While he may have turned down a small role in The Predator (and really, can anyone actually blame him in retrospect?), it seems like Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to return to the Predator franchise with some voice-over work in an upcoming Predator game!
Arnold recently appeared at The Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus last weekend where The Arnold Fans were on hand to cover what Dutch himself had to say. And when asked about if he watched his own films, Arnie talked about how he had recently watched through Predator after seeing it on TV. He then spun off to tell the audience that the following week he’d been approached about lending his voice talent to a new Predator game!
“The other day Predator came on, and I said to my girlfriend, “Let’s watch the beginning.” And we ended up watching the whole thing because it still held up today. Other movies don’t hold up, but movies like Predator and the first Terminator really hold up, and it was really fun to watch. Interesting enough, a week later I was asked to do some voice-over for a video game that is coming out about Predator. So it was great that I watched it to get back in that mood again to do the voice-over.”
Arnie graces the cover of the NES Predator game!
The most reasonable conclusion would be that this is for Predator: Hunting Grounds and not a new, yet to be announced Predator game (though we certainly wouldn’t argue with more). Content based on the original movie has previously been announced, perhaps indicating we could be seeing skins based on Predator’s human characters.
Or perhaps Dutch is involved in the story framing around the missions, and he is providing some form of overwatch through our player’s ears? Hopefully we’ll be finding out soon! Thanks to Alien Theory and Joblo for the news!
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TheArnoldFans broke the story.
https://nerd4.life/2020/03/16/arnold-schwarzenegger-probably-has-returned-to-the-role-of-the-dutch-in-the-game-predator-hunting-grounds/
https://gameplaymechanix.com/2020/03/17/arnold-schwarzeneggers-dutch-will-play-a-role-in-asymmetrical-shooter-predator-hunting-grounds/
Arnie flat out rejected doing work for illfonic and said "the hell would i want to do that for? for good marketing hype? hell no. Ill work for that underdog developer no one has heard about coming out with an 8bit mobile vr version of the game."
Yeah for sure. If indeed it is Hunting Grounds, the fact that they've kept it quiet for this long means they clearly intended it to be a surprise.
at about 11:55
On the OTHER-HAND, this reminds me of Colonial Marines and the Michael Biehn/Cpl. Dwayne Hicks announcement.
I hope I'm wrong and a bad game isn't fluffed up by nostalgia. We'll see I suppose.
We find out we were just next door to his little mission where he was dealing with another Predator.
-TJ88
Happy he did actually.
Word.
Actually it's amazing. For a while there I believed Arnold and his agent had lost their ability to recognize an awful script.
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I know making new games for retro videogame consoles are pushing the consoles of yesteryear to the limits on graphics is easily done. But sound?
Or as a Predator you can use a voice mimicry to mock the fireteam e.g. 'Do it! Come on! Kill me! I am here!', 'Stick around'.
And thank you very much Arnold to refused to play in that crap .... Good choice ....and of course F..k Disney
Regards A huge Predator fan
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The suit???
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No, it was a MP game from the beginning as Illfonic has only experience in those type of games. They said it themselves in one of the interviews. Also a SP campaign would require more funds and time than MP.
While of course not affiliated, Frontier did something like this with Jurassic World:Evolution where they had elements of the 93 park which taught the player how to play the game originally. Later on they released a full Jurassic Park expansion, something like this could be happening here. You'd have content available based on the original film even if you couldn't get Arnold. We also know Jungle Hunter was modeled first so perhaps something they went with. There would be an opening based on the original film or that DLC would come out using these elements. I think they wanted to do single-player and they have assets and mechanics which seems like it would lend itself to single-player or an 87 themed mode that would primarily rely on Arnold.
Yes, they did them because they a part of the license. Although to make actors' likenesses, they need to have separate contracts with them.
That is why I suggested that he is old i.e. his 3D model in a helicopter.
Wild to me he couldn't come back for the movies and even refused to voice the T-800 for Mortal Kombat but he came back for some Predator voice-over. I'm just glad he's back but I'm amused he came back for (presumably) Hunting Grounds.
If they have any single-player I wonder if we could see ourselves playing as Dutch. They did model the 87 Predator and they modeled painless. Makes me wonder if any sort of single-player would be built around the film seeing as they would already have the jungle.
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I don't pretend to have an inside track on any of this, but I've listened to Arnold long enough that "the other day" can literally be months & months ago.
Please. Playing like Dutch in a game is something so unbelievable it never crossed my mind as a possibility during all these years.