Brit Tele Presenter a Character in Assassin’s Creed
by Patrick Steen on December 3, 2007 at 10:40 am
What do you get when you combine a fashionably bald British television presenter with an ancient flying killer? Well, you get Jason Bradbury from Channel 5’s The Gadget Show in Assassin’s Creed of course.
Per chance you’ve never heard of The Gadget Show, which I know you haven’t since most of you guys are not from my part of the world, I shall explain to you its premise. Take a gorgeous young woman with the task of controlling a videogame obsessed hobbit and a tech savvy wizard. Place them on the very last of the terrestrial channels. And vamoose! You have The Gadget Show.
Alright, I’m messing about a lot today, but it’s the only way to keep me from watching television talent contests. Damn Simon Cowell! What have you done to us!?
Moving on. If you haven’t forgotten, Assassin’s Creed is the source of this story. An entertainment disc which Jason Bradbury says the kids are hailing to be the next big game. I’m not sure if they are, but if I had kids I’m sure they would be doing so.
Nonetheless, the critics haven’t been hailing it as the second coming. I personally blame this simply on Jade Raymond. I’m joking really, Jade is a talented lady, but the game promised so much - the next big thing as Jason says. Yet, since it does so many things right, its failures are all the more prominent. But we’re not here to rag on Assassin’s Creed, we’re here to say that Jason is in the game!
On last weeks episode of The Gadget Show, Jason went to visit Ubisoft Montreal and had his beautiful visage scanned into the game. The above photograph is what he looked like before he went in the game, and it’s all sorts of amazing that they turned his stretched blob like features into an actual face:
The clever thing about Creed’s character engine is that Jason isn’t going to be just one pre-decided character. Oh no no, it’s much cleverer than that. His face is put into some sort of random selection process, where his face is combined with a number of bodies (not at the same time), such as a Monk, a fat guy, someone with hair, or even as one of those women carrying jugs of water. Though let’s hope the latter option doesn’t occur. That might put you off the game before you’ve even got started.
Jason is struggling to find himself in the game, but he’s certainly in the mix - and only in the city of Acre, as opposed to Jerusalem or Damascus. So keep a look out for his mug and forward a screenshot of him to his blog so he can bask in his fame. Oh and come back for our review of the game.
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on December 3, 2007 11:27 am
Suzi Perry is indeed a lovely lady.
on December 7, 2007 10:06 am
I just love this site - and I’m happy to have made it as a feature (damn, this is almost as cool as being on TV!) :-)
Thanks for the ref to the Assassin’s Creed story - I have had some correspondence through my blog from gamers and the pics they’ve shown me of my avatar are not too terrible (I wear the fat friar look well). Still, it was cool to go to Montreal and meet the peeps from Ubisoft and what I’ve played of the game I’ve really enjoyed. I’m now obsessed with Half Life 2- Episode 2 (The Orange Box) and Mario and Sonics Olympic… er… thingy for the Wii.
Merry Xmas to all at ripten - may your sacks be bulging with gaming goodness this coming Xmas.
Jason
http://www.jasonbradbury.com