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Das Gamer Talks Gears of War 2 With Lester Speight, Voice Of Augustus Cole
November 06, 2008
You probably don’t know the name Lester Speight. But if you played Gears of War, you can’t forget the voice. Speight, who also goes by the Mighty Rasta, showed up on the pop culture radar when he starred in Reebok’s Super Bowl ads as Terrible Terry Tate, Office Linebacker. Speight credits the ad spots for his role as the voice of Augustus Cole in Gears of War and Gears of War 2. But Speight deserves a little bit more than that from every Gearhead out there. According to Epic design directorCliff Bleszinski, the concept for the Gears of War spawned from watching Terry Tate scream, “Here comes the Pain Train!” before dropping the hammer on a co-worker. “We were sitting in the office watching those videos and just thought,” says Bleszinski, “I want to go to war with that guy.” Check the un-censored full Terry Tate video posted after the jump for your viewing pleasure.
