Cave Johnson is coming to Dota
Dota 2is getting a Cave Johnson announcer pack. Johnson is the deranged founder of Aperture Science from Portal and voiced by the Oscar-winning JK Simmons. Simmons doesn’t feature much in the six-minute advert for the pack produced by Valve, but Gabe Newell does. You can watch it below.
A lot of Valve’s recent marketing seems to be following a single directorial note - “louder” - but this got a couple of laughs from me, and it’s Gabe who, mostly without saying anything, steals the show.
If you’ve not played Dota 2 - or any MOBA, really - then you should know that the announcer is a big part of it, calling out not just kill sprees but vital information about the state of the game. Cosmetic announcer packs replace all announcer voice lines, of which there aremany, and have previously featured other Portal characters, as well as characters from other Valve games or indie hits likeThe Stanley Parable.
It’s basically a rare opportunity to hear a highly decorated charactor actor read a comical (or not) spin on lines like, “Our top barracks are under attack.” Or to me, a non-Dota 2 player, it’s this amusing YouTube video and nothing else.
