Command & Conquer’s Battlefield Network spokeswoman, EVA, will repeat her role in the upcoming 4K remastered version of the first game, Petroglyph Games and Electronic Arts, announced this morning.
The appearance of Kia Huntzinger in the 24-year-old Command and Conquer goes back to the “Wild West of Development,” said audio director Frank Klepacki in a note to the fans. As an office manager at Westwood Games, Huntzinger recorded voice messages and called staff before the then audio director Paul Mudra recorded a few lines for the player’s AI assistant from a cushioned cabinet.
“In many ways, she was the unofficial voice of the company when you walked through the front door because we listened to her all day,” Klepacki said today.
Huntzinger was creatively the only logical choice to express EVA in the remaster as the developers try to faithfully follow the fans’ memories of the 1995 game. With the original tapes from Huntzinger’s recording sessions – “Our Base is Under Attack” and “Ion Cannon Ready” – which have been missing for a long time, Klepacki got them to do it again. This time she took on a more professional environment.
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In an interview 10 years ago, Huntzinger noted that she had started in Westwood in 1993 and had worked her way up from the studio’s reception desk as its finance director when it closed down and the company and some associates merged into EA Los Angeles.
Jim Vessella, Creative Director of the Remaster, noted that players have the opportunity to choose Huntzinger’s remastered EVA voice-over or the original audio. However, the voice of the original narrator will not be resumed. Martin Alper, who was also President of Westwood’s parent company, Virgin Interactive Entertainment, died in 2015. “We did not think it was the same as replacing his performance with another actor,” Vessella wrote. “Frank will do his best to clean up the original audio.”
The 4K remaster from Command & Conquer, also known as Tiberian Dawn, was announced in November 2018. It is supplemented by the continuation of Command & Conquer: Red Alert from 1996, although no release date has been set for this project or window.
