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Give us more awkward celebrity cameos at video game live showsSummer Game Fest finally provided a hit of the content I need
Summer Game Fest finally provided a hit of the content I need
Image credit:Behaviour Interactive
Image credit:Behaviour Interactive
I’m sad to say that I’ve long passed the stage where covering a trailer show likeSummer Game Festmakes me feel almost nothing, because for me it’s a work event where I have to stay up to 1am drinking emergency Fanta, writing posts while I try to remember the name of yer man, you know, from the first game, the guy with the hair. But you know what makes me feel something? An established film and TV actor only bothering to fix his hair a minimal amount before he films a front facing phone camera video to intro a clearly terrible TV based on a game. Goddamn, that’s the stuff.
Twisted Metal World Premiere Trailer with Will Arnett | Summer Game Fest 2023Watch on YouTube
Twisted Metal World Premiere Trailer with Will Arnett | Summer Game Fest 2023
I’ll clarify that the upcoming Twisted Metal TV show has a bizarrely stacked cast, and I’m a big fan of Will Arnett (although, sucks to be Samoa Joe, a pro-wrestler who does all the everything else of the clown Sweet Tooth, while Arnett provides the voice). You can just imagine the email from his agent coming through kind of last minute, like “Hey Will, Susan at NBC has asked if you can record a 30 second intro to the arcade fight scene for some video game show”, and Will, because he’s a pro, smashed it out in two takes max before he went downstairs to make toast for breakfast. Like, he doesn’t even leave the editor a second of room to fade to black before turning the camera off, just instantly DONEZO and we get to see his arm reaching up and his eyes glaze over.
Really puts Geoff’s t-shirt and trainers into perspective doesn’t it? |Image credit:The Game Awards
Right now we’re still in the last years where a film star appearing in his shiny suit feels like an adult coming to visit the kids table at a wedding. It’s special and weird. Whether you can see the contractual obligation behind their smile like Will Arnett, or whether they are obviously slightly confused about what’s going on but loving life like Keanu Reeves, or whether they just instantly walk off again like Yoko Ono did that one time - or, indeed, whether they can work a room like nobody else like Nicolas actual Cage - these always have been and always will be my favourite moments of any E3 or not E3 showcase. If for nothing else, I will thank Geoff Keighly for still doing them, and hope that they only continue. There is theoretically a world where Kojima, Guillermo del Toro and Nicolas Cage all come on to yell at us at once. What a world that would be.
