It seems not even Sonic X Shadow Technology's builders knew Keanu Reeves could be within the movie-themed DLC

The film model of Shadow the Hedgehog is coming to Sonic X Shadow Generations, however most of Sega did not even know Keanu Reeves could be again for the sport.

Yesterday, throughout Sony’s most up-to-date PlayStation State of Play, Sega confirmed off a little bit of bonus Sonic X Shadow Generations DLC that options, unsurprisingly, Shadow, however surprisingly, it is based mostly on the occasions from the upcoming third film – and it even has Keanu Reeves voicing the character. Whereas solely temporary, the DLC appears extremely enjoyable, and Shadow’s mannequin has been made to resemble his film counterpart, and Reeves voicing this model is sudden contemplating how unoften film stars do online game voice over work like that. However, funnily sufficient, in a submit from the official PlayStation Weblog, collection producer Shun Nakamura shared that a lot of the devs did not even know that Reeves could be voicing Shadow for the DLC.

When requested if he had any enjoyable tales from working with the Sonic film group, Nakamura defined, “Info on the film was revealed to only a few members even inside Sega, so once we developed this content material, we labored with very restricted supplies, which have been supplied by Paramount. We primarily mentioned and labored with Iizuka-san who clearly knew concerning the film too. We truly haven’t seen the ultimate scenes within the film but, so we’re excited to see how shut our recreation finally ends up being to the film!”

On working with Reeves, Nakamura went on to clarify that it was “an extremely secretive course of, so once we began to implement the voice within the recreation, we truly weren’t advised who this voice is. The voice recording was dealt with by Iizuka-san within the US, so once we acquired the recorded voice recordsdata, we listened to it and felt, is that this that actor…?, so we have been additionally shocked after the official announcement from Paramount!”

The DLC film pack is out December 12, a full week and a bit forward of the movie’s launch on December 20, and is already included with the Digital Deluxe Version of Sonic X Shadow Generations.