{"id":85468,"date":"2019-03-23T14:36:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T13:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/03\/23\/10-of-the-strangest-star-cameos-in-video-games\/"},"modified":"2019-03-23T14:36:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T13:36:18","slug":"10-of-the-strangest-star-cameos-in-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=85468","title":{"rendered":"10 of the strangest star cameos in video games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rami Malek\u2019s slasher horror, Bowie as a cyberpunk hacker, streetfighting Carmen Electra, and John Hurt down and dirty \u2026 improbable roles for A-listersIt\u2019s no longer unusual to see big-name actors in video game roles \u2013 and usually it works out fine. Ellen Page in Beyond: Two Souls, Kristen Bell in Assassin\u2019s Creed and Charles Dance in Witcher 3 were all perfectly cast, bringing their talent and star quality to fitting roles, and featured prominently in those games\u2019 promotion. But sometimes, famous faces pop up in video games where you\u2019re not expecting them, whether it\u2019s someone at the start of their career who later turns into a huge star, or an ageing legend looking for a quick buck. Here are some of our favourite improbable appearances. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2019\/mar\/22\/10-of-the-strangest-star-cameos-in-video-games\" target=\"_blank\">10 of the strangest star cameos in video games<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rami Malek\u2019s slasher horror, Bowie as a cyberpunk hacker, streetfighting Carmen Electra, and John Hurt down and dirty \u2026 improbable roles for A-listersIt\u2019s no longer unusual to see big-name actors in video game roles \u2013 and usually it works out fine. Ellen Page in Beyond: Two Souls, Kristen Bell in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}