"I have the easy part," said actor Jennifer Hale, who may be best known to gamers as the Jedi Bastila Shan from Knights of the Old Republic. "This is the best job in the world." Though she's one of the top voice-acting talents around, Hale remains humble, saying others have the tougher responsibilities of writing scripts and producing and creating the games.

Hale has a knack for getting involved in quality games, and her resume includes Gabriel Knight, Planescape: Torment, Jedi Academy, and various Metal Gear Solid and Baldur’s Gate games, to name a few. She also did work on the anime cult classic Cowboy Bebop.

She prefers projects that feature interesting characters and steers away from voice work that includes a lot of sexual innuendo or cursing. "If there’s a character I can sink my teeth into and a good director, I’m in heaven," Hale said.

Hale particularly enjoys working on darker games and relishes the role of the villain. Hale, who played both the insane demigod Xel’lotath and heroine Alexandra Roivas in Eternal Darkness, said she tries to find something she can connect with in each character. "Honestly, villains aren’t evil; they’re just misinterpreted," she said.

Not that it matters to gamers, retailers, or the press, but for someone whose livelihood depends on video and computer games, Hale isn’t much of a gamer--nor is Menville. "I mostly watch because I suck at it," Hale said of playing games. Ditto for Menville. "I’m pretty much a Donkey Kong-Frogger-Dig Dug kind of guy."