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* Lara Croft of ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' has had four voice actresses over 12 years and 8 games, each one bringing a totally different spin on Lara's personality. She even changes in appearance, and has been played in live-action promo shots by at least five different women, not even counting [[Lara Croft Tomb Raider (Film)|Angelina Jolie]]. She pretty much MUST be a Time Lord.▼
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▲* Lara Croft of ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' has had four voice actresses over 12 years and 8 games, each one bringing a totally different spin on Lara's personality. She even changes in appearance, and has been played in live-action promo shots by at least five different women, not even counting [[Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
** This is done deliberately so that no actress will be able to dominate the character.
** Sofia Vergara played what is essentially the Angelina Jolie version of the character in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVFz8cyZO6I&feature=related this TV spot] for Visa credit cards.
* Max in ''[[Sam and Max]]: Season 1'' was replaced after the first episode, though the voices are so similar it's not really that important - some of the original actor's voice clips have even been retained.
* In an extreme case, the entire American voice cast of the next-gen ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' games were replaced with the one for the anime ''[[Sonic X]]''. Notable in that [[Executive Meddling|even the original cast didn't know they were being replaced until after the change]]. This came about because Yuji Naka- at that time the head of Sonic Team- made a comment that he would like for the voices for the characters to remain consistent across all media (as it was in Japan), either not knowing or not caring that this meant ''firing'' the previous US cast.
** And it's happened after that too; Vector the Crocodile was voiced by [[Jimmy Zoppi|Carter Cathcart]] in ''[[Sonic X]]'' and ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'', but Dan Green in ''[[Mario
** Sega has now replaced the entire voice cast (except [[Mike Pollock]]) again. The new cast's first appearance was in ''[[Sonic Free Riders]]''.
** Before the big cast change, Tails went through several voice actors that were actual children (3 in English and 2 in Japanese), while Knuckles was voiced by Michael McGaharn in [[
* Dante of ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' has had three voice actors, four if you count the one in the anime's original Japanese. Only between games 3 and 4 did his voice-actor (who, incidentally, is also his [[Ink Suit Actor]]) remain the same.
** The same could be said of every recurring character bar Lady (who has kept [[Kari Wahlgren]] as her VA since ''3''). The aforementioned Dante example is muddled further if one considers Dante's [[Special Guest]] appearance in the [[
* ''Cartoon Network's Bug Punch Time'' video game replaced almost every voice actor since the game makers wanted to have a small cast. Only [[Grey
* Much to the chagrin of most fans of the franchise, the voice of Carmelita Fox in ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' was replaced in each game. She was played by Roxana Ortega in ''[[Sly Cooper]] and the Thevius Raccoonus'', then by Alesia Glidewell in ''Sly 2: Band of Thieves'', and finally Ruth Livier in ''Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves''. It didn't help that each voice actress [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|gave Carmelita a different accent]].
* Etna from ''[[Disgaea]]'' was originally voiced by [[Amanda Winn
** However, [[Nippon Ichi]] games in general tend to avert this. The most notable example of this: [[Barbara Goodson]] played Laharl in ''[[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
*** Goodson even voiced him in a ten-second cameo appearance in ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'' where Laharl wasn't even ''seen''. It doesn't help that she voices another kid character ''with the same voice she uses for Laharl''.
* In an unusual inversion, when the original ''[[Lunar]]'' game, ''[[
** This occurs again in the ''Silver Star Harmony'' remake for the PSP, which was localized XSEED instead as Working Designs had long gone out of business. The story as to ''why'' depends on who you talked to - Victor Ireland, the former head of Working Designs, claimed the entire voice cast was loyal to him, aside from Jenny Stigle who "broke rank". XSEED, on the other hand, stated that most of the old cast wasn't actually in the business anymore, hence they hadn't tried to find them. Accordingly, Stigle got involved because fans of the original games put her in touch with XSEED. So which story you believe depends on who you trust more, though it was no secret that Ireland had a ''very'' bitter falling out with XSEED during the localization process.
** The sequel, ''[[
* In the ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' Sands of Time series, the Prince's voice actor went from [[Yuri Lowenthal]] in the first game, to Robin Atkin Downes in the second, then back to Lowenthal for the third game, but with a slightly different voice and accent. Other characters' voices/accents (Farah and the Vizier) also changed between the games, and Kaileena's voice was not just changed between games, but changed ''during'' the game in Warrior Within.
