The Voice

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The VoiceTM is the name given to the announcer in BloodBath. It is the same voice and voice actor as Tchernobog (Jason Hall), but not necessarily the same character.

The Voice adds a bit of atmosphere to the multiplayer. It declares the start of each match, and each time a player dies, The Voice announces it with some descriptive and gory phrase. A text message also announces the death, but uses a complete phrase, rather than one or two words.

GT Interactive producer Rick Raymo is listed as a ghost writer for The Voice in the Blood II: The Chosen credits. Jason Hall has described how it was directly inspired by the announcer in Mortal Kombat, and that he was pleased to see later first-person shooters such as Unreal Tournament feature similar commentary. Nick Newhard traced its inspiration to hearing John Romero call to smack talk Adrian Carmack during a deathmatch in an early version of Doom during a 1993 visit to the id Software offices.

The Voice also appears in the related Monolith Productions game Get Medieval, only now narrating in both single and multiplayer. One might conjecture that as The One That Binds, Tchernobog witnesses and comments on actions among different planes of reality.

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