War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors

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Thanks to a War For Cybertron preview by the folks over at AusGamers, an Australian Games Community, we get to know a little bit more about the game. Not only that, but certain voice actors have also been revealed. While we knew that revered voice actor Peter Cullen would be voicing Optimus, his nemesis Megatron will be voiced by James Remar. Starscream will be voiced by Doug Parker, who is familiar with Transformers as he's been the voice for Beast Wars Terrorsaur and Armada/Energon Tidal Wave/Mirage. Lastly a character familiar to those who have followed IDW's Transformers Comics - Optimus's predecessor Zeta Prime will be voiced by the legendary Leonard Nimoy. Feel free to check out the rest of the article here.

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Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060010)
Posted by Bumblevivisector on March 31st, 2010 @ 1:29am CDT

Zeta Prime is Galvatron?!? Does he come before Sentinel Prime, or between him and Op?

The Starscreams in the Unicron Trilogy and Animated were OK, but it's a nice change of pace to have Doug voicing him again...for the first time in over a decade? Slag, I feel old.

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060012)
Posted by Crystal Rodimus on March 31st, 2010 @ 1:36am CDT

Very cool - great choices. They found a way to raise my hopes even higher.

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060013)
Posted by Jetstorm92210 on March 31st, 2010 @ 1:44am CDT

I'm happy to read this news.

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060016)
Posted by Autobot032 on March 31st, 2010 @ 2:03am CDT

Leonard Nimoy and James Remar? Hot damn, this is gonna be awesome. Awe. Some.

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060039)
Posted by cannonfodder4000 on March 31st, 2010 @ 6:11am CDT

glad to see these guys are back

though i still would have liked gary chalk as optimus (no offence to cullen but gary hasnt been around since 2005!)

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060057)
Posted by SlyTF1 on March 31st, 2010 @ 7:09am CDT

Well, this game is turning out just like a big budget movie

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060059)
Posted by HighPrime on March 31st, 2010 @ 7:10am CDT

Autobot032 wrote:Leonard Nimoy and James Remar? Hot damn, this is gonna be awesome. Awe. Some.

X2. Glad to see Nimoy is trying a different voiceover instead of reprising Galvatron. I wouldn't complain if he did, though

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060081)
Posted by originaldave77 on March 31st, 2010 @ 8:11am CDT

Kinda surprising he is doing this after being on Bay's radar for TF2 but ultimately not appearing in the film!

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060107)
Posted by UltraPrimal on March 31st, 2010 @ 10:14am CDT

I'm more excited about Doug Parker than Leonard Nimoy. I thought He did a great job as Starscream in Possession. "Allow me to present myself: Air Commander Starscream of the Decepticon Battle Fleet!!!" Epic Win! Spock? Whatever.

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060111)
Posted by Megatron Wolf on March 31st, 2010 @ 10:25am CDT

Starscream should be awesome, also glad about Nemoy but who the frak is James Remar? Why does every one feel its mandatory to bring back Cullen for prime but not keep one of the established (and good) voice actors for Megatron? If i have to listen to a crappy Megatron through out the game im gonna be really pissed.

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060113)
Posted by Bouncy X on March 31st, 2010 @ 10:29am CDT

gary chalk wouldn't have made sense since this is a G1 universe Prime so Cullen was the only choice i think.

and isn't it funny....Frank Welker didnt get to be Megatron for the live action movies but they used him in the video games based on them. now here comes a G1 game and they dont even get him? lemme guess, if they ever make any sort of animated version of this game then he'll be back. lol

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060118)
Posted by I want to be prime on March 31st, 2010 @ 10:54am CDT

The fact Mr Nimoy is in this makes this even better.

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060121)
Posted by First-Aid on March 31st, 2010 @ 11:02am CDT

I'd say his character could live long and prosper, but since Zeta Prime kicks the bucket fairly early that's out of the question. :grin:

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060127)
Posted by Zeds on March 31st, 2010 @ 11:15am CDT

Nice selection of possibilities.

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060131)
Posted by MYoung23 on March 31st, 2010 @ 11:20am CDT

Megatron Wolf wrote:Starscream should be awesome, also glad about Nemoy but who the frak is James Remar? Why does every one feel its mandatory to bring back Cullen for prime but not keep one of the established (and good) voice actors for Megatron? If i have to listen to a crappy Megatron through out the game im gonna be really pissed.

James Remar is a long time character actor. He was in the cult classic "The Warriors" dozen of TV shows including being the lead character's father on "Dexter" and he has done a ton of voice work in Justice League Unlimited, The Batman, Spectacular Spiderman, Batman: The Brave & The Bold, Ben 10, etc, etc

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060151)
Posted by Mindmaster on March 31st, 2010 @ 11:58am CDT

Doug Parker, if your still thinking of a voice for Starscream, PLEASE, for the love of God, use Terrorsaur's voice, it matches him and Starscream PERFECTLY!!! 8-}

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060156)
Posted by Autobot032 on March 31st, 2010 @ 12:02pm CDT

MYoung23 wrote:
Megatron Wolf wrote:Starscream should be awesome, also glad about Nemoy but who the frak is James Remar? Why does every one feel its mandatory to bring back Cullen for prime but not keep one of the established (and good) voice actors for Megatron? If i have to listen to a crappy Megatron through out the game im gonna be really pissed.