** Interesting international tidbit: the voice actor for the Spanish voice track was changed between ''Sands'' and ''Warrior'', and the one from ''Warrior'' remained for ''Two Thrones''. But what's interesting is that the first voice actor sounds younger and more arrogant, while the second voice actor sounds grimmer and older... which fits perfectly with the timeline of the game, since ''Warrior'' happens after a noticeable [[Time Skip]], while ''Two Thrones'' is immediately after ''Warrior''.
* In the 3D ''Zelda'' titles, Ganondorf was voiced by Takashi Nagasako, but for unknown reasons was replaced by Hironori Miyata in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
** But they most likely noticed in the ''[[Super Smash Bros
* Every ''[[Star Fox (
** The Japanese versions aren't free from this; unlike most examples, though, they extended the cast and made more diverse voices (''[[Star Fox 64]]'' had only ''six'' voice actors for its many roles). One example is that Shinobu Satouchi voiced both Fox and Leon in ''64''; in ''Assault'' and ''Brawl'' Satouchi keeps Leon, but Kenji Nojima voices Fox instead. The only seiyuus who stayed throughout were Hisao Egawa (Falco), Kyoko Tonguu (Slippy and Katt in ''64''), and Tomohisa Aso (Peppy).
** When the ''[[Star Fox 64]]'' remake for the [[Nintendo 3DS]] was released, the entire Japanese cast had been replaced, with Egawa, Tonguu, and Aso finally dropping out.
* In between ''[[Condemned]]: Criminal Origins'' and Bloodshot, lab tech Rosa Angel dropped 30 lbs and 20 years.
** This was pretty common, Ethan and Ferrel also got new voice actors.
* Many major ''[[
** At least Illidan's new voice actor sounds quite like his old one. Arthas (the titular villain of Wratch of the Lich King and the focal character for much of Warcraft III and it's expansion) was abruptly replaced after the first teaser for the new expansion, with what sounds like [[Peter Cullen]]. His voice actor allegedly thought he was getting the screws put to him and walked away. This is especially notable as the Lich King had previously been represented by [[Voice of the Legion|two separate voices]], one for Ner'zhul and one for Arthas, but now speaks with one reverbed voice that sounds nothing like either of the previous ones.
*** Actually, they got an entirely new actor to voice the lines spoken by Arthas for Wrath of the Lich King. As for the Lich King himself, his new voice is [[Michael McConnohie]], who already plays [[Talking to Himself|Kel'thuzad and, strangely, Uther the Lightbringer]].
**** There is actually a bit of story to back this change up. A few of the quests in Icecrown show the Lich King basically destroying the part of the good Arthas that is still within him, so the voice change to one, solid voice makes a little sense.
** Partway through the Wrath of The Lich King expansion, Sylvanas was abruptly re-voiced by a new actress who gave her a more prominent accent. Many fans of the character were upset with this, claiming the accent doesn't fit the character.
* Ratchet was played by Mikey Kelley in the first ''[[Ratchet
* The voice of Sparx in ''[[The Legend of Spyro Trilogy|The Legend of Spyro]]'' series changes in each game, from David Spade to [[Billy West]] to Wayne Brady. In Dawn of the Dragon, when voiced by Wayne Brady, he tells Spyro that "[his] voice keeps changing" when Spyro asks how he feels.
** Also [[Spyro the Dragon|Spyro]] himself has had many different voice actors as well: [[Carlos Alazraqui]] in the first game, [[Tom Kenny]] in the second through fourth game, Jess Harnell in the fifth and sixth games, and Elijah Wood in the current games even though he sounds nothing like the others, he may be an entirely different Spyro than the previous incarnation like his partner Sparx who originally spoke only gibberish in the original games.
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** Cynder also got different actresses for each ''Legend of Spyro'' game. First was [[Cree Summer]], who made "possessed" Cynder sound menacing. Next was Mae Whitman, who sounded suspiciously older ([[Fridge Logic|despite Cynder being returned to normal - the same age as young Spyro]]). Last was [[Christina Ricci]], who was higher-pitched and added [[Chickification]] to Cynder.
