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Neil Patrick Harris Voices (A) Spider-Man In Shattered Dimensions

Maybe Spider-Man will stop and get some White Castle! Like in that movie, right?!

Fans of arachnid-based super heroics, Internet-based episodic musicals, or the Tony Awards, get excited: Activision revealed today that beloved-child-actor-turned-ironic-self-parody-actor-turned-proper-actor Neil Patrick Harris would don the digital mask and voice of The Amazing Spider-Man, one of four playable versions of the character in the upcoming Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
 
This marks Harris' second bite by a radioactive spider, as he played a very computer generated Spider-Man in the short-lived series Spider-Man: The New Animated Series back in 2003. Combined with his already impressive list of video game voice-over roles, I could not think of a better actor to handle the specific nuances and subtleties of a character who will probably spend the whole game making bad spider-based puns.  

 

 
 "Snikt, Bub."
 
There you go. That's your news story, and that's your Spider-Man video game. You are now free to talk about unicorns and White Castle. Don't let me stop you. 
 
 

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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

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@TadThuggish said:
" @Manhattan_Project said:
" @TadThuggish said:
" Neil Patrick Harris is done.  He was only "brought back" ironically, and now people have convinced themselves that it wasn't ironically.  Yes, it was.  The guy is decent at what he does but the fervor is so feigned that even the actors don't know they're acting.  Don't arbitrarily put him in things unless he belongs. "
I find your hate for NPH disgusting. "
Thanks for proving my point! "
Thanks for proving my point.
 
(See I can do it too!)
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@camozombie said:
" There is no such thing as too much Neil Patrick Harris. "
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@Manhattan_Project said:
" @TadThuggish said:
" Neil Patrick Harris is done.  He was only "brought back" ironically, and now people have convinced themselves that it wasn't ironically.  Yes, it was.  The guy is decent at what he does but the fervor is so feigned that even the actors don't know they're acting.  Don't arbitrarily put him in things unless he belongs. "
I find your hate for NPH disgusting. "
Thanks for proving my point!
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@ISuperGamerI said:

" @Landon said:

" Well, he did a Spider-Man before, and he was pretty good in that. "
I don't remember which Spider-Man movie was it? "
He was Peter Parker in the short lived MTV Spider-Man tv show. Remember? It was all CGI and everyone look really weird, but I thought it was a pretty good show.
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@Manhattan_Project said:
" @TadThuggish said:
" Neil Patrick Harris is done.  He was only "brought back" ironically, and now people have convinced themselves that it wasn't ironically.  Yes, it was.  The guy is decent at what he does but the fervor is so feigned that even the actors don't know they're acting.  Don't arbitrarily put him in things unless he belongs. "
I find your hate for NPH disgusting. "
Verily.
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@ISuperGamerI said:
" @Landon said:
" Well, he did a Spider-Man before, and he was pretty good in that. "
I don't remember which Spider-Man movie was it? "
Use IMDB, its not that hard to find out :)
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@Landon said:
" Well, he did a Spider-Man before, and he was pretty good in that. "
I don't remember which Spider-Man movie was it?
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@Toxin066: @Toxin066 said:

" NPH in a game? SOLD.  Still curious as to why "Symbiote" is called "Ultimate". Will it be based off teenaged Parker from the Ultimate Spiderman series? The symbiote was present for a very short time in those comics. "

It's based off the ultimate spider man universe and the reason why they went with the black costume even though he wears it for like 1-2 issues is because they wanted to give it a GOW type action style of gameplay.    
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I had a feeling that they'd pick him for either the Amazing or Ultimate versions so this is a welcome surprise.  Actually i'm surprised nobody figured it out by now, i'd think somebody would have recognized his voice from the earlier trailers. 
 
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@Hockeymask27: You sir have won the internets.
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NPH WOULDN'T DO THAT

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This topic needs more Dr Horrible.

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There is no such thing as too much Neil Patrick Harris.

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I think he can pull off the part of Green Lantern Spider-Man. Not sure about the others.

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This is some very good news indeed, NPH is awesome

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The title of this article alone sold me on this game.

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@TadThuggish said:
" Neil Patrick Harris is done.  He was only "brought back" ironically, and now people have convinced themselves that it wasn't ironically.  Yes, it was.  The guy is decent at what he does but the fervor is so feigned that even the actors don't know they're acting.  Don't arbitrarily put him in things unless he belongs. "
I find your hate for NPH disgusting.
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@Doubt said:
" hey man shattered memories is a good game, 5th spiderman with a flashlight yelling out cheryl. "
@JJOR64 said:
" CHERYL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "
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CHERYL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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hey man shattered memories is a good game, 5th spiderman with a flashlight yelling out cheryl.

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matt you messed up man shatter memories?
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He's fighting Juggernaut. I like Spiderman and all, but he's no match for Juggernaut.

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duz this spidey dance and singz the songz that make the worldz goe roundz? i sure hope so!

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Well, he did a Spider-Man before, and he was pretty good in that.

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NPH in a game? SOLD.
 
Still curious as to why "Symbiote" is called "Ultimate". Will it be based off teenaged Parker from the Ultimate Spiderman series? The symbiote was present for a very short time in those comics.

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He's the music meisteeeeeeeeeeeeer

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@Belonpopo said:
" Shatter Memories? "
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I didn't like that MTV series >_<

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Neil Patrick Harris is done.  He was only "brought back" ironically, and now people have convinced themselves that it wasn't ironically.  Yes, it was.  The guy is decent at what he does but the fervor is so feigned that even the actors don't know they're acting.
 
Don't arbitrarily put him in things unless he belongs.

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Shatter Memories?

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Or break out in musical. 
  

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Fans of arachnid-based super heroics, Internet-based episodic musicals, or the Tony Awards, get excited: Activision revealed today that beloved-child-actor-turned-ironic-self-parody-actor-turned-proper-actor Neil Patrick Harris would don the digital mask and voice of The Amazing Spider-Man, one of four playable versions of the character in the upcoming Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
 
This marks Harris' second bite by a radioactive spider, as he played a very computer generated Spider-Man in the short-lived series Spider-Man: The New Animated Series back in 2003. Combined with his already impressive list of video game voice-over roles, I could not think of a better actor to handle the specific nuances and subtleties of a character who will probably spend the whole game making bad spider-based puns.  

 

 
 "Snikt, Bub."
 
There you go. That's your news story, and that's your Spider-Man video game. You are now free to talk about unicorns and White Castle. Don't let me stop you.