<\/td><\/tr><\/table>Since seeing Cowboy Bebop, I’ve noticed his voice popping up in lots of video games over the past few years. The most noticeable for me was in Doom3<\/sup>, where he seemed to do every dang voice in the game. Don’t get me wrong, Blum is a talented guy and I love when he shows up, but for a big budget game like Doom to re-use such a distinctive voice so many times seems lame. <\/p>\nFor example, in just the first half-hour of the game he shows up as five<\/i> different characters. You find him first in the kitchen, as the voice of fellow squad member K. Miller. (This is his “major” role in the game, the one for which he’s actually credited) Just a few minutes later you arrive at Mars Underground, and he’s the voice of the guy running the security checkpoint who issues you your sidearm. A few minutes later, you pass a couple of guys doing maintainence work at some conduit. The guy at the far end of the conduit (the guy you can’t see) is again voiced by Blum. From there, you move on the the old comm building and things go sideways. On the way back to Mars Underground (between the airlocks) you get a message from the leader of “fireteam two” who is again voiced by Blum. And finally, once you get back to Mars City there is the guy who lowers the ladder and says, “I can’t believe I found you. I thought I was the only one left alive!” There is Blum again, the fifth time you’ve encountered his voice since you hit the “New Game” button about half an hour ago. Keep playing and you’ll run into him again once you reach Alpha Labs – He’s voicing the guy who’s nearly dead by the exit airlock. I think at this point they give Blum a break, since you don’t run into him again until you rejoin K. Miller just outside the Enpro Plant. <\/p>\n
I decided to look up Blum and see what else he’s done. Check out his huge list<\/a> of appearances. I count about 180 since 1990. That’s an average<\/i> of 12 parts a year, or a new part and a new character once every month. Actually, since in both anime and games making an “appearance” means playing a half-dozen or so parts, (like the Doom example above) then it means that Blum probably plays over a hundred characters every couple of years. That’s a lot of characters. <\/p>\n