James Remar is a long time character actor. He was in the cult classic "The Warriors" dozen of TV shows including being the lead character's father on "Dexter" and he has done a ton of voice work in Justice League Unlimited, The Batman, Spectacular Spiderman, Batman: The Brave & The Bold, Ben 10, etc, etc

Thank you! (for those who don't know, here you go: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001664/)

And for those of you who want Garry Chalk, you should know, he said he doesn't want to do it anymore. (TFs that is.) Plus, when he fell on the ice and injured himself, he did so to a rather great extent. The man was hurt badly. That's why you haven't, and probably never will see Chalk again, in TFs.

Oh and the comment about Nimoy doing this when Bay didn't take him, has absolutely nothing to do with this article. This is a Hasbro/Activision production. Bay has absolutely nothing to do with it. Not one thing.

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060174)
Posted by Blackstreak on March 31st, 2010 @ 12:52pm CDT

WOW!! The original voice for Galvatron is returning as an Autobot. Gotta love that. He's my hero. :APPLAUSE:

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060207)
Posted by KingEmperor on March 31st, 2010 @ 3:19pm CDT

MYoung23 wrote:
Megatron Wolf wrote:Starscream should be awesome, also glad about Nemoy but who the frak is James Remar? Why does every one feel its mandatory to bring back Cullen for prime but not keep one of the established (and good) voice actors for Megatron? If i have to listen to a crappy Megatron through out the game im gonna be really pissed.

James Remar is a long time character actor. He was in the cult classic "The Warriors" dozen of TV shows including being the lead character's father on "Dexter" and he has done a ton of voice work in Justice League Unlimited, The Batman, Spectacular Spiderman, Batman: The Brave & The Bold, Ben 10, etc, etc

James Remar is awesome. He's an underrated actor and got a bad-ass voice. I hope he pulls off Megatron.

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060226)
Posted by partholon on March 31st, 2010 @ 4:23pm CDT

i have to admit.

i REALLY hate the name "zeta prime". it just sounds awfull to me and i really wish they went with sentinel BUT lenord impressed the HELL out of me doing galvatron way back when so at least i know the bloke has what it takes to bring some sense of gravitas to the role.

i cant see him doing the "oozing contempt" he did for galvatron so itll be interesting to see how he portrays it.

should be fun !

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060251)
Posted by SentinelA on March 31st, 2010 @ 5:33pm CDT

Nimoy is why I still love G1 Galvatron, dispite what they did to him in the series.

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060293)
Posted by Jeysie on March 31st, 2010 @ 8:04pm CDT

Turns out that Nimoy and Parker actually aren't providing voices, based on what Activision reps have said to the Allspark and TFormers:

http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.ph ... &p=1496681

http://tformers.com/transformers-debunk ... /news.html

:/

The original site's apparently removed the info from their article, too.

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060300)
Posted by Blurrz on March 31st, 2010 @ 8:13pm CDT

Damn Those Aussies..

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060341)
Posted by Autobot032 on March 31st, 2010 @ 9:59pm CDT

Wow, if that was an April Fool's prank, it was crappy.

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060353)
Posted by Seibertron on March 31st, 2010 @ 10:33pm CDT

One of my lead contacts with Activision emailed me earlier tonight to let me know that the rumor we posted earlier today from AusGamers[/url] is FALSE. Activsion also stated that Peter Cullen is the only confirmed voice actor and that other voice actors will be announced soon.

Activision wrote:---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Activision
Date: Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:41 PM
Subject: Voice Actor Rumor
To: Ryan Yzquierdo

Hi Ryan,

We just wanted to let you know that the rumor you posted regarding the voice actors in Transformers: War for Cybertron is false. We will be providing additional information on voice actors soon. The only confirmed voice actor is Peter Cullen at this time.

-W

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060357)
Posted by UltraPrimal on March 31st, 2010 @ 10:40pm CDT

Aww...I was looking forward to Doug Parker as Starscream. :-(

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060459)
Posted by Blackstreak on April 1st, 2010 @ 7:48am CDT

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060662)
Posted by First-Aid on April 1st, 2010 @ 7:56pm CDT

So that means...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

???

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1060668)
Posted by Shadowman on April 1st, 2010 @ 8:18pm CDT

Autobot032 wrote:Wow, if that was an April Fool's prank, it was crappy.

No it wasn't. A crappy prank doesn't fool anyone. This fooled everyone until Activision told everyone otherwise.

Re: War For Cybertron - Leonard Nimoy and Doug Parker Among New Voice Actors (1061931)
Posted by Elita One on April 6th, 2010 @ 6:19am CDT

Awwwh I was so looking forward seeing/hearing Nimoy in the TF universe again. Sucks to hear about Chalk having that accident hope he gets better soon and this event doesn't affect his appearance at Auto Assembly.