{"id":109647,"date":"2016-11-04T12:58:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T10:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=109647"},"modified":"2016-11-04T12:59:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T10:59:10","slug":"8-video-game-characters-that-look-just-like-famous-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/109647-8-video-game-characters-that-look-just-like-famous-celebrities","title":{"rendered":"8 video game characters that look just like famous celebrities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Video game characters are often based on real people,\u00a0but they usually don’t resemble celebrities unless they are voiced by them<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sometimes however,\u00a0video game characters can bear a striking resemblance to famous celebrities as a product of pure coincidence.<\/p>\n

Below are some of the most widely-acknowledged celebrity look-alikes from video games:<\/p>\n

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Gordon Freeman – Hugh Laurie<\/h3>\n

Half-Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"hugh-laurie-gordon-freeman\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Marcus Fenix – Batista<\/h3>\n

Gears of War<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"batista-marcus-fenix\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Medic – Stephen Colbert<\/h3>\n

Team Fortress 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"colbert-medic\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Marduk – Bill Goldberg<\/h3>\n

Tekken<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"goldberg-marduk\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Big Boss – Sean Connery<\/h3>\n

Metal Gear Solid<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"sean-connery-big-boss\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Barret Wallace – Mr. T<\/h3>\n

Final Fantasy<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"mr-t-barret\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dr. Breen – Dennis Hopper<\/h3>\n

Half-Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"dr-breen-hopper\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Edward Kenway – Chris Hemsworth<\/h3>\n

Assassin’s Creed<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"kenway-chris\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Now read:\u00a011 video game characters voiced by famous celebrities<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These video game characters shockingly resemble famous celebrities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":109669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21449,10434],"class_list":["post-109647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-celebrities","tag-lookalikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109919,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109647\/revisions\/109919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}