The upcoming action adventure game, Indiana Jones and The Great Circle from Wolfenstein developer MachineGames, is fast approaching its release later this year. The game’s voice acting talent will be headlined by Troy Baker (known for voicing Joel in The Last of Us, among other roles), who will play Indy in the video game. However, Bethesda says that Baker wasn’t its first choice to play the adventurer.
Speaking to Rolling Stone in a recent interview, Bethesda boss Todd Howard talked about the casting process of Indiana Jones and The Great Circle. Howard said that he initially didn’t want Troy Baker to play the character at first. After hundreds of people auditioned for the role, Bethesda ultimately settled on Baker as he was the prime choice in most tests. “We felt for this project and the time period it was set in, we cast a pretty wide net,” said Howard.
Howard later told Baker, “I’ll have you know, we did a blind taste test, and people chose you every time.”
Bethesda didn’t mention which other candidates auditioned for the role of Indiana Jones but we imagine there was a considerable turn-out as it’s not every day that voice actors get to step into the shoes (or hat?) of such an iconic character in pop culture.
The game’s description reads:
“The year is 1937, sinister forces are scouring the globe for the secret to an ancient power connected to the Great Circle, and only one person can stop them – Indiana Jones. You’ll become the legendary archaeologist in this cinematic action-adventure game from MachineGames, the award-winning studio behind the recent Wolfenstein series, and executive produced by Hall of Fame game designer Todd Howard.”
Indiana Jones and The Great Circle will officially launch on 9 December but it will first launch on Xbox Series X/S and PC. Bethesda plans to release the game on PS5 sometime in early 2025, despite MachineGames and the publisher being owned by Microsoft.
Source: Rolling Stone
