Category: Voice Acting/Motion Capture
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Slam City with Scottie Pippen
Developer: Digital PicturesPublisher: Digital PicturesRelease Year: 1994Platform: DOS, Sega 32X, Sega CDGenre: SportsTaxonomy: Black Cultural Traditions, Black NPCs, Narrative Themes, Voice Acting/Motion Capture In this FMV game you play one-on-one basketball with Scottie Pippen as your coach. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Interstate ’82
Developer: ActivisionPublisher: ActivisionRelease Year: 1999Platform: WINGenre: Action, StrategyTaxonomy: Voice Acting/Motion Capture You play as Taurus and drive vehicles into combat to find and save your missing partner in this vehicular combat game. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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El Paso, Elsewhere
Developer: Strange ScaffoldPublisher: Strange ScaffoldRelease Year: 2023Platform: PS, Win, XboxGenre: FPS, HorrorTaxonomy: Black Cultural Tradition, Black NPCs, Development, Fandom/Community/Reception, Intersectionality, Mechanics, Narrative Themes, Playable Black Characters, Politics/Ideology/History, Voice Acting/Motion Capture Neo-noir shooter where you play as James Savage and fight vampires and werewolves to save prisoners from your ex, Draculae, the lord of the vampires.…
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Dead Island 2
Developer: Dambuster StudiosPublisher: Deep SilverRelease Year: 2023Platform: PS4, PS5, Win, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/SGenre: ActionTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, politics/ideology/history, intersectionality, Black NPCs, Anti-Blackness/ regressive characterizations Several months after the events of Dead Island, Los Angeles is put under full quarantine and you play as one of six survivors with distinct survival…
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Dead Island
Developer: TechlandPublisher: Deep SilverRelease Year: 2011Platform: Linux, Mac, PS3, PS4, Win, Xbox 360, Xbox OneGenre: ActionTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, politics/ideology/history, intersectionality, Black NPCs, Anti-Blackness/ regressive characterizations You play one of four survivors who are immune to the zombie virus and fighting for their lives and to save humanity for a variety of…
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Wu-tang: Shaolin Style
Developer: Paradox DevelopmentPublisher: Activision, Success CorpRelease Year: 1999Platform: PlayStationGenre: FightingTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, voice acting/motion capture, Black NPCs A tournament style fighting game that features the members of the group Wu-Tang Clan. The group is fighting their way through the streets of New York and China to save their martial arts master. interviews and other…
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The Walking Dead: Michonne
Developer: TellTale Games, Skybound EntertainmentPublisher: TellTale Games, Skybound Entertainment Release Year: 2016Platform: Android/iOS/Mac/PS3/PS4/WIN/Xbox 360/Xbox OneGenre: Point and Click AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, voice acting/ motion capture, politics/ideology/history, narrative themes, Black NPCs, intersectionality Haunted by her past, coping with unimaginable loss and regret, you will discover what took Michonne away from Rick, Ezekiel, and the rest…
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The Walking Dead (Series)
Developer: TellTale Games, Skybound EntertainmentPublisher: TellTale Games, Skybound EntertainmentRelease Year: 2012, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2020 (Switch)Platform: Android/iOS/Kindle Fire/Mac/Ouya/PS3/PS4/PSVita/Switch/Win/Xbox 360/Xbox OneGenre: Point and Click AdventureTaxonomy: Anti-Blackness/regressive characterizations, Playable Black characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, politics/ideology/history, narrative themes, Black NPCs, intersectionality An episodic series that traces the lives and relationships of university professor and convicted felon, Lee Everett…
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The Journey Down
Developer: SkyGoblinPublisher: SkyGoblinRelease Year: 2010, 2014, 2017Platform: iOS/Linux/Mac/PS4/Switch/ WIN/Xbox OneGenre: Point and Click AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, voice acting/motion capture, politics/ideology/history, narrative themes, Black NPCs, intersectionality Bwana and his trusted sidekick Kito struggle to make ends meet at their gas station in a corner of Kingsport Bay on the outskirts of St Armando. They are…
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The Gunk
Developer: Image and Form GamesPublisher: ThunderfulRelease Year: 2021Platform: Win/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/SGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, voice acting/ motion capture, Narrative themes, intersectionality You play as Rani, a scavenger who has arrived on an alien planet with her partner Beck. As you search for treasure you discover that the planet’s various biomes have been…