As part of their efforts to promote the ongoing Underworld Ascendant Kickstarter campaign, OtherSide Entertainment have made a pair of announcements concerning the voice cast for the game. Fans of Looking Glass’ System Shock and Thief series will be happy to hear that both Stephen L. Russell (the voice of Garrett from the first two Thief games) and Terri Brosius (the voice of Shodan and Delacroix in the System Shock games).

It’s our pleasure to announce that Stephen L. Russell will be doing voice acting for Underworld Ascendant. Among gamers, Stephen is perhaps best known as the voice of Garrett in the original Thief games. At LookingGlass we worked closely with Stephen, where he voiced some of the more memorable characters from Thief, Thief II and System Shock 2. Stephen also did voice acting for Fallout 3 and Skyrim. We’re looking forward to working with him once again.

Terri Brosius was part of the team at LookingGlass, doing both design and voice acting on the Thief games and System Shock II. She is the voice of Shodan and Delacroix in the System Shock series, and the voice of Viktoria in the Thief series. She has also worked with Ion Storm, Electronic Arts, Tiger Style, and Arkane. Terri has writing credits on the Thief games, Dishonored, Waking Mars, and more. Terri also plays keys for The Vivs, teaches piano to unsuspecting youngsters, likes to crochet, and has an unreasonable fear of hornets. We are thrilled to be working with Terri again!

Of course, we’ll only get to hear the excellent voicework these two are sure to provide if the Underworld Ascendant Kickstarter campaign succeeds. Which I must admit I have begun to form a few doubts about; the game really should have been funded by now.

But there is still plenty of time to support the game, if you haven’t already. And indeed, there’s still room for hope that it might at least meet its base goal (although obviously some of the stretch goals are highly desirable, and it would be better if the game were to reach those as well).