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Alone in the Dark has gone goldThroughout the last two generations of gaming, Sony has brought to us more than a handful of characters that we could associate with their console. The PlayStation brand has brought Cloud, Lara Croft, Spyro, and even that fluffy maniac Crash Bandicoot into our lives and homes. It’s been well over 20 years since Sony started their PlayStation design platform with Nintendo in 1986. Since the fallout between the two, Nintendo has continued pumping out the same characters like a bottle recycling facility, while Sony has brought new characters with every new edition of console release. The PlayStation 3 is no exception to this illustrious history of character design from first-party titles. We’ve taken it upon ourselves to list and detail our five favorite PlayStation 3 exclusive characters thus far.
King Bohan: King Bohan was created by Ninja Theory as a villain for the title Heavenly Sword. Perhaps Ninja Theory had Scientology in mind when they decided to create Bohan and his back story as this crazy old fool who is a self-professed messiah who will stop at nothing until he’s gained the Heavenly Sword itself.
Bohan’s distinct character voice is the work of Andy Serkis, who you may know better as Smeagol the half-pint nut job from Lord of the Rings. Serkis is a very prominent actor who is never in the lead role and usually plays a character in the distance. That changed in Heavenly Sword as his voice was shoved to the forefront and it helped change the story and emotion of Heavenly Sword all for the better.
Apart from being the center of attention on the side of villainy, Bohan is a crazed, power-hungry fool who seems to lack true reasoning. With a mentally retarded son who he continually abuses and a flurry of followers not capable of getting the job done, it’s easy to see why the king finds it annoying to have to do things himself.
Bohan is responsible for wiping out Kai’s entire clan and for attacking Nariko’s kin. His thirst for the sword is all that drives him as he feels it will display his dominance over everyone and most importantly will reassure himself of his own status. The only being he seems to obey is a raven which has a gold faceplate protecting its face.
Nathan Hale: Hale from Resistance: Fall of Man is an Insomniac Games creation. Nathan Hale is an American soldier helping fight against the Chimeran threat; however, he is also a real-life American spy that is said to be the first of his kind. Whether or not this played any part in his creation for Resistance is unknown.
Nathan Hale is brought to life by David Kaye. Kaye is a very famous voice actor who has starred alongside the likes of Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage, and Paul Giamatti. He’s also famous in gaming for the voice of Clank from Insomniac’s other prominent PlayStation 3 release, Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction.
Hale’s ability to take in the Chimeran virus and remain himself was an unheard of occurrence. With the virus mixed within him, Hale helped liberate Britain from the Chimera and was presumed dead. That is, until a couple of mysterious American soldiers rescued him from a snowy badland. With Resistance 2 due out later this year, it’ll be interesting to see where Hale’s adventure takes him.
Kai: Kai was developed by Ninja Theory for their latest PlayStation 3 offering, Heavenly Sword. While many would prefer Nariko to be sitting comfy in spot #3, we felt differently. Kai is a breath of twisted fresh air in a world that needed it.
Kai’s voice comes to life through Lydia Baksh, an unknown talent in the gaming world up until this point. While Kai remains her only prominent role, we see a strong future for the voice-actress in years to come, which will probably and hopefully include a Heavenly Sword sequel featuring Kai as the lead role.
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LOL you have to click on Page 3 for "...us your detailed top five characters."
I approve of this list. Lol
Nariko where is? from PS3 exclusives Drake is my favourite but Old Snake is coming xP
Solid Snake,Lara Croft, tekken characters, final fantasy. if MGS left the playstation the world would be shocked
I'm glad they put Nathan Drake at number 1, guess I will have to agree mostly. It would have been nice to see Nariko instead of Kai. But, I understand why hey did that.
Nariko should be on Nathan Hale's place. I'll be frank, Nathal Hale is a lot worse as a character than Nariko. He lacks personality and really, he shouldn't be on ANY "best characters" list as far as I'm conserned. He's not a well written character, although he's not the worst character ever either. Just that... there's nothing special about him that would make him better than Nariko.
psn id: gingo.... agree with this list but i might have substituted king bohan for Ellen from Folklore as i think she was a strong character in an extremely strong story
The PlayStation consoles have had a wide variety of characters that were once their exclusives. If Microsoft wasn't buying them off, and then having them in bad games there would be a long list. The PS3 will probably be like the other two and have a wide variety so I say Ratchet and Clank for E games, Drake for T games, and Hale for M games. Unlike the 360 that depends on M games, and the Wii with E games, that are oddly getting T ratings now, the playstation hosts many great games of all genres and ratings.
