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Wallace and Gromit Demo Now Available

I got a little tired of Telltale Games' Sam and Max games, to the point where I never even bothered to try the last episode of the second season; the novelty of playing new point-and-click adventure games wasn't enough to get me past the lukewarm, dated humor that the series desperately needed to improve upon. So I was more than a little happy to hear the news that the developer was working on a series of games featuring the cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his put-upon dog Gromit.

As a fan of the duo since their very beginning, I've always felt like there was something very video-gamey about all of the brilliant setpieces Wallace and Gromit would find themselves in throughout the course of their various adventures. And now that Telltale games has just released the demo for the first episode of their newest video game adventure, we can see if my theory is true.

Yes, I know there have been a few Wallace and Gromit games in the past. They just weren't very good.

Unimportant News: The Imposter Wallace

We all know (and should be excited that) Telltale Games is bringing out a series of episodic Wallace and Gromit adventures later this year. But what you might not know is that the Wallace in this new series of games is an...

*thunderclap*

IMPOSTER!!!

That's right; longtime voice of Wallace, Peter Sallis, will not be returning to voice the lovable bald and British inventor in Telltale's new games, according to this tip from The International House of Mojo:

However, the bad news is the PCZone have confirmed that Peter Sallis will not be playing Wallace. However, his voice will instead be played by Aardman's official back-up actor for Sallis, "you know, the bloke who did his voice on that rubbish novelty alarm clock you got for Christmas".

I realize that it's a little much to ask an 88 year-old man to reprise his most-famous role for a series of video games, but there's something about sound-alikes that I find intensely creepy, like the original actor was replaced with a pod person of something. And even if I get even slightly used to the understudy, I can't help but experience a sort of audio aftertaste, like when you accidentally gulp down a diet Coke and quickly realize that something terribly wrong is going on in your mouth area. But maybe this is just a personal problem.

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