Trailer's "old lady" voice theory

[Tyrant's Heart]

There's something about the "old lady's" voiceover in the trailers. In the latest trailer, when she pronounce "crushed" at the "valiant defense" line, there's a sense of venom & disdain in her inflection. Also, she refers the populace of Sera as "humans of Sera" rather than "Serans."

My only conclusion so far: She's the main villain. What kind of villain? Is she the Queen of the Locusts?

What about you guys?

[Zoso Fan]

Thats a great theory, i never thought of that... though i doubt the locust speak english... good theory though! :)

[Uday23]

Thats a great theory, i never thought of that... though i doubt the locust speak english... good theory though! :)

i think the locust speak a language something like this:

szhlskjdhbdsszzzxjlas!$!^%!^*$) ADFASDF 48105dsfa9445!

[Tyrant's Heart]

If the Locusts are hive-mind types, it's possible the "old lady" must be the Locusts' leader who bears a higher intelligence that can control them. Which explains why she's the only one that "speaks good English."

[chron1caust]

There's something about the "old lady's" voiceover in the trailers. In the latest trailer, when she pronounce "crushed" at the "valiant defense" line, there's a sense of venom & disdain in her inflection. Also, she refers the populace of Sera as "humans of Sera" rather than "Serans."

My only conclusion so far: She's the main villain. What kind of villain? Is she the Queen of the Locusts?

What about you guys?
That would be sweet to have her as the main villain, but I dont think she is

[Snake]

I think she is just supposed to be the eye-in-the-sky narrator of the story, but you may be on to something, it's hard to say.

[RIGOR_MORTIS]

I don't think she's a character at all. Just a trailer voice. Ba da ba ba ba.... I'm lovin it.

[soda]

i think its just someone giving the locusts side of the story in the trailer.
It may be something else, but i think its just a person talking

[SkateXer99]

There's something about the "old lady's" voiceover in the trailers. In the latest trailer, when she pronounce "crushed" at the "valiant defense" line, there's a sense of venom & disdain in her inflection. Also, she refers the populace of Sera as "humans of Sera" rather than "Serans."

My only conclusion so far: She's the main villain. What kind of villain? Is she the Queen of the Locusts?

What about you guys?

I think she does a narrative for a trailer from the year 2005 on a planet Earth.

[Zoso Fan]

I think all the locust speak bad english with a german accent and call the granades potato mashers...

[SkateXer99]

I think all the locust speak bad english with a german accent and call the granades potato mashers...

Ja!

Begrusst Hit......... Berserker!!

[Snake]

The Locust Horde, they're the new Nazis!

[chron1caust]

I think all the locust speak bad english with a german accent and call the granades potato mashers...
I've never heard one talk

[ban381]

That voice could just be Anya (sp?)

[Koric101]

I wouldn't think she's locust. Judging by all I've seen, it's gonna be some monstrously kick A** nightmarish old lady... er i mean nightmarish creature lol.

[ban381]

I wouldn't think she's locust. Judging by all I've seen, it's gonna be some monstrously kick A** nightmarish old lady... er i mean nightmarish creature lol.

I dont think its a locust narrating, probably just somone saying a story.

[Koric101]

I dont think its a locust narrating, probably just somone saying a story.

It sounds good and fits though. Good choice.

[eliek02]

That voice could just be Anya (sp?)
I don't know, that voice sounds at least late 30's early 40's, kind of a Captain Janeway/Judy Dench from Riddick mix. That chick looks mid-20's at most.

[Legend]

Is it me or does that voice sound like the woman who does the narrative intro the lord of the rings: fellowship of the ring? (the film)

[Locust Bait]

There's something about the "old lady's" voiceover in the trailers. In the latest trailer, when she pronounce "crushed" at the "valiant defense" line, there's a sense of venom & disdain in her inflection. Also, she refers the populace of Sera as "humans of Sera" rather than "Serans."

My only conclusion so far: She's the main villain. What kind of villain? Is she the Queen of the Locusts?

What about you guys?
I never thought of that. It would be sweet if I could bash her head in for ever making me wait 1 WHOLE minute to get to the heart of the games plot

[MrLemur2U]

LOTR = Cate Blanchett (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000949/)(The white witch & narrative voice)

Somehow I doubt she did the voice work. But the narration does have a nice bemused diety quality

[The Evil Hat]

I seiriouslu doubt it but who knows:confused:

[Whistlerman]

I'm pretty sure its a human women

[BerserkerCommander]

lol, wow you guys think the exact same same way i do! I think that the women talking is NOT human, but she talks 2 much like one to be a Locust, so I'm not sure. Your right, in the trailer it's as though she's happy humanity is being wiped out. Like we're weak creatures or something. And since she always says 'humans' instead of 'Serrians' then i don't think she is human. Maybe she's not in the game at all, maybe she just talks that way so it doesn't seem like she has chossen a side to win. I don't no, post your thoughts.

