id Software’s Wolfenstein is set to make a return through Raven Software of Quake IV, Soldier of Fortune, and Jedi Knight fame. While Return to Castle Wolfenstein was released back in 2001, the next game in the FPS series won’t come out until sometime in 2008, but the name and many other details about it are being kept secret, so Return to Castle Wolfenstein 2 is a tentative title we gave it.
Yahoo reports that the company is currently working on a new game based on the Wolfenstein series, and with newer motion-capture technology, it is working with a local actress to be the character in its cutscenes. To quote:
“Actress Carrie Coon is put in a spandex suit that has 63 reflective markers at strategic places on her body. Twenty-four infrared cameras in Raven’s studios track Coon’s every move as she replicates movements that her character will perform in the game. Information will then go into a computer to create a virtual character based on her body.”
Coon, an actress who has been involved in Madison Repertory Theatre and American Players Theatre, said that she got involved with Raven after an audition process through the UW Theatre program.
“They had me kind of bust through doors with big guns and pretend I was an assassin being that didn’t have a spine and club a body of something on the ground and sniff it,” she said. “You know, it was one of the most bizarre audition experiences I’ve ever had in my life.” 😆
Coon’s character will have a skin and costumes created in the computer on top of her virtual body. “You recognize yourself in it a little bit, but then, there’s this fantasy element that’s so fascinating,” she said.
Raven is even giving her character (an elite force assassin) Coon’s face. A state-of-the-art face scanner takes a 3-D image that will be attached to her computer-captured body and will make her a living character in the game. — Via Joystiq