** After Spyro left Insomniac, each new game got a cast change for pretty much every recurring character, and often along with it, changes in personality.
* The ''[[
* Although most of the ''[[
** In addition, Robin Atkin Downes provided the English voice for Genesis Rhapsodos in ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'', while Oliver Quinn played him in ''[[Crisis Core]]''.
* Speaking of ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', the ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy|Dissidia]]'' series had Keith Ferguson and [[Keith Szarabajka]] respectively substitute for Michael E. Rodgers and John DiMaggio as [[Final Fantasy XII
* For ''[[Scarface]]: The World Is Yours'', Al Pacino could not reprise his role as Tony Montana as his voice had been altered by years of smoking, so he hand-picked [[Andr Ã]]© Sogliuzzo to do the voice acting, although the likeness remains Mr Pacino's. The difference in the voice is very difficult to notice.
* Most of the English voice case of ''[[
** Also, in the [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover|Tales of VS]], [[Tales of Destiny
* Keira, the hero's ''main love interest'', suddenly and inexplicably changed voice for the [[Jak 3|third]] ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' game. They decided to try and cover this by only giving her a handful of lines, and shifting [[Action Girl|Ashelin]] [[Strangled
** They fortunately fixed this for the racing spin-off game, new actress or not.
* This has occurred with at least 3 characters in the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' series. Most notably, the character of Elaine Marley. In the 4th game, she not only has a completely different voice actress, but she has also inexplicably dropped her British accent from the previous game. Oddly enough, she has both her original voice actress and her accent back again in the new game: Tales from Monkey Island.
* Also in ''[[
** Corey Burton also replaced Christopher Lee as DiZ for ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
** Also related to ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', but not Tron, they had replaced Naminé's Brittany Snow and even ''Kairi's'' (of all characters) [[Hayden Panettiere]], with Meaghan Jette Martin and Alyson Stoner respectively, in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
*** Hayden Panettiere plays Xion in ''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D]]'', making ''her'' the Other Darrin to Alyson Stoner. Confused, yet?
** Perhaps most notable of all was the replacement of Ansem's VA Billy Zane with the decidedly less [[Large Ham|hammy]] [[Richard Epcar]].
** Plus in general the characters voiced by big stars had their original [[
*** This became interesting in II, where two actors (Tate Donovan and Glen Shadix) reprised roles they didn't do in the first game (Hercules and the Mayor of Halloween Town respectively). In other words, they became the other Darrins to their ''own'' other Darrins.
** Almost the entire cast of Lion King had new voices in ''[[
** All the Organization XIII members introduced in Chain of Memories (who were voiced by staff members), gained different voices in the remake and later appearances. The exception to this was Axel, but only in the Japanese version--[[Non Dubbed Grunts|since they didn't bother dubbing the voices]], we have an interesting case where [[Quinton Flynn|an English voice actor]] plays the other Darrin to his [[Keiji Fujiwara|Japanese counterpart]].
* The English version of the spinoff series ''[[Dynasty Warriors: Gundam]]'' had to recast all the characters, since Bandai couldn't get ahold of the men and women at [[The Ocean Group]] to have them reprise their roles. Also, one of the actors had left a long time ago.
** In the second game, the voice for Judau changed from Sean Broadhurst to Andrew Francis.
** Most of the original Voices did return for DWG. The only notable replacements were Heero (who's VA refuses to reprise the role after bad convention experiences) Domon (whose VA is now a dentist and no longer does voice acting).
* Between ''[[Halo 2]]'' and ''[[Halo 3|3]]'', the voice for Miranda Keyes changed from [[Julie Benz]] in the 2nd game to Justis Bolding in the third game. Although, they do sound pretty similar.
* Princess Peach of ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' has had a multitude of voices, whereas Charles Martinet voices most of the male characters. For Peach, there is:
** Mami Yamase: ''The Great Mission To Rescue Princess Peach!'' [[OVA]].
** Miyako Endo: ''Amada'' OVA series.
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** Asako Kozuki: ''[[Mario Kart 64]]'', ''Mario Party'' 1 and 2.
** Jen Taylor: ''Mario Party 3'' up to ''Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games''.
** Nicole Mills: ''[[Mario
** Samantha Kelly began in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and is Peach's current actress at this time.