[Flaming Hornets]

I agree something is strange about her voice
I think she is some kind of robot/droid. If she is not human, i hope she dies

[seph]

I think it's a woman with male hormones. That explains her deep voice.

[Xenomorph]

THE VOICE IS NOT ANYA!!!! I HAVE PROOF!!! In the video where Marcus is riding on the mining cart, at the beginning of the ride Marcus is starting to go into a furnace, and then he says "ANYA! We're heading into the fire!!! Reroute! Anywhere, now!!!" That means that the voice on the radio in that video is Anya, and she sounds nothing like the "old lady"!!! Finally I have proof!! Oh sweet, sweet victory! Almost as sweet as P-OWNing someone with a chainsaw!!:D

[RIGOR_MORTIS]

Nobody knows who the narrator is... Is she some kind of vantriloquist? Some kind of mad genius? Who is she!?!? Someone off the streets? WHO?!

[Flaming Hornets]

Many people still believe that the narrator is either a Queen, an alien, a robot or worse Marcus's mum

[Tyrant's Heart]

Anyone have their theories who the narrator is?

[HyperTitan]

Oh god, someone from Epic give us a tiny little bit of juicy info. We're starting to cook up rediculous theories, WE'RE GOING CRAZY!!!

[JohnWayne360]

The Lady's voice is just another mechanism used by creators to build atmosphere. One of hopelessness and desperation. Relax guys.

[Tyrant's Heart]

The Lady's voice is just another mechanism used by creators to build atmosphere. One of hopelessness and desperation. Relax guys.

I don't know, it's either more than what you've said or I just like to see heads explode when they're can't figure stuff out.

[JohnWayne360]

Well, if it'll ease your mind, while I was in college, I had to study a whole lot of literature. One of the things I learned about is something called the "Omniscient Narrator." Said narrator tells the story as if he/she knows every detail of the story, in the same manner the old lady does it in the trailer. Again, just another mechanism in storytelling. if she had anything to do with it, she would include some sort of "personal" input as she is narrating.

[Trooper TK409]

I love her voice and I agree it does sound like the Kate Blanchett LOTR narrative voice with a bit of antagonism against the "humans of Sera". What if she was related to the Locusts somehow? I really don't know, just another thought. Oh, and the Locusts do speak, there's a reason for that. They're characteristics really add to the menace of the story. Everything has a reason. Nothing is by accident.

[Shifty]

There could be more to it but I doubt any of us will be able to figure it out. I say just take it at face value until the game comes out and we find out the truth.

[Tyrant's Heart]

I love her voice and I agree it does sound like the Kate Blanchett LOTR narrative voice with a bit of antagonism against the "humans of Sera". What if she was related to the Locusts somehow? I really don't know, just another thought. Oh, and the Locusts do speak, there's a reason for that. They're characteristics really add to the menace of the story. Everything has a reason. Nothing is by accident.


Finally, we're on the same wavelngth, Trooper. She must be the reason behind the Locust invasion. Why do you think she refers to the Seran people as the "humans of Sera" rather than plain "Serans?" Why is there a feeling of venom & arrogance in her voice when she's narrating?

Or perhaps she is just a "Omniscient Narrator" as Marion360 said.

[LilTwan24]

never would have thought of dat good theory

[Uday23]

Finally, we're on the same wavelngth, Trooper. She must be the reason behind the Locust invasion. Why do you think she refers to the Seran people as the "humans of Sera" rather than plain "Serans?" Why is there a feeling of venom & arrogance in her voice when she's narrating?

Or perhaps she is just a "Omniscient Narrator" as Marion360 said.

who knows.........i guess we will have to wait and see:p lol, im excited that the locusts speak, i wonder how they sound

[NyR Kil0WaTTs]

i think shes a old women that lived through the war to tell what happen.

[RoNin]

I think this: She is the one who will retell the start of the game(introduction) and end, its just a narrator i think...


Of course, im not saying that she couldnt be something else...

[Tyrant's Heart]

I just realise something. The voice could've been Dr Helen Cooper, inventor of the Lightmass Process that converts Imulsion into energy.

Still, the speculation continues.

[DeadPool]

i think the narrator is how all the locusts REALLY sound and the grunting and killing is just an act. I mean cmon, they are an evil advanced civilization, whats more evil than old British women?! The Locust have tea party's with Imulsion as there the cream,and got pissed and emerged when the tea tasted like crap!

[puipui]

I hope this old lady saw her last days in the trailer, don't wanna hear her voice again ;D

[mkk316]

It's Jack. :p

[EPD2006]

Or she is one of the original Earthlings that left earth right after it became lifeless for running out of resources and they ended up on Sera, discovered Imulsion and it mutated or made them in the Locusts. Being like junkies they dug deep into the Seran soil to keep harvesting the imulsion and she sees "the humans" come and sees the process of Earth repeat and desperately wants to keep them away from Imulsion by the most obvious way, annilihation...

