Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Features Troy Baker as Indy, id Tech Powers the Game

Yesterday we got the big reveal of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and Bethesda and MachineGames didn’t hold back, revealing quite a bit of first-person gameplay and other info about the game’s approach and story. That said, there were a few lingering questions after the presentation, such as, who’s playing Indy and what kind of tech is powering the game? Well, we now have answers on both.

Many watching the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle trailer noticed that our protagonist looked like Harrison Ford, but he didn’t quite sound like him. Close, but not quite. Well, that’s because Indy will be voiced by the ubiquitous Troy Baker. Of course, Baker’s already had some practice playing a character in a world-spanning, artifact-hunting adventure, as he was the voice of Sam Drake in the Uncharted series. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, MachineGames’ creative director Jerk Gustafsson says Baker was a natural fit for the role due to his own Indy fandom, and he’s even helped contribute to the game’s story…

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"He really brings forward that charm and sense of humor in such a good way. He's also a very big Indiana Jones fan, which is super cool. So he's also very invested in the game. He's not only a very good actor, he also contributes quite a lot to actually make the game better. When we go through with those [blocking sessions for motion capture] there's a lot of adjustments and changes, not only to the script itself, but also to how we set up the scenes, how we set up the cameras. Troy is much more a part of the development team than we usually see just because he's in those blocking sessions."

Entertainment weekly also has some info on some of the other characters seen in the trailer, including the game’s big bad Emmerich Voss played by Marios Gavrilis. Voss is searching for the same secrets related to the Great Circle that indy is and promises to be a