Fully motion-captured performance for games "was in its infancy at the time, when I got the job," remembers Matt Ryan, who starred as swashbuckler Edward Kenway in 2013's Assassin's Creed: Black Flag.
Forms of motion capture have been used to make games for decades, of course: in the 1980s Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner filmed his brother galavanting around the woods to create the prince's rotoscoped animations; in the 2000s, Capcom was capturing stunt performers in tight bodysuits for Devil May Cry 3's cutscenes. But it's only much more recently that actors for games have been delivering all-encompassing performances within the confines of a motion-capture stage, their voices, movements, and minute facial expressions all making their way into a game.
