Star Wars: Outlaws’ silly little companion is performed by the go-to Star Wars voice actor

Ubisoft has introduced Star Wars: Outlaws and, judging by the Star Wars nerds on the PCG crew, it is made fairly the impression. The game is an unique story about smuggler Kay Vess, set between Empire Strikes Again and Return of the Jedi, and the devs are amping up the seedy Han Solo vibe they are going for. However as is nearly de rigeur for the collection lately, the scene-stealer was Vess’ cutesy little companion known as Nix.

Lord is aware of what Nix is. A dog-eyed Gizmo-looking factor with varied hair fronds that appears adept at stealing issues and, per the trailer, is Vess’ fixed companion with quite a few in-game makes use of. It is clearly going to be a key a part of Outlaws, and Ubisoft has despatched over a press launch with the information it will likely be voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, one of the crucial prolific voice actors on the planet and a person who has voiced extra Star Wars characters than anybody else (thanks, GamesRadar+).

Star Wars followers will know Baker from The Clone Wars, where he voiced each single clone trooper, in addition to spin-off collection the Unhealthy Batch. I can’t emphasise sufficient simply what number of characters that’s within the Clone Wars alone, which has an infinite cast of grunt clone troopers but in addition an entire bunch of essential characters which are clones and performed by Baker. He is performed 11 totally different characters within the Star Wars Resistance show.

Video games? You need video games? Baker was in fricking Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. He is additionally performed characters in Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes, Star Wars: The Power Unleashed and the sequel, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, Star Wars: The Outdated Republic, Kinect Star Wars, Boba Fett amongst others in Disney Infinity, Star Wars Battlefront and the sequel, and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. In the event you’ve ever watched or performed one thing Star Wars-y, you have nearly actually heard his voice.

Although funnily sufficient, you will not right here. Properly, not Baker’s talking voice anyway. As a bizarre little alien-dog factor, Nix would not converse, however makes varied animal sounds, which it seems is one other strand to Baker’s profession: he often does VO elements which are animal-based, maybe essentially the most well-known being Perry the Platypus in Phineas and Ferb.

The identical press launch says that Outlaws’ lead character, Kay Vess, is performed by Humberly González. González is a Venezuelan-born Canadian actor who’s appeared on TV reveals and has had varied roles in video games earlier than, together with Mercedes ‘Jonrón’ Martín in Far Cry 6.

“Once we first imagined the primary open-world Star Wars game, we explored where and when it may happen, and shortly realized that we had all the precise components for the journey of a scoundrel,” mentioned Julian Gerighty, inventive director at Large Leisure. “These outlaws reside life beneath the thumb of the Galactic Empire, however can nonetheless thrive given the alternatives that the legal underworld opens up for individuals seeking to reap the benefits of the turmoil. The time is ripe for a brand new outlaw to make their identify, and Kay Vess is written within the stars”.