[FLIPINOM4D]

it might be the queen because it sounded more it was describing how the human race fail to win against the locust and maybe teh queen was telling the story

[mkk316]

I found it kinda interesting how she said the Serans knew the "illusion of peace", it makes me think something covert was going on prior to Emergence day. Not really sure if this is relevant, but just sharing.

[FLIPINOM4D]

its can't be a human as the voice, I am more thinking of a female locust, probably a queen or something high up the ranks

[JohnWayne360]

I found it kinda interesting how she said the Serans knew the "illusion of peace", it makes me think something covert was going on prior to Emergence day. Not really sure if this is relevant, but just sharing.

Well, you've made me think. I hope you see the contradiction here. Humans were supposed to be fighting each other on the "Pendulum Wars," and the only reason why they stopped was because of "E-Day." Now, how can there be peace when you're in a war? How can you know the illusion of it if one's involved in a conflict for 70 years? Destroyed beauty cites Sera as being in the "brink or armaggedon." Somewhat contradictory, as you've said, "I'm not sure if it's relevant, but just sharing"

[Groundwalker]

I think the voice is too perfectly cast for it to be "just a narrator"....it sounds like someone "expensive". There's got to be something deeper going on there. Locust queen seems as reasonable a guess as anything.

[VeniVediVeci]

What if she's that little girl who is hiding from the fight in the destroyed building's mother... but she could be the locust's leader.

[Reconciliation]

Im more inclined to sa she is nothing more than a narrator, but hey. I could be wrong.

[FuZioN iZ FaTaL]

That is an interesting thought, but Old Lady Locust? Very threatening.

[DARKICE25]

I'm certain its just a narrator, nothing more. I think every one is just deprived of some new Gears of War info, I hope this doesn't become the Halo boards where people make a theory of every second of a trailer.

[Lineman_5000]

Thats a great theory, i never thought of that... though i doubt the locust speak english... good theory though! :)

I didn't read all of the posts so if someone has said this sorry. The locusts might know English, it's posible, I mean they must have been watching us for a while before Eday, so they would have had a chance to learn it.

[Shukuzen Kiraa]

They had voice actor Steve Blum for marcus in a few trailers ive seen as well as a couple gameplay demo's.... but they changed it to someone else, just wondering if anyone knows why? Cause Steve Blum has a bad ass voice

[XxinfurnoxX]

what trailer are you talking about???

[JizzO]

The current Marcus is voiced by John DiMaggio. Also known as Bender from Futurama.

[bug zapper]

The Locusts do in fact speak English. I don't know how well they can do it though. The narrator sounds like Krea from KOTOR II. So that means she just might be the Locust Queen.

[Locust Bait]

The current Marcus is voiced by John DiMaggio. Also known as Bender from Futurama.

Cool :D Benders a total badass son of a bitc#! :D

[Cogs 'n' Gears]

Ok, jusy want to throw this out there. Everyone keeps saying the Locust can't talk or are bad at it. First, the admin DID state they could talk, and another, I'm pretty sure we have all heard them, think. You know those four videos on the Emergence Day flash site thingy with the matches and all that? Go and watch again the "Fight or Die" one. Right in the beginning a creepy ass voice says "Die, sapien." . Yeaaa, if thats not a Locust then I'll be chainsawed, curb stomped, then damned.

[JizzO]

And if you watched the X06 Footage you here one say "Attack." in a demonic-sounding voice; very, very creepy.

[JohnWayne360]

Not only can they talk, but they also know our species? Mmmm... Kind of reminds me when the Cro-magnon aided the extinction of the Sapiens, according to popular scietific speculation. "Humans and Locust, two species united by a common language." Or not.

[JizzO]

Well, it's rumored that the Locust's are Sera's native people that went underground and mutated over time.

[Greecian]

Not sure if it was mentioned, but I watched that trailer a few nighs ago and I made a connection between this woman's voice and the woman who narrated the God of War game. I'm not sure if it's the same woman, but it sounds like her.

[JohnWayne360]

Ok, at first I was a firm skeptic about this theory, but watching the new MP vids, I'm starting to turn into a believer. At the end of one of the rounds, which the locust team won, the same "old lady" voice said "we've won this battle, but the war its not over yet, and it's a war we will win." This phrase is clearly affiliating the "old lady" to the locust. Another of her phrases states, "those who oppose you are dead." Furthermore, when the CoGs win, it's Colonel Hoffman's voice who is emphasized by saying "Good Job men, I expect noting less from you." So, this brings me to my conclusion, given the fact that Colonel Hoffman is a CoG leader, and his voice is used at the end of a wining round for the CoG characters, couldn't we conclude that the same applies for the 'old lady" voice, making her some sort of Locust leader?

