UK-based humorist Danny Wallace is lending his voice and likeness toAssassin’s Creed 2. According to official release, Wallace’s character is a historian named Shaun Hastings who steers players and relates information about the environment. Noted as a “pivotal character,” it seems the funny-man scored a unique role.
Wallace is the author of — among many other things — “Me and Yes Man,” a book that was twisted into a terrible Jim Carrey comedy flick.
We’re not sure about the historian part — history dudes aren’t the coolest folk — but we do know that games benefit from having British comedians around. Just look at the Stephen Fry-laden tutorials in Media Molecule’sLittleBigPlanet. It’s nice to have an over the top character walking you through the game. We’ll have to see what we get out of Danny Wallace.
[Update: two new screens of the game were released with this informaiton.]
