I grabbed some more videos from R:CD... this time of some of the Robotech characters in the game and their dialog. These were captured using a Dazzle Video Capture tool, and were compressed as small as I could make them and still preserve a decent quality in the video and audio, but some of them are still a Meg or two in size.
Enjoy!
This is the dialog from the first battle of the game... the player (as Kyle Bartley) has just been launched from Earth. As Kyle gets about 20 Km from the SDF-3, there is a flash of light, and on the far side of the SDF-3 (about 30 Km away) a Zentraedi Destroyer folds in. It immediately launches a wing of standard battlepods and a small flight of missile pods towards the SDF-3.
Vice-Admiral Rick Hunter calls up the news pilot, asking for help in the battle.
Incidentally, the voice actor for Rick Hunter was Ken Robertson, one of the artists working on the game, while Kyle was performed by one of two male voice actors hired for the recording session.
After this first battle, Kyle lands in the SDF-3 Hanger Bay, and is called up to the Situation Room. As he walks out on to the command balcony, he finds Rick Hunter talking to the allied Zentraedi scientist Exedore.
Exedore's dialog was performed by one of the two male actors hired for the recording session.
Before Kyle makes it to Rick Hunter, he ends up bumping into his one-time Zentraedi girlfriend, Vala Norri. She makes her feelings for Kyle very clear!
Vala's voice came from the one female voice actor hired for the recording session. As the only woman there, she did ALL the female characters (Vala, Lisa, Miriya, Tirra, and even Minmei). In fact, she even recorded an acapella version of Minmei's "To Be In Love," which we hoped to add the the game at a key moment, but ended up not having room for.
Finally, Kyle manages to come face-to-face with the Vice Admiral. Rick Hunter offers Kyle Bartley a job, and the game is on its way!
One of the first BIG battles of the game occurs when two Zen cruisers attack the SDF-3. A blast of the main Reflex Cannon destroys one cruiser, and leaves the second damaged. Skull Squadron (along with the player) are ordered in to finish off the capital ship, but instead get caught as it folds away. This dialog occurs as the player, along with Max Sterling and the Skulls, arrives at the ringed planet.
Max Sterling's voice was performed by yet another Gametek artist... my friend Ken Cope (he also did the Zentraedi character of Brog).
here are five clips of incidental combat dialog from Kergen Krashavera, the enemy Zentraedi's leader (and clone brother to the late Khyron the Backstabber). The voice actor for Kergen was my friend Lizard, and he did a great job of capturing the tone of an evil badguy!
You would get these snippits of the game script if you found yourself in combat against Kergen, who often personally led attacks in his Officer's Pod. Note the "angry breathing" animation running behind the dialog in a couple of the clips... we had only finished a few of the "emotion" animations for the characters when Gametek died, but we had a few hooked up as tests.
There are only a couple of missions involving Lynn Minmei in the game. This snippit is from the second, when Minmei finds herself trapped aboard a transport with an injured pilot.
Incidentally, this dialog was also used (with a few added sound effects) to make fun of Minmei on Gametek's long-gone webpage.
This is a clip from the incidental dialog for General Anatole Leonard. The player would get this dialog starting about half-way through the game, if he bumped into Leonard when landing on Armor 13.
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