{"id":54939,"date":"2013-06-07T11:04:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T09:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=54939"},"modified":"2013-06-07T11:06:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T09:06:05","slug":"kiefer-sutherland-is-snake-in-mgs-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/54939-kiefer-sutherland-is-snake-in-mgs-5","title":{"rendered":"Kiefer Sutherland is Snake in MGS: 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Star of TV show 24, Kiefer Sutherland has landed the voice acting role of Snake in the upcoming Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted Snake to have a more subdued performance expressed through subtle facial movements and tone of voice rather than words,&#8221; Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima said. &#8220;Furthermore, the game takes place in 1984 when Snake is 49 years old. Therefore, we needed someone who could genuinely convey both the facial and vocal qualities of a man in his late 40s. It&#8217;s different from anything we&#8217;ve done before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an honor to be able to play this character,&#8221; Sutherland said. &#8220;This character has an unbelievable legacy. There&#8217;s a real personal quality to the character that I&#8217;ve connected to. I&#8217;m not a gamer, and I even knew about this game. I was certainly keenly aware of the legacy of these games, the unbelievable success of these games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sutherland will have big shoes to fill, as previous Snake voice actor, David Hayter, became a fan-loved element of the series \u2013 often delivering great and convincing performances throughout the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Hayter threw in his two cents to the announcement of Sutherland as the new voice actor, saying:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54942\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/David-Hayter-Twitter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54942\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54942\" alt=\"David Hayter Twitter\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/David-Hayter-Twitter.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/David-Hayter-Twitter.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/David-Hayter-Twitter-96x68.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Hayter&#8217;s Tweet<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Watch from 10:30 to see Kojima and Sutherland talk about MGS 5.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jRvnyT1R8J8\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Metal Gear news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/52356-metal-gear-solid-5-the-phantom-pain-unveiled.html\">Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain unveiled<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/53970-konami-to-show-pes-2014-metal-gear-solid-v-before-e3.html\">Konami to show PES 2014, Metal Gear Solid V before E3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/52500-5-next-gen-engines-and-tech.html\">5 next-gen engines and tech<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 star lands iconic role in the Metal Gear series<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":54940,"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":[2],"tags":[31,9437,575,2647,1005,9988,8078],"class_list":["post-54939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-big-boss","tag-hideo-kojima","tag-kojima-productions","tag-metal-gear-solid","tag-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain","tag-the-phantom-pain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54939","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54943,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54939\/revisions\/54943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}