in Overwatch, Samuel Haydn in Doom, Anub’Arak in Heroes of the Storm, N’zoth in World of Warcraft and Owl in Sekiro.
Justine Huxley – Wattson
Huxley has voiced locals in Grand Theft Auto V, Red Dead Redemption II and characters from the Spyro Reignited trilogy.
Johnny Young – Crypto
Young is first and foremost an actor, but he has recently started working as a voice actor. The funny thing is that he was a fan of Apex Legends before he was cast as the voice of Crypto. Young still plays it and also likes to allow himself to joke with other players.
Branscombe Richmond – Gibraltar
You might not remember his name, but many of the older fans will know him as Bobby Sixkiller from Renegade. Apex is his first big attempt as a voice actor – and what can we say…chapeau!
Fryda Wolff – Loba
Wolff has voiced Bia in Heroes of Newerth, Mira in Killer Instinct, and Sara Ryder in Mass Effect: Andromeda. She’s also the informational voice in Street Fighter V.
That’s all of them, at least for now. – Season 6 will probably bring a new legend and a new voice. I wonder who that will be?
What is actually… “Apex Legends?
Within 24 hours, “Apex Legends” became the most-watched game on Twitch – after one week, over 25 million people were already playing it. What is the battle royale shooter about?
What is “Apex Legends” about?
Scenario: In a distant future, bandits, adventurers, and outlaws settle their disputes in a sporting contest to the death. The setting is a fertile, industrially developed valley on the edge of the galaxy.
- Genre: Battle Royale shooter
- Game modes: survival battle between a maximum of 20 teams of three.
At its core, “Apex Legends” is a classic battle-royale shooter: up to 60 players land simultaneously in teams of three on the game map called “Kings Canyon” – a densely built-up, fertile valley with many accessible houses, bunkers and towers. Once on the ground, unarmed players must search their surroundings for equipment and ammunition. The goal of the game is to stay alive until the end.
To prevent players from hiding all over the map and waiting to automatically be the last one left, the game area shrinks every few minutes. The longer a round lasts, the smaller the area where survivors can move and hide.
Apex Legends refreshes this now classic game formula with some ideas that are unique to the genre: For example, before starting a round, players select one of eight heroes, each of which has two special abilities and facilitates certain play styles.
Bangalore, for example, is the classic soldier who can conceal her position with smoke grenades and call in an artillery strike in an emergency. The heroine Lifeline, on the other hand, can summon a drone to heal teammates – or directly order the delivery of high-value weapons and equipment via aerial drone. This way, all players can find the right hero for their preferred course of action.
How can I play Apex Legends?
Platform: “Apex Legends” is available for PC, Xbox One and Playstation 4.
Price: The battle royale shooter is a “Free to Play” title and can basically be played for free on all platforms.
In-game purchases: “Apex Legends” allows the purchase of cosmetic items and new heroes either by means of in-game currency, which can be earned for free in every round, or with real money. The real-money currency “Apex Coins” can be purchased in five different amounts: The smallest possible amount is 1000 Apex Points for around 9.99 euros, while the largest pack with 10,000 Apex Points content costs 99.99 euros.
The developer emphasizes that it is not possible to buy game advantages with the help of real money: You can only use it to customize the appearance of the heroes, it says, or purchase new heroes.
Age rating: “Apex Legends” does not have a youth rating (USK 18).
Which technical terms should you know?
Respawn Beacon: If a player is shot down, the team members who are still alive have the opportunity to bring the fallen comrade back into the game: Each eliminated player leaves behind a so-called Respawn Banner, which can be collected by the players of the own team and handed in at one of 28 Respawn Beacons, certain locations on the map. If this succeeds, the fallen player returns to the game.
Jumpmaster: At the beginning of the game, one of the maximum three players of a team always takes on the role of the jumpmaster. He decides when and where his team enters the game area.
Ping: Using the middle mouse button, players can alert their teammates to interesting locations in the game world or enemies. These pings are a valuable tool for communicating quickly and efficiently within the team.
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