[velvet elvis]

Ok, at first I was a firm skeptic about this theory, but watching the new MP vids, I'm starting to turn into a believer. At the end of one of the rounds, which the locust team won, the same "old lady" voice said "we've won this battle, but the war its not over yet, and it's a war we will win." This phrase is clearly affiliating the "old lady" to the locust. Another of her phrases states, "those who oppose you are dead." Furthermore, when the CoGs win, it's Colonel Hoffman's voice who is emphasized by saying "Good Job men, I expect noting less from you." So, this brings me to my conclusion, given the fact that Colonel Hoffman is a CoG leader, and his voice is used at the end of a wining round for the CoG characters, couldn't we conclude that the same applies for the 'old lady" voice, making her some sort of Locust leader?

could be the queen. didnt someone say there was a locust queen?

[SuspectMisconduct]

I love her voice and I agree it does sound like the Kate Blanchett LOTR narrative voice with a bit of antagonism against the "humans of Sera". What if she was related to the Locusts somehow? I really don't know, just another thought. Oh, and the Locusts do speak, there's a reason for that. They're characteristics really add to the menace of the story. Everything has a reason. Nothing is by accident.

way to answer the question with out giving any info

;) maybe your next job should be White House Press Secretary...j/k:D

[SuspectMisconduct]

Cool :D Benders a total badass son of a bitc#! :D

"you can bite my shiny metal ass!"

[Haro]

well, in one of the movies from the emergence day sight, there is a feminine raspy voice that says kill the sapiens (reminded me of the voices of those psychic things from chronicles of riddick), which seems like either a hive mind thing or a queen thing. whether or not this could carry over to the narrator tho, i am not sure. i did notice, however, that she was rather cold with humans, but maybe in some sick plot twist its because the humans deserve it ;p

[Cogs 'n' Gears]

I can;t beleive this topic is still around. Anyway, now it's CONFIRMED the old lady works with the locust, just watch the MP vids on gametrailers.com. Or, well, when they come back on. She talks when the locust team wins.

[X Slingshot X]

For Reference the Narrorator sounds alot like Alice Krige , she has been in many horror films , and sci-fi , most popular would be Star Trek First Contact , as the Borg collective leader , or in Silent Hill as the psycho religious freak .

I could be wrong but if using her as the narrorator has some story line implications , Good Call Epic , she has one of the best voices for evil / loonatic / bad guy boss girl ever .

[DarK 1217]

Well, you were right. Wow.....LOL great guess/deduction.

[eltortuga]

Shes the leader, remember when the general kills the lt., how she compliments him on finding another squad and how they will win this was because their stradegy of cutting off the head is wrking?

[Suds Mcgee]

Yeah when the locusts win, she speaks and compliments them.

I think she is the leader.

[REVELATION47]

Obviously, by know it is confirmed that the woman speaking is the Queen of the Locust.

[Raaandom]

Does anyone else think she sounds like Madame Webb from that old Spiderman Cartoon on Fox kids back in the 90's lol

http://www.caseyjonesart.com/tc/images/madameweb_final.jpg

[Stone Hardgod]

...the narrator sounds a lot like Alice Krige...she has one of the best voices for evil/lunatic/bad boss girl ever.

Dark1217--Your reply to Slingshot's post indicates you might have found some proof it's Alice Krige--do you have a link? Looking at imdb.com, it doesn't credit her as any voice in GoW or list the game in her credits list.

I do agree, it sounds A LOT like Krige, and I think the woman will be shown (in sequel or prequel) to be the Queen of the Locust, whoever it is doing the voice.

[JOEY CANUCK]

it was cortana! rofl...j/k

i believe it's the locust queen partly because of what she says. she seems to know everything that is going on, the reason for fighting, how the fight isnt over, etc.

[treemonkeys]

Some important things that may not have been mentioned yet:

1. The voice is NOT a narrator, when you finish the game she says "we" several times, implying that she is involved with the locusts and is not some outside storyteller.

2. In multiplayer when you lose a match as the locusts, sometimes she well say "perhaps the locust are not strong as I had originally thought" which leads me to believe she is a more powerful being that uses the locusts to do her will, but is not one of them.

[JohnWayne360]

She IS the queen. When playing MP I heard the following phrase several times: "have to do it for the queen"

[XxMarcusxX]

i really think she is the narrator, but if not maybe she is like a goddess or something possibly, dunno.

[XxMarcusxX]

Theory.Maybe she is the reason(if you get me) when she says"Humans of Sera" maybe she is the reason they are humans of sera, not Seran's ya get me...Or more or less she is the reason the humans are on Sera.

[Tyrant's Heart]

So the voice is the Queen's. Hah, I knew it.