Nice list there, it given me a reason to buy unchanted: Drakes Fourtune game as i played the demo and loved it but was thinkin about wether to buy it or not. Now im going too. All time hero gotta be abe!!
Nariko should have been there.
The third page is retarded :D
But yeah. Drake's first, Ratchet and Clank second, Hale third, Nariko fourth and an Imperial Guard from Oblivion is fifth :D
Great list but where the f*** is Nariko????
what about spyro and solid snake
I really like the list of new characters on the PS3 console (except for Rachet and Clank because they were on the PS2). Sony has always introduced a slew of new video game characters with each console generation and when you think of Sony, you can't just think of one single game character or just one game because there are so many.
Nathan Drake is my favorite new character for the PS3 by far. Nathan Drake is just a cool average guy and I really liked his personality in Uncharted.
Nariko is my second favorite and Nathan Hale is probably my third favorite. Nathan Hale didn't really have any personality in Resistance and I don't remember him talking at all. I hope that Insomniac adds more to his personality in Resistance 2.
Nathan owns! He's sooo cool! :P
well, i just thought that nariko should be here, to. for me it's the ultimate character since Lara Croft. I got to admit, i have this thing for redheads:) GO, NARIKO!!
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Third Page is useless.
Drake needs to be higher
Ratchet & Clank cheated! They're PS2 buddies.
Can't wait to see what they do with Kai for HS2.
SPOILER ALERT: Resistance: Fall of Man ending detailed above.
-Nice list PSU.
I agree, Nintendo hasnt really gotten any new characters for a while now. But the Playstation Brand is gettin new appealing characters every year. Nathan Drake is an excellent new character, the Lara Croft (except he's male), who manages to joke even in the worst situations. Comedian.
You sir are a liar. You promised me carrots and I see none! And no Nero? Aww, come on...
pft nathen drake is not original just liikeable look at the lead role in any action movie and you will see the same charecter brave but sissy at times a comedian but serious whent he time comes its been done before but still a very well put to getehr charecter
the problem with playstation at the moment is they are tryign so hard to get new charecters all the time they are forgetting to carry them on charecters like crash bandicoot and spyro made playstaion to begin with then they made a few latter oens like rahcet and clank and jack and dexster then they stopped there they carried with jack and dexter and rachet and clank for too long by now we sould have had another at least 2 big charecters and be moving onto the the 4th set now instead we are jsut getting a bunch of semi proment charecters contratly and carrying on the old ones the key to this is getting icons for time periods nintendo has utterly failed at that by having 1 charecter set for ever but they keep it going a little by adding a nother charecter here and there over time. when playstation had prominent charecter sets for the time they were beating the opposition but now we have fallen into the trap of basicly no icons except washed out rachet and clank and jack and dextar nathen hale for instance is not a good icon sure he can be one of the semmi promenant charecters for the console but hes not somthign that some one sees as almsot a logo and says HEY PLAYSTATION . an icon needs to be instantly recognizeable unique often a simple charecter which the user can make their own opionon and apply almsot your own personality too (the bit of personality spyro had was fairly simlliar to nateh drakes but it dosent make him an icon since this only relly works if its applyed to a non human charecter or a unrealisic human charecter) about spyro and crash were perfect now we just need new ones.
2 characters from HS... Hmmmmm...
Nathan is cool. He was hilarious in uncharted and he is a strong character........ y dont u like him?
mine is #1 Drake #2 Nathen #3 Ricochet& Clank #4 Dante #5 is Nariko it looks all hardcore fighters who wants his journy begins and new things biulds it's all wonderful story and lifes he he :D
Nathan Drake is awesome. Not to mention that the game is awesome too. Im near the end. And it gets really hard lol. Normal is harder then i assumed....