A Narrator for Civ5 - Who would you choose?

[Shrapnel12]

I want a female narrator, because a female voice is just more pleasant to listen to. I don't really have any ideas who though. Maybe Elizabeth Hurley or Claudia Black? With a kind of deep voice but still very feminine

[proviisori]

Christopher Walken

[patcon]

the movie trailer voice-over guy from the Geico commercials

"In a world ruled by many gods, you have chosen to honor just one ... monotheism grips your land!"

"They thought they knew me ... but I fooled them ... I got pig iron!"

Seriously, I'd like to see (hear) different people for different techs - certainly Hawking would be perfect for the more advanced techs, but he wouldn't be right for the early techs.

Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle) would be great for the agricultural-type techs. There should be different narrations based on how you got the tech. Three different narrations could be based on Gomer's three catch-phrases. If you get hunting through research it would be, "Gollllllly, you jes' lernt to hunt!" If you get it by popping a goody hut it would be, "Sur-prize, sur-prize, sur-prize! Them natives jes' lernt ya ta hunt!" If you get it as a free tech bonus it would be, "Shazaam! Y'all lernt ta hunt lickety-split!" If you got it via trade it would be, "Them nice fellers lernt y'all how ta hunt!"

[AEdwild]

Jim Nabors?

Outside of us Americans aged 40 years or older, I think that most of the world and younger Americans will have little to no idea of who Jim Nabors is.

I know I could mention his name at work and all I'd get is blank stares from the under 40 set I work with.

[Dis]

gomer pyle? I would burn a game with his voice in it.

although I'm not actually sure what his voice sounds like, I only seen it parodied on the simpsons and the like. or maybe I'm thinking of the seargent who says Pyle. hmm

either way I don't like it. don't dumb the game down.

I would like to have all the leaders have a quote like SMAC.

[wodan11]

Christopher Walken would be awesome! I'm not sure I could stop laughing, however.

Ditto with Rev. Jesse Jackson. One of the funniest things I ever saw was him dead-pan reading "Green Eggs and Ham" on SNL.

Wodan

[ulyanov]

Sadly, the only man worthy of my vote died in February this year.

Ian Richardson - You might know him from the crappy underworld movie, but I loved him from the first time I saw him as Francis Urquart - Chief Party Whip of the Tories in "House of Cards"

He also voiced Death in the recent TV adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Hogfather.

[korn469]

Ian Richardson wasn't in the underworld movie, that was Bill Nighy.

My vote is for John Hurt

[ulyanov]

Ahh - was thinking of dark city...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118929/

[Thedrin]

Too Many People:
Morgan Freeman

Anyone else find his voice over exposed (same goes for James Earl Jones).

Guynemer:
Just imagine Christopher Walken doing the Sputnik quote.

MarkUCLA:
Sigourney Weaver.

Has anyone seen the Planet Earth series from the Discovery Channel? She is absolutely terrific and would be a nice change from the usual male voice.

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergenc...anet-earth.html

It's a BBC series. They replaced David Attenborough?

[Dauphin]

BRIAN BLESS-ED!

[ulyanov]

Yes, Brian Blessed - The Blackadder King Richard IV Brian Blessed.

Blood! Death! War! Rumpy pumpy! Triumph!

[Aradae]

Jack Bauer

"The following takes place between 500 bc and 400 bc"

[proviisori]

Originally posted by Aradae
Jack Bauer

"The following takes place between 500 bc and 400 bc"

[Blaupanzer]

Patrick Stewart did a good job as the emporer in Oblivion. Should do as well here.

Sigourney Weaver would be perfect -- the voice of Mother Nature.