Tricia Helfer to Voice Kerrigan in StarCraft 2

this woman just oozes sex. I worship and feel sorry for her at the same time, without actually knowing her, how the fuck could you just be friends with someone that sexy?

Weird news as just a few days ago another voice actress had supposedly gotten the gig (one known for anime), really I don't think it will make much of a difference Helfers voice suits Kerrigan.

On a side not there is some cool art of pre-infested Sarah Kerrigan at Blizzcon its for a CGI movie were Raynor remembers Kerrigan.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wow.com/media/2009/08/artgallery0927.jpg

And so starts the cheapening of Blizzard... This sounds so Activision. :-)

She's not a remarkable actor in any way, but I guess the looks helps in Hollywood, but it won't do shit here artistically. What irks me is that she can probably get a lot of acting jobs on her looks alone, so why waste the money on her, and not support someone that a) helped make the original, and b) have *voice* acting as a profession.

God, it's cheap...

She was great on Command and Conquer 3

I hate to say it but Blizzard is falling in to the big name trap. Wasting money on the already famous and abandoning the talent they already had.

I'm pretty sure Glynnis Talken wouldn't mind reprising her role.

People who are saying "nobody knows who the original is" need to remember that Blizzard never had any familiar voice actors. Oftentimes staffers themselves would do it. The Arcturus Mengsk victory speech at the end of the Terran campaign is one of the better acted bits in the game, and that voice is one of Blizz's sound engineers.

New faction Cylons

Ah this should be good. So far she's demonstrated that she understands the difference between acting on-screen and acting just with the voice. She can definitely do that subtle (or sometimes not so) undercurrent of menace that this role would need.

I love how everyone's shouting 'bring in the original actress!' but nobody has a clue who she is

I bet waiting for an opening in her schedule for her to record her lines for SC2 is one of many factors involved with its delay...
I have worked on the production of a few films and most films run into problems like this when trying to get everyone together when filming begins.

Mixed feelings on this. If they're going with someone who isn't the original actress...then this isn't a horrible choice...there could be far worse choices than this. That said, the original actress was more than fine...and they should have gone with her if at all possible. This isn't a huge deal for me and I'm not going to nerd rage over it...but it seems stupid unless theres some unnamed reason they couldn't get the original actress that they're keeping under their hats...otherwise I find it really unnecessary to replace said original actress.

I'd add that after that one trailer with the really shitty monotone "I'm reading this off a napkin and don't give a fuck" voice I had no expectations with regard to this...so I'm at least happy that they're getting someone competent.

So THIS is why it's taking forever. BRING BACK THE ORIGINAL ACTRESS!

sweet, loved BSG and i think she could do a good kerrigan voice

Picture of her at blizzcon

http://news.bigdownload.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-tricia-helfer-to-voice-sarah-kerrigan-in-starcraf/

I guess that's a thing to care about.

i like slutty cylons.

i'd do them.

That's a good choice. That whole Queen of Blades Kerrigan thing with the menace and so forth was totally what head Six was about.

I forsee this adding months to the tentative release date.

On another note, boobs.

This does not have my stamp of approval

I think I would have preferred them to use an unknown who kind of specializes in voiceover work.

Them Cylons are everywhere.