WB’s multi-franchise combating recreation, MultiVersus, returns later this month and it’s including Batman’s archnemesis, The Joker, to the sport’s massive roster of characters. And the enduring character is as soon as once more being voiced by Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill.
In 2022, dataminers discovered audio information inside the unique MultiVersus beta—which led to 2023—that appeared to trace that DC’s well-known clown prince of crime, The Joker, was going to be added to the sport in a future replace. Extra excitingly, the villain was seemingly voiced by Hamill, who famously voiced the clown prince of crime in Batman: The Animated Sequence and the Arkham video games, amongst different locations. WB Video games confirmed in a press launch that Hamill is voicing The Joker.
Within the trailer we see Batman, voiced by the late Kevin Conroy, strolling by a inexperienced mist, passing by different WB-owned characters like Bugs Bunny, till he comes head to head with the Joker.
Some gameplay of the Joker has additionally appeared on-line, too. In these clips, it’s clear that Hamill is again and voicing the well-known evil clown yet another time.
Hamill has by no means formally retired from the enduring position, however had seemingly stepped away from voicing Joker following the discharge of Batman: Arkham Metropolis. Nonetheless, he’s continued to voice the character occasionally. Nonetheless, after the dying of Kevin Conroy in 2022, Hamill advised he was doubtless executed being the Joker, as he noticed himself and Conroy as companions.
However primarily based on the timing of the 2022 information mine, it’s very doubtless that Hamill recorded his traces earlier than Conroy’s dying, and it might clarify why he’d be prepared to return for this platform combating recreation: His Batman, Conroy’s beloved tackle the caped crusader, is in it.
After its prolonged beta, MultiVersus is formally launching on Could 28 on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC.