* Princess Daisy from ''[[Super Mario Land]]'' has had Kate Fleming for her return in ''[[Mario Tennis]]'', Jen Taylor for most of the spinoff games, and, starting with ''Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour'', Deanna Mustard, her current actress.
* Rosalina had been voiced by Mercedes Rose in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and ''Mario Kart Wii'', but she voiced by Kerri Kane as of ''Mario Kart 7''.
* Any ''[[Resident Evil]]'' character that has been in more than one game will likely have a different voice actor per game due to Capcom's habit of changing casting agencies. One exception is Claire Redfield, who has been consistently voiced by [[Alyson Court]] since her debut in ''[[Resident Evil 2]]''. An exception was almost made with ''[[Resident Evil Code: Veronica]]'', when Capcom considered using a local talent agency from Japan, but the Canadian studio that provided the voice acting for ''RE2'' and ''[[Resident Evil 3: Nemesis]]'' successfully lobbied for her return.
** Some characters have switched back and forth. Richard Waugh voiced Wesker in ''Code Veronica'', but was replaced by Peter Jessop in the GameCube version of the first game, only to return in ''[[Resident Evil
** Another aversion. Sally Cahill voiced Ada Wong in both of her appearances.
*** She was replaced by Megan Hollingshead in ''Umbrella Chronicles'', but returned to voice Ada in ''[[Resident Evil:
** Leon S. Kennedy is also a notable partial aversion. He has been consistently voiced by Paul Mercier in all of his appearances ''after'' his debut in ''[[Resident Evil 2]]'', where he was voiced by Paul Haddad... until ''Operation Raccoon City'', where Christian Lanz took over.
* In ''[[Star Wars Rebel Assault]]'', Ru Murleen was originally played by [[The Danza|an actress with the same name]], but recast with Julie Eccles in the sequel.
* Mortanius from ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'': Blood Omen was originally voiced by Tony Jay, who would voice the Elder God in the sequels. To prevent confusion, they had Alastair Duncan voice Mortanius in Defiance.
* After a contract disagreement with THQ, Richard Horvitz and Grant Albrecht were replaced as Pox and Crypto for the spin-off game ''[[Destroy All Humans!]] Big Willy Unleashed''. The fans did not take to well to the replacement actors, but the originals came back for later games in the series.
* In ''[[
** In the Japanese version of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', [[Ryotaro Okiayu]], the seiyu of Vamp from ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'', ended up being replaced by Shinya Tsukamoto, a film director.
** When Solid Snake and Roy Campbell appeared in ''[[
*** Similarly, in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'', Raiden in the Secret Theater's ''Metal Gear Raiden: Snake Eraser'' was voiced by Charlie Schlatter, the same voice actor who voiced his [[Expy]], Raikov.
** In ''Metal Gear Solid 3'', EVA was voiced by Suzetta Minet (although, given the recent reveal that she was actually an alias for another actress, exactly who played her is a subject of debate). However, in ''[[Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops]]'', her voice actress was replaced with Vanessa Marshall for some reason (although to be fair, she never actually got any actual voiced scenes and at best did grunts), and in ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker]]'', EVA was voiced by Suzetta Minet again.
*** In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', Liquid Ocelot's voice actor in the Japanese version was [[Banjo Ginga]] (the voice of Liquid Snake), not because of the fact that he was possessed by Liquid ({{spoiler|hint, he was faking all along}}), but because Revolver Ocelot's original Japanese voice ([[Koji Totani]]) died before ''Metal Gear Solid 4'' began production.
* ''[[Backyard Sports]]'' has had four voice casts: 1997-2001, 2002-2003, 2003-2005, and 2006-present. All except 2002-2003 were made up of mostly the same people, but playing different characters each time.
* A very odd example is ''[[Tenchu]] 2''. Compare the US version to the Japanese and you'll see that Seiryu looks different in each.
** In a more straightforward casting example, the whole cast changed from game to game (because they changed studios for each game).
