Experts agree that Portal 2’s Wheatley is probably the best thing to happen to games all year – although the guy behind the voice behind the, um, ambitious little personality core reckons it was pretty much the most exhausting thing ever.<\/p>\n
“I’m in this little recording booth, shouting down these imaginary corridors, imaginary gantries, pretending to fall off things and really trying to move around and live it as best I could,” he tells MTV<\/a>. “I know it sounds really pretentious, but really try to move around like this robot so my voice would feel like it was animated.”<\/p>\n “I was really working hard to try and put myself in that environment, I guess, which is not something I normally do as a performer. Normally I just rock up and I do the lines and I go away again. I’m not an accomplished actor. But for some reason I was really working hard. When I finished it I was like, ‘I can never do this again, I’m so tired.’ Honestly, I’m not just exaggerating for the interview. I was really tired.”<\/p>\n “By the third or fourth session, I was not looking forward to it. I was just like: ‘I’m gonna be exhausted after this’. So, at the time, I was thinking, ‘Oh, I don’t fancy doing this again’.”<\/p>\n But what if we asked nicely? Oh, okay. Only because we asked so nicely. For science, of course.<\/p>\n “I’m a robot, I don’t need to die,” he says. “They could bring me back anyway if they wanted. Make it a prequel!”<\/p>\n