Troy Baker plays a terrifying big bad in Bloober Team's The Medium

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You might recognize Troy Baker for any number of video game roles - most recently, as Joel in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Last of Us 2 - but his latest role in Bloober Team's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Medium is unlike anything he's ever done.

Baker plays the next-gen horror game's primary antagonist, called The Maw, described as a malevolent "entity outside of gender," who stalks heroine Marianne and lets you know where you are in the w🗹orld. Talking to as part of their Gamescom presentation, Baker explained how playing The Maw is a whole new experien𒅌ce for him.

"I've played the brooding hero, I've played the hands-on-hips superhero [but The♎ Maw] is something like I've never done before," Baker explained. "There's a fear and a challenge that comes with that, because you start asking yourself 'can I do this? Is this something I can do?'"

The Maw is mo-capped by a separate actor on stilts, with Baker providing extremely🎃 unsettling, croaky, breathy groans for the cr𓂃eature's voice. You can see a brief clip of the monster in an encounter with Marianne toward the end of the , but you might want to turn on the lights first if you're watching at night.

The Medium is scheduled to release sometime later this year on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Series X and PC. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Back in June, we spoke with lead game designer Wojciech Piejko about The Medium's Silent Hill inspirations, how playing with different perspectives elevates fear, and performance on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft's next-gen hardware.

The Medium is just one of the many 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Xbox Series X games we can't wait to play.

After earning an English degree from ASU, I worked as a corporate copy editor while freelancing for places like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and🌊 MMORPG on the side. I got my big break here in 2019 with a freelance news gig, and I was hired on as GamesRadar's west coast Staff Writer in 2021. That means I'm responsible for managing the site's western regional executive branch, AKA my home office, and writing about whatever horror game I'm too afraid to finish.