The Voice of Terri Brosius
published Monday, 26 Oct. 2009, 20:58 by ZPSHicks
The voice of ITO AI 'SARA' which guides you through The Vault is ... Well, have you ever played System Shock 2? We can not believe the luck we've had getting such a voice icon for a key character in the game. Nothing but, for the love of the game.

Ever played System Shock 2, one of the greatest coop games ever made?
We want to introduce you to 'SARA' one of our very special characters in the Interstellar Marines: Trilogy. 'SARA' is a neural network which is administrating the entire ITO Server Cloud. Her AI voice interface is female and ever since we played System Shock 2 we have always known which voice actor to get for 'SARA'. And since 'SARA' is introduced in 'The Vault', we just had to track down Terri Brosius which did the voice of SHODAN in System Shock 2. Why?, because only the best is good enough for Interstellar Marines! :)
We found her with the help from our friends at Epic Sound and immediately got her to do a few voice samples for the voice of 'SARA'. The first voice sample she did, was just her playing around. In the second sample, she sent us her pronunciations of the various names of characters introduced inside 'The Vault'.
Download the first voice sample 'Terri Brosius' did for 'SARA'
Download the pronunciation sample 'Terri Brosius' did for 'SARA'
We absolutly love the way Terri Brosius's voice has that very confident and sexy facade and just behind it lies an arrogance that can make a grown man cry! How the final result sounds like, well you will know soon enough! :)
Enjoy!


mman36:
4 months, 2 weeks ago
O_O I can't wait to be hunting land-sharks with her voice in my ear!
Siepher:
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Hah, I read this in the Briefing Room ages ago! -_^
repete:
4 months, 2 weeks ago
L..L...Look at you hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone...
RDFAF:
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Words can't do justice for her. Can't wait to hear her for the game.
Kosai106:
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Great article! Although, old news for all the cool guys. ;)
You know exactly what I mean. Yes, you!
carbine7:
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Old news....this is only like what? 2 months old? Guess the cat's outta the bag anyway. But still, using the one word that I use too much on this forum, awesomeness!
SierraKhaar:
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Shodan.. we meet again!
I knew it was something with the voice but thanks for telling, her voice is so awesome and made SS2 so good... Man I miss that game
Pucokue:
4 months, 2 weeks ago
I love listening to this voice haha :P
Vidmaster:
4 months, 2 weeks ago
How doesn't recognise the voice he? WHO? Silly mainstream kids, not knowing what the golden age of gaming was like :-) System Shock, MechWarrior, WingCommander, Thief, Baldur's Gate, ... ;-)
forgefire:
4 months, 2 weeks ago
according to wikipedia she didnt do voices to wing commander or baldurs gate :S
Vidmaster:
4 months, 1 week ago
no, she didn't. I was just shouting out legendary games from the period.
She only worked on LookingGlas Studio projects.
sweanisse:
4 months, 1 week ago
hello all
Astalano:
4 months, 1 week ago
Hey swean.
Siepher:
4 months, 1 week ago
Hai thar.
This is my 100th comment on articles, yay. -_^
samsonyu:
4 months, 1 week ago
Terri Brosius is the PERFECT CHOICE!!!!
Zero Point Software, you know exactly what you want and what I want!
Shodan lives again! hehe
Cheers,
Samsonator
re3ate:
3 months ago
" Great article! Although, old news for all the cool guys. ;)
You know exactly what I mean. Yes, you!"
again!...
show me a demo and ill gladly be one of the cool guys! for now u are just a dude paying for nothing!
re3ate..
kiryutka:
2 months, 3 weeks ago
her voice is great! ! ! Aaaw. . I remember SS2 <3
Argoon:
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Is it possible to fall in love with a AI voice? Man i just think i did.
DOLBYdigital:
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Great news on the voice actor.
She is a rare exception since many english voice actors are not very good.
Side note:
You guys need a new main news article but I guess you are all working on Bullseye.