* In the ''[[Syphon Filter]]'' series, Mara Aramov has a different voice actress in every game, along with her appearance changing at least twice. Lian Xing has been voiced by three actresses; Ava Fang in ''1'', Zoe Galvez in ''2'' and ''3'', and Kim Mai Guest (the voice of [[Metal Gear Solid|Mei Ling]]) in all subsequent games, complete with different looks and personalities. Gabe Logan also switched voice actors from John Chacon to [[James Arnold Taylor]] starting with ''Omega Strain'' (contrary to belief, Michael Bell was not Logan's voice in ''Dark Mirror'').
* Magneto and Colossus lose their well-known voice actors ([[Tony Jay]] and Earl Boen) for the ''[[X
** This trope carried through to the ''[[Marvel Ultimate Alliance]]'' games, though more noticeably in the second. Some actors stayed on from X-Men Legends, though by the second this became far less frequent and often actors staying on were cast in new roles. By ''Ultimate Alliance 2'', the only actors reprising roles from previous games were Steven Blum as Wolverine, John Kassir as Deadpool, [[April Stewart]] as Ms Marvel and [[John Dimaggio]] as Juggernaut. [[Fred Tatiascore]] reprised his role as Hulk from elsewhere, replacing Peter Lurie from the previous game.
* [[Al Pacino]] did not allow EA to use his likeness or voice for ''[[The Godfather (
* While ''[[Street Fighter]]'' does this frequently, the most notable cases are...
** The ''[[
** ''[[
** In the Japanese version of ''[[
* In Koei's ''[[Samurai Warriors]]'', Toyotomi Hideyoshi's American voice actor portrayed him with a screeching, annoying voice. In ''Samurai Warriors 2'', with Hideyoshi's role in the story expanded, he was assigned a ''much'' better actor who was able to convey a great deal of depth and humor, making him much more tolerable. And then ''[[Warriors Orochi]]'' hit, they went back to his old voice actor.
* Akoya Sougi voiced Mai Shiranui in ''[[
** Athena Asamiya is the uber-example of Darrining. She's had ''five'' seiyuus: Reiko Fukai (''KOF '94'') to Moe Nagasaki (''{{'}}95'') to Tamao Satou (''{{'}}96'') to Yukina Kurisu (''{{'}}97'') to [[Haruna Ikezawa]] (''{{'}}98''). They've seemed to have stuck with Ikezawa since though.
** Robert Garcia is an interesting example. His first VA (Eiji Yano in ''[[Art of Fighting]]'') was replaced by Kazuhiro Inage for [[AOF 2]], King of Fighters '94 and '95. After that, Mantaro Koichi replaced him for ''Art of Fighting 3'' and ''King of Fighters '96'', and provided Robert's voice for every game up to ''KOF 2003''. Then in ''Neo Geo Battle Coliseum'', Inage returned to voice Robert and has done so ever since.
** Geese Howard's first voice was Katsuhisa Namase in ''Fatal Fury Special''. Kong Kuwata took the reins for ''Fatal Fury 3'', and is now [[My Real Daddy|the voice most closely associated with Geese]].
** Overall, however, [[SNK]](P) is a large [[Averted Trope|aversion]] of this trope, with most voice cast changes ''only'' happening when the company has lost contact with a seiyuu, the seiyuu retires, or (unfortunately) the seiyuu [[Author Existence Failure|passes away]]. This means that a vast majority of their characters have been voiced by the same person on at least a semi-regular basis for a good period of time, some even approaching 10 or 20 years of
* ''[[
* Rather irritatingly done within ''the same game'' in ''[[Heavy Rain]]'' for the DLC ''The Taxidermist'', where the character of Madison Paige (the only returning character) quite blatantly has a completely different voice. Obviously the DLC was done after the actual product was complete, so having a different VA was fairly likely (DLC is really not big enough to warrant a return).
** Actually, it was because ''The Taxidermist'' had been created as a gameplay demo a couple of years before release, when the final voice actors hadn't been cast. Quantic Dream just decided to save the trouble of recording Madison's lines again with the actress from the main game.
** Fans of Quantic Dream's previous games will notice that Madison's voice actress for The Taxidermist is actually Carla Valenti from ''Indigo Prophecy''.
* Although James McCaffrey voiced the character in both games, in ''[[Max Payne (
** And Max'll be voiced by a different actor in the third game, due to the [[Time Skip]].
** Considering the release date from the previous games ([[Development Hell|development schedule willing]],) James McCaffrey has aged about the same rate as Max.
