Sat, Mar 03, 2012 | 23:00 GMT

Rumor: Joe Flanigan “signed on to do” Army of Four

Stargate: Atlantis alumnus Joe Flanigan has tweeted that he has signed on to do a bit of voice acting in Army of Four for EA.

The first tweet says: “Just signed on to do the new AO4 video game for Electronic Arts. Some splinter from Battlefield. Finally, my kids think I am cool again.”

Then, apparently noticing his gaff that Army of Two and Battlefield are not really the same series, he tweeted: “Actually, showing how distinctively uncool I am, I think I have those games mixed up. Thankgod my kids don’t read twitter.”

Army of Four has been floating around the rumor mill since last winter, when Kotaku published a report stating the next Army of Two game will contain four-way co-op and was in development using DICE’s Frostbite 2 engine.

EA’s announced nothing as of yet about a third entry in the series being in development, but the firm is hosting its GameChangers event at GDC next week – so we may hear more about it then. Or not.

We took screens of the tweets in case EA asks the actor to remove them.

Thanks, AGB.

7 comments

Thalius
03/03/12, 10:47 pm

“A voice actor named…” should read “Stargate Atlantis veteran…”
Unless there’s another Joe Flannigan out there

Stephany Nunneley
03/03/12, 10:49 pm

@1 God is it the same person? /looks

EDIT: yeah, it is. /facepalm

How did I not recognize that handsome face? I attribute it to being exhausted after a grueling week. Yeah. We’ll blame that. Not my eyes. :p

VancouverBlade
03/03/12, 10:59 pm

He’s the guy I want to star as Nathan Drake in any movie version; he’d be perfect for it but seems to be pretty bored of any connection to it. Shame; he’s great in Atlantis.

Flan_dinaro18
03/03/12, 11:04 pm

Joe Flanigan has a great voice but he isn’t just a ‘voice actor’.
He is an experienced TV actor.
He was the lead actor in 5 seasons of Sci fi show Stargate Atlantis and played in all 100 episodes of the show.

YoungZer0
03/03/12, 11:08 pm

That’s good news. Army of Two: 40th Day was one of the best coop games i’ve ever played.

Maximum Payne
03/03/12, 11:09 pm

I just hope its not in 2012.
I really love they pushing Frostbyte engine, good for developers good for gamers.
@5 Really ?
How about killing floor,l4d, mw2/3 spec ops ?

YoungZer0
04/03/12, 2:20 pm

@6: I was talking about the fact that you could play through the story with your buddy. L4D is pretty boring, MW2/3 Spec Ops gets tedious and boring fast. Killing Floor’s fun though.