Hopefully the next news article titled 'Bullseye Released' is coming very soon ;)
Chillus:
1 month, 3 weeks ago
great voice!!! :D
greysabre:
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Today's my first visit to the site. Saw the "Bullseye" trailer over at game trailers and the voice seemed "alot like ..." and here she is ... 'SHODAN'. After viewing the "For the Love of the Game" I thought I'd check out your site. I just "enlisted" and promise to "Spearhead", come payday, for many reasons. Namely to support people with such passion.
Astalano:
1 month, 2 weeks ago
F*cking awesome greysabre. :)
Enlisted members with support badges are a rarity here as well. ^^
/For The Love Of The Game
SAMM_47:
1 month, 2 weeks ago
carbine7, this is the word i use Neverendingawesomeness
ZeVeX:
1 month, 1 week ago
Good Choice for the voice, and hitting on what greysabre said, i also saw the bullseye trailer which made me check the site out, i was interested in this game ever since i saw the first ever trailer back when the ps3 was first coming out, thought it looked awesome, so i joined up and donated, hope it turns out to be a kickass trilogy, going by just the bullseye "demo" i'm liking it.
Astalano:
1 month, 1 week ago
ZeVeX, welcome to the Spearheads. Have fun with the Interstellar Marines as we prepare to go out on our first mission, whenever command is ready to send us.
If I were you, I would e-mail the primary investor Gert at gert@haarjorgensen.com for a 15 minute presentation of the vision of the game, largely made up of gameplay, exclusive to Frontliners and Spearheads and running on the old Unreal Engine 3. Although you have to sign an NDA, it is WELL worth it.
/FTLOTG
Renacer:
1 month, 1 week ago
If i could describe the love you guys put in this game, i would become world famous.
gangster210:
1 month ago
IAM A SPEARHEAD WOOT*!
IAM GOOD AT THIS GAME THIS GAME TOOK UP ALMOST MY ENTIRE CPU AND GPU USAGE AT THE SAME TIME SEE LOOK?!: CPU AND GPU USAGES: 99 0/0 99 0/0 AND IT LAGGED ALOT OH WELL! AS LONG AS I CAN PLAY GTAIV IAM OK AND THIS 2 AS WELL XD: :P! LOL! BYE!
LoneWolfMIke:
1 month ago
That voice.... She must be the A.I. of my dream. I guess it's possible to love a machine :P
Mars:
4 weeks ago
Her voice is...mesmerizing... :D
I normally prefer a male AI voice, but after hearing those samples... I must say that my mind has been changed.
kayaman:
4 weeks ago
I can't believe it....Terri Brosius. Excellent choise. Take good care of your voice actors, they make a huge huge difference in the final quality metrics of all games.
This gets all the more exciting...next step is to get the overall ambience and mood/sound pallete of the game in place. Take good cues from Dead Space in this department. And make sure to include some quality electronic music in there.
Dalmat:
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Lets all go and play sys shock 2 again :)
jmoseley:
1 week, 3 days ago
Finally came and check out the site first hand, been here before but never really understood what the game was, saw the trailers didn't know what to make of it....finally ive played the game and played bullseye for like 5 hours...VERY IMPRESSIVE and Very FUN!!...amazing how a simple game of target practice could be so challenging and intense at certain moments, you guys definitely have the fun factor in place, if you could create nice challenging moments with enemy AI that you did with the training you have a solid game in the works ..keep up the good work guys, planning on become a spearhead whenever i come into extra cash.
samsonyu:
1 week, 2 days ago
Beware!!
There could be a scenerio where the ITO AI, SARA, begins turning against our Interstellar Marines' heroes...
I think Terri Brosius is the perfect choice for Interstellar Marines...Hurray!
samsonyu
lequebecois385:
6 days, 10 hours ago
Did I heard a voice? Or is it only my imangination?
Anyway did'nt tought cyborgs could have sucha nice voice!
q23p:
6 days ago
Very interesting voice actress.
Good job.
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