* In the first ''[[Star Trek Elite Force]]'' game, each of the main characters was voiced by their original actor from ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' except Seven, who was voiced by Joan Buddenhagen. Then when the expansion pack was released, Jeri Ryan stepped in to provide Seven's voice, even going so far as to re-record all of Seven's lines from the original game so there wouldn't be an obvious change when going from original to expansion material.
* One of the [[Pragmatic Adaptation|changes]] made for ''[[
* For ''[[Conduit 2]]'', the sequel to ''[[The Conduit]]'', [[Mark Sheppard]]'s Agent Ford was replaced by [[Duke Nukem|Jon St. John]]. [[Andromeda|Kevin Sorbo]]'s Prometheus was also replaced.
* Marty Mc Fly in the new ''[[Back to The Future]]'' video game is not voiced by Michael J. Fox (for understandable reasons), but by a voice-acting newcomer named AJ Lo Cascio. So the story goes, when AJ first spoke his lines as Marty during a recording session, it was similar enough to Fox that it completely surprised Christopher Lloyd.
** Biff Tannen and George [[McFly]] have been given new voices in the form of Kid Beyond and Michael X. Sommers (respectively, who also voice Kid Tannen and Arthur McFly), replacing Tom Wilson and Crispin Glover.
* Ulala was the only major returning character in ''[[Space Channel 5]] Part 2'' to keep the same (English) voice actor (besides [[Michael Jackson|Space Michael]]).
* Video game versions of ''[[
** A noticeable change was in ''Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space'', which had replaced the voices of everyone from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in
** Also notably weird in ''[[Gundam vs. Series|Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam]]'': the original series and ''[[
* Averted with Lenneth for ''[[Valkyrie Profile 2|Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria]]'', but played straight with everyone else. [[Megan Hollingshead]] was the only cast member to reprise her role from the first game.
* In the ''[[
* [[Dead or Alive|Kasumi]] was first voiced by [[Sakura Tange]]. From ''Dead Or Alive 3'' onwards, she is voiced by [[Houko Kuwashima]] - although ''Dead Or Alive Ultimate 2'' had the option to choose between Tange and Kuwashima.
* ''[[Castlevania: Rondo of Blood|Akumajo Dracula X: Chi no Rondo]]'' for the PC-Engine starred Jin Horikawa as Richter Belmont, Yoko Teppozuka as Maria Renard and Hiroya Ishimaru as Dracula. In its [[
* Between ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]'' and ''[[
* In ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]'', Tara Strong replaces Arleen Sorkin as the voice of Harley Quinn and David Kaye replaces Tom Kane as Commissioner Gordon.
* The first expansion pack for ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon]]'' has a brief section where you meet up with Norton Mapes again, who has a different voice actor than he did in the base game. What makes this especially odd is that the other major returning characters (Holiday, Jin, and Fettel) all kept their original voice actors, and the second expansion managed to bring back Commissioner Betters' actor as well (his only lines in ''Extraction Point'' were re-used from the original).
* ''[[
* Bishop, [[Token Evil Teammate]] for ''[[
* Between ''[[Prototype (
* The voice actor of Mordin Solus was changed from Michael Beattie in ''[[
* Don Jordan, who played Irving Lambert from ''[[Splinter Cell]]'' was inexplicably replaced by Dennis Haysbert for ''Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow'' and then inexplicably returned for the rest of the series.
* The video game adaptation of ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney
* Between ''[[Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (
* For ''[[
* Midway replaced half of the digitized actors from the first two [[Mortal Kombat]] games in ''[[Mortal Kombat 3]]''. The only ones who returned were Tony Marquez (Kung Lao), Richard Divizio (Kano, Baraka and Kabal), John Parrish (Jax) and Brian Glynn (Shao Kahn).
** Eddie Wong replaced Ho Sung Pak as Liu Kang.
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** Johnny Cage would be the last character whose actor was replaced. Originally Midway was planning to leave him out of ''Mortal Kombat Trilogy'' due to the [[Creator Backlash]] that resulted when Dan Pesina posed in character as Cage for an ad for ''BloodStorm''. But then they decided to bring Cage by replacing Dan Pesina with Chris Alexander.
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