Finding Jesus in Video Games

Spring has sprung, April and Easter is coming, and the Lenten season is in full swing.

This season, my family is finally taking the urging of many friends to catch up on the Biblically-based series, The Chosen. It is really quite good. Part of the reason for this is some solid work by Jesus (Johnathan Roumie) and his ensemble cast. Many of these actors have some are pretty unknown in the mainstream, but Jesus has some diverse acting experience. This includes an impressive amount of voice work from such as many impressions in the hilarious Celebrity Deathmatch.

Gamers in particular who made their way through The Chosen may find Jesus’s voice familiar. This is due to some extensive video game cred from Roumie.

For starters, Roumie has done a ton of background voices on games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, God of War, Agents of Mayhem, The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, Mafia II and Ghost of Tsushima. He also lent his voice to the Mules is the star-heavy Death Stranding. In Fallout 4, he was three characters: Honest Dan, Jack Cabot and Doc Weathers. Batman fans, however, may know him as the voice of Robin (Tim Drake) in 2003’s Batman: Dark Tomorrow.

Don’t always look for “Jesus” in the good and neutral characters. Roumie also plays antagonist Rendard Laroche, in Lost Planet 3, and mob enforcer, Enzo, in the The Darkness II.

Be good, because this Jesus can be anywhere in the gaming world.

Even in the pixelated gaming worlds, Jesus is everywhere.

A couple of his disciples have also popped up in games as well:

Paras Patell (Matthew), has only worked on one video game, Uncharted:the Lost Legacy. This wasn’t anywhere near the best in this franchise, but likely better than the movie. Abe Bueno-Jallad (James), who also goes by Abe Martell, played, according to IMDB “The Local Pedestrian Population” in one of the coolest recent video games of recent, Red Dead Redemption II. This if fitting, as “Big James” hails from my own Old West hometown of El Paso, Texas.

Now, if you get caught blasting away zombies or fighting post-apocalyptic battles during Holy Week, just remind everyone, “Hey, I’m finding Jesus….and he’s kicking some serious butt.”

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