The Voices behind Call of Duty - Modern Warfare

I’ve been an on-an-off gamer for most of my life, so have some familiarity with it, but in doing some research for our brand new Character voicing and Gaming course I watched some of Call of Duty - Modern Warfare and was absolutely floored by the incredible voice acting, the performances and just how incredibly movie-like video games have become.

Kirsty Gilmore is one of our tutors for the gaming course in Feb 2023, and she cast and directed voices for this project. I’m really looking forward to finding out how it all came about and what it is like to work on such an amazing project like this.

Here is a video showing all of the ‘Cut scenes’ from the game - the narrative exposition, and where the emotional strings of the movie are conveyed:

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