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** Burt fucking Reynolds plays... [[Shaped Like Itself|Burt fucking Reynolds.]]
** Burt fucking Reynolds plays... [[Shaped Like Itself|Burt fucking Reynolds.]]
** Jane Valderama is [[Family Guy|Asian correspondent, Trisha Takenawa.]]
** Jane Valderama is [[Family Guy|Asian correspondent, Trisha Takenawa.]]
** [[Michelle Ruff]] ([[Street Fighter IV|Crimson Viper]], [[Drakengard|Arioch]], and [{{[[[Lupin III]] Fujiko}}) is Jenny Jaros.
** [[Michelle Ruff]] ([[Street Fighter IV|Crimson Viper]], [[Drakengard|Arioch]], and [[Lupin III|Fujiko]] is Jenny Jaros.
* The second game has a fair amount of references to anime and manga, particularly as far as the Ronin are concerned. Three of the bikes in the game are named Kenshin, Tetsuo, and Kaneda; the latter two are references to ''[[Akira]]'', the former, possibly ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]''. Shogo Akuji and his father Kazuo are named after Shogo Kawada and Kazuo Kiriyama from ''[[Battle Royale]]''. Finally, both Shogo and Kazuo are voiced by well-known anime [[VAs]]: [[Yuri Lowenthal]] and [[Steve Blum]], respectively.
** The second game has a fair amount of references to anime and manga, particularly as far as the Ronin are concerned. Three of the bikes in the game are named Kenshin, Tetsuo, and Kaneda; the latter two are references to ''[[Akira]]'', the former, possibly ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]''. Shogo Akuji and his father Kazuo are named after Shogo Kawada and Kazuo Kiriyama from ''[[Battle Royale]]''. Finally, both Shogo and Kazuo are voiced by well-known anime [[VAs]]: [[Yuri Lowenthal]] and [[Steve Blum]], respectively.
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** {{spoiler|Trailers and advertisements for the game showed Phillipe Loren as a much younger man and painted him up to be the final boss of the game as well as the mastermind behind the entire syndicate. In the actual game he is an old man who, while fairly badass in the short time he appears in, gets killed off early in the game and replaced with Killbane. He doesn't even get a proper boss battle.}}
** {{spoiler|Trailers and advertisements for the game showed Phillipe Loren as a much younger man and painted him up to be the final boss of the game as well as the mastermind behind the entire syndicate. In the actual game he is an old man who, while fairly badass in the short time he appears in, gets killed off early in the game and replaced with Killbane. He doesn't even get a proper boss battle.}}

Revision as of 02:26, 22 August 2014


  • Dye Hard: Donnie Wong.
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: There is a lot of prominent Hollywood actor voice talent.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • Trailers and advertisements for the game showed Phillipe Loren as a much younger man and painted him up to be the final boss of the game as well as the mastermind behind the entire syndicate. In the actual game he is an old man who, while fairly badass in the short time he appears in, gets killed off early in the game and replaced with Killbane. He doesn't even get a proper boss battle.
    • An early concept portrayed Kiki and Viola as Japanese twins named Natsuko and Yukako (nicknamed Suki and Yuki) who ran an all-female gang to counter the original all-male Morning Star concept. The two gangs were merged to streamline the story, but the twins were changed from Asian to Caucasian to avoid the whole "badass Asian chicks that are subservient to an older man" stereotype.
      • It was originally planed that both sisters would join the Saints