I don't mind him... so long as he NEVER ACTS AGAIN!!

It wouldn't be so bad if he even tried to sound American. I also thought Jeff was being kind of harsh but after playing the game I agree with him 100%. Worthington is terrible this game.

His performances in Avatar and Terminator Salvation have already stuck him in a very bad light for me. I won't expect much when I do play through the campaign myself.

Everyone knows jeff hates australians.

Today's the day we succeed. 

I just find Sam Worthington so boring, he has no flair.

He was fine in Terminator Salvation and threw in a decent performance here in my view, surprised by what Jeff had to say. Also shocked that he still hasn't touched Red Dead despite loving GTA4 so much so yeah, he's just full of surprises I guess.

" @CraigAA:  Yeah I'm only kidding. I reckon Jeff just doesn't like him becuase before Avatar came out he was all 'I'm convinced there is no-way that movie is ever going to make money' and now he looks quite the fool, so it's revenge! LOL "

i didnt mind it but then im an aussie so maybe i just didnt notice so much? 

" @CraigAA:  Yeah I'm only kidding. I reckon Jeff just doesn't like him becuase before Avatar came out he was all 'I'm convinced there is no-way that movie is ever going to make money' and now he looks quite the fool, so it's revenge! LOL "

I don't mind his voice acting, I think its passable. I didn't even really notice it was him until the prison when his aussie started slipping out. Having worked in Harvey Norman for nearly a year the aussie accent REALLY grates on my ears so I should hate it... but I don't.

I think Worthington is pretty bland, generally speaking, but I didn't hear the Australian accent in him come out, and I thought he did a pretty good job. With all the other, awful voice actors of the world they could have gotten, he did just fine. The constant "AARRRRGGGH THE NUMBERS" sort of yelling didn't feel too over the top, so maybe his blandness helped reign the more overly dramatic stuff in. Anyway, yeah. He was okay.

I was super distracted by his voice and its tendencies to globe-trot from American to Australian to Russian back to American Queens or something.
 
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Haven't touched the game but just wondering, is it stated explicitly that his character does not have any kind of Australian roots? Maybe I'm prejudiced but it's just my experience that Americans tend to automatically hate all English accents that aren't their own, including other American accents.

" Haven't touched the game but just wondering, is it stated explicitly that his character does not have any kind of Australian roots? Maybe I'm prejudiced but it's just my experience that Americans tend to automatically hate all English accents that aren't their own, including other American accents. "

i didn't even know it was Sam Worthington until Jeff said on the bombcast, i thought the voice acting was good overall.

I thought it was alright, though I'm not fully through the game yet so that could change.  Sometimes the accent shows through but that can even happen in movies. 

" @Progn0sticator:  Shows what I know; I feel like just about every American I've ever heard talk has made fun of or complained about British accents at least once, and the GB crew do it constantly. Maybe they're all just jealous.

Well, I haven't played it yet, but I tend to like Sam Worthington in movies more than others have, and what little bits I've heard from gameplay clips doesn't sound too bad. So what if the guy sounds Australian? I think that there aren't enough games where the main player is Australian, (or is an American, but sounds Australian, like in this game). 

He's no Nolan North. But ice Cube takes me out off the immersion of the game every time.

I think he did well. It occasionally sounded a bit emotionless, but other than that it was alright. Don't get me wrong here.. a professional voice actor could and most likely would have done better, but blaming him for having a mostly hidden Australian accent is just not right. Treyarch knew who they were getting by hiring Sam Worthington and if you want to blame someone it's not that guy, in my opinion. He's no Bill Hader (that guy would be able to give an individual voice to every character in the game) who is a brilliant voice actor.. he is predictable in that way and he gives Mason the voice Treyarch wanted for their lead character.

I like him more than that Disney sellout asshole Ice Cube. I don't care how great he was in the 80s, I don't have any nostalgia for his music, all I think about are his terrible movies. I don't like the guy.

that Australian accent is just fucking weird

Could it be said that you're just playing as Sam Worthington's avatar in the game?
 
ohohoho

" I didnt mind him at all. But Ice Cube in multiplayer is getting a bit annoying. "

Maybe the character was born in the US but raised in Oz.

Tuh-dayz-the-day we succeed.

the only time i was like "wait .. wat?"  was when he definitely let his australian accent come through in the first mission. other than that i thought he did a pretty good job.  

He annoyed the hell out of me, and I'm English. His actual reading and performance were fine, but it was just distracting as hell to have him slip into his aussie accent for basically every other line of dialogue. Annoyed me in Clash of the Titans too, he just can't pull off a consistent accent.

I hate watching/hearing him in actual movies so him being the voice actor for the main character moved it from maybe buy to the gamefly que.  Playing it on mute ftw

''I keep hearing the FUCKING numbers!'' 
 
Nah, I didn't mind his voice acting at all.

"Ice Cube in multiplayer is getting a bit annoying. "

 
@bybeach said:

" I do not mind an australian accent. If I am tired of anything it's overdone southern (borderlands, not whats his name in RDR though) or that nasally twine sometimes from the north east. Canadians can sound more US to me than many in the US  But do not say he was from Alaska...thats not even close to New Zealand. "

I made the mistake of watching the quick look before starting the campaign and now I can only hear an Australian accent whenever he speaks.

I seemed to "enjoy" it more than anyone on the bombcast. He's just not good @ doing an American accent...neither is Ewan McGregor.

he had a fine american accent for terminator and avatar, dunno how he fudged up here

Mel Gibson would have been a better Aussie pick, imo. He can do American, Australian, Scotch, English, etc. And all of them believeably! :P

If anything I found Worthington less annoying in the game than in his films. Onscreen he is totally devoid of charisma, slightly less so in the game.
As far as accents go hes not terrible and nowhere near as shocking as Russel Crowe's wandering collection of accents in Robin Hood for instance.

Worthington is ace. He's sold me on getting this game.

I disliked his voice somewhat for sounding whiny instead of serious in certain situations, but I put that more down to the guy's voice itself rather than his performance. Still, the end result was just as good as in any other action game I can think of, and a good deal better than many.
 
Also, anyone remember the protagonist from the first Crysis? Striking similarities.

It wasn't just a couple lines that he did without the american accent. It was pretty much every single time he slipped back into his flashback which made me think he was originally SAS or something in his past life, but adopted the accent from working with the US or got brainwashed and lost his accent. But it says he was born in Alaska so... it's just Sam sucking at keeping the accent up throughout the game.

Oh god, his accent really stands out like crazy, having finally played through a third or so of the game. Compared to the quality of voice acting in the rest of the game, Worthington is just godawful. Even the cheesy